Our Daily Battle and War with Nature – Returning to Eden

I don’t really identify with any particular religion, but there is something profound about the story of Genesis in the Bible. Most people are familiar with the story, and I believe it is the most relevant and powerful metaphor for our modern society today. The story of Adam and Eve living in perfection in a beautiful garden of divine beauty and harmony is a memory contained deep within our DNA. No matter who you are or what your background is, we can all appreciate the beauty of nature, and typically find ourselves refreshed, re-energised and reinvigorated by the natural world.

But there is an ugly side to our society today. Just in the way that Adam and Eve were tempted to eat of the tree of of the knowledge of good and evil, so it is the same for us, as instead of choosing to live in divine harmony in the way nature intended for us, we choose to be deceived by the modern day ‘serpent’, which in this case represents technology. If there ever was a physical manifestation of the ‘devil’, is is the destructive side of technology, in that it is rejecting the perfection of nature to ‘improve’ upon it where it is redefined as ‘irrelevant’ or ‘unnecessary’. How else can we explain a world where we continue to aggressively destroy our most precious resource of old growth forests, to create unnecessary and unnatural structures, that bind us to debt enslavement for decades. Of course technology can be a profoundly useful tool for good, but when we reject the nature around us to the extreme of falling into such disharmony with our natural world, it costs us dearly in so many ways.

Think of it this way. Just as in the bit of a beautiful piece of art work at the beginning of this post, there are two fundamental choices we can make. We can choose to live in and support the modern world of insanity and destruction, or we can live in the harmony and freedom that is nature. If all the conveniences of the modern day — electricity, supermarkets, sanitation and running water — were to stop, how many could say they would know how to live? We are like children playing in a minefield, carelessly believing our parents are looking after us as we sit mesmerized by the latest electronic ‘doo-dad’ and ‘touch screen’. I am not being negative, but simply pointing out that most of us in the modern world lack even the most basic skills to survive in our natural world, and just as it is shown in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, we are consciously or subconsciously ‘conditioned’ to fear nature!

There is plenty of evidence to show that modern society is utterly corrupted, deceptive and destructive to its core. Look at it this way, there is no peace, no foundation from which you can build your life upon, when you live in a society where psychopathic predation and exploitation is tolerated, accepted or simply just forgotten about or ignored. Just as you cannot trust a serial killer not to kill again, so you cannot trust this exploitative obsessive commercial system, not to destroy itself and its citizens eventually.

I constantly have to pinch myself, for supposedly in a rational and logical culture, where decency, justice, and fairness should be expected, so many are oblivious to the incredibly destructive history of governments, and those who would profit from war, violence and chaos. It is truly bizarre because the evidence is here, all around us — we are losing our freedoms, we are losing touch with the very fabric of what justice and freedom is, and we ignore the countless sufferings of millions of innocents, as they are crushed under the demonical wheel of profit-obsessed commercialism, through a military industrial complex that creates a ‘War-Oil-Debt’ matrix of control and domination.

I will put it in a micro and macro level.

I was travelling to the train station the other day and I came across a very interesting tree that had small blueberry-like fruits growing in clumps. I did not know what sort of tree it was and it took me about an hour of researching on Google images to identify the species. It was a tree called the Illawarra plum, and I learned that it has many times more antioxidants that the current health fad — blueberries. It also contains a healthy natural sugar that is beneficial to gut bacteria. Here is an absolute natural treasure, an absolute marvel of nature that is sitting here unrecognised, unused and neglected. The same fruit would probably sell in a big supermarket chain for $5-$10 for a small tiny punnet (handful). But here it was in all its abundance, in all its majestic bounty, offering me nutrition, materials, and a useful life saving direct link to survival, absolutely free. So why should I be out, in a job I dislike, wasting the incredible gift of life doing things I don’t want to do, when all I need for survival, happiness and freedom can grow freely around me?

On a global level, we see public servants completely losing the plot. Many many years ago, we hired these helpers, to help in maintaining and improving upon our majestic ‘house’. They were employed to fulfill our will, and serve our best interests. Fast forward to today, the servants have gotten the strange idea that they are the masters of the house, and we are cast out to till the hard, barren fields, while they feast upon the fruits of our labors, and devise new and clever ways to take more money, energy and life force from our efforts. What should be an opportunity for the best and brightest to bring forward advancements, solutions and systems to transform our biggest problems nationally and globally, is now a haven of psychologically imbalanced degenerate individuals, who excel at manipulation, corruption and serving what I can only explain as ‘the dark side’.

And so I conclude that we are paralysed by mass insanity, when we reject those things that are divinely perfect, when we employ what are effectively indirect serial killers, and let the mainstream media shower us with every latest movement of the inmates from the criminal asylum. There you have it, we have rejected what is most beautiful in our world, and in exchange, celebrate what is most horrific, ugly and dark. But all is not lost. For simply in making the choice to be open to change, open to positive, transformative information and knowledge, we can let go of the occultic spells of the ‘dark side’ and let the profound wisdom of the ‘force’ cleanse our paradigms. I can state with certainty that the overwhelming positive feedback and awakening to a green lifestyle show that we are ready as a whole to make these changes. These changes can be natural, effortless, and simply common sense, when we allow the transformative awakening of new knowledge to permeate through our collective minds and beings. This is a scientifically validated principle of evolution, in studies done observing groups of monkeys, where newly acquired skills would ‘jump’ in non-local ways across separated island habitats. Become curious as a child, exploring a newfound world, as you take a break from the mainstream version of the ‘status quo’, and explore the richness and incredible journey as you go ‘down the rabbit hole’. Forays into edutainment will shatter the cliches of deceptive myths you have been holding onto, in the areas of banking, education, health, history, law, government and ‘terrorism’. You don’t need to be or become a conspiracy theorist, it is simply a matter of learning about the problem, than taking a healthy and balanced series of steps towards ‘the solutions’.

And take it from me, as someone who has explored these topics and subjects for over 10 years, no matter how seductive or paralyzing the lie, truth, even though uncomfortable and scary, is the catalyst of change and transmutation towards profound joy and happiness. Why reject these perfect gifts of nature, in exchange for destruction, entertainment, and technology, that only takes us away from the natural world, and our authentic childlike selves? Why allow for a greater enslavement and eventual destruction of ourselves and our brothers and sisters any longer?

I’m not talking about going to live in caves. But when the majority of the population spends the majority of the time not doing what they enjoy and love because they are disconnected from the source of their survival, but instead doing work that in most cases they dislike or hate, and paying money to an entity that is historically the most dangerous, murderous and controlling institution on the planet, we can safely say that something is fundamentally wrong. We are not livestock to be slaughtered at a convenient and profitable time, and in the words of Krishnamurti: “It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”

I can tell you of the volumes of accounts, diaries, and evidence pointing to the health and wisdom of naturally harmonious living. In early accounts of English settlers arriving in Australia, from the excellent Bush Tucker books of Tim Lowe, it was commonly observed that the native peoples of this country lived an idyllic, enjoyable, and happy lifestyle, filled with laughter, family, friends, and free time to pursue their interests. The typical hours in a day spent gathering and hunting for their survival needs was four enjoyable hours per day. The complex and rich culture of the dream time was filled with stories and instructions of pathways and trails where they would hunt and gather, plant bush tucker resources and enrich their surroundings just from living. Compare this to the modern, stressed out, day to day, 8 hour existence doing things that most dislike. We are losing out on happiness of a factor of at least 2 to 1! But the richness and happiness that comes from living peacefully and in an authentic way cannot be summed up with maths — it is a soul-satisfying experience of emotion.

The empire mentality of course was that we came upon a land of savages, from a culture of many centuries of exploring and subduing the ‘savage’ races into a ‘civilized’ way of life. Strangely enough, these savages lacked the medieval torture instruments we used, but nevertheless we brought the cross, ‘law’ and ‘order’ to the so called ‘barbaric’ tribes. We did not judge these people by the richness of their culture, or their happiness, but by their lack of the physical embodiments of power, empire and the ‘protestant’ work ethic. We set ourselves to be busy in wrestling nature down into submission, planting grain, raising livestock, building log cabins. We lived of course the ‘civilized’ way, knocking down the forests, and like the story of Genesis, set to tilling the barren soil. It was as if we were the ones cast out from the garden, and had come across Eden, but forgetting that long ago we were like those who lived in the garden. We lived in the magical world of authentic natural living, and here is the incredible part, with technology far beyond the wildest dreams of today. Our spiritually balanced lifestyles supported our innate psychological functions which exceeded the most advanced holographic or television technologies of the day. But most of all, we still maintained a divine day-to-day connection with universal source intelligence.

Can you imagine what kind of country we could have had, if we had a little bit of humility, learned some of the Bush Tucker of the native peoples, and planted the same kind of highly nutritious plants and trees? Today we would have an incredibly abundant amount of food for every man, woman and child, as well as indescribably beautiful gardens, everywhere you would look. It would be a magical existence beyond words.

So I put it to you, if you believe that you are an intelligent, rational being, that strives to create a better life for yourself, your family and your community, is it not fundamental to at least look at the evidence of how destructive our modern ways are? Shouldn’t we at least ask ourselves what is the fastest, easiest and most sensible approach to happiness and fulfillment?

I would recommend an excellent book by Thomas Hartmann called The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight. By reading this book you will see that in every historical example, societies that were built upon power, control and the accumulation of wealth or empire, would self-destruct. From Rome to the modern day United States, the pursuit of power, empire and control eventually comes crashing down. It is only tribal community-based, harmonious cultures that have stood the test for tens of thousands of years.

Just as you have a physical body that gives you life, so the plants and life around us nourish and sustain our physical body, and are an extension of our physical being.

There is a saying in Native American culture: if you crap in your bed, don’t complain when you get sick.
When we reject nature, and choose the illusion of the technocratic world, we are choosing to collectively crap in our beds every day, and so it is inevitable that we will see sickness in our own lives or in society as a whole.

To build the bridge from this burning, smog filled chaos of greed and control, to the green pastures of natural living, let us simply examine the pain, frustration and agony contained within the modern technocratic world, and look at the soul-nourishing joy, beauty and freedom, contained within the bounty of nature. In this way, no matter who we are, we will naturally and more easily move towards a true authentic way of life, and a truly perfect remedy to the sense of unhappiness, and ‘lost innocence’, pervading the modern mind of man.