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Subtle Agroecologies
After several weeks of deepening rapport, she had raised with them the issue that supermarket
specifcations required her to harvest the apples in a small and specifc size range, for which reason
the orchard historically had been harvested three times per season with associated time and labour
costs.
COULD THE TREES HELP IN ANY WAY?
When she returned to the next workshop, with bags of delicious apples with Brix readings 3 in mid
to high teens, she informed us that the whole orchard had matured to harvest at uniform size, all the
branches of all the trees together, and that only one picking had been required that year.
Again, with further amazement and ever-deepening humility, we are shown that the communication is real, that the capacity is available, and that cooperation and help can be gifted in response to
loving gratitude and simple request.
What an amazing and wonderful planet to live on!
There are many more stories of nature spirit communication and cooperation, but if you simply
open your heart to them, you will fnd them in the garden and on the farm and will soon start telling
your own stories…
HEALING AND RENEWAL OF RESIDUAL HUMAN ENERGIES
Landscape holds the memories and resonance of things past as well as present, and while we all
enjoy those places full of the resonance of love and laughter, sometimes those place memories, or
patterns of ‘predecessor chi’, are ill at ease and disquieting, leaving a sense of restless uneasiness,
emptiness, coldness and sterility.
Such causes are classically associated with battlefelds, sites of massacre or murder or suicide,
critical points of confict between indigenous and colonial peoples, sites of bankruptcy, disappointment or despair – the various lists of human stress and trauma in small and large degrees and scales.
Practitioners addressing healing work of this nature consider stress patterns in the earth meridians, the elemental and nature spirit realms, and also the resonant energies of ghosts or ‘earthbound
souls’, curses on the property, and residual human emotional and psychological stress patterns that
have become embedded or ingrained in the resonant matrix of the place.
Addressing these resonances with healing intention can, with patience, bring renewal and
refreshment, allowing the life forces of elemental and nature spirit to return to engaged present
activity rather than being caught up in, and compromised by, residual dissonance and frozen life
force. Renewed and refreshed, like the patterns in the sand washed away by the incoming and outgoing tide, leaving all clear and fresh over again.
I worked on one farm in New South Wales that had been the site of a massacre of indigenous
aboriginal people during the colonial period. The farmers there described it to me as being ‘Rolls
Royce property with no spark plugs’. For many years, they had applied regenerative agriculture
techniques of grazing and crop rotation and had set up radionics emitters through which biodynamic preparations were being broadcast – nearly always with disappointing results. I engaged in a
deep, quiet meditative healing process on the landscape to bring all to peace, and when I felt it had
arrived, advised the elemental and nature spirits of current agricultural practices and the human
needs there.
Two weeks after my work, a crop of sorghum was planted, which yielded 2.3 tonnes per acre,
which compared favourably with their long-term average of 1 tonne/acre and their previous best
yield of 1.6 tonne/acre. Almost more excitingly, they reported that the crop had been so full of
3 Brix is a scale based on the amount that light bends when it passes through a liquid, and measures the percent solids in a
given weight of plant juice. It is used to determine quality.
Subtle Agroecologies
After several weeks of deepening rapport, she had raised with them the issue that supermarket
specifcations required her to harvest the apples in a small and specifc size range, for which reason
the orchard historically had been harvested three times per season with associated time and labour
costs.
COULD THE TREES HELP IN ANY WAY?
When she returned to the next workshop, with bags of delicious apples with Brix readings 3 in mid
to high teens, she informed us that the whole orchard had matured to harvest at uniform size, all the
branches of all the trees together, and that only one picking had been required that year.
Again, with further amazement and ever-deepening humility, we are shown that the communication is real, that the capacity is available, and that cooperation and help can be gifted in response to
loving gratitude and simple request.
What an amazing and wonderful planet to live on!
There are many more stories of nature spirit communication and cooperation, but if you simply
open your heart to them, you will fnd them in the garden and on the farm and will soon start telling
your own stories…
HEALING AND RENEWAL OF RESIDUAL HUMAN ENERGIES
Landscape holds the memories and resonance of things past as well as present, and while we all
enjoy those places full of the resonance of love and laughter, sometimes those place memories, or
patterns of ‘predecessor chi’, are ill at ease and disquieting, leaving a sense of restless uneasiness,
emptiness, coldness and sterility.
Such causes are classically associated with battlefelds, sites of massacre or murder or suicide,
critical points of confict between indigenous and colonial peoples, sites of bankruptcy, disappointment or despair – the various lists of human stress and trauma in small and large degrees and scales.
Practitioners addressing healing work of this nature consider stress patterns in the earth meridians, the elemental and nature spirit realms, and also the resonant energies of ghosts or ‘earthbound
souls’, curses on the property, and residual human emotional and psychological stress patterns that
have become embedded or ingrained in the resonant matrix of the place.
Addressing these resonances with healing intention can, with patience, bring renewal and
refreshment, allowing the life forces of elemental and nature spirit to return to engaged present
activity rather than being caught up in, and compromised by, residual dissonance and frozen life
force. Renewed and refreshed, like the patterns in the sand washed away by the incoming and outgoing tide, leaving all clear and fresh over again.
I worked on one farm in New South Wales that had been the site of a massacre of indigenous
aboriginal people during the colonial period. The farmers there described it to me as being ‘Rolls
Royce property with no spark plugs’. For many years, they had applied regenerative agriculture
techniques of grazing and crop rotation and had set up radionics emitters through which biodynamic preparations were being broadcast – nearly always with disappointing results. I engaged in a
deep, quiet meditative healing process on the landscape to bring all to peace, and when I felt it had
arrived, advised the elemental and nature spirits of current agricultural practices and the human
needs there.
Two weeks after my work, a crop of sorghum was planted, which yielded 2.3 tonnes per acre,
which compared favourably with their long-term average of 1 tonne/acre and their previous best
yield of 1.6 tonne/acre. Almost more excitingly, they reported that the crop had been so full of
3 Brix is a scale based on the amount that light bends when it passes through a liquid, and measures the percent solids in a
given weight of plant juice. It is used to determine quality.