Interbeing

Sunrise – July 1st, 2023: A distinctive purple glow over the stone circle

As we head into July, I want to thank you all for your continued support of Crossing Hedgerows Sanctuary. Though we haven’t been having as many events this year, the land continues to heal and is teaming with ever more life. Sometimes the bird song is almost deafening around here, and the varieties of insects, and animals passing through are too many to list. Yet they don’t create any problems to our plantings for the most part, as our ecosystem has come into such amazing balance over the years. 

Staying away from a warfare mindset in our relationship with the land has created this luscious and abundant habitat. To understand how this works, I really encourage you all to look into the permaculture design system, not only for working on the land, but as a guide to lifestyle in general. 

There is an ever greater push in modern times to see the world in a mechanical, transhumanist way, in which everything and everyone can be controlled through technology and we are all separate entities which can be forced into conformity. Whether it be how we relate to our own bodies, or the outer world, the problems we face are all a reflection of this internalization that does not recognize our interbeingness, our biological natures, and the essential ability of all biological systems to be able to heal themselves. 

One of our perennial herb plantings, marsh mallow, a demulcent medicinal which helps with illnesses in which there is too much dryness in a person’s constitution. So for example, it could be very helpful for someone who needs to moisten up their lungs. 

Marsh Mallow getting ready to blossom – they also have pretty flowers 🙂

As I have been taking some time off this year to heal, I have been using these principles with results which seem almost miraculous. Autoimmune disease along with bone and cartilage degeneration, which I was told there could be no cure, ongoing migraines, depression and anxiety, difficulty sleeping, were all some of the issues I was experiencing. These are now either completely resolved, or largely healed in only the span of a few months. 

I am hoping in the near future to lead a regular meet-up in which we explore some of these topics and lifestyle changes together. 

So do not despair my friends. Healing is possible when we become aligned with our own life force, and that which is connected with all others. 

Blessed Be,

Jean