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“They not only allowed this, they encouraged it. Because this suppression was based on logic as formed by the intellect - which is itself the act of comparisons - defining and cross-referencing what’s already believed, there were less, and at times even no new developments for evolution to play with. So most of the people were unaware that thay were even capable of living any other way.” The children were amazed but still unconvinced. “Anyway, those hormonal salts, that are the physical holders of that programming, are continually being excreted through the soles of our feet as we walk, and the energy exchange with the Earth resets the programming.” “So it couldn't happen that anyone would be stuck in a single self-image,” concluded one of the boys. The elders looked at each other, there were raised eyebrows and shrugged shoulders as the children were told, “They bound their feet in shoes, all the time.” “We use shoes when we need to. No-one could wear them all the time.” “Even to get out of bed and goto the toilet at night, they'd wear indoor shoes called ‘slippers’.” “Not the children though!” “Yes, or they'd get their bottom smacked.” “What were they so afraid of?” “The micro-organisms.” “You mean the nature spirits that help us adjust to seasons and cycles?” “Yes, but then they were called ‘germs’ and ‘viruses’ and thought to be the demonic causes of disease.” “Why?” “Because they are scavengers, nature’s cleaners. They appear when there is stress or imbalance.” The children looked bewildered, so the elder added, “Because they were always there when there was sickness, people thought they were the cause of that sickness.” “But you teach us that,.. um... they respond to what we see as our needs. They don’t hurt us!” Nexus “10 4, id Id rl Ir 1eeGeeeesveoacessensreseeseseeeeeeeeseoeeeeseeooveeseeeseaesEHeeesones od “They not only allowed this, they encouraged it. Because this suppression was based on logic as formed by the intellect - which is itself the act of comparisons - defining and cross-referencing what’s already believed, there were less, and at times even no new developments for evolution to play with. So most of the people were unaware that thay were even capable of living any other way.” The children were amazed but still unconvinced. “Anyway, those hormonal salts, that are the physical holders of that programming, are continually being excreted through the soles of our feet as we walk, and the energy exchange with the Earth resets the programming.” “So it couldn't happen that anyone would be stuck in a single self-image,” concluded one of the boys. The elders looked at each other, there were raised eyebrows and zz ra Bae “That's because we no longer tell them they're diseases.” The children shook their heads in disbelief... it was so totally foreign to them, this talk of the times called “the Great Unhappiness”. It was hard for them to imagine famine in their clean, abundant world. Hard for them to imagine the immaculate silent machines, whose emissions were pure water, ever being a source of pollution. It was hard for them to visualise their multi-storied glasshouse food centres ever being grimy office buildings groaning with the angry buzz of ambitious, insecure wage slaves. “You are now free to follow the lore of freedom that teaches self awareness and self respect through nature’s cycles..." "...But then there was was only the law of ownership and nature was not trusted to support our survival." “Surely they saw that nature... evolution | mean... wouldn’t just dump four and a half billion years of development?” One grandmother stroked the bewildered enquirer’s hair and gently said, “They did not know nature, or even the Earth Mother, was a living, thinking being that they were part of and could take counsel from.” “They must have been terrified.” “Yes... for a while they were.” “What changed us... what ended the age of Great Unhappiness?” “The artists of the world ran out of greater dooms to agonise over.” “With the possibility of very real planetary obliteration the intellect had finally reached its limit of possible problems.” “So they began daydreaming of Paradise... The Paradise we now live in.” 57 eeeccccccoseveesoeseves © John Burke, 1990. 4)