"We have set up a vast educational system. It is on the basis of this system that we teach our children and each other - in kindergarten, school, university and post-graduate programs. It is this system that enables us to invent things, to fly into Space. We structure our lives in accordance with it. Through its help we strive to construct some happiness for ourselves. We strive to fathom the Universe and the atom, along with all sorts of anomalous phenomena. We love to discuss and describe them at great length in sensational stories in both the popular press and scholarly publications.
But there is one phenomenon which, for some reason, we try with all our might to avoid... because it could so easily knock the wind out of our commonly accepted systems of education and scientific deductions and make a mockery of the reality of our experience! So we try to pretend that such a phenomenon does not exist. But it does! And it will continue to exist, however much we try to turn away or avoid it. Isn't it time to take a closer look at this and, just maybe...together, find an answer to the following question?
If you take all our great thinkers, without exception - people who have formulated religious teachings, all sorts of teachings which the vast majority of humanity are following - or at least endeavoring to follow - why is it that, before formulating their teachings, they became recluses, went into solitude - in most cases, to the forest?
Not to some super academy, mind you, but to the forest!
[Incidentally, even the word academy, translated from Greek, means groves!]
Why did the Old Testament's Moses go off into a mountain-top forest before returning and presenting to the world the wisdom set forth on his tablets of stone?
Why did Christ Jesus go off, away from his disciples, into the desert, mountains and forest?
Why did a man named Siddhartha Gautama, who lived in India in the sixth century B.C. spend seven years alone in the forest? After which this recluse came out of the forest, back to humanity, complete with a set of teachings - teachings which even to this day, many centuries later, arouse a multitude of human minds. And people build huge temples and call these teachings Buddhism. And the man himself eventually came to be known as Buddha.
Why? Who or what enabled these people to obtain their wisdom? Who gave them knowledge, who brought them closer to understanding the essence of life. How did they live, what did they do, what did they think about during their forest solitude?"
Guerilla Compost has their own ideas about that but as always, we encourage you to see for yourself.
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Now, we can't take any credit for the above passage. That was an excerpt by Vladimir Merge from his first book in the Ringing Cedars Series. But it is so helpful to hear other people talking so bluntly about these ideas. As for our thoughts: We believe that stepping outside the environment which reinforces that constant rushing mentally and into one that effortlessly tunes you in to the natural cycles allows one the opportunity to finally breathe and to turn on to yourself, your intuition and the vast array of ancient knowledge that lies within YOU, not some expert or authority.
If you're anything like us though, and 30 minutes in nature every day for 30 days seems like too big of a lone commitment, ease in with some nice information and a few supported action steps,
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