This is a kind of very long-span connect-the-dots historico / politico / religious and economic exercise that’s been working away at the back of my mind for a while: it starts in prehistoric times and is beginning again today – Tom Dennen

 By adopting the ethics and applying these (Permaculture) principles in our daily life we can make the transition from being dependent consumers to becoming responsible producers. This journey builds skills and resilience at home and in our local communities that will help us prepare for an uncertain future with less available energy.

Look at this from the point of view that sharing was the original intent, not vengeance…

Now the Lord God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man he had formed.  The Lord God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground - trees that were pleasing to the eye and good for food. In the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. (Forbidding, yes, but..?)

The Fall (Contrived and written by the Serpent, not an all-forgiving God who knew the Tree of Knowledge would be  eventually approached and eaten by Adam and Eve, because He had given them Curiosity and Free Will?)

Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”

The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden,  but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’”

“You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman.  “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

(Secret Societies from Ancient times to today initiate candidates in a ritual that ends in a ‘psychological death” a spiritual awakening, the end of innocence with the opening of the Third Eye, the creative imagination resting in the Pineal Body)

 When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate  Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.

 Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden.  But the Lord God called to the man, “Where are you?”

He answered, “I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid.”

 And he said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”

The man said, “The woman you put here with me; she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”

Then the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?”

The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”

So the Lord God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, “Cursed are you above all livestock  and all wild animals! You will crawl on your belly  and you will eat dust  all the days of your life. And I will put enmity  between you and the woman,  and between your offspring and hers; he will c1rush your head,  and you will strike his heel.”

To the woman he said, “I will make your pains in childbearing very severe;  with painful labor you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband,   and he will rule over you.”

To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’

“Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life.

^“ It will produce thorns and thistles for you,  and you will eat the plants of the field.

^“ By the sweat of your brow  you will eat your food until you return to the ground,   since from it you were taken; for dust you are   and to dust you will return.”

 So the Lord God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken.  After he drove the man out, he placed on the east side of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life.

What a nasty parable Not the God I see around me in Nature!

What is Permaculture? The brnk of the Transition from Nation/states to community self-sufficiency…?

Permaculture is a creative design process based on ethical and design principles. It guides us to mimic the patterns and relationships we find in nature and can be applied to all aspects of human habitation, from agriculture to ecological building, from appropriate technology to education and even economics.

 By adopting the ethics and applying these principles in our daily life we can make the transition from being dependent consumers to becoming responsible producers. This journey builds skills and resilience at home and in our local communities that will help us prepare for an uncertain future with less available energy.

The techniques and strategies used to apply these principles vary widely depending on the location, climatic conditions and resources that are available. The methods may differ, but the foundations to this holistic approach remain constant. By learning these principles you can acquire valuable thinking tools that help you become more resilient in an era of change.

You can begin by exploring the Essence of Permaculture, a precursor to the full length book Permaculture: Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability by David Holmgren. There is a selection of resources available with free downloads, videos, links and a shop with related products. We also have a number of items available specifically designed to help you learn the principles, with a video, magnets, music and calendar.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permaculture

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