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Leslie
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June 12, 2014
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Leslie Goldman, Your Enchanted Gardener/ Plant Your Dream Blogger shares inspirations from the Campaign to Grow A Healthier Pizza. His dream now is Uncle Sam marries “Anti” GMO. You are invited to the wedding. The Wedding date is in your hands. Get Engaged Cultivating Our Grassroots Movement as you grow dreams with Kamut® ancient wheat and heirloom seeds. [50 words].
Uncle Sam Marries "Anti" GMO; What Will it Take?
In this article written expressly for The Life Connection, San Diego, I want to share with you five "Gardening Tools,"-- principles-- for restoring America the Beautiful. These are inspirations from my Campaign to Grow A Healthier Pizza. The Campaign title itself, Grow A Healthier Pizza is a mandate for Food Reform. Without such Food Reform we will continue on a downward slope of ill health and ill preparation of the next generation for the task at hand, the renewal of the very foundation of our nation.
D.H. Lawrence, in Studies in Classical American Literature, said, "This is the true myth of America. She starts old, old, wrinkled and writhing in an old skin. And there is a gradual sloughing off of the old skin, towards a new youth. It is the myth of America."
Photo of child attending the National Heirloom Expo, receiving gift of seeds
My theme--Uncle Sam Marries "Anti" GMO--is a dream I am planting with you now. Without this inevitable action--I do not believe we will return to our nation's destiny, the destiny to be healthy and an inspiration in the world.
I want to share my honest truth for what it would take--how impossible it may sound--for us to become a healthy nation again.
I want to affirm the power in seeds--Heirloom Seeds and Ancient Grains, especially Kamut® khorasan ancient wheat that have transformed and lifted up my own soul many times. Thoreau once said, "Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed. Convince me that you have a see there, and I am prepared to expect wonders." My thought, Plant a seed. Grow a Whole new world.
WHAT DO I MEAN BY UNCLE SAM MARRIES "ANTI" GMO?
There is a wedding up ahead if the United States is to regain its foothold on the original vision our our nation. It is the Marriage of Uncle Sam, the archetypal figure of the U.S, getting married to "Anti" GMO. "Anti" as intended here is a play on words. Uncle and "Auntie" get married.
The US Government is currently in the farm bed with Biotechnology. Rather than investing in the Bank of Compost, we are committed to a path of alternative Technology that we imagine can get us out of the dilemmas we have created in the first place.
An awakening is needed. There was already a perfect technology that goes with successful living on Planet Earth. It is called Nature's Original Technology.
Nature’s Original Technology is supreme. We can no longer allow disabling Technologies to supplant what nature had in mind. Our future on this earth is no longer guaranteed due to the natural cycles of evolution as well as lifestyle practices that are now in the driver’s seat of our soul’s existence.
Dr. Bernard Jensen often said, "We cannot break the natural Laws. We break ourselves on the Law."
No matter how many days or years this planet we each have, let us get engaged now upholding the Soul inspired values that nature had in mind.
I recently made a flyer to announce my teaching at the National Heirloom Expo, September 9-10-11, 2014. I have been a teacher there the last two years. The words go: The Wedding Date is in your hands. Uncle Sam "Marries" Anti GMO. Get Engaged growing Our Grass Roots movement.
Uncle Sam Marries "Anti" GMO; What Will it Take?
TAKING RESPONSIBILITY FOR KNOWING HOW TO GROW SOME OF YOUR OWN FOOD
1-You are invited to a Wedding. The Wedding is the Marriage of Uncle Sam--Washington Government-- to the "Anti" GMO movement.
The date of the Wedding is in Your Hands.
I see it as inevitable that GMO's will be labeled, yet "Outgrowing GMOs" asks a shift in Consciousness that begins with the individual, and becomes a Grassroots Movement, that is profoundly nature connected, and then, because of its popularity, trickles upward to become a shift that becomes so popular that Uncle Sam Marries "Anti" GMO. You are invited to the wedding. The wedding date is in your hands.
