The Ironies of Supermarket Man: Weeds

When humans are innovative, cunning and excel on the planet earth, they deem themselves 'successful'. When plants or animals do the same, they are seen as weeds or parasites.

Take the Dandelion for instance: a little yellow flower that erupts on your precious lawn in summer, is seen as a pest of a weed. It has this 'damned' root that cannot be destroyed except with a weed killer. How dare this silly little flower erupt on our perfect lawns and 'spoil' it?

In fact, the Dandelion is a very valuable plant: that 'damned' root can be dried, roasted and milled, creating a caffeine free drink that resembles caramel coffee; simply delicious. The leaf can be cooked and eaten like rocket or spinach, and the flower can be made into a tea. It even has diuretic effects, aiding with blood pressure etc. The Dandelion is one example of many.


Supermarket Man has spun himself into this illusory, materialistic and super hedonist world, where everything is seen as a means to an end; that end being the exploitation of resources and conforming of nature to this picture-perfect hedonist paradise of infinite pleasures of the flesh. In the process, Supermarket Man is detaching itself from Gaia and his very own soul...he is in fact, missing the point of life, and becoming the weed himself.

Supermarket Man should just one day, stop and wake up to the already perfect existence around himself, unfortunately spoiled by grey concrete structures, smog and the sound of artillery intermingled with the screams of the wounded.

In between the glass, metal and picture perfect gardens, there is a profound stillness; a Hum of universal proportions silently but surely binding everything into one continuum. The Hum that flows through everything - including you, dear reader - quietly creating the Mystery of Life...

Why Science alone cannot Produce the Answers

I sometimes wonder, where science became the initiator of reductionism; the 'art' of denying the Great Mystery of the Foutain of Life. The reductionist or empiricist, will almost always shoot down any notion of something mysterious; the 'feeling' of something nostalgic/ sad/ happy or those other feelings that can't be explained, bubbling up from inside at the mere thought of the possibility that; maybe...just maybe, science can't and will never explain some things in this complex fractal universe of ours.

A simple dwarf star emmits a mutