The alchemy of life
The Amazon Rainforest is a food forest planted by humans
Dear alchemists,
It’s time to acknowledge that there are inner magical workings all around us, the alchemy of life. Learn about it to live in harmony with nature and with your body.
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🪄 Alchemy
After a week of planting a food forest — then learning how to ferment, cook and activate the produce from it — my soul feels light, my body full of energy and my mind completely clear.
Whilst planting we learned that life is complex and that it’s in its complexity that it thrives. Life is a continuous spiral that creates more and more beauty and more and more life. If you plant a tree alone it will suffer, but if you plant a small forest they will flourish. Underground there are invisible forces at play - some call it alchemy, others magic, others science. Essentially each life cell has its own intelligence and form of communication and if you stop to listen there are wise truths waiting to be revealed.
Like trees and seeds, we each have our own function to play in society. Finding and fulfilling that function is when we feel that we’ve achieved our true purpose, but we can’t do so alone. Like plants we need support, a community to catch us if we fall, we too need biodiversity.
Whilst fermenting we learned about the secrets of our food and its relationship with our microbiome. Health lies in finding the ideal balance between keeping our own bacteria happy and nourishing our bodies. It seems obvious and simple, yet rarely do we apply this knowledge in our day to day lives. Food can be a medicine or it can lead to disease. Learn to unlock its powers and you can live in harmony and balance with your body.
Everywhere there is alchemy at play, within our bodies, under the soil and in the skies. If we stop, listen and learn from it, we can achieve health and fulfill our inner purpose.
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🤯 Fun fact we learnt this week: there is more life in a teaspoon of soil than there are people on the planet.