Building community gardens: 2009
(dormant farm next door to where we've rented for May 2009.)extracts from "Wilderness Garden Club" outlines: 1996
Garden Club farming is:
reconstructing Village
(our raised bed gardens on rented land 1999-2003)
( a farm we considered, Feb-09, in the Niagara Region)
Garden Club farming is:
reconstructing Village
is
community farming
building from myth
in an historic moment.
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We're Living
In An Arthurian Time
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The evolution of community
building transitional systems,
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We're Living
In An Arthurian Time
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The evolution of community
building transitional systems,
in wartime economies,
is basic training
is basic training
for unfolding campaigns.
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When mulling global systems dynamics studies,
the 5 Club of Rome papers say, from 1972 and on,
and Meadows, Vaca, Stavrianos , Jacobs and countless other icons of the age,
a rational conclusion
leads to the exploration of intentional community,
more aptly the accidental community,
Findhorne and rural near-urban based "sustainable systems".
***This evolved common dreams
of cities recreating Eden in "Garden Clubs".
is community seeking "Whimsical Garden",
is community seeking "Whimsical Garden",
an imperative for self sufficient cities.
The technology is available and evolution demands it.
perhaps we are looking for the Arthurian myth,
the preservation of the good parts of civilization
during the redefinition of "Empires."
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evidence suggests that the task this generation faces
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evidence suggests that the task this generation faces
is nothing less than, in the words of the early Club of Rome studies,
that of " reshaping the international order",
and of Kenny Ausebel, "..restoring the earth."
We are all Dreaming the World.
We are all Dreaming the World.
We are each of us "social architects" in our presence.
Consequently, dreaming paths
Consequently, dreaming paths
in social instability are the substance of our reality.
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The "garden club" blueprint
was spawned in that river of our personal dreams
and is the one factor in our lives that governs the present.
The more unstable and unpredictable the world becomes,
The more unstable and unpredictable the world becomes,
the more we seek grounding in gardens and communities
(our raised bed gardens on rented land 1999-2003)*
This time is a "Bridge of Chaos"
on the other side is our wilderness urban garden,
a retirement career in practical real life situations.
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( a farm we considered, Feb-09, in the Niagara Region)common circumstance,
common potential,
collapsing real estate devlopment fantasies
the window of opportunity to act.
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The minimum requirement for all individual physical or mental exploration is stable community.
It is only from stable communities, a home base, that civilization explores the sciences and arts, the mysteries which surround our outpost in the larger yet to be defined infinite dimensions of space.
If communities are not sustainable then neither is the larger context of nation states and hence the global civilization.
Regional micro-communities are necessary for trade objectives and the globalization of markets.
With existing technologies we can dome entire communities and redesign the suburban mall. We can guide ourselves towards self-sufficiency to underwrite the stability of the urban base. Long range objectives can be only be realized within that context of stability.
It is only from stable communities, a home base, that civilization explores the sciences and arts, the mysteries which surround our outpost in the larger yet to be defined infinite dimensions of space.
If communities are not sustainable then neither is the larger context of nation states and hence the global civilization.
Regional micro-communities are necessary for trade objectives and the globalization of markets.
With existing technologies we can dome entire communities and redesign the suburban mall. We can guide ourselves towards self-sufficiency to underwrite the stability of the urban base. Long range objectives can be only be realized within that context of stability.
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The purpose of civilization is not every man for himself. Regardless of the driving imperatives behind our economics, the pursuit of individual wealth at increasing cost to the planet, the growth and concentration of tribal material wealth in a shrinking percentage of the population of the earth is the essence of our difficulties.
We have been drawn into an addiction, an illusion that the future only holds promise if it includes a greater tangible wealth in control over "things", possessions and time.
It is not against the wildness, or nature, or luck that we should define our struggle so much as against those in our tribe who would have us serve the concept of personal wealth and personal visions over the larger welfare of our growing tribe, the Earth.
We have been drawn into an addiction, an illusion that the future only holds promise if it includes a greater tangible wealth in control over "things", possessions and time.
It is not against the wildness, or nature, or luck that we should define our struggle so much as against those in our tribe who would have us serve the concept of personal wealth and personal visions over the larger welfare of our growing tribe, the Earth.
