Thank you, Invincible. Very interesting.

I was told a few years ago, in no uncertain terms, by someone who thought it was true...that it is impossible to get (enough? therapeutic quantities?) elements from food.

My immediate reaction was, "Why? Explain yourself." But, I didn't say it aloud.


I heard this explanation of the source of nutrients many years ago...

Nutrients come from rock, in water, over time. Rock may be large and solid, or it may be in tiny particles such as sand or dust, and mixed in soil.

Rock dust particles, without humus mixed in, tend to stick together so closely as to prevent air or water circulating. This is called clay.

Water, as someone pointed out, IS oxygen.

Nutrients come from rock breaking down into water (over time), where they are taken up by micro-organisms, and carried to plant roots.

Plants select the nutrients they prefer, in the limited amounts they need, and carry them up the plant, with water, to the above groundlevel parts of the plant...where we live.

We don't often think of it, but, where we see plants growing, we can be sure that roots are reaching down into the water table (the level of water under the soil), and bringing up all the goodies, in water. Plants raise the water table.

I will never pull another weed without wondering how I am upsetting the eco-system...the very life-system that sustains us!

Mr. Nasser, of Brazil, a Fellow of Ashoka ( http://www.ashoka.org ), restored ten hectares of spoiled land by gathering weeds and grasses from the neighborhood, and replanting them. The weeds and grasses reach down and pull up the nutrient-laden water from below. The clumps of grasses and weeds he moved contained the insects and micro-organisms needed to complete the system. It took him twelve years to refresh and restore the ten hectares.

Now he cuts a hole in the turf, inserts a young foodplant, firms it into place, and makes certain the surrounding weeds and grasses are lower than the foodplant (so as not to shade it). (The cut grasses and weeds remain where they fall, to recycle nutrients, and to protect all from weather. I suppose it could be called mulch.)

Brazil is famous for growing citrus. Mr. Nasser's orange trees are never pruned or sprayed. His crop exceeds the national average. Of course, his oranges may have silvery lines on the surface, but the tree-ripened fruit is of the finest quality.

Mr. Nasser feeds (or can feed, I don't know how this is calculated) ten thousand people from his ten hectares.


There is another point I'd like to make here...

...Left alone, a garden will find balance. This was explained as a balance between plant-eating insects and insect-eating insects.

The plants found there (however they arrived) will also seek the water and sun and space each prefers. If they find these, they will thrive...if not, they will perish.

I saw a balanced home garden once...in Nassau, in the Bahamas. It was abandoned many years before. An old concrete wall across the front was littered behind with bottles, paper, and plastic.

Fruit and shade trees were tall, and every ornamental and food plant that had survived grew in abundance, covering the small house that must have been in there.

Song birds twittered, and insects went about their business. The garden was wonderfully peaceful, and alive. Harmony, if I ever saw it.

Yes...man had interfered, and brought plants that never would have been there without him...but nature had taken it from there. Perhaps the best thing the human gardener had done, was leave.

One important element was surely that the ocean air in that latitude was always warm and moist, another was that the soil was predominently coral sand...and never far from sea-level. Each plant raised the water and nutrients it preferred, creating ideal conditions for neighboring plants.

You and I would be hard-pressed to plan such harmony.


Now, if we found food in such a garden, would it contain the nutrients we need..even if we needed them in 'therapeutic' quantity?

And, would we have to understand every detail, 'scientifically', in order to thrive? Or, would the vibration be enough? Perhaps we would be drawn to the plants we need.

You understand, of course, that my beautiful balanced garden formed in a polluted world, where the garbage was brought by ocean currents, sea breezes, and ten million tourists annually.

Dengue might be there, lurking...and any number of dis-eases. There might be hidden shortages of nutrients, not noticed because the plants that require them had long since expired.

Still, might not the newcomer 'know', at a cellular level, to look for something more?

What if the newcomer brought in fast foods and foreign plants, and tried to change the environment to his expectations? The garden would be right back to square one, wouldn't it?

Mind-boggling!


The very same man who told me that I needed supplemental nutrients, told me, with equal conviction, that the body will pass (some?) poisons through without harm.

I took this to mean (using reasoning I've read elsewhere), that our 'inner physicians' will take the basic nutrients of life, and convert them to the immunities and growth we need. How, I have no idea.


We have landed on acres that have lain fallow for decades, and that are now being planted as a practice garden for 'third world' growing methods.

All this time the grasses and weeds have been working their magic with the rocks and sands in very fertile and nicely moist soil. This is orchard country.

I have every reason to believe that kale, here, would have optimum levels of calcium.


Although it is now August 1st, I kinda think we could get in some kale, and maybe dry it for winter consumption. I hope, I hope, I hope.

(Looking around for some chickweed to encourage; and I sprout stuff. Probably I should be considering the Lamb's Quarters, etc., which abound. We will be havesting the English Walnuts, and the plums. All of our growth here depends on water from our sweet well, and a creek that runs by one end of the property. It is used as irrigation by many growers.)


One very important point I must make...

...A healthy plant, or person, depends entirely on the process of osmosis...the transfer and balancing of salts (energies?) (and who knows what else), in water, through tiny openings in tissues.

I think the process is electrical.

Luckily, our skins are porous. All we have to do is get ourselves into a 97 degree bath of one percent (1%) solution of Himalayan salt crystals (from a certain area), for 20 to 30 minutes, and osmosis will bring the body fluids toward optimum balance. Excesses out, nutrients in.

This is from a book called "Water and Salt", as reported by Daisy4 in an R message in the Salt forum.

//www.curezone.org/forums/fm.asp?i=378721#i


Everything else I've read that is remotely connected to the subject, indicates that this is the finest way to be sure we are getting what we need, and cleansing.


I've proven to myself (beyond doubt) that there is definitely a connection between just enough of the good salts within, and anxiety. (Mine vanished, overnight...and I became certain that I was now immune to the ailment that concerned me. Since, and with other herbals and simple energy techniques, symptoms are on the way out.)


In a world which constantly stimulates the adrenals, etc., for profit, simple use of bath osmosis for balancing may be the most important protocol to practice.


This is the best I know so far.

Thanks so much for responding, Invincible. All of us, together, WILL get to the bottom of this...or, at least, closer to well-being.


Regards,

Fledgling


Uh...you need any zucchinis?

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