I look at the mulberry seedlings that I recently planted. I look at the beautiful purple cornflower that I planted a few hours ago. I look at the dogwood and the maple tree. I look at the bamboo towering over the fence. I look at the sea of wildflower seedlings that cover the soil like a warm winter blanket of life. I see the row of peas along the north fence and the strawberries along the south fence.
I see all these things — these growing and flourishing plants — and I remember to just a few months back when this piece of land was nothing even close to resembling a fine garden which it is today. Once choked with weeds, laden with dead longs, and smothered with feet of hay, this garden is now vibrant with green lush foliage, a path with 12 round walking stones, and even a few halved coconut shells filled with seeds for the birds.
I see this garden as a symbol depicting my partnership with nature. I helped nature by watering her seedlings on dry days and protecting her seeds from weeds and insects.
Does not the bird help nature by passing her seeds through her waste matter over a field? Does not the cow help nature by fertilizing the grass with her manure? Does not the worm help nature by keeping her soil porous and full of oxygen?
What can man say for his contribution to helping nature? We spend time clearing fields to grow crops for US. We clear-cut ancient forests to sell for wood to make US rich. We cut the lawn to look nice and neat so the neighbors may envy US. We grow the apple tree to pick apples for US. We water the flower to keep it in bloom for US.
Why must it always be about “US” when embarking on a relationship with nature? Can we not do things to help protect, conserve, and preserve nature solely because of the good of it? Why must dollar and cent signs appear in our minds when thinking about nature? Why must we constantly strive to conquer and control nature instead of letting nature be? Why can’t we live in harmony with plants and the animals, just as the bird does?
Do we not understand that from nature, we exist?
Can we not make this simple connection — this fact of life?
No matter how much we abuse nature — cutting her down, selling her off, and raping and pillaging her land, she never gives up on us; she never gives up on life. Cut a forest down, and in a few hundred years it’ll be back thicker than ever. Mow your lawn and let it be for a week, and it’s back. Cut the apple tree, leaving the base of the trunk, come back in a year and see the cage of vertical branches surrounding and protecting the felled trunk.
But not all of nature is so resilient to our human wrath! Kill a species of trees from the noxious practice of unsustainable logging of old-growth forests, and those trees are gone forever! Chop down and uproot all the pine trees in your yard, and don’t expect to see them returning.
So the question is: Is there a balance? Where does man draw the line between working with nature and taking advantage of nature? I believe that I ask this question in vein and any answer will futile at best. To even ask such a question means that we’ve already crossed that line a long, long time ago.
We are no longer stewards of nature, but rather stealers of nature. We steal with great impunity and zeal for financial gains. Blindly raping our very mothers which enabled is to live on this fecund planet.
I fear that one day nature will finally say “enough is enough!” and turn her back on us as we have done unto her. Our planet can live without humans, but it can’t live without ants. So who do you think nature would rather protect if given the choice.
And we, silly humans, think that we are running the show? Ha! Not even close.
Sitting in my garden yesterday, I saw an amazing event. Something large and black seemed to have fallen in the pine tree that sits on the side of my garden near the fence. When I looked up, it was a very large black crow at least three times the size of most the birds I have seen around my yard, landing on the canopy of the tree.
Upon landing, the crow was immediately harassed and attacked by about a dozen other birds, perhaps more. The group of birds worked together as one as they screamed and circled the crow, forcing her from one tree to another until they were at the end of my street where I could no longer view the spectacle.
For some reason, the crow was deemed a threat and the birds worked together quite effectively to remove the threat. It’s amazing to see how animals work together to achieve goals. It seems as though they never give up and push on with great vigor and energy.
I compare those traits to my fellow humans and I easily see how most men never exude such determination and will, but surrender at the slightest obstacle or face of opposition.
Only a few. Only a few act such as the birds do, and push on no matter what — working together with other warriors in concert and unison to achieve seemingly insurmountable aims.
Real learning takes place outside of the classroom. The greatest teacher in the world is the Universe. As Khalik said in this clip, “the universe is your university.” I think that’s so true. I’ve learned more in my life in the past 2 years “after” graduating from college, than, seriously, over a decade in the school system. How is that? Well, in nature/universe there are no boundaries, no limits, and no authority figures. So of course, naturally, your journey of learning and absorbing and building a relationship with the world is going to flow more effortlessly than ever before. How amazing.
The destruction of the rain forest and the ancient redwoods of Northern California. The aggressive and careless consumption of animals. The poor and clumsy usage of technology without respect for the environment. The greed to attain material riches at the expense of natural resources. The blind burning of fossil fuels to increase our corporate bottom-lines. This is truly Man vs Nature. Man vs Himself.
When you tap into yourself, you’re basking in an awareness of true understanding, where you see things for what they truly are. You transcend logic, language, and concepts and enter a realm of experience — a place where you are truly naked and free from the societal constrains that you’ve come so accustomed to.
Everything that you can see, feel, touch, smell, hear, and sense is a part of Nature. Part of the mega frequency that envelops everything in the world. Your job is to tap into this frequency and explore your true potential — your infinite potential. I love you.
Boom!! You’re hit over the head with a 10 ton sledgehammer and for the next few hours your entire existence surfs on the reverberations — the cosmic current raging through your blood, your every thought.
Scary — yet, amazingly beautiful.
It’s a struggle to bring back ideas, but not impossible. The most brilliant ideas are configured right in front of you like spiritual logos, each stack bringing forth new levels of understanding. But at the same time, you aren’t free from the most negative of all thoughts.
“What did I do to this dog? Why does it want to kill me? Wait, this dog doesn’t want to kill me, it’s my friend. No! No! It wants to bite my shit off!! Oh shit! I’m fucked!”
Chill…. Relax…. Breathe… Embrace it
“Dave, it’s so easy to lose control — so easy!” “Dude, I know, it really is.”
“Hey man, why are you brining her up? Taking me down memory lane and shit.” “Dude, she’s a hoe nowadays.” “Shut up, no she’s not. I don’t want to hear that shit!”
You don’t use language to communicate, everything is beyond words. Everything relies on feelings. And when the ideas are introduced, you try your hardest to hold onto them, but you see them dissipating right before your eyes.
“No… No… No… Please, let me just take this one back. It’ll change the world”
Everything that you thought you were is shattered — all aims, ambitions, plots, plans, and schemes shatter. You can see them on the ground. Then they begin to melt and you’re a clean slate — tabula rasa baby!
Coincidences are raining down all over the place. But they aren’t coincidences, they are holes. Not worm holes, but sort of like them… You can tell that someone is trying to communicate with you through these sequences of beautifully constructed coincidences. So speak back into the hole! Speak back! That is your job.
“Get out of the house, there’s too much going on in here. Television is on. People are singing. People are dancing. People are talking about Madison Ave. bullshit! People are desperate for attention! People are so weak!”
Get out and let nature soothe you. You’re okay now. Hush. Breathe. Relax. Notice the white buds coming into blossom.
My hypothesis: If you speak to nature, she’ll speak back to you. If you slap nature, she’ll slap you back.
My hypothesis: Everything is round and relies on curves for some reason that I don’t know. There’s a certain curvature at play. You don’t actually see the curves, it’s more like you feel them… then you, in a way, see them.
My hypothesis: There’s a relationship between your mind and your stomach region — perhaps the solar plexus and the pineal gland are dancing together in harmony. Not sure what it is, but these two regions of your body are most definitely speaking to each other on some sort of meta-physical level.
“Dave, you alright dude, you look worried?” “Nah man, I’m cool. Just inside and once you’re inside, you’re there. You’re in it.”
An idea: The process of crying is a spiritual experience. You are watering yourself and the tears are speaking to you. Whatever made you cry is built into the tears. The people, the situation, the experiences — they are in the tears and they speak to you!
An idea: Coincidences don’t exist; they are holes into other dimensions — they are lines of communication and you must speak back into them so he/she/it will hear back from you.
When your slate is cleared, you are naked. Truly naked. It’s scary as hell. It’s amazing as heaven. You are totally naked, open, and exposed. This world is for the brave.
Go in. Create and Destroy. Come back. And share. This is what it’s all about. Pheww… I’m back.
Today I took a trip to Elizabeth A. Morton National Wildlife Refuge and I thought that I’d share my experience with you with a picture story that I made below. Please enjoy.
A soon as I started the hike, I was greeted by these birds. Literally, hundreds of them all over the place. They were following me as I walked — guess they wanted food or perhaps just to chill. These birds totally rocked! They are called Black-capped Chickadee’s. They are really brave as well. For the first time in my life, a wild bird landed on my finger for a second and it was amazing. I wish I had some food for them.
I came across a few small ponds
This is me on the beach after a hike through the forest. It was cool because I was in the woods for about an hour then all of a sudden I pop out into this awesome beach. I was like “wow! sick!”
I found some crab claws and cool shells. I brought a few home with me. This beach was really nice. I sat on it for a while and observed the ocean and meditated for a bit.
As I continued up the beach for about an hour, I found another large forest. It was a bit creepy looking, but as I entered I saw this awesome patch of flowers
Here’s a cool dried-up flower
When I popped out onto the other side of the beach, I found this HUGE…HUGE… hawk’s nest, an Opsprey’s nest. I didn’t see any hawks, but the nest was cool. When I first saw the nest I was amazed by its architecture, so I climbed up to it. The hawk actually used a sandal as building material — look closely and you’ll see a peace sign on the sandal. The hawk was PEACE!!
While on the other side of the beach, I began tracking a raccoon (or perhaps Opossum). I wasn’t able to actually see it, though. It must have smelled me coming and left. But here are the tracks.
Walking back to the main side of the beach
Now I’m walking back through the forest towards my car. But before I ended my journey, this Eastern Chipmunk came up to me to wish me farewell
Thanks for virtually walking with me on this journey. Hope you enjoyed! Peace!
Food is not something to be underestimated. It’s not something to never consider when consuming. It’s quite the opposite. Food is an experience that one should cherish, love, and respect. Certain foods help to elevate our spirits and some aim to weaken our spirits / energy. In this discussion I speak with my younger brother, Khalik Allah, about the life experience of building a relationship with food; how food communicates with our spirits, our thoughts, and our actions in life. The main food we discuss is real raw chocolate called cacao. We can all help to evolve our nature by building strong, cohesive, and high-frequency bonds with what we consume — what we nourish our bodies with. Please enjoy.
Lately I’ve been toying with the idea that the universe — everything from the sand, water, and hills to the bees, birds, and humans — are all a part of this mega-frequency tuned into the same channel, working as one organism. Surely this isn’t an entirely new idea as the Gaia Hypothesis examines the earth in a similar fashion.
The Universe as a Mega Frequency
I’m really digging this — the universe and all its parts being a part of the same frequency, as I’d put it. This mega-frequency that acts as a current, running, no, flowing, through everything in existence. Flows through us. Flows through the rain. Flows through the rock. However, each part still having its own frequency which is mutually exclusive of the rest.
Now with the assumption of the universe and all its members being a part of one large mind as a collective whole and being one multi-tracked organism that cumulatively has an effect on life, death, mutations, tidal patterns, temperature, and all changes as we know it, I’d like to now, abruptly, speak a bit about mutations and how I believe that mutations aren’t monopolized by the genome and how mutations take form and shape metaphysically.
Mutational Influences in Nature
In nature (re: the universe) we have many forms of mutations in a myriad of species of plant and animals. We tend to think that all mutations are bad. We think of cancerous cells or grotesque scenes of the X Men flashing through our heads. But this isn’t the case. A mutation can be a good development as well.
Certain strains of flowers that grow on high mountain regions develop a genetically superior coating of hair that offers them an extra level of protection. Now these genetically superior plants blossom and fertilize the plants below them and those plants fertilize the plants below them as so on… spreading this mutation throughout the region.
Societal Mutations forming Outside the Genome, then, Perhaps, into the Genome
Now keeping in mind the notion of the entire universe as one living organism, couldn’t we now propose that human beings could spark mutations — mutational shifts — as well? But not mutations on the level of the genome — that’s a given. I’m speak of a societal mutation. A mutation that spreads into the culture through thoughts, actions, ideas, — essentially through behaviors.
And such a supposition is supported by biology. In biology we understand that on a certain level, behavior is a variable, a player, in the genetic makeup/development of a species. When a certain animal begins to act in a new way, say comes up with a new hunting technique to compensate for the faster prey that have entered the region, and teaches that technique to their offspring — those offspring and their offspring, over time, begin to grow that particular hunting technique into their genetic code. And this was all initiated through behavior.
So now, if nature is one all-encompassing mind at work — which I believe that it is — and it recognizes an imbalance, it’ll initiate a series of solutions to bring back the balance and return the equilibrium. This happens all the time, think about it. When new growth is required in an arid terrain, nature brings about a fire to renew the land and promote green, lush sprouts. Before tsunamis and hurricanes occur, we can observe many animals, albeit anecdotally, such as dogs howling, rats fleeing from buildings, and oceanic animals breaking patterns way before anything happens.
Nature Recognizing Societal Imbalances
What if nature can also recognize societal imbalances, infections, and disease. Such as racism, painting myths as absolute truths (out of a book) to control the masses with fear, using lies and deceptions to trick, steal, and take advantage of, and all sorts of other imbalances and negatives that, at the time, may be surpassing the positives?
What if nature is able to recognize these patterns and, through the consultation of certain human individuals who are open to nature’s universal mind, come into existence to inoculate the societal disease — to be the fire purging the negative thoughts, lies, and deception. People, grown into the universe who act as knives, cutting away the cancerous cells that have infected the minds, hearts, and spirits of those who have drawn away from nature and got lost in the midst of illusions, false power, ignorance, and corruption?
What if someone like Martin Luther King Jr., having consulted with nature, came about to return the racial imbalance back to an even keel. Nature, having seen the ridiculousness of people killing people due to the pigmentation of their skin, brought forth King to eradicate this infectious and pernicious ideal?
What if nature brought about someone like George Bush to project lies, play games with the psyches of the masses, and use mind tactics to control the masses by imposing powers and laws under false pretenses to nail you into a wedge of fear? Nature having brought about Bush so that a select few could awaken and see how fickle our minds have become, how weak our will to freedom has become. And these few sprouting into society to revive and awaken the masses out of the virtual reality and into the truth.
A Mutational Paradigm Shift
Well this isn’t a book, just a posting of thoughts… so let me wrap this up on this note: My proposal is that nature, through its organisms, can correct any imbalance in the same exact way that the stock market (which is directly controlled by the psychology of the players), will correct itself as long as the balance of intelligent investors slightly rises above the amount of unintelligent investors — it always does. In society, nature can incite a, what I call, “Mutational Paradigm Shift.” Brining forth, not by commanding, but with the cooperation of the minds of certain individuals in society to act as a mutant, positively infecting society with certain acts, thoughts, and behaviors in an attempt to combat those that prey on the minds, seeking to control, kill, and destroy. Scrambling the inner working of the current paradigm and creating a new one, with balance, positivity, and dare I say — Love.
I’ll be speaking more about this on Tuesday March 25 in New York City, for those interested.
Today I took a trip to one of the wildlife refuges on Long Island, New York. Close to my home town. Ha, before I left I remember speaking to my mother about going into the woods and being with plants, trees, animals, and other forms of nature. She laughed — actually, scoffed — at me with a: “why would you want to go into the woods. I hope that you aren’t going crazy.” To which I responded: “Well if that’s the definition of crazy, then, yup, I’m crazy. Definitely.” Curiously, if I told anyone that I was going shopping on Madison Ave. they would say: “Awesome, cool.” And when you tell people about going on an adventure in the woods, they think that you’re crazy. Wow, how backwards have we become? It’s sad, really. When we valorize consumerism over nature. How did this happen?
Here’s a section of my journal that I jotted down while staring off into the marshland:
“How beautiful these marshlands are as I stare off into nothingness. A bird just flew by and sang a note above my head — an unusual sound that I don’t believe I’ve heard before. I didn’t know how beautiful Long Island could be. I’ve been so consumed with all the homes, developments, and stores that I almost forgot to search for places such as this one. The sun plays hide and seek with the clouds, running from the cover and popping back its magnificent rays onto my face. Hello sun, how are you today? There you are, my friend. I am told that migrating birds visit this spot, traveling several thousand miles using the sun, stars, and wind, arriving in only days. That’s truly amazing. I feel a sense of peace here. Almost like watching that movie, what’s it called? with Kevin Costner on the Great Plains of America — Ah, Dances With Wolves. How he enjoys himself on the open grasslands. But this isn’t a movie and I don’t have to pretend to be at such a place. I’m here. There is music in the wind. Closing my eyes, I hear the wind gently wrestling with the leaves, swaying with the grass, and snapping frail twigs — that is nature’s drum-set. Nothing short of a symphony, indeed. If you listen with care.”
Had a great time of meditation, contemplation, seeing animals, and walking through an amazing forest full of surprises. I’ll continue to share my entries as I go on more of these journeys.
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I look at the mulberry seedlings that I recently planted. I look at the beautiful purple cornflower that I planted a few hours ago. I look at the dogwood and the maple tree. I look at the bamboo towering over the fence. I look at the sea of wildflower seedlings that cover the soil like a warm winter blanket of life. I see the row of peas along the north fence and the strawberries along the south fence.
Sitting in my garden yesterday, I saw an amazing event. Something large and black seemed to have fallen in the pine tree that sits on the side of my garden near the fence. When I looked up, it was a very large black crow at least three times the size of most the birds I have seen around my yard, landing on the canopy of the tree.
Lately I’ve been toying with the idea that the universe — everything from the sand, water, and hills to the bees, birds, and humans — are all a part of this mega-frequency tuned into the same channel, working as one organism. Surely this isn’t an entirely new idea as the 