More and more people are becoming Engaged in the fight against GMOs. We are marching. We are creating the consumer demand for labeling as well as a growing awareness that biotechnology in the farm field is a lost cause for many reasons. including health and its impact on the loss of biodiversity of seeds. GMOs are a symptom of a disconnection, a loss of soul with the soil. My hope is that the connection will be made that true cultivation begins in the soil, and it is here where the roots of our grassroots movement will become grounded.
UNCLE SAM MARRIES "ANTI" GMO; WHAT WILL IT TAKE
These graphics from the the Campaign to Grow A Healthier Pizza Starter Kit are intended to help you re-establish your
Nature Soul Connection:
WE NEED TO GET "ENGAGED" IN GROWING HEIRLOOM SEEDS AND ANCIENT GRAINS
1-It will take getting Engaged. Many more of us will have to get involved shifting our own nature-soul relationship. This can come from Taking our Dreams out of the Box.
2- TAKE YOUR SACRED SEED OUT OF THE PIZZA BOX AND PLANT OUR DREAM
Pizza is now America's favorite food, and the Pizza Box, is a metaphor for a coffin in our Campaign to Grow A Healthier Pizza.
Somehow our Purpose and meaning became trapped in the Pizza Box.
On this note, I send you this inspired message:
Take Your Deepest Dreams Out of the Pizza Box and Plant them!
This is the story, a retelling of the Zarathustra Myth of the King who lost his crown.
Once Upon a Time, a King and Queen lost their crown.
They sought answers everywhere. They could not find them.
An Enchanted Gardener gave them a simple seed of Ancient Wheat that he kept in a package inside the Pizza Box.
He told them that inside that seed, and the Box were all the answers to the problems in their world.
One day they planted their Sacred Seed. Their own life started from a seed and through growing seeds and plants into fixings to Make A Healthier Pizza their life began growing in harmony with nature.
As the plant grew, they realized that they too were Sacred Seeds. The place where they lived flourished and became an Enchanted Garden adding beauty to the world one plant at a time.
You too, will have Amazing and Mystifying Adventures as
more Peace on Earth grow from your Deepest Seed Dreams taken out of the Pizza Box.
UNCLE SAM MARRIES "ANTI" GMO NATIONAL HEIRLOOM EXPO 2014, SEPTEMBER 9-10-11.
PLANT YOUR DREAM WORD PRESS
http://plantyourdream.net/?p=18609
Growing Dreams with Kamut® Ancient Khorasan wheat and Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds
I also suggest that you can grow your grassroots movement with Kamut®, an ancient grain that grows beautiful grass with a genetic memory that goes back thousands of years; and with Heirloom Seeds, Seeds that also hold the cultural memory of specific cultures.
The Baker Creek Heirloom Seed Collection
One of the issues seems so relevant today about GMO--Genetically Modified Organisms in our seed supply is that they destroy this cultural memory. The more GMO seeds become popular, the fewer varieties of heirloom seeds we have that are not contaminated. One of the pressing issues that Jere Gettle, founder of Baker Creek has told me, is keeping the seeds free of GMO contamination.
The one Size Fits All model of seed production makes for profits, but it does not breed Prophets---individuals with profound individuality who have broken out of the Box and know they were born for that purpose.
INTRODUCING THE GROW A HEALTHIER PIZZA STARTER KIT
The Grow A Healthier Pizza Starter Kit contains a packet of Kamut® Ancient wheat. Organic Seeds of Kamut® Khorasan Ancient Grain have been called the Prophet's wheat. Grow them. They will teach you many lessons. Plant Your Dream with these seeds. Harvest your intentions.
I was already passionate about ancient wheat through my connection with Professor Szekely when I met Dr. Robert Quinn. Bob is the epitome of a Seed Freedom Hero. He began growing Kamut® ancient grain with a handful of the precious seeds that now support thousands of acres of farm land growing out this crop to the highest of trademarked organic standards. Kamut International is founded on the principle of
supporting the growth of the organic farmer. More and more companies are getting involved making products out of this grain.
The independent research sponsored by Kamut International suggests that individuals who do not already have compromised immune systems from too much modern wheat benefit from the ancient original wheat that is grown out as nature intended.
THE ORIGINAL VISION OF AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL
The Original vision of America the beautiful was for us to be a nation of small farmers and gardeners. Our first Presidents were all grounded in the earth.
