Natural Freedom Vs. Artful Power

by L.S. Heatherly

Enter line of trees, shores of water;
open sod of earth for seed,
partake of any fruits of trusted yore;

Turn aside metal sheaths and scultured walls,
enter not artful, thick, wood-carved door.

Whom heeds the call of free humanity's life and lore is rich,
Whom deeds the will to imprisoned, type-set word is poor.



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Art Selection

by L. S. Heatherly


What artist should be trusted
to select a group of creations for any original, human being?

Rather, listen to Emerson:
"Trust yourself; every heart vibrates to that iron string."


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Awe, Soul and Art

by L. S. Heatherly

One should never hesitate to express awe
At the true gems of any living writer.

The greatest ones are never in danger
Of hearing such praise too often;

As they are always ahead of, outside of,
Dwelling deeper than, their Time and Age;

They are in great and lonely need,

Of such soul-arms around the soul-shoulders,
Of their refuged and besieged humanity.

They slowing burn your offerings;
Tend your kindlings into their night of the soul;

You keep their isolated flame,
In their solitary, human camp,
From dying midst winter-storms of civilization.

Your awe at their labor of love,
Is destination for their journey of joy.

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The sound of your voice ends the sounds of silence;

Your message is a candle passed, a gleam of redemption.

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Hurry Home Sonoran

The monsoon has replenished the desert with life;
Streambeds are aflowin', and life-force is ripe.

Falltime is acomin', and the air has some bite;
Daytime half-rules, and wildlife's in sight.

Won't you hurry, hurry, hurry home!
Won't you hurry, hurry, hurry home!

Mother Nature is acomin' to check all our blights;
Our Source is acallin' to divorce wrongs from rights.

Storm clouds mate sunlight, Earth's first primal rite:
The passage to meaning that gives matter life.

Won't you hurry, hurry, hurry home!
Won't you hurry, hurry, hurry home!

Instincts are arisin', to mate reason with light.
Our soul is aburnin', to re-fire our birthrights.

7/2007

Ecocrisis: Earth, Humanity and Childhood Dreams,

...........................................................Dave Martin/Guardian

Prologue:

Beyond Despair

Whence the child that Comes to Be?
Born to live in Land once Free!

There's more in our oceans than oily fish and birds: we float there.
Beyond despair over lost wildlife, occupations and tourism;
Look deep: our violated waters bemoan the Human Condition:

I.

All our pollutions of Earth 

Enter our Human being's,

Gestational, amniotic fluid

Before they enter

The salty, amniotic fluid of Earth,

The origin of all Life.

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II.
More debilitating than blindness of the eyes
Is blindness of the soul.

III.
More endangering than mind become blind
Is human culture, blind to sacred water, sky and land;
Blind to birthrights and dreams the human child.

IV.
If we cannot see Humanity, cannot see ourselves
As a threatened species, in oil-spill scenes;
We, first and foremost, are blinded by the oil in the water:

Blind to our Earth-place, our Humanity,
To child's becoming Earthly human being. 
To child's bonding to source of Earthly Human Life

V.

Beyond the decimation of Coast and Marine species;
Our humanity within us is becoming decimated.

Before the photos, before our Eco-disasters,
We have become the blind species upon the Earth.

Only Humanity is blinded, in heart and soul, by civilization.

VI.
Having created an anti-Nature culture, gradually for millennia;
We, then, disown its Sociocultural excretions, blaming entities,
supposedly "out there in industry and technology"-- outside
Human Will, Being and Soul.

Look within; only we, are the infidels of Earth-life, and, our Humanity.

Only we, are emergent aliens, invading Earth-Human natural treasures.


Epilogue:
Human Reality in Polluted Waters

Midst the oil and other debris in polluted waters,
If we cannot discern our grandchildren,
Even our very humanity, in that flotsam and jetsam;
We do not know what Humanity is, nor how and why it is.

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Andrew Jackson, Banks and Economics

By L. S. Heatherly

Old Hickory sprang up as rich, fresh, rings of wood,

growing to stand as a specimen tree, a representative

variety of a young nation's manhood. This tree commanded to

be taken measure of by all in the young surrounding, forest.

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Hickory's seed-ideas carried by turbulent Times, blew in upon

all rooted ideas as challenge. His branches clashed against

rivals as hickory sticks striking out toward air, sunlight,

land and freedom to grow: for the legitimate part of natural,

human nature manifested in him, and, in large measure,

represented by his life.

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As seen on PBS, "Andrew Jackson: Good, Evil and the

Presidency" recounts the many identities of Andrew
Jackson during an Era named after him. Old Hickory,

in our Present Day, strikes home as an illustrious

champion of human rights. This assessment stems,
principally and rightfully, from his opposition to the new,
2nd US Bank's concocted powers to control credit and
create a new entity, the corporation; thereby, overly
impacting the lives of the people, and more effectively
concentrating and securing the nation's wealth in the hands
of the wealthy elite.

These new, evil seeds, mostly alien to American soil,
were sown following the War of 1812, through the
establishment of the 2nd US Bank, which created the first
corporations, on behalf of and representing, the wealthy
elite's drive for a new instrument of power. It is particularly
compelling and enlightening for us in our contemporary
moment of re-lapse into financial-economic illness, now
spread across the Industrialized nations.

It is timely refreshment to ponder, in our historical moment
of anti-congress and anti-expert fervor, how Jackson, the 1st
president with nearly no formal education, was the only man
of position, in his Time, to behold the phophetic vision of
the newly emerging financial-economic threats. These

threats unfolded, through subsequent Times, as an invasion

plundering the people's democratic rights, well-being and

pursuit of happiness.

Jackson's education via rural life experiences (in our
urbanized Time called "street-smarts") reinforces the
proposition that deep breakthrough vision, concerning
human well-being, can only come from those largely free
of, or broken free from, the corruptions of formal education.

Through his self-directed education and his long battle

against the illegitimate power of banks and corporations
to manifest new oppressions upon the people's lives,
Andrew Jackson stands in the company of such other self-

educated, iconic thinkers as Thomas Paine, Washington,

Lincoln and J. J. Rousseau, the father of philosophical

romanticism. Rouseau's philosophy would come to play a

role in the ideological constitution of our founding fathers.

If Old Hickory's vision had fully won the Day and Era, had
it become more fully fruited into the financial world, his
vision, springing from a Nature-based rebellion, would

have secured what, otherwise, tragically passed away:

some financial-economic blessings of freedom, of, by,

and for, the people and posterity.

With the fruit of that vision, re-planted and re-harvested
faithfully by each generation; we would not be witnessing
the Gulf Coast's ecological, economic disaster. If our
economic liberties fought for by Jackson were intact, we
would not be bearing this disaster, a disaster begging to
be truly defined as a disaster brought to bear upon one
nation's very spirit, one nation's very humanity, one nation's
very soul.

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The Human Environmental Movement

(Penan natives blockade logging road, 1990's)

"I feel deep shame when I look into the eyes of my grandchildren and think
how much damage has been done to planet Earth." -- Jane Goodall Time Aug 18, 2002

We need to become proactive in our quest to save
ecosystems from destruction, saving, as well, their wildlife
species from the progressing extinctions witnessed within Earth's environment!

We need a rooted movement to restore and conserve
human wildlife -- our human naturality, the natural human condition, 
evolved within the wild Earth-life, called wilderness or the wild.

The onus of the Environmental Movement must be shifted
into our inner selves, into the constituent makeup of our human
being, spirit, mind, heart, soul, consciousness, perception,
intelligence, families, communties, culture and life way.

We need a Human Renaturalization Movement, the only
pathway back into our original, evolved, natural nature-
human relationship. This movement must enable the people

to become renaturalized and gather together to reclaim from
their bought-off representatives the sustainability, well-being
and fate of Earth's humanity and all of Earth's ecosystems-
habitats.

Without this movement into the restoration and
conservation of Earth's human wildlife-- unpolluted human
perception, mind, consciousness, community, culture and
lifeway; we are doomed to remain victims trapped in a
reactive mode, reacting to the diverse pollutions of humanity.

Civilization's manifold pollutions of childhood's mind,
consciousness, spirit, being, self, life and world are
the original and generating source of adulthood's
pollutions of Earth's evolved, natural environment as well as

our pollutions and fragmentations of organic eco-families and

eco-communities.

The pollutions of our children develop the invasive,
alien, behavioral patterns of corporations and governments:
develop the anti-nature and anti-human nature doctrines
and enterprises of our science and education, paving
the human pathway into corporate and govermental
destructions piercing all life within Earth-life-world.

The source of the ongoing destructions of all the pristine,
beauties and treasures of life out there is the ongoing
destruction of the pristine, beauties and treasures within us.

The random destruction of Earth's natural environment
springs from the precise destruction of Her evolved,
natural human nature, being, consciousness, perception,
intelligence, her ecological families, communtities, culture and

lifeway.

We have known for decades that adult behaviors and
enterprises are determined primarily during early childhood
and, secondarily, during the remaining years of youth. To
change what adults are doing out there in "the natural
environment;" we must change what they (we) are doing to
the natural environment within human perceptions,
senses, minds, hearts, souls, lives, consciousness and
culture.

By choosing proaction over reaction, we commence
restoring and conserving the unpolluted, naturality of our
children. We move toward staging an ongoing rebellion
against the artificialization of childhood development being
waged by the commercialism, corporatism and sci-
technologism of power and profit seeking enterprises of
every stripe, imaginable and creatable.

The people of the Earth must reclaim the natural, human
environment within themselves, before they can reclaim
the natural environment "out there."

The destruction of the human environment within us
is the generating source of the destruction of the nonhuman,
natural environment "outside us."

It is non-natural human minds, hearts and souls that are
creating non-natural environments for both humanity and
all Earth-life.

To save Humanity and Earth-life, we must clean up, restore
and liberate our children, via our childhood.

To redeem our lost humanity, we must restore natural,
human nurturing within the context of natural
ecosystems. Human re-naturalization is human
re-nurturaliztion.

To love our children is to uncage them; to return them
to Earth's natural relationships with natural family,
community, and ecosystem.

Modern, commercial, materialistic science is blind to our
human nurturome, which receives the new-born human
organism and its genome. Young parents must behold the
reality of our nurturome; and form a movement to restore it.
Materialistic science rejects it; the people must embrace it.

Our arrogant, Modern thinking has tried everything else;
and will continue to try more and new everything elses:
everything but the oldest solution and medicine (and what
every good shaman primordially knew), restoring the union
of Earth's human nature with Earth's living nature.

The fate of our human species lies in the deep, instinctive
hands and hearts of parents and eco-communities; not in
formal, commercialized, corporatized education.

The human journey has, for eons, been led by
the manifold forms of love, springing from pure,
unpolluted, parental love, growing outward and upward
into Earth-life's pure, unpolluted, human eco-families and
eco-communities, cradled in Earth-life.

Copyright 2010 L.S. Heatherly

Child Development and Love Vs. Sociocultural Delusions

Child Development and Love Vs. Sociocultural Delusions By L. S. Heatherly I A psychiatrist who once had a wide following died April 27th of this year. Yours Truly knew nothing of Stanley I. Greenspan. Reportedly, he was at the forefront in the 1970s and beyond of a movement that saw human interactions and loving relationships as the foundation for a child's emotional and intellectual growth. Looking around us today at the unprecedented fragmentation, disintegration and surrogation, at the the electronification, cyberization, virtualization, of human interactions and loving relationships; we might wonder, and need to ponder, what happened to this restoration movement. Gosh! How did he come to rediscover what was, once upon the times, and in the family-village places, common sense! What was, and is, the most loving essence of the human condition, of human sociality, for eons! That, back then, it took an eminent psychiatrist and a movement to inform us of this! To inform us that human interactions and loving relationships are the central basis for childhood development! And now, we have scarce hope of restoring this traditional common sense Just imagine, it took a movement to attempt the restoration of the core basis of human culture and society! Could it be that he saw all around him a deficiency in these! Imagine that the movement failed; as it did. Now, imagine the seemingly unimaginable! Imagine that we shall come together to apprehend and embrace this vital common sense! Imagine we cared and dared to know how and why this movement failed! Imagine that we shall rededicate our lives to restoring the sanctity of natural childhood. Imagine that we shall protect and defend our children's birthright to be the children of Mother Earth and her natural, unadulterated human nature, unfolding within a natural childhood. It is sad and disturbing to see, to what new, lower levels "genius" now falls in its artificial rise, its separation from the natural human condition. Artificial genius, intelligence and activities now accelerate their rise amidst the Modern fall of natural intelligence, consciousness and activities. This we, through formal education, loosely and recklessly for over 150 years, now, call Progress. Oh, how we desperately need more undegreed, independent thinkers like Will Rogers, Thomas Paine and Jean J. Rousseau! This is one hallmark of our Modern Tragedy, both marking and exemplifying our Age. This unfortunate man midst our pollutions of humanity, a genius by contemporary standards, conceivably, died from more than "complications from a stroke" -- a stroke merely involves the brain of a mere human organism! What about the man, the male, human being? What about the man's heart, life, and spirit? How about reporting to the public what happens to human beings during the Modern process of dying! Tragically, such fuller reporting is beyond what is considered appropriate; it is forbidden! Alas, only rare souls will dare to investigate true, natural human living and dying -- to investigate what human life really is; to investigate the sociocultural follies that really are, increasingly, killing us! We who, once upon true time and place, were full, whole human beings in unity and sustainabilty within Earth-life! Modernity's science and medicine want to report, and impart to us, their knowledge of human tissue, cells, organs and organisms! Whence the truthful and wise human beings so commonly found in more natural and traditional societies? Whence the plenitude of organic, communities, in respectful obedience, knowledge and harmony with evolved, human nature, culture midst all Earth-life? Death from a broken heart is very conceivable, but forbidden to utter: Its conceivable, even likely, to free thinkers, that people get strokes, cancer and heart disease from the progressive breaking of the human heart and spirit! What, after all, is the deep source of Modern stress! Could the real, deep, natural truth be that this man, who saw the light concerning children's growth and well-being; but, still, despite his heroic vision and work, had to endure the ongoing pain of observing the ongoing decline of that enlightenment he professed; and had to witness the displacement, of those very human interactions and loving relationships via the rise in artificial, electronic, cybernetic, virtual, and diverse, unclose, nonloving forms of human interactions, relationships and vicarious forms of these! Could it be that he died of a broken heart and spirit! II Starting, perhaps in the 1980s, movies became filled with scenes of parents and children saying the words, "I love you." This reveals, to anyone willing and able to see, that as the manifold acts of love are removed from our lives; the need to assert love with words arises through the subliminal awareness of love's declining presence in our lives. Its nothing less than the verbalized denial of the decline in the manifold acts and relationships of love. This revelation is also the starkest indication that the Age of Linguistics, and the hermenuetical thesis are false and destructive to humanity. During the 80s, and earlier for some, we arrived to where we could no longer completely block and deny the decline in love. At some level, we became aware of our social and cultural failure to love and be loved as much as humans innately deserve. Through our diverse, commercial oppressions, we cannot walk the walks of love, cannot do the manifold acts of love, cannot have the full relationships of loving each other; thus, we inevitably, try to compensate for what is missing by saying what should be happening. *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   * Heart, Love and Mind Love is phenomena of the heart, compelling actions; Love, as phenomenon of the mind, remains ideas and words. Love entails behavioral relationship, it is behavioral embracement: growth of human being. Love spoken as affirmation, may also act; but entails, compels, or effects, via mere words, no sharing behavior. *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   * Original Sin: Rationalization of Love We rationalize this false belief: the saying of love makes it so, makes love there, where it rightfully should be: in accordance with innate, natural, human nature, in accordance with sustainable, natural human culture, family, community, society, life way and Earth's human habitat-ecosystems. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Life and Love I One does not have to verbally affirm true love, when one has true, loving life! We love, therefore, we are. We live as humans be(ings), therefore, we love. All Rights Reserved 2010