Spiritual aspects of gardening
From eagle-rock.org
This page is to prepare and collect information for one or more chapters in the course. --John Eagles 09:34, 22 December 2011 (PST)
Chunks of information
- How did the great array of naturally healing substances in plants and other living beings come about? No single living being can be understood as existing in isolation. All the animals and plants and micro-organisms were made to be dependent from the environment in which they live. The bodies of animals should not be seen as having a life independent from that of plants and other living organisms. Imagine a beautiful painting. If you isolated the parts of the painting, a figure here, a tree there, then you would not get any good painting. Likewise, all of creation was made in a single symphony of harmonizing elements, in which each element of creation, each animal and plant plays a good role only when understood in harmony to other creations. Health is nothing else than the state of existence in which an animal or a human being exists in good harmony to all surrounding entities in this symphony of life.
Gallery
Field with circled crops. This photo is from when i planted and sowed in my garden for the first time. Because it was already late in the gardening year i had little choice, but i planted courgette, leek, Brussels sprout and strawberries and i sowed spinach and chard. The photo shows that i did it in circles and ellipses. There is a spiritual reason why it is done this way. It's an old tradition in some or more Native American tribes.
