Pagan Village News

Many times I have been asked, "What can we do to save Mother Earth?" In the past 100 years, Man has raped, pillaged and taken from the earth to great extents. Oil fields, coal mining, gold mining, silver and other precious metal mining, creating chemicals to be used on Mother Earth. When will it end? More than likely it will never end. Man, in his fulfilling quest to make things easier and easier for himself just doesn't give a damn about what happens to the environment. Greed and the pursuit of money drives most of this. And for the life of me, I can't figure out why. We can't take anything with us when we die. We can't take the cars, the boars, and the collectibles, the money. They will simply not fit in the coffin. Trust me, I've taken measurements. They just won't fit. The usual response to that is "its so my children won't be in need when I die." What ever happened to people working for what they wanted or needed? I can understand the parents wanting their children to be better off than they were, but come on now, working for what you own is part of the glory of owning something. Instead of having it handed to them on a silver platter. Looking around at this world today just makes me ill. So much take take take and no give give give. It's all about "he who dies with the most toys wins."

An example of this: Take into consideration cremation when someone passes away. I mean after all do we really need to preserve the bodies of the dead in gloriously expensive caskets when after all they are never going to be seen again. They aren't even allowed to decompose and return to the earth properly anymore. Although illegal in most states now sprinkling of the ashes can still be done, if done discretely. Returning what came from the earth to the earth. How much valuable land is taken up by a 6 foot deep cement vault to put these bodies in. So the government uses the excuse of disease. Give me a break. What did the common man do without government to control "everything" for them. Before the government regulated and mandated funeral procedures, people were just buried, to naturally decompose. Did you know that 95% of the country mandates that a coffin can not be put into the ground without being encased in a cement vault. Just so the coffin itself isn't allowed to decompose either. What a complete waste.

Another example, compost piles. Sit down one day and do some figuring. How much of what you throw away could be turned into compost for the next years' garden. Left over food, newspapers, cardboard, and eggshells. There are a lot of things that most people throw away that could be used to feed the vegetables and fruits of the next season.

Everyone is so afraid of disease anymore. Mainly in part because our immune systems have become so weakened by the junk we eat, their drugs we take or what have ya. Our natural immune system is very strong. Very strong indeed. Just so long as we know how to build it up. Don't be afraid to touch something. Good grief, that's how our immune systems are built up; by repeated exposure to things.

These are just a couple of things for everyone to think about.

I look forward to seeing you all again next month. If you have a suggestion for me, or would like me to cover certain things, drop me an email at SabbatsGrove@aol.com with Saving Mother Earth in the subject line.

Merry Meet, Merry Part and Merry Meet Again

Blessed Be

Pryderi

But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
--Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia, 1782