The Evil Stepmother and The Father Who Would Not See

[Guest guest]

http://www.gaianstudies.org/documents/IHSOPEN.pdf

 

Thanks, Anya, for posting that link. That was a deep, insightful presentation.

Will re-read frequently, and pass on.

 

Now I have to find out about Japanese knotweed and Lyme disease.

In the speech they are mentioned as an example of herbs appearing in an area at

the same time as a disease agent.

We have a total over-population of white tail deer here. AND Japanese knotweed

has been signalled as an invasive species.

Hmm. Perhaps we should let the knotweed be until the wolves and cougars return

in sufficient numbers, or the rednecks teach the hippies to hunt.

 

Ien in the Kootenays

http://freegreenliving.com

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Can I just say that I absolutely love this theory (is there a name

for it?) that plants grow where needed for health. I thought of this

when dandelions were everywhere in the spring/early summer...time to

cleanse and detox the liver. This would sound crazypants to a lot

people but as far as I'm concerned, we know ZILCH about how

intelligent and complex this planet is.

 

This also reminds me of an amazing article I read in The Walrus about

South American shamans sleeping next to plants in order for the

plants to communicate their medicinal purposes via dream state.

 

Jessica Burman

Cocoon Apothecary

www.cocoonapothecary.com

jessica

(519)497-9546

 

On 12-Nov-09, at 12:13 AM, Marcia Elston wrote:

 

> Hi Ien,

>

> I began noticing about 10 years ago that st. johnswort was encroaching

> closer to highways and sprouting up on city sidewalks. Now, it is

> practically everywhere. I always attributed that to Nature

> providing (as

> she does so well), just as the Japanese knotweed for Lymes disease.

> After

> all, look at the stress levels and resulant anxiety, depression

> that has

> developed in those years. Nature is not oblivious to what we need;

> it's

> just a shame that the royal *we* don't pay much attention.

>

> Be Well,

> Marcia Elston, Samara Botane/Nature Intelligence

> http://www.wingedseed.com

> http://www.wingedseed.blogspot.com

> http://www.aromaconnection.org

> " We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give. "

> - Winston

> Churchill

>

>

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Several of us have fought for years against the creeping corporate

takeover of indie and microbusinesses, seeing how they are using more

and more the US government as their tool in promulgating regulations

that are a hardship on microbusinesses. The future of our businesses is

in immediate danger. Several organizations that represent indie and

microbusinesses are in lockstep with the FDA and tweeting and blogging

about their 'victories " with legislators, either blinded or too blind to

see the horrible demise in store for our businesses - they should be

fighting the FDA, not kowtowing to it, giddy with " making progress " .

They're not, they're being fooled.

 

Please everyone - don't be the frog in the pot of cool water who never

feels the heat being turned up until it is too late and he's cooked.

 

Read this following speech, given at the International Herb Symposium

by Stephen Buhner and pass it around, and more importantly, ask those

who are all puffed up and happy that the FDA and legislative lackeys of

the corporate world that seeks to destroy our businesses why they don't

see this coming:

 

http://www.gaianstudies.org/documents/IHSOPEN.pdf

 

--

All my best,

http://NaturalPerfumers.com

on FB http://bit.ly/iamja

Guild on FB http://bit.ly/1jP5lB

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Hi Jessica,

We probably can ascribe this theory as a subset of the feedback mechanisms

within the Gaia Theory put forth by James Lovelock, which has to do with

homeostasis of the Earth's ecosystems . . . I don't think this idea,

specifically, has been identified as a theoretical concept on its own.

 

Be Well,

Marcia Elston, Samara Botane/Nature Intelligence

http://www.wingedseed.com

http://www.wingedseed.blogspot.com

http://www.aromaconnection.org

" We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give. " - Winston

Churchill

 

 

 

 

On Behalf Of Cocoon Apothecary

Friday, November 13, 2009 7:47 AM

 

Re: The Evil Stepmother and The Father Who Would

Not See

 

Can I just say that I absolutely love this theory (is there a name for it?)

that plants grow where needed for health. I thought of this when dandelions

were everywhere in the spring/early summer...time to cleanse and detox the

liver. This would sound crazypants to a lot people but as far as I'm

concerned, we know ZILCH about how intelligent and complex this planet is.

 

This also reminds me of an amazing article I read in The Walrus about South

American shamans sleeping next to plants in order for the plants to

communicate their medicinal purposes via dream state.

 

Jessica Burman

Cocoon Apothecary

www.cocoonapothecary.com

jessica

(519)497-9546

 

On 12-Nov-09, at 12:13 AM, Marcia Elston wrote:

 

> Hi Ien,

>

> I began noticing about 10 years ago that st. johnswort was encroaching

> closer to highways and sprouting up on city sidewalks. Now, it is

> practically everywhere. I always attributed that to Nature providing

> (as she does so well), just as the Japanese knotweed for Lymes

> disease.

> After

> all, look at the stress levels and resulant anxiety, depression that

> has developed in those years. Nature is not oblivious to what we need;

> it's just a shame that the royal *we* don't pay much attention.

>

> Be Well,

> Marcia Elston, Samara Botane/Nature Intelligence

> http://www.wingedseed.com http://www.wingedseed.blogspot.com

> http://www.aromaconnection.org

> " We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give. "

> - Winston

> Churchill

>

>

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

I think the theory would be present in ethnobotany as well.

 

On 13-Nov-09, at 4:33 PM, Marcia Elston wrote:

 

> Hi Jessica,

> We probably can ascribe this theory as a subset of the feedback

> mechanisms

> within the Gaia Theory put forth by James Lovelock, which has to do

> with

> homeostasis of the Earth's ecosystems . . . I don't think this idea,

> specifically, has been identified as a theoretical concept on its own.

>

> Be Well,

> Marcia Elston, Samara Botane/Nature Intelligence

> http://www.wingedseed.com

> http://www.wingedseed.blogspot.com

> http://www.aromaconnection.org

> " We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give. "

> - Winston

> Churchill

>

>

>

>

> On Behalf Of Cocoon Apothecary

> Friday, November 13, 2009 7:47 AM

>

> Re: The Evil Stepmother and The Father

> Who Would

> Not See

>

> Can I just say that I absolutely love this theory (is there a name

> for it?)

> that plants grow where needed for health. I thought of this when

> dandelions

> were everywhere in the spring/early summer...time to cleanse and

> detox the

> liver. This would sound crazypants to a lot people but as far as I'm

> concerned, we know ZILCH about how intelligent and complex this

> planet is.

>

> This also reminds me of an amazing article I read in The Walrus

> about South

> American shamans sleeping next to plants in order for the plants to

> communicate their medicinal purposes via dream state.

>

> Jessica Burman

> Cocoon Apothecary

> www.cocoonapothecary.com

> jessica

> (519)497-9546

>

>

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Yes, absolutely. This concept is so engrained in native tribes and

indigenous people's relationship with the earth and medicines it goes

without saying in their world. They look upon us with incredulity of our

ignorance in this regard. Since we so-called civilized (mostly white)

(wo)man drifted away from our grounding in herbal medicine and into

allopathy around the turn of the last century, we are the ones who have to

re-invent the knowledge and language for our own people, which we are doing.

I think there is a growing movement in that direction and the increasing

failure of synthetic medicines, corporate farming, etc. supports us. There

are many who believe not that the world is coming to an end in 2012, but

that there will be a major paradigm shift in consciousness and evolutionary

growth. We have proven that the big evolutionary growth shifts in the past

have been tied to massive environmental changes, of course, which we are

facing now.

 

Be Well,

Marcia Elston, Samara Botane/Nature Intelligence

http://www.wingedseed.com

http://www.wingedseed.blogspot.com

http://www.aromaconnection.org

" We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give. " - Winston

Churchill

 

 

 

 

On Behalf Of Cocoon Apothecary

Sunday, November 15, 2009 8:57 AM

 

Re: The Evil Stepmother and The Father Who Would

Not See

 

I think the theory would be present in ethnobotany as well.

[Guest guest]

I agree with many of the sentiments in this pdf. What you in the USA need to

understand though is that the cretins in the Civil Service love creating work

for themselves by drafting all kinds of laws. Here in the European Union we

have exactly the same kind of cretins churning out a paper chain of new laws.

 

The European Union make all kinds of laws and then 90% of the member countries

simply ignore them. They are rarely enforced. In the aroma industry in the UK,

Italy and France in particular, the rogue businesses continue operating

illegally (under EEC laws), and absolutely nothing happens.

 

My guess is that you in the USA will find a similar position if the FDA gets

additional laws to enforce. After all, they have never got to grips with Young

Living let alone all the thousands of aromatherapy webs sites making illegal

claims under existing legislation.

 

I am not saying ignore what is happening, but the cottage industries in

aromatherapy and natural perfumery are not going to stop what the Civil Servants

and politicians want to do. I very much doubt the impact on small businesses

will be anything like as great as some are suggesting.

 

Martin Watt

http://www.aromamedical.com

http://www.aromamedical.org

 

ATFE , Perfumes <anya wrote:

>

> Several of us have fought for years against the creeping corporate

> takeover of indie and microbusinesses, seeing how they are using more

> and more the US government as their tool in promulgating regulations

> that are a hardship on microbusinesses. The future of our businesses is

> in immediate danger. Several organizations that represent indie and

> microbusinesses are in lockstep with the FDA and tweeting and blogging

> about their 'victories " with legislators, either blinded or too blind to

> see the horrible demise in store for our businesses - they should be

> fighting the FDA, not kowtowing to it, giddy with " making progress " .

> They're not, they're being fooled.

>

> Please everyone - don't be the frog in the pot of cool water who never

> feels the heat being turned up until it is too late and he's cooked.

>

> Read this following speech, given at the International Herb Symposium

> by Stephen Buhner and pass it around, and more importantly, ask those

> who are all puffed up and happy that the FDA and legislative lackeys of

> the corporate world that seeks to destroy our businesses why they don't

> see this coming:

>

> http://www.gaianstudies.org/documents/IHSOPEN.pdf

>

> --

> All my best,

> Anya

>

> http://NaturalPerfumers.com

> on FB http://bit.ly/iamja

> Guild on FB http://bit.ly/1jP5lB

>

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

Anya, I appreciate you sharing the link. However, it's too bad your history

within the industry, for getting into dysfunctional and unprofessional personal

fights and throwing around insults and general " crazy-making " , probably will

result in most not bothering to follow your link.

 

Personally, I wish the FDA would take the laws already on the books more

seriously and fine all the " Mom and Pop " businesses & corporations making false

claims on their products such as " FDA certified essential oils " or

" organic " ...or my pet peeve, I wish they would define " natural " within the FDA

regulations so consumers have at least a benchmark for the meaning, if not

actual protection from those synthetic products falsly claimed to be natural.

 

Martin, as for the cretins who are civil servants; people are people and making

generalizations and name calling serves no purpose other than to add more

negativity to the planet. WHY go there? My kids both work for the Deptartment

of Environmental Protection every summer and/or seasonally and working for the

state, or the US government, does not make one a cretin. Just as being

self-employed does not make one superior in any way, shape or form.

 

Sue www.apito.info

[Guest guest]

>My kids both work for the Deptartment of Environmental Protection >every summer

and/or seasonally and working for the

>state, or the US government, does not make one a cretin.

 

Good for them. When I refer to the cretins in the Civil Service I am meaning the

top managers. Can't think of any US or UK Government department that is not

managed by unthinking clones. Just take a look at the endless paperchains of

idiotic regulations constantly being churned out. At the Senators who rubber

stamp them assuming their advisers know what they are talking about-often not

so, lack of regulation of institutions that can affect the worlds economy, etc.

The lousy management of major nations institutions is down to a failure of

effective management among the Civil Services. Complaining about such matters

is far from negative, it makes people question and think about remedies.

 

Martin

 

ATFE , " SUSAN " <sueapito wrote:

>

> Anya, I appreciate you sharing the link. However, it's too bad your history

within the industry, for getting into dysfunctional and unprofessional personal

fights and throwing around insults and general " crazy-making " , probably will

result in most not bothering to follow your link.

>

> Personally, I wish the FDA would take the laws already on the books more

seriously and fine all the " Mom and Pop " businesses & corporations making false

claims on their products such as " FDA certified essential oils " or

" organic " ...or my pet peeve, I wish they would define " natural " within the FDA

regulations so consumers have at least a benchmark for the meaning, if not

actual protection from those synthetic products falsly claimed to be natural.

>

> Martin, as for the cretins who are civil servants; people are people and

making generalizations and name calling serves no purpose other than to add more

negativity to the planet. WHY go there? My kids both work for the Deptartment

of Environmental Protection every summer and/or seasonally and working for the

state, or the US government, does not make one a cretin. Just as being

self-employed does not make one superior in any way, shape or form.

>

> Sue www.apito.info

>