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DOI: 10.1201/9780429440939-32
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Experiences with the
Metaphysics of Nature
Michael J. Roads
INTRODUCTION
I grew up in a farming family in East Anglia, UK, working with my father until his untimely death
in the early 1960s. With my wife and I in our mid-twenties, and with two young children, we then
emigrated to Tasmania, the island state of Australia. It was there that I experienced many of the
deeper insights of Nature that I share with you now.
I will begin by explaining about energy. My early years of working with the metaphysics of
Nature were by trial and error, interlaced with a fair degree of common sense. What I have learned
is that everything is energy. All space and matter is energy and all energy is information. Another
name for this energy is consciousness. So, here, we have a vast reservoir of information that is not
physically visible or available and is thus ignored, despite being metaphysically obtainable.
Over my many years of experience and study, I have learnt that the metaphysical precedes the
physical. That we are unaware of this makes no difference to reality. However, if you accept this
higher reality and work with it, life as a farmer becomes very different, very interesting. You accept
what you can physically see, but you acknowledge that if you learn to work with the unseen, then the
results will be far greater than before. It follows that, just as Nature is far more than we can see, so
also are you. I have written several books on this topic of the metaphysical world of Nature and have
lectured internationally on this subject. My books, Talking with Nature ( 1985) and Journey into
Nature ( 1990), both best-sellers, are still in publication under a single cover. In addition, Conscious
Gardening ( 2008) has been well received, and I have also explored the astral worlds of Nature in my
book, Stepping between Realities, published in 2014. My latest book is Entering the Secret World
of Nature.
SURVIVING AND LEARNING IN TASMANIA
When I emigrated at aged 26 with my late wife and 2 young children, I went from an arable farm
in Cambridgeshire, England, to a beef farm in Tasmania, the island state of Australia. This was in
November 1963. There is of course a huge difference between these two types of farming, in two
very different countries with very different climates, but we were young and full of confidence,
and the scale of this challenge was easy to dismiss at the start. This was our choice. What I did not
choose was a plague of armyworm caterpillars that, like a swarm of locusts, crawled across my
354 acres on the foothills of Mt Arthur and devastated my pasture. My cows drank from waterholes that were so full of dead caterpillars that the living ones could crawl over the surface. Within
CONTENTS
Introduction .................................................................................................................................... 315
Surviving and Learning in Tasmania ............................................................................................. 315
Goodbye Tasmania … Hello Organic Farming Consultancy ......................................................... 320
Conclusion ..................................................................................................................................... 322
DOI: 10.1201/9780429440939-32
28
Experiences with the
Metaphysics of Nature
Michael J. Roads
INTRODUCTION
I grew up in a farming family in East Anglia, UK, working with my father until his untimely death
in the early 1960s. With my wife and I in our mid-twenties, and with two young children, we then
emigrated to Tasmania, the island state of Australia. It was there that I experienced many of the
deeper insights of Nature that I share with you now.
I will begin by explaining about energy. My early years of working with the metaphysics of
Nature were by trial and error, interlaced with a fair degree of common sense. What I have learned
is that everything is energy. All space and matter is energy and all energy is information. Another
name for this energy is consciousness. So, here, we have a vast reservoir of information that is not
physically visible or available and is thus ignored, despite being metaphysically obtainable.
Over my many years of experience and study, I have learnt that the metaphysical precedes the
physical. That we are unaware of this makes no difference to reality. However, if you accept this
higher reality and work with it, life as a farmer becomes very different, very interesting. You accept
what you can physically see, but you acknowledge that if you learn to work with the unseen, then the
results will be far greater than before. It follows that, just as Nature is far more than we can see, so
also are you. I have written several books on this topic of the metaphysical world of Nature and have
lectured internationally on this subject. My books, Talking with Nature ( 1985) and Journey into
Nature ( 1990), both best-sellers, are still in publication under a single cover. In addition, Conscious
Gardening ( 2008) has been well received, and I have also explored the astral worlds of Nature in my
book, Stepping between Realities, published in 2014. My latest book is Entering the Secret World
of Nature.
SURVIVING AND LEARNING IN TASMANIA
When I emigrated at aged 26 with my late wife and 2 young children, I went from an arable farm
in Cambridgeshire, England, to a beef farm in Tasmania, the island state of Australia. This was in
November 1963. There is of course a huge difference between these two types of farming, in two
very different countries with very different climates, but we were young and full of confidence,
and the scale of this challenge was easy to dismiss at the start. This was our choice. What I did not
choose was a plague of armyworm caterpillars that, like a swarm of locusts, crawled across my
354 acres on the foothills of Mt Arthur and devastated my pasture. My cows drank from waterholes that were so full of dead caterpillars that the living ones could crawl over the surface. Within
CONTENTS
Introduction .................................................................................................................................... 315
Surviving and Learning in Tasmania ............................................................................................. 315
Goodbye Tasmania … Hello Organic Farming Consultancy ......................................................... 320
Conclusion ..................................................................................................................................... 322