"When the trucks stop rolling I intend to already be a locovore."

I am big time into this. It is refreshing to see this posted by another. I have really worked hard to ensure that most all of my food comes from local (within a 2 hour driving radius) sources. I have located several raw dairies, both cow and goat, free range, Antibiotic free cattle ranches, many beyond organic farmers markets including fruit orchards galore, and a few local honey sources; one is through the roof in terms of quality; the man makes no money, but loves his bees and work. I only choose local at the wild oats I shop at when I cannot get to the farmers market.

This also forces me to eat in season foods as well...

I want to take it one step further though by turning one meal a week, most likely a weekend morning brunch, into a foraging meal... go an a hike and learn what the world has to offer in the way of food outside my back door. I hope to eventually turn this adventure into a huge learning experience.

In the event of an agricultural crash of some sort, I will not have to fear unavailability of food or prices higher than I can afford... I will go on a hike and eat.

As an aside, I was talking with my mother last night in depth about her mom's dad... he was a naturalist and a healer. Apparently it was common for him to turn to his wife and state, so and so is sick, I am going to go see them well... he would truck out into the woods disappearing for as long as it took, gather his needs and heal the neighbor (neighbors back then where they lived were miles apart from each other); coming home days and in some cases weeks later stating, well got them on their feet again. I can get there from here... I am already getting asked how to heal people from all over and all ages, getting positive feedback in the process. Guess it is time to push it some.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRmMzah3IJU&mode=related&search=

What to do about the future?

The future will take care of itself... The future is not yet. The future is not real… neither is the past… the past has already happened… it is gone forever… and the future has not come yet.
Both do not exist.… and between these two tenses of the mind... between these two tensions of the mind ...the past and the future, is the small fleeting moment of ‘now’… it is the only reality that exists.

Mind is time. So, future and past, these are the two places that the thinking mind can take you to. And these places are a fiction. These take you only further and further away from reality… from this present moment… away from yourself … away from who you are.

So…before asking about the future, the question needs to be asked: “What to do about the now?”

Up to now, man has lived a very superficial existence… very shallow. He just remains skimming on the surface of his being. Never really sinking deep into himself… of knowing himself… of knowing his body… of knowing his mind… never coming to know who he is… he is so full of questions… but he never asks the only real pertinent question that matters… “Who am I?”

As a result he has lost his connection with reality… to that which is real… to that which is natural… he goes on thinking and thinking…caught up somewhere in the future or somewhere in the past… and because of it, he has created his own deficiencies…and not only a deficiency of Iodine but of all other aspects of his life as well… his cup remains empty… his heart may be full of blood… but is lacking of love… lacking of joy…the lack of being capable of loving… loving himself…loving another… he lacks the juice to live his life in abundance…
There is but little joy… because so much energy is dissipated into too much thinking… as a consequence he has become just a beggar… he goes on thinking to get these things from somewhere else…from someone else… but the other is also in the same situation… How can two people that are lacking in love share love? …How to share something they are both lacking? They are only lacking because they have been too much distracted into the dimension of thinking and thoughts.

From day one… man and woman have been sold the idea that they should continually be thinking about the future…to make plans for the future… of what kind of life to make for themselves… what schools to attend… what kind of job to have… what kind of partner … what kind of car …what kind of house… …how many children? …boys or girls?…and so, on and so forth… it has become a deeply ingrained habit… a habit of always thinking about something, of moving the mind into some other moment in time… into either the past or the future. Man has what is called a “monkey mind”.

So where did man get this “monkey mind” from? This chitter-chattering mind where from? Did he inherit this from his ancestors… the other monkeys? Most likely not… Because monkeys are surely much more at peace with themselves than human beings are with themselves… they are enjoying their lives much more than humans beings are… it is easy to see.

If you recall… it was Descartes that declared “I think, therefore I am”. Now the whole of western civilization... the whole of the present world order [new & old] is built upon his logic. Descartes’ philosophy has entrenched this world into the quagmire that exists today …it is basically the reason why the world is in such a mess.

If you look at this statement, the way he has constructed the phrase “I think, therefor I am”, it puts thinking as the prerequisite to being… Thinking is greater than being… This is like saying the thoughts about love or about god, are greater than love itself …or god itself… Its absurd... It's insane! This logic basically declares that the mind is the Master. And "being" has a lesser role.

And this is where the problem is. The mind is a very good tool to be used... it is a great bio-computer. It makes for a good servant for the body, to help it survive. But when the servant trys to become the boss... and is mistaken as the Master... When the mind is starts dominating the scene, then things are bound to go awry.
Mind makes for a lousy Master... it makes for a great mess of everything when it is not guided by awareness ...when it is not given a direction through a consciousness.

Looking at Descartes' philosophy in this way, one can easily see that he was psychotic… but the world is dominated by his philosophy. Hence, the world at large is now also psychotic. You see the depth of his statement? It has a tremendous impact over every thinking person's life!!!

It is because Descartes’ logic is used as the basis of the education for the youth of this country and pretty much all the rest of the world these days as well... Educational institutions are central for conditioning the youth of all societies! With the help from the parents, the basic premise that has been drilled into all children that have attended schools is: “Just don’t sit there like a dunce, do something!”… to always have a goal… “to go and make something out of yourself!”… “to go and make yourself useful!” . And the churches have also put their two cents into it by saying: “The idle mind is the devil’s workshop!”

Never is it said to let the mind rest… to give the thinking mind a break.
And all that conditioning goes quite deep... it is a deep hypnosis and very difficult to come out of... most remain hypnotized by this for an entire lifetime. Because of the wide acceptance of this logic by most all of what makes up the world order, the world has come to be standing on its head!

The opposite needs to be looked at… to be looked into… to be experimented with… to be implemented into the societies of the world… this world would certainly turn itself around… it would most definitely help… To change it to: “I am, therefore I am able to think…” now this would put the world right side up. This simple change, if it were to be ingrained into human psychology through education, this would no doubt fix many problems.
And it would not require thinking about how to fix problems… most all problems would simply dissolve away on their own.

Just recently I had a conversation with ‘knows’. He had said, “…First you have to be before anything else can happen, including thinking.”
This was agreed upon 100%! What does this imply?
This means that “being” is greater than thinking… Or to say it differently: It means consciousness is greater than thoughts…that intelligence is greater than intellect. Or: The soul is greater than mind… That love... is greater than thinking about love. …That god is greater than thinking about god!!!

This change of gestalt would most certainly bring sanity back into this world of madness.

In other words, experiencing is much much different that thinking about experiencing … the first is existential, the other is fictional …the former is experiencing reality as it is… the latter is taking you out of this reality... and placing you into dreams... this is what the Hindus refer to when it is said that this world is maya... a dream.

If you can manage more of experiencing this present moment it will help to awaken your ability to connect with the source of your intelligence… your intuitive side of yourself… the more you are available to this… the more you will be able to act spontaneously to the situation as it arises moment to moment …

This is what it will take for humanity to put this world right ...to take itself out of the self-destructive behavior that it engages in … to save this world it has been destroying for the past several centuries…

A road map to the future is not possible to get… you can try …but it will make you a neurotic mess… It is best to be more in tune with yourself … drop away from the psychosis… drop away from the neurosis… drop the unnecessary habit of thinking about things that have no essential purpose… drop more into being … into discovering who you are…

Focus on enjoying yourself each moment … whether it is studying how to identify herbs in nature… or growing a garden… or the art of cooking…or just playing on a guitar… just make it a play and not so much a work…
Relax more and more into this moment and this will be carried into the future because the future is born out of the present… the present is what is 'now' and what is 'here'. If you put the two together it becomes 'nowhere'... there is nowhere else to go - nowhere else to be but 'here' and 'now'.

peace

Its true. The 60's was way more than the extremes. What I can't figure out is how
we went from love and light to a hammer lock from the military industrial complex
with marching orders from think tanks who have no accountability for the policy's
they somehow manage to have implemented. Maybe the 60's was just a way for the power's that be to see they simply dodged a bullet and realized they had to clamp down with a greater vengence.

If the political will existed (as example), many years ago, the energy needs of the world could have been re configured away from strictly petroleum to a sustainable mix of energy technologies. But no, the greed heads and frat boy rulers wrestled
any alternatives away from public view. All in the name of $

Thank you's of course to David Rockefeller and the Trilateralist monkeys.
Jeff@Crows