eden lost

Whether you believe in Eden as an allegory or a literal fact, it records the history of mankinds journey from hunter/gathers to to a community of cultivators. Thus civilization was born.  In Eden nature provided the fruits and hopefully the veggies and it was good.  However God  understood the nature of  man was not to be alone. It was essential to form the bonds of love,friendship, and community to insure survival, heath, success and happiness. With the birth of consciousness ( the symbolic "knowledge of good and evil") and language, so became began the story of how plants and animals became changed by our selection and genetic engineering . And so we cultivated larger, disease resistant produce with more yield and sometimes less taste and more beautiful and varied specimens of beauty!!   In doing so we lost our "in the now' innocent nature and became uniquely human..with fear and worry about our future crop,our land or our  lovely orchid! And we became territorial  with all the "human" traits such as envy, lies, selfishness, and hate.  In our fragmented modern world we have lost the  community that came from an agricultural society.  Many are isolated from the intimacies of nature and the emotional benefits of gardening. We have a mobile society and are isolated ,stressed and lonely..The ancients knew about the importance of cultivating the soul as well as the mind. 

In ancient Ireland, the human heart was never complete without the companionship of others.The “Anam Cara” was originally someone to whom you confessed, revealing the hidden intimacies of your life...In Celtic Spiritual tradition, it is believed that the soul radiates all about the physical body what some refer to as an aura. When you connect with another person and become completely open, honest and trusting with that individual, your two souls begin to flow together.  The Celtic Anam Chara cuts across  space, time, matter and even death. With the Anam Cara, you could share your innermost self, without the superficiality of wearing a mask or pretension. Do you have one?   For they can provide seeds and cuttings to enrich your life.

some kind of aloe

Crinum asiaticum-Spider Lily

Coleus

Brugmansia~Angels Trumpet

Clerodendrum quadriloculare--shooting star

Clerodendrum paniculatum~Pagoda plant

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