Spiritual Gardening

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Spiritual Gardening

The time when humankind decided to

move from silent knowledge to reason was the same time it moved from hunting

and gathering to agriculture.

Agriculture was not undertaken because big game had died off, or any

such reason, but rather because humanity wanted to experiment with thinking,

social organization, etc. The human and

grain gods made a deal at that point to help each other out. A similar deal was struck with e.g. the

bovine god. Cows, in return for the loss

of a certain measure of freedom (reduction to the status of property, having

their children taken away from them, etc.), received in return freedom from

random predators and the condition of something to be protected and defended by

some pretty intense little monkey-like creatures.

Similarly, the way back to silent knowledge is

through hunting. However it is possible

to apply much silent knowledge to the practice of agriculture – hence these

lessons. What follows are some samples

of notes I've channeled regarding agriculture.

 

Q: How should I

control insects and diseases in my garden?

 

A: Put three pieces

of copal (or any acrid incense, such as patchouli) in your censer, and waft the

smoke towards each infected plant as you walk down the row. At the same time, ask the afflicting agent to

please leave your plants alone because you need them. You should feel as though the incense smoke

is carrying your thought towards the plants.

It's a good idea to leave a plant or two (maybe the one or ones at the

end of each row, so you remember) for the insects or disease. Don't waft incense at these plants. Tell the insects or disease that these plants

are for them. Be nice about it. Be sincere.

Mean what you say. Say it out

loud.

Frankincense (or any light, happy

incense such as sandalwood) is used to prevent disease and insect infestations

(where copal is used to cure infected plants).

Waft the incense towards each plant in turn, sending that plant the wish

that it will grow well and be fruitful.

It is best to be naked when you do this (or any gardening), simply

because that is the most joyous way of doing it. This means gardening at night, in the

moonlight, so the neighbors won't see you.

 

Q: Will this method

work for anyone?

 

A: It will work for

anyone who believes in it and means what they are telling the animals or

plants. Actually, the incense is

completely unnecessary. That's just for

you, to help you pay attention to what you're doing and give you the sense that

you're doing something "magical". It's

the thoughts and desires that you have and express that are the gist of the

matter.

 

Q: What do I do about

gophers?

 

A: Dig out the

gophers' burrow and put a trap in it, to trap one gopher. It must be a trap which catches the gopher

alive and unhurt. Take the captured

gopher to a cage in a dark, protected place, and give it food and water every

day. Talk to it gently when you bring

its food and water. Tell it you won't

hurt it – in fact, you'll let it go – but it must take a message back to its

brothers.

Keep this

up (talking gently to the gopher when you feed it) until you have gained its

trust. This doesn't mean friendship or

petting it, but rather until it knows it has nothing to fear from you. How long this takes will depend upon you and

the gopher. When you sense that it is

calm (unthreatened) in your presence, tell it that it and all its brother

gophers must leave your garden and orchard.

Appoint some other place on your land where you don't care if there are

gophers, and tell the captured gopher that it and its fellows must move to this

other place. If you want to sweeten the

deal, promise that you'll plant sweet potatoes or beets at this other place

just for them. If you do make a promise

like this, you must keep it.

Then, after

repeating this message to the captured gopher for some days (until you feel it

has "understood"), release the gopher back into its tunnel, bidding it to take

this message to its fellows.

This same

method will work for cutter ants. Stand

over their trail while they are working (it won't work if they can't hear you),

and ask them to please find food in some other direction, as you need these

trees yourself. Be polite. One such treatment should be enough. If it isn't, repeat the next day, but ask

them why they didn't obey you the first time.

Write down their answer as you are writing this (by automatic

writing). You may have to work out some

sort of compromise or make a deal with them.

 

 

Q: What about

planting our own bananas?

 

A: Bananas are your

angels. Anything coming from them is

love – love – love, from the tenderness of young leaves to happy, humorous

browning splotched leaves, to the spongey, thick, soggy stems. And the tall, older leaves. They all fully participate in love. Of all plants, these will give and receive

love more than any other. Their

blessings come down with a gentle, steady flow of love droplets.

This is why

you must always have bananas growing close to wherever you live (preferably

fruiting, not ornamental, varieties). If

you ever go North at least grow one as a pot plant. There is no greater gift you can give to

those in the North than these plants.

 

Q: What about

Biodynamic techniques?

 

A: Yes. Steiner's techniques as enunciated in his

lectures on agriculture are excellent. He was a genius, and in touch with the spirit

keepers of agricultural knowledge (as were also the founders of Findhorn). However, Steiner's techniques are no more

valid than the ones we are channeling to you; they are merely more detailed,

more specific, and more complex. A

professional farmer would do well following Steiner. And anyone who elects to use Steiner's

methods would do better making the formulations themselves rather than buying

them ready-made. The important thing is

to put one's own, personal vibration into the soil and plants. Stirring plain water – joyously – for hours

and then spraying it on the soil or plants is better than using store-bought

formulations and not stirring long enough, or stirring without a joyous

heart. Everything you do in agriculture

should be done with joy, or else you are better off not doing it at all. Fortunately agriculture is innately a joyous

occupation, so this isn't hard to do.

 

Q: Steiner had a lot

of wacky techniques for dealing with weeds, insects, and disease; but even

Pfeiffer and his other followers admit they don't work. Why not?

 

A: Because they doubt

they'd work. It is your (and Pfeiffer's)

doubt that keeps these techniques from working.

If you had no doubt whatsoever that they'd work, they'd work.

That's the

only reason your rationalist / materialistic world "works" – that when you turn

on a TV, it turns on – is because you believe it. If you believed in these techniques with the

same certainty that you believe turning a key in an ignition will start a car,

then they would work.

 

Q: How should I

graft?

 

A: As usual. However, fill the censer with frankincense

(or sandalwood). Cense the tree from

which the scions are to be taken. Tell

it that you are sorry to hurt it, but that the twigs you are taking will become

new little trees. Ask if this is okay.

Cense the

scions with the wish that they take and prosper. Cense the rootstocks and apologize for

hurting them, and tell them they will be getting new "heads" which are more

productive, and that they will soon be living in the actual earth. If you feel that a particular scion or

rootstock objects, then don't graft that one.

It wouldn't take anyway. Then

graft as usual, but as you do each graft talk to the stock and scion and wish

them well, that they may join and prosper and be fruitful.

After

grafting, run your hand gently up the rootstock and scion, and as you do so

visualize in your mind's eye the graft taking and healing, the tree growing

from a sapling to a young tree to a mature tree; and as your hand passes above

the top of the scion, look up and see the mature tree full of fruit.

Then bend

down and kiss the graft, with the wish that it will take and the tree

prosper. Do this with true love and good

feeling. And then commend the tree to

the earth.

 

(excerpted from Magical

Almanac ezine, MagicalAlmanac

2007 by Bob Makransky. All

rights reserved).

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