The Kusa Seed Society Request Letter

Date:   7/23/2014 4:07:04 PM ( 10 y ago)

The Kusa Seed Society Request Letter

http://www.ancientcerealgrains.org/pdf/Directors-Letter-12-6-13.pdf




Going through old materials in the basement, I came upon the first edition of The Cerealist.

This was accompanied by a letter from its founder Lorenz Schaller.

I looked him up on the web.

I am happy to see his face a few decades later.

I am moved by some of the ideas he shares in this Letter.

I believe that the abundance of corn and soy and other edible seedcrops in our society on an industrial, commodity scale, has wrought dramatic effects on the national psyche. I believe that we have as a society, become victims of our own success. Our massive superproduction of a few monotone crops — and our using the grain for feed, not food — has distorted the relationship connecting humanity and grains, a distortion that has effectively blinded, handicapped, and anesthetized us.

As a society, I believe we have forgotten the earlier values associated with these substances, and have in turn become numb to their higher purpose. While pumping-up these crops into market forces I believe we have allowed something else to diminish.
I believe our materialist obsession has pulled the wool over our eyes regarding the potential and importance of biodiverse, small-scale foodgrain cereals. It is crystal clear to me that these living seeds carry an inner power to transform human life; to refine humanity, improve our lot, and make it possible to create a “paradise on earth.” But for this to happen, it is necessary that we turn ourselves, and come into right relationship with these substances.

As a society, we have willingly given our destiny over to “fast profit” corporations who have no spiritual concern, no spiritual focus, and no spiritual platform in their engagement with seed. Their only involvement is the secular concern of “shareholder profit.” There is no doubt in my mind that this mindset does not embody the human values and the human sentiments that spread these transformative crop strains like wildfire across Neolithic geography. From those original values and sentiments of an earlier time, civilization was born. Today we have become immersed in a modern predicament. On the one hand is nature’s storage locker of biodiverse, richly nutritious foodgrains. On the other hand is our societal neglect to explore the relevance of these substances in a deep way. The Kusa Seed Society is an organization, an effort, which hears the cry of the seeds, sounding for recognition amidst this modern predicament.
It is my dream to have a campus, a school, where young people can come to study and learn — hands-on — the arts and sciences of earth’s biodiverse human foodgrains. I have a clear image of a library building on campus, just like at any school, and I have spent an adult lifetime collecting books and papers for just this student library — all of it specialized on human foodgrains in every aspect; material and spiritual. This campus is a place where biodiverse precious foodgrain seedlines are regenerated and given the care and attention they deserve as a heritage made available to the coming generations of the future. I call this place — this campus — the “Seed Sanctuary” and its facilities, “The Seed Learning Center.”

When The Kusa Seed Society launched its presence onto the worldwide Web in 2007, none of us involved in the launch knew exactly what to expect. At that point, the Kusa seed organization had already been in official existence for 27 years. Our hope as launchers, was that the Web would allow us to connect to a larger audience; give us a better chance to “serve the public” with information, goodwill and seeds, all focused on the “Staffs of Life” — human foodgrains.
Today, I can tell you that the results of the Web launch have been dynamic and inspiring. The response from the interested public has been vigorous and steady. As a result of our presence on the Web, a flood of vital, living seeds, has poured out of our storage lockers and into the hands of interested public citizens. Thousands of pages of vital, informational literature have also been distributed and hundreds of inquiries have been successfully fielded and answered. In these aspects, the Website presence has been a great success. Amidst all this activity however, one area has remained “flat” — no action at all. That area is the financial well-being of The Kusa Seed Society itself.

The letter is undated

http://www.ancientcerealgrains.org/seedandliteraturecatalog1.html#1




By Mail:

The Kusa Seed Research Foundation
Post Office Box 761
Ojai, California 93024 USA


By E-Mail:
info@ancientcerealgrains.org


2:06 pm
July 23. 2014

 

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