Eat Good Food and Play |
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| I asked my 13 year old son ‘What is the purpose of your existence?’.In a trice he replied ‘To eat good food and play!”. Grabbing the last of his apple slices he dashed out of the door to do just that. But it got me thinking as I washed up - what if he’s right ! How could one manage this as an adult ? Then I remembered the book ‘Walden’ by Henry Thoreau. In this record of his living wild in the woods he virtually plays all of the time. He maps the bottom of a pond for no particular reason, when it freezes over he uses it to play drums. He catches food from the wild and nobody troubles him. Its a rough and simple life - and he dies young. Another expert at playing, following his own intuition to make ‘artfacts’ was Buckminster Fuller - a radical designer dedicated to human evolution and designer of Geodesics. He found a way to do just what he wanted and called it ‘The Precession Theory’. “assumed that humanity was designed to perform and important function in the Universe, a function it would discover only after an initially innocent by-trial-and-error-discovered phase of capability development. During the initial phase humans, always born naked, helpless and ignorant but with hunger, thirst and curiosity to drive them, have been chromosomically programmed to operate succesfully only by means of the general biological inadvertencies of bumbling ‘honey seeking’ [eg money making]. Therefore what humans called the side effects of their conscious drives in fact produced the main ecological effects of generalized technological regeneration. I therefore assumed that what humanity rated as 'side effects' are nature's main effects. I adopted the precessional 'side effects' as my prime objective”. In brief Fuller committed himself ( and a large family) to his making artifacts that he felt were part of the ‘path of human evolution’, regardless of considerations of income. He found that somehow, always at the last minute, he was able to survive. As someone who dislikes many of the aspects of capitalism, the sheer faith this guy had was quite stunning. Does it work ? I can only ask ‘However can you tell ? ”
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Here is the WHY and the HOW of reaching for a holistic lifestyle from the heart of your home. Discover for yourself the power of Mother Nature’s Gifts – a real integrated medicine working for you from your very own kitchen. Hiding in your meals, is a whole FOOD MEDICINE for health, for healing – and for fun! |
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In short he reckoned that if you dedicated yourself to the primary ‘paths’ of evolution you would get a kickback, always just in the nick of time and from an unexpected source. Worth looking into. Buckminster Fuller's Precession Theory 