We need to reclaim the diverse richness of our minds to reclaim the rich diversity in Nature. In other words, we need to let go of our "growth-without-limits" and technologies-galore mindset in order to kindle a healthier mind which will then result in a healthier planet. We also need to allow for the diverse actions of raw unbridled creativity in allowing for a rich diversity. Standardization must come to an end and make way to diversification.
As the ancients knew, in our diversity, we and the world are one. This is why She is Nature. As a fetus and her mother are one, then we are one with the world. Thus, when we gaze into polluted rivers and cities with mountainous nonliving buildings reaching to the sky, we are gazing into our own Souls. If we gaze into the world and see a rich diversity, chances are, we are also gazing into a mind that is rich in its display of thought, creativity and understanding. John Lennon apparently knew this in writing "Revolution" with Paul McCartney. As it is stated, "well, you know, you better free your minds instead."
In freeing our minds and moving beyond our desertification, we can allow a rich and varied life on Earth as well as within and among ourselves and our culture. In so doing, we can mimic easily the work of Larry Korn who edited and translated Masanobu Fukuoka's Sowing Seeds in the Desert: Natural Farming, Global Restoration and Ultimate Food Security, interpreting it for the Western mind . It is only in allowing for the rich creativity inherent in each one of us that we can allow the rich creativity within Nature. The reason for this is that Nature is OUR Nature. She reflects us. Her being destroyed and turned into a desert is nothing less that our making Her in our image. Yet, beneath the surface, both in Her and us, there is a place of infinite potential and richness. It is there, in the infinite unknown that exists within and without you that the answer(s) to alienation and desertification will lie.
(To learn more about this wonderful work, listen to the interview of Korn by Burl and Merry Hall on 8/29/12 at 8 pm live at http://blogtalkradio.com/envision-this or listen later to the archived show.)
References
Fukuoka, Masanobu, Sowing Seeds in the Desert: Natural Farming, Global Restoration, and Ultimate Food Security, edited by Larry Korn, Chelsea Green Publishing, 2012. http://www.amazon.com/Sowing-Seeds-Desert-Security--From-international/dp/1603584188/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1346254717&sr=8-1&keywords=sowing+seeds+in+the+desert
Larry Korn Masanobu Fukuoka
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