If we truly believe that we are all one, that every human is a member of our family we must change the way we think about ownership.
I was just in a discussion with people who are talking about their fear that when the ‘crisis’ hits, people will be invading their land with guns and pillaging and looting. I understand and sympathise… and yet I am horribly afraid that our very soul and spirit is at risk if we continue to think like this. And I am not speaking as one who has got it and is practising it yet. But I know in the depths of my soul that I must let go and become more giving, less self concerned and more open to the goodness and potential of our humanity.
We must pre-empt this and I don’t think the solution is more fences and more defences.
In World War II when crisis hit, people pulled together. In England, children who were in the most bombable target places like cities were evacuated to rural homes. My own mothers family had to take in two city kids and have them living as part of the family. My grandfather dug up his orchard and planed vegetables so that he could feed his village and he did it, working night after night, pulling in his kids and friends to help.
People shared, they made room and sacrificed their own luxuries to care for their fellow human beings.
What if in our plans and designs for eco-friendly living we were to make provison for this. Permaculture thinking talks about sharing the surplus. I think it has to go beyond this and that we may have to sacrifice some of what we have to allow others to live.
If each person who has a home and a plot of land were to consider the minimum they can survive on and make provisons to take in those less fortunate and less informed fellow beings, we might just make it.
I urge each and every one of you to begin to make these provisons. If you have land work out what you need to survive minimally and begin preparations to take in refugees. This may sound crazy but it seems to me that by offering rather than trying to withold and protect we might avoid excessive violent confrontation.
One thng you can do is start saving heirloom seeds now. Monsanto are trying to control the world’s seeds. Already Haitan farmers have said ‘NO’ to an offer of 60,000 seeds because they don’t want to be dependent on GMO seeds which don’t produce save-able seeds and force you to buy from Monsanto over and over and over.
We urge you to band together with friends and family and buy yourself a pack of heirloom seeds. We have, and we are keeping them to help provide food for more than us.
That is why it is vital for ALL COMMUNITIES to pull together and create ‘refugee spaces’. We need to start planting food forests now everywhere there is available space and even on our own spare space.
We need to think about lobbying for funding or tax breaks for those who are willing to create ‘guest living spaces’ by building earth structures and kitting them out for survival for the less fortunate.
If we live our lives in fear of losing what we have, we will. I am not worried on a personal level. My husband and I have no land and no money but we do have good friends whom we know will, out of the kindness of their hearts, make space for us. And we have survival skills. If we have to we will go into the woods and forage and live by firelight and our wits. We are not afraid. But we are in the minority.
We must also encourage those who are living in the illusion to wake up. We must begin to educate people in survival techniques. We must have gathering points and facilities to ‘farm out’ people before they take matters into their own hands. We must begin a program of education NOW. Do you really need that iphone or second car or thirty extra acres? How many pairs of shoes or doggie coats can you eat when there is no food.
In a society that allows its citizens to arm themselves, we must be aware that unless we make provison, hungry people will take matters into their own hands.
I urge you to get together with your community, friends, family, neighbors and start talking now about how you can provide space, comfort and nourishment for your fellow man. And if you are on the edge, begin now to make friendly relations, ask yourself how you can help and offer value in exchange for a place to sleep and some food to eat.
I sense that the impending crisis will see many deaths and an inevitable paring down of our excessive human population. But I sense strongly that we can avert some of the crisis if we take measures now.
If we want to belong to the human race and be considered as spiritual beings we have no other choice. This is a difficult path to take, and some may say ‘it’s all very well for you you have nothing to lose’ and that’s true… but I’d like to think that whatever I have I will be willing to share and I have a lot more than many.
Many indigenous tribes lived by the credo that if a stranger passes into their path, they are obliged to offer that person sustenance, no matter how little they have. And they did so willingly and with love and a sense of offering NOT sacrifice. Some people on this earth still live like this.
I am determined to pare down what we need to the bare minimum and examine each time I feel a sense of fear that others may take what is ‘mine’.
I truly want to be part of a human family and to do that means we must not make fences and divisions between ourselves and other humans. It means that we will all have to make sacrifices… that we must learn the true meaning of connection and not just spout it as some kind of airy fairy credo. If we don’t then we are not all one, we are not connected and we will lose our souls.
Is this possible? I don’t know, but I am afraid that if we dont’ change this thinking we will invite death and destruction in far greater proportions than we can imagine.
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