On-Site Resources

Something amazing is happening.

Permaculturists believe in using as many on-site resources as one can, instead of going out and buying new things. For example, scrap metal dumped in an abandoned lot could be used as fence posts or for a sculpture instead of dumping them into a landfill. Once again, it involves thinking like a creature of the forest. A squirrel doesn't go to the supermarket to get her dinner, she turns to the trees around her for food, and for storage too, stowing away acorns to get her and her brood through the winter.

People are also on-site resources. At EAT we were advised to look around our communities and see who our allies were. I had actually been planning to make a list of people I thought would be "on my side," meaning people I could recruit in the future to work with me on whatever projects I come up with to further my goal of creating a sustainable world.

The amazing thing is that I haven't had to make a list. My on-site resources are making themselves known to me without my speaking. Every day I make a new connection with someone who gives me that piece of information I've been needing, or who surprises me by making a comment that makes me realize we are less different than I thought. My aunt and uncle and I have been connecting much more than usual lately. Yesterday I was at their house helping them install a new printer for their computer and my uncle said it bothered him that we live in a culture where we just throw perfectly good stuff away. My aunt said she was goign to look for someone who could use her old printer cartridges that didn' t fit her new printer, and that she recycled her used cartridges. These comments showed me that they are not the people I thought they were, which helps me get out of my own sphere by realizing that I am not the only one who is changing, and that as I change, as I expand my energy, I create opportunities for people to reveal unknown aspects of themselves to me. This helps us create common ground, and gives me hope that if we can reclaim this common ground within our hearts than we will be able to reclaim the earth in common.

These are little things, but to me they show a big shift in our society. They have the feel of revelation. I am seeing more and more every day, my inner vision expanding, my senses enhanced, and I am now overjoyed to say that my on-site resources now include angels! I have connected directly with angelic energy. It is there for all of us all the time, but can't perceived clearly unless our filters--our bodies and the energy around them--is clean enough to let them in. I have reached this point by freeing myself from physical addictions, from doing energy work with a shamanic healer, and by intensely examining my thoughts and reforming them to support the world that I wanted to live in, not the one I thought was "real."