With my feet planted on the ground, I center myself and set out from home on my daily journey through the streets and woods of East London. What started out as purely for physical fitness activity has now taken on a spiritual aspect as a way to connect with the world around me, as I walk I express my gratitude for the streets, hills, and woods. Within that gratitude, sits an awareness that this world is going through growing pains and a belief that we have a very real opportunity to change our paradigm. 

It is my belief that we are at a crossroads, and it is now up to us how to proceed.

We can continue the path we are on, and believe technology and money will pull us from the flames. Or we can take responsibility, and reinvent the story. 

Take this chance to reconnect with the land we live with, in a world where we connect instantly with people thousands of miles apart the land under our feet tends to get neglected. 

The disconnect from nature has had an impact upon us in profound ways. We are losing our identity, our stories that tie us to this world, this is one of the reasons for the rise in mental health issues.

Technology is not the enemy as a tool it is useful, the transmission of ideas and information has never been faster, but like any tool it can be misused. We can use the technology in our pockets to reconnect with the world around us, our lives are more and more spent in cyberspace where we can control the world we live in, but what if in the real world we stopped trying to control and instead worked with nature. 

This is our chance to re evaluate our relationship with Mother Earth, look at alternative ideas like Permaculture work with nature and not against it. Humans have spent too long trying to be the master of all, we are part of Mother earth  and to that end we should work as a friend, in conjunction  with the planet.

We have so much to learn from nature, our desire to learn is often out paced by our desire for development. Through a holistic approach we can develop and grow with nature and it is my belief that through this method we would reach a true quality of life and be more robust with the ability to adapt to changes faster and extend the life of our species so we can achieve our dreams. 

I am taking this time to learn about the truly astonishing abilities of Mycelium, and it’s almost miraculous properties and from there that has led me to the concept of Permaculture. Which in turn has led me to “Sacred Economics.” My place within nature wasn’t even a concern to me a few months ago and now I have all these topics that I would have thought to be separate and I am waking up to the true connected nature of the Earth. 

We can heal with the world, it is our choice, we have the power to home the homeless and feed the hungry.

Yet we don’t, why is that? Are we any closer to the utopia technology promised?