(I wrote this AUG 22, 2021 on FB—before I ejected—and I think it’s still relevant).
Our bodies are Nature.
Our treatment of and our attitudes toward our bodies tend to parallel our treatment of and attitudes toward Nature. When natural systems are disregarded and tampered with, the result is degradation. The result is ill-health and eventual demise of the system. This applies biologically to the environment, which is indivisible from the biology of our bodies.
Without the health of our bodies, we as individuals have next to nothing. A healthy body allows one to experience life free from and uninhibited by pain, discomfort, illness and disease. This is your right: a healthy bodily system.
It is also your responsibility to be the gatekeeper of your body to retain its health and integrity.
The parallel with Nature is exact: when we fail to acknowledge, when we tamper with and disregard the inherent integrity of Earth systems, we rob ourselves and all the planet’s inhabitants of the freedom to thrive, of the right to clean and healthy food, air, water…often of life itself. We are the gatekeepers. Not a select few, but EVERY adult one of us.
There is an enormous grief here. That we have so far so largely failed as a species to recognize and acknowledge both the sovereignty of the planet and of Nature, including the perfect self-regulating design of our bodies. The result is ill-health and loss of inherent freedoms in all realms.
You have a right to healthy air, water and food. You have a right and a responsibility to refuse accepting anything into your wonderful gift of a body that disregards and degrades or POSSIBLY degrades the balanced, wise, natural system that keeps you healthy and thus allows you to experience the freedom of movement and expression, the freedoms that are your rights as an expression OF Life. You have the right to say no thank you to any unhealthy substance, whether it be contaminated food or water…ANY product or offering.
If anyone tries to threaten you or hold power over you and deny you employment or societal inclusion or friendship or love or existence itself, or uses any other type of coercion or manipulation that requires that you violate your own nature, your own body and your right to the freedom and responsibility that is yours inherently to protect that physical system that is your one and only body, this is a sure sign that this person or entity understands and acknowledges neither your own right to health, integrity and the freedom to be the gatekeeper of your own body and of the inherent rights of Nature (they are the same entity) to peaceful and healthful existence, and should be disregarded and turned away.
The cost of caving to any of these pressures and handing over your personal power, your health, your freedom and thus your rights and the rights of Nature is irresponsible, ridiculous and too high. We cannot make that particular choice anymore and expect to survive in any worthwhile way.
Our children have these rights too, and we must be extra vigilant for them as they are entrusted to us as their protectors—and being such, we must safeguard ourselves as well, for them.
We are charged also with the protection of the Earth at this point in history as well. It is all one and the same and cannot be dismembered or separated and remain intact and remain healthy or fully functional.
You have a right to unbiased, peer reviewed, long term studies free of any conflict of interest before YOU DECIDE what substance does or does not enter your body. You have the responsibility to gain access to this information. You can waive that right and responsibility, but know the chances you are taking with the only vehicle you have access to that allows you to experience freedom in this lifetime: your body. You have the right and responsibility to use your intuition. You have the right and responsibility to understand unmanipulated, actual data. Consider the source. Then consider that source’s sources.
Sure, we are all busy, sure we want someone else to do it for us. Sure, we want convenience. Sure, we might be afraid. But this is your life we are talking about here. This is also the future of ALL life. Take the time to examine and research and search within yourself: what is the right thing for me and my children (if you have them), or my future children and their children. Make the time. This is of utmost importance.
There is a clarion call happening. Still.
Stop for a second and listen. Pay attention.
You have the right to choose the wisdom of your natural body over someone else’s agenda. This is not the time to accept things at face value. You not only have the right, but also the responsibility to honor Nature and your nature and your body; ultimately they are not separate systems, there is one system.
You have the right and responsibility to see that the decisions you make do not harm that natural system that is currently entrusted to our species. If you’re reading this, YOU are that species. We hold a great responsibility to make sure our actions are in integrity with the integrity of our bodies and with our extended bodies, the Earth.
If we continue on this path of destruction of the earth via unexamined choices (and within that the inherent self-destruction of our bodies), our species cannot and does not deserve to continue and will in fact be eliminated naturally by its own stupidity. But not without a lot of suffering and horror. We can choose something different.
Please exercise your right and responsibility NOW for the health of your own natural system and that of the planet by refusing to allow unhealthful food, water or products into your system. Please become an advocate for your health and the health of the system upon which ultimately all of Life relies for health and freedom.
Ways to advocate for your health and the health of Nature:
Use the power of your dollars to invest in health for everyone every time you choose food, products or services.
Spend time in wild Nature. This not only provides mental and physiological benefits to you, but also reminds you of your own wild nature.
Choose health, which naturally inspires others to choose health.
Eat real, unpoisoned food.
Filter chemicals from your air and water.
Choose products and services that don’t put chemicals in our bodies, our babies, our air, our water or our soils.
Refuse to compromise yourself.
This requires you to do some research, maybe eschew some conveniences that you’ve become accustomed to, but it’s as simple as that and aren’t you worth it? Aren’t your children worth it? Your grandchildren? All species we share this planet with who also have inherent value and the right to health and freedom?
If we don’t participate with and feed the destructive forces, they disappear. We are them.
We can refuse those who mask their agendas and try to manipulate. We do this by UNmasking those agendas and refusing to be manipulated. We do our own investigations and research and look at the possible agendas and conflicts of interests that might be present so that we can make informed decisions. If we own our power to choose health and integrity and wisdom, we can turn this around.
But we have to stand up. Now. We have to say wait. We have to say no when our right to health is being violated and disrespected and trampled on. And we have to do this for our children, other species and for all natural systems. For our one system.
This may seem overwhelming but it’s actually quite simple: what’s healthy for us as individuals is also healthy for everything else. So make and insist on educated, healthy choices for you and for anyone and anything you are responsible for.
Many people have become lost and confused along the way.
They have mistakenly perceived power and control and convenience and money as valuable substitutes for truth, actual respect, for Nature, for health and freedom and Love. But you don’t have to play that game. You CAN’T play that game anymore and retain your OWN freedoms, health or integrity. The choice is yours. Choose wisely.