“ When human beings lose their connection to nature, to heaven and earth, then they do not know how to nurture their environment or how to rule their world - which is saying the same thing. Human beings destroy their ecology at the same time that they destroy one another. From that perspective, healing our society goes hand in hand with healing our personal, elemental connection with the phenomenal world. ”

Worldwide, communities that have retained their tradition of honouring the divinity within Nature have few, if any, mental health issues. In the West, we have yet to make this direct link.

The Higher Mother - the Gaia principle - can be honoured in schools (and prisons, psychiatric hospitals, nursing homes, etc) when we convert the concrete exercise courtyards into gardens.

By converting them into the following four fields, inner city people will develop wellbeing: (a) sport fields; (b) allotments, for food and medicine; (c) gardens, for trees, shrubs and flowers; (d) wild gardens, for nature spirits. People with mental health problems will learn how to be part of the process that makes food and medicine, thereby reducing ADHD, depression, alienation, isolation and “prison skin” for those incarcerated. By being, enjoying and working in these gardens regularly (minimum of 6 hours per day), Westerners will once again learn how everything produced by Nature has its place (there are no rejects): everything is recycled and is biodegradable. Just like humans. By using the system of permaculture, we will re-learn how nature provides for free the one ingredient that develops inner peace naturally: stillness.

This is our daily contribution towards World Peace.

• “76% of land in the U.K. is farmland. Farmers play a crucial role in shaping our countryside. Farming is the foundation of our civilisation and yet, most people know very little about where their food comes from or how it is grown” (The Soil Association www.soilassociation.org).
• Two thirds of cancer is food related (www.soilassociation.org).
• “There is a link between diet and violence. 800 million animals are killed each year in the U.K. for food, enshrining violence at the heart of everyday life ... links have been established between cruelty to animals and cruelty to people” (David Nicholson-Lord, Resurgence Magazine, May/June 2003).
• There is a direct link between pollution and men´s sperm count. Sperm count for men in the U.K. has halved in the last fifty years. According to one study in Aberdeen, sperm count has dropped by 30% in the last decade (The Herald, 28.3.05).
• The human body feels most alive and at peace when it honours directly, daily, the divine presence of raw, wild, Nature.
• Prisoners generally get about 60 minutes per day to step outside into sunlight and breathe fresh air: this is a human rights issue.
• Westerners spend, on average, ten years of their lives watching television.
• 20% of greenhouse gas emissions are related to the production, processing, transportation and storage of food (Greenhouse Metro, Rahul Verma, www.lovefoodhatewaste.com).
• A third of the food we buy in Britain ends up being thrown away. “As a nation we waste 6.7 millions tonnes of food per year.” (www.lovefoodhatewaste.com).
  Currently, U.K. fishermen dump nearly 1 million tonnes of dead fish into the North Sea each year (Daily Mail 21.11.07).
• “The enemies of woods are always the enemies of humanity” Roger Deacon.
• “If you cannot see God in all, you cannot see God at all” Anonymous.