going with it

     I was on a pay phone in Canada talking to my sister.  She was telling me that my dad had died a few days ago.  The pay phone I was using was facing a convenience store.  As I talked with my sister, I watched a man that looked like my dad, walk out of the store.  There was a strange feeling as I watched this man.  I couldn't take my eyes off him.  It was an experience that stays with me.  This kind of synchronicity opens up all kinds of possibilities and magic and fun!

     Reintroducing the American Bison has great benefits to so many people as well as the land.  The philosophy of the bison needs to be reintroduced as well.  The mindset needs to be changed as well, other wise there will be more problems.  The balance of the land needs to be maintained.  If the bison can join in the system, then it will thrive. When the bison thrives, the people and the land will thrive as well.  A beautiful philosophy of the bison is that it gives everything up.  It gives it's whole body to be used to something, so that the people may live.  The hide, organs, meat, bone...all of it is used by the people.  I would like to be as useful. 

The ecosystems are both strong and fragile just like our bodies and our earth.  We are strong as a unit, and weak as a piece of the whole.  This is similar to one person boycotting a store and a country boycotting a company.  The duality and balance is yin and yang.

The TCM approach views cancer as an invader.  Depending on where the body is diseased, determines where the practitioner will work.  The meridians will be strengthened and supporting organs will be as well.  The body is seen as a whole and the pieces of the whole are taken into consideration in the healing process.  The emotional body is addressed as well in TCM.  For example, anger will present in the liver.  This system is looking at the whole body and it uses the whole body to heal itself.

     I don't know if we should distinguish between a living and non living system.  Everything has energy and that's what sticks in my mind.  I think of stones and would they be considered living or non living?  Are the elements ( fire, earth, air & water) living or non living?  I don't think it's a good idea to separate them because then we're not looking at the whole system.   

     I love the Gaia Theory.  I don't see this as a theory, I see this as a philosophy.  This resonates with the Native American philosophy of all things are connected.  I believe that there will be a point of correction when the Earth will self correct.  That might mean earthquakes, tidal waves, fires....somehow, she will take care of herself.  Just like any mother, she has to take care of herself before she can take care of anything else.