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eartH:

such a magnificent
planet, with her
stunning beauty,

delicate flowers
and magical
forests, inviting

pools, rivers and
seas, mysterious

caves, expansive
COMMON spaces and secret

places, bountiful

gardens, and
G roun D delightful animals.

by Melani Ellis

We are truly fortunate to be living in such a flourishing, small elite group essentially controlling humanity. But what
welcoming location, to be able to experience such a often goes unacknowledged is the way that we the people
wide diversity of life, of being in a body feeling with all contribute to this mass slavery by accepting the lie that
our senses so many sensations, to be able to grow food we are powerless, that we need guidance. We’re allowing
in our back yards, drink fresh, nourishing water, pick ourselves to be manipulated.
delicious fruit from trees, receive cozy shelter from the For instance, look at the way people spend so much
storms, explore a virtually endless variety of adventures, time and energy on politics. People are voting for a new
with the companionship of the animals and humans. leader who will fix the mess we’re in, when they could be
What an incredible array of gifts we’re offered daily, and spending that same amount of time and energy in their
how grateful most of us are to be able to call this precious backyard growing food, actually creating a better world.
planet our home. People could be spending that time planting trees, setting
Yet when we observe the reality today on Planet Earth, up sustainable systems for their families and communities,
that’s when our hearts start to break and tears begin which is actually quite simple to do once you decide to do
to flow. We’ve desecrated the pristine Garden of Eden. it. (See Permaculture) People could be restoring the Earth
We humans have gotten ourselves and
everyone else on this planet, including we’Ve got to act now
the Earth herself, into a lot of trouble,
in a relatively short period of time. We’ve got to do themselves, making changes in their own lives, but instead
something, and we’ve got to act now. they continue to accept living unsustainable lives and
We’re facing so many problems with the shape our world expect that someone else is going to come up with some
is in today, and so many solutions are being offered, but kind of solution. What we need is to become sustainable
what’s really being accomplished? Very little. Tragically, this human beings who are taking care of ourselves, who have
is part of a master plan: to keep the masses spinning their a direct relationship with the Earth and our food and water
wheels in futile actions, so they continue to contribute their source, as our ancestors did, not very long ago.
daily energies to sustain an entity other than themselves. To turn us into slaves of the system, our crops were
If we look at the planetary situation from an eagle-eye’s destroyed, our water was diverted and poisoned, and then
view, we can see that there’s a parasitic force directed by a we were taken from the land, so we were no longer able

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