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We’re all looking for something that will define a mental rock, a stable point in the world , a reference point in the universe, in which we define who or what we are. If we don’t have some little bit of that in us we are chaff in the evolutionary wind.
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The "Warrior’s" visions and powers, binds him or her to the evolution of the generations.
The visions we seek from the mysterious and multi-dimensional Forces, however we personally define that side of our gifts, seed and guide the evolution of conscious life. This must balance the welfare of the women, the children and the elders in this Timeline. Otherwise the spiritual life has no measure for the real world.
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A community binds the individual into the synergy of a combined effort.
The evolving "intentional" or perhaps more aptly, "accidental" community will redefine, rebuild a wheel that was dismantled by the industrial age. The demise of the dysfunctional is forcing the reconstruction of electronic age tribal formats and the reconsideration of social, political and economic factors in community.
The evolution of sustainable communities is inevitable. The political and metaphysical processes will evolve out of this. This movement will develop the self sufficient city on earth before we build it in space.
Given the quantum science of the times perhaps this is a hint of the evolving "...culturally unbiased metaphysical initiative that will unify the world." (Buckminster Fuller, Critical Path:).
We can hope.
The evolving "intentional" or perhaps more aptly, "accidental" community will redefine, rebuild a wheel that was dismantled by the industrial age. The demise of the dysfunctional is forcing the reconstruction of electronic age tribal formats and the reconsideration of social, political and economic factors in community.
The evolution of sustainable communities is inevitable. The political and metaphysical processes will evolve out of this. This movement will develop the self sufficient city on earth before we build it in space.
Given the quantum science of the times perhaps this is a hint of the evolving "...culturally unbiased metaphysical initiative that will unify the world." (Buckminster Fuller, Critical Path:).
We can hope.
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The objective is environmental and social responsibility.
The "Gaian" phenomena will deal with the environment.
A "new order" will "evolve" from the bottom up producing a human archetype that few of us will understand from our current position in history. We will give birth to it but we are not likely to understand it.
This is both a "dark age" and an "Arthurian age" for the evolution of human consciousness that has been shaped and reshaped through the millennia.
We’re personally and actively involved in the building of saner, more responsible, holistic communities relevant to the larger concerns of the Earth.
A small but growing acknowledgement unfolds that we can blend the "Two Paths", the earth and the sky, and build a stable home base from which our descendants can explore the stars.
The "Gaian" phenomena will deal with the environment.
A "new order" will "evolve" from the bottom up producing a human archetype that few of us will understand from our current position in history. We will give birth to it but we are not likely to understand it.
This is both a "dark age" and an "Arthurian age" for the evolution of human consciousness that has been shaped and reshaped through the millennia.
We’re personally and actively involved in the building of saner, more responsible, holistic communities relevant to the larger concerns of the Earth.
A small but growing acknowledgement unfolds that we can blend the "Two Paths", the earth and the sky, and build a stable home base from which our descendants can explore the stars.
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The community requires needs to be more agile, more responsive to survive the unfolding changes.
We build both the treasures and the labours of the generations which follow us onto the earth. We do this consciously or unconsciously.
Every action or inaction is social architecture moulding the future for our children and grandchildren.
We build both the treasures and the labours of the generations which follow us onto the earth. We do this consciously or unconsciously.
Every action or inaction is social architecture moulding the future for our children and grandchildren.
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A business man is a warrior chief presiding over a fort and protecting a village. The company represents the fort, the village centre or stronghold and the families which depend on the survival of the group effort are the villagers or the "shire"
A warrior chief should be aware of long range metaphysical factors that drive the tribal war dance as much as the collection of booty and SUV’s which fill the village parking lot.
A warrior chief should be aware of long range metaphysical factors that drive the tribal war dance as much as the collection of booty and SUV’s which fill the village parking lot.
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Travelling the global village in the electronic age requires a mind capable of grasping the ancient as well as the modern.
We live in the age of quantum mechanics, the holographic universe and the physics of immortality as "... hyper-spatial beings casting a shadow into matter." (Terrence McKenna)
The evidence abounds of a multidimensional universe. We live in three dimensional Newtonian mechanics and struggle to define the miracle of life in a multi-dimensional context. Much of our argument fails in the cloistered reality of Newtonian thought.
We live in the age of quantum mechanics, the holographic universe and the physics of immortality as "... hyper-spatial beings casting a shadow into matter." (Terrence McKenna)
The evidence abounds of a multidimensional universe. We live in three dimensional Newtonian mechanics and struggle to define the miracle of life in a multi-dimensional context. Much of our argument fails in the cloistered reality of Newtonian thought.
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It is not money that buys things. It is the conversion of human thought into actions that creates things. Money is a medium for human thought.
Currency is a reflection of human energy and acquires the potential for power over others.
Money has a metaphysical aspect. Someone dreams. Dreams become thought patterns, influence daily organized activity and therefore reality. It is therefore important to dream good dreams.
We can be both beasts of burden and creative dreamers.
Currency is a reflection of human energy and acquires the potential for power over others.
Money has a metaphysical aspect. Someone dreams. Dreams become thought patterns, influence daily organized activity and therefore reality. It is therefore important to dream good dreams.
We can be both beasts of burden and creative dreamers.
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The real "bottom line" is the well being of ALL of the tribe, every man woman and child in it.
This includes by extension every facet of human activity, especially that of the marketplace.
This includes by extension every facet of human activity, especially that of the marketplace.
This is increasingly relevant to the long term success of any human venture however subtle or vividly apparent to the average investor.
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That poetic historian Barbara Tuchman once compared this time to the first millenium, and the late 900 A.D.. We have a plethora of messiahs and visions of doom similar to that mystical time.
The visions and cautions enfolded in the "peak oil" debates, the sobre ruminations of the Club of Rome Studies and the fundamentalist rants demonstrate that we have a repetitive tick in the human archetype.
We tire of the wars and the common sense revolutionary guards of the planet. We dream of peace and good government.
The archetypal programming in the human psyche may produce the messianic age phenomenon for survival.
In the book "DUNE", Bene Gesserit witches plotted for a thousand years or more to produce the Kwisatz Hadderach, the prophesied one. "The sleeper must awaken." In this case an entire planet.
The visions and cautions enfolded in the "peak oil" debates, the sobre ruminations of the Club of Rome Studies and the fundamentalist rants demonstrate that we have a repetitive tick in the human archetype.
We tire of the wars and the common sense revolutionary guards of the planet. We dream of peace and good government.
The archetypal programming in the human psyche may produce the messianic age phenomenon for survival.
In the book "DUNE", Bene Gesserit witches plotted for a thousand years or more to produce the Kwisatz Hadderach, the prophesied one. "The sleeper must awaken." In this case an entire planet.
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The "city state of mind"
We’re struggling to come out of the ocean and walk.
Given our capacity to resolve such complicated objectives as a space station we have the latent ability to resolve things which cloud the peace of the moment and the quiet progress towards the space age of tomorrow.
Nation states are restructuring around the context of a redefined "global" economy. Local action is defining the self sufficient space age electronic village within the city.
That new star in the sky, the worlds first space station hints at the direction. If we plan to build them in space why not build them here?
Given our capacity to resolve such complicated objectives as a space station we have the latent ability to resolve things which cloud the peace of the moment and the quiet progress towards the space age of tomorrow.
Nation states are restructuring around the context of a redefined "global" economy. Local action is defining the self sufficient space age electronic village within the city.
That new star in the sky, the worlds first space station hints at the direction. If we plan to build them in space why not build them here?
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Before "StarTrek" we need "EarthTrek".
Urban complexes will inevitably redefine demands, lessen impact on the environment and stabilize social structures. The times demand it.
The evolution of the city state is not a detachment from the outer world but rather a sense of responsibility to the world.
The space age emphasizes the bond we have with environment and neighbour. We build the global objective re-building "Eden" and shooting for the stars for all of the earth’s children.
Things shot from the earth are from all of us.
Urban complexes will inevitably redefine demands, lessen impact on the environment and stabilize social structures. The times demand it.
The evolution of the city state is not a detachment from the outer world but rather a sense of responsibility to the world.
The space age emphasizes the bond we have with environment and neighbour. We build the global objective re-building "Eden" and shooting for the stars for all of the earth’s children.
Things shot from the earth are from all of us.
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2009 gardening year. After a decade of efforts now finally getting things defined and realized. .
a long hard learning curve. eager to be back working with the soil and plants again..healing the garden and perhaps more aptly, ourselves.
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ronandjulie
disenfranchised mongrel puppies of the empires.