My thesis for my PhD (Unfinished…) was called Eminent Gardeners of the American Dream.
I am glad that Andrea Wulf took up these themes in this paper and her book. She says that " The founding fathers’ passion for nature, plants, gardens and agriculture is woven deeply into the fabric of America and aligned with their political thought, both reflecting and influencing it. I believe, it’s impossible to understand the making of America without looking at the founding fathers as farmers and gardeners."--Andrea Wulf, from
http://www.yale.edu/agrarianstudies/colloqpapers/04wulf.pdf
New York Times Review is noteworthy:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/08/books/review/book-review-founding-gardeners-by-andrea-wulf.html?_r=0
MY DREAM IS THAT YOU WILL HELP GROW A HEALTHIER PIZZA
My Dream is that you will help Grow A Healthier Pizza. In growing more of our food, we will inspire a Grassroots movement that restores America the Beautiful into the hands of her Eminent Gardeners. Be that Gardener. Win Back Our Sacred Seeds.
I am convinced that this is the source of our potential extinction on the earth. We have lost our connection to our seeds, and we have lost our connection to our soul.
Uncle Sam Marries "Anti" GMO--What will it take?
First of all, let us be clear. Our Government is currently in the farm bed with systems of technology that are foreign to the soul, and foreign to nature. Referring to the soul's connection to nature, Emerson says, “One is seal, and one is print” By this he means to say, nature and the soul are connected.
Ralph Waldo Emerson said that, that nature is the opposite of the soul, answering to it part for part. One is seal, and one is print. Its beauty is the beauty of his own mind. Its laws are the laws of his own mind. Nature then becomes to him the measure of his attainments. So much of nature as he is ignorant of, so much of his own mind does he not yet possess. And, in fine, the ancient precept, "Know thyself," and the modern precept, "Study nature," become at last one maxim.
THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR
http://www.emersoncentral.com/amscholar.htm
I am convinced that the task at hand then is to re-establish the connection between the soul and nature. It is the literal act of becoming familiar with seeds and how they grow, that can inspire our own soul growth.
It is on this note, that I offer up gardening tools in the Grow A Healthier Pizza Starter Kit, for re-establishing our nature and soul connection.
Edmond Bordeaux Szekely, co-founder of Rancho La Puerta, and the original Essene School of Life in Tecate near the end of World War Two, writes in a story about the famous gardener Zarathustra, a great gardening teaching: "If you watch the Growth of this Seed…you will find that there is an indestructible and mysterious power in it--the power of life. If you watch long enough, You will see that the Grain disappears and is replaced by a plant which will Triump over all Obstacles and Opposition--which will grow higher and higher and higher because it has life within it"
http://curezone.com/aa/?1012357
The task at hand is to win back our Sacred Seeds. By this I mean both the diversity of literal seeds, as well as the individuality of our expressions--our souls.
THIS WAY OUT!
WHEN I TOUCH GRASS, I TOUCH INFINITY--GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER
The Grassroots Movement that it will take to Outgrow GMOS needs to have this concept of growing grassroots movement as its foundation:
It is one of Szekely's favorites from George Washington Carver. "When I touch grass, I touch infinity. It existed long before there were human beings on the earth, and it will continue to exist for millions of years to come.
Through the grass, I talk to the infinite, which is only a silent force. This is not a physical contact. It is not in the earthquake, wind, or fire. It is the invisible world of nature, of which I, too, am a part."
GROWING GRASSROOTS MOVEMENT
RE-ESTABLISHING OUR NATURE SOUL CONNECTION
The Campaign to Grow A Healthier Pizza began when Government went into agreement with the Moneybags in 2011 to say that two ounces of tomato sauce defined Pizza as a vegetable. The historical roots of transgressions against Food go back near 100 years.
"Outgrowing" GMOs is key to Food Reform; "The Right to Know" and Knowing How to Grow Food go hand in hand.
We can help further grow a Grassroots Movement that will shift the consciousness of our nation to one of America the Beautiful as we each get Engaged planting dreams. This workshop with Leslie Goldman is an "Engagement" Party. When will Uncle Sam marry "Anti" GMO? The Wedding date is in our hands!
UNCLE SAM MARRIES "ANTI" GMO; WHAT WILL IT TAKE
These graphics from the the Campaign to Grow A Healthier Pizza Starter Kit are intended to help you re-establish your
Nature Soul Connection:
WE NEED TO GET "ENGAGED" IN GROWING HEIRLOOM SEEDS AND ANCIENT GRAINS
1-It will take getting Engaged. Many more of us will have to get involved shifting our own nature-soul relationship. This can come from Taking our Dreams out of the Box.
2-A GRASS ROOTS MOVEMENT REQUIRES CULTIVATION
Grassroots movement is cultivated through nature contact. Begin with growing a simple seed with intention. All you need is one pot. Kamut® ancient Khorasan wheat will go from seed to seed in a pot under the right conditions.
I like Kamut® because it has been with us from the beginning in its present form.
Bob Quinn, the founder of Kamut International, said:
3-ENTERING PLANT PARENTHOOD
LINKS
http://curezone.org/blogs/fm.asp?i=2067761
3- PLANT YOUR DREAM! HARVEST YOUR INTENTIONS
THE SACRED SEED PRAYER
Many people have caught wind of the power of intention. Fewer the power of connecting our intentions with the growth of plants. As the Seed grows, you you tend the plant and the dream, you will be reminded how dreams grow naturally.
I have been sharing this Sacred Seed Prayer for fifteen or more years.
Sacred Seed, Sacred Plant!
I hold you in my hands,
and I hold you as my future.
Thank you for representing wishes
I am planting. As you grow,
so will my Seed Dreams.
Growing you will help me
celebrate the harvest in my life.
Thank you for reminding me
I am a Sacred Seed.
Thank you for reminding me
that the Universe thrives as I thrive.
Today we Grow a new Enchanted Garden,
a renewe Earth!
WHAT IS A SACRED SEED?
What do I mean by Sacred Seeds?
The very act of gardening with intention, called Enchanted Gardening, gives the opportunity to reconnect with nature and Nature's Original Technology. We are each Sacred Seeds. The very act of entering a Sacred Relationship with Heirloom Seed and Ancient Grains has the potential to bring Soul Life Present.
Emerson said I say, The Earth and the Soul are Soil Mates. This is a paragraph from an Article I am writing to submit to the July issue of The Life Connection Magazine.
In this article I want to express my deepest appreciation to Jere Gettle of the Baker Creek Heirloom Seed Company and Paul Wallace of the Petaluma Seed Bank for their inspiration and work putting on the Fourth Annual World's Pure Food Fair.
Each year at the Sonoma Fairgrounds our Sacred Seed Tribe Gathers. Al Jolson sang a song with the words. "I would walk a million miles for one of your smiles!"
That is why I make the effort to be a part of this event each year. Each day we have an opportunity to live on this earth is a blessing. I truly am not sure how many more years we have living the way we do now without making essential shifts.
The Heirloom seeds and ancient grains can be our teachers. I want to be doing something Sacred on my last day. Helping grow out a seed or two from the Baker Creek Rare Seed Collection and Ancient Kamut® Khorasan wheat are two acts that give my life meaning. I say these words and invite you to say these words when you plant a Seed and Your Soul Purpose:
WHERE TO FROM HERE? THE ENCHANTED GARDEN CLUB WELCOMES YOU!
This Membership expresses the right relationship with earth and our dreams:
Oh, patient Mother Earth,
let us walk together more closely.
I accept your fulfillment as a by-product
of my own fertile deep dreams flowering.
Remind me that all natural things on earth grow from seeds.
Open in me the wisdom contained in a tiny seed
that I mgith too experience how dreams grow naturally.
The ENCHANTED GARDEN, a name for the New Earth
growing through me, starts here and now!
ATTEND THE NATIONAL HEIRLOOM EXPO, SEPTEMBER 9-10-11, 2014
PUT THIS ON YOUR AGENDA. IT IS A GATHERING OF SEED FREEDOM HEREOS/ HEROINES
Photo of Jere Gettle, Seed Freedom hero
REAL FOOD SEED FREEDOM HEROES
http://plantyourdream.net/?p=16750
WHEN I TOUCH GRASS, I TOUCH INFINITY--GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER