Healing Soil, Healing Self: Choosing Balance in a World Built on Control

Photo by Dale AI, writing by John Bond

We live in a time of great change. A time of awakening. 

A time where both the light and the dark are becoming more visible. 

This is a time to choose either balance or control.

When I began my journey into microbiology, I was just ending a journey within my own darkness. A depressive bipolar swing had me locked for two long years into my own thoughts that relentlessly went around and around in my head. 

Fortunately, I had the wisdom to seek help, and I sought prescription drugs to slow down the thoughts and give me some space. 

But it wasn't until I reconnected myself to nature that the healing really began. I revisited my love of growing plants, weaned myself off the antidepressants, and discovered that magic mushrooms grew on the property I was living. 

I then ventured into the world of psychedelics as an aid for healing my mental health. Within six months, I had healed my depression. I chose to turn towards balance. I chose nature as a way of healing.

Now, four years later, I have absolutely no trace of being bipolar. I chose to turn towards light, and I chose nature as a way of healing.

Next, I began to think about what I would like to do as my next business. A business that gave back to the Earth rather than taking from it. 

Around this time, I watched the movie 2040 by the Byron filmmaker Damon Gameau, and from that film, I learnt that one of the largest contributors to CO₂ was tillage—bare earth. 

It was obvious to me that a business that gives back to the Earth works with the Earth. Hence, Living Earth Biology.

Today, I don't necessarily think that we need to reduce CO₂ levels, nor do I think that CO₂ levels have caused climate change nor will they make it worse.

A scientific philosopher, Thomas Kuhn, wrote that scientific concepts or ideas are often shaped by a socially accepted paradigm. Although objective reasoning does exist, it is still shaped within that paradigm.

"The successive transition from one paradigm to another via revolution is the usual developmental pattern of mature science.”

 Thomas Kuhn

An example of a paradigm shift is one from Newtonian physics to Einstein’s relativity.

This changed the way scientists questioned the world around them.

Therefore, science doesn’t progress in a straight line through a steady accumulation of knowledge. It progresses in a series of paradigm shifts. When the results of an experiment can no longer fit within the boundaries of the current paradigm, then a new paradigm emerges.

Which leads one to ask: which is the truth?

One may question the socially accepted truth about CO₂ as actually being a construct for the control of energy production. 

This ties us back to Kuhn’s idea that what we accept as scientific truth often depends on the prevailing paradigm and who controls it.

From the very early days of "climate change talk," CO₂ was the culprit, CO₂ was the scapegoat. CO₂ was the control mechanism. CO₂ was the paradigm in which all scientific data was interpreted.

Recent research is beginning to question long-held assumptions about CO₂ and its role in global warming. As physicist Dr. Jim Mason writes in C2C Journal:

“Recent academic research inquiring whether CO₂ at its current atmospheric concentrations can even absorb more heat amounts to breaking new ground in climate science.”

Dr. Jim Mason

So, for me personally, I'm not in this business because I necessarily think we need to save the world. 

I'm not in it because I necessarily think we need to reduce CO₂. 

I'm in it because I think we need to change the way we do things that bring us back into alignment with our personal power and our alignment with nature.

We have relied heavily upon chemicals to "heal" or "fix" a problem, just like I relied upon chemicals to fix my depression (I'm not advocating that anyone should stop taking their medication, I'm just saying what worked for me).

But chemicals take us away from our true power; take us away from nature.

Chemicals work against nature.

Chemicals are poisoning our land, our food, our health.

We need to move towards balance. We need to choose nature to heal our land, heal ourselves, and heal our future.

A change in how we farm and care for the land shouldn’t be driven by climate fear—it should be guided by alignment with nature.

When we understand ourselves and the world around us, we are empowered to make better decisions.

The choice is ours:

Walk with nature, or against it.

Reclaim our power, or give it away.

I’ve made my choice.

I choose balance, and I choose nature.

What will you choose?

Photo by Dale AI

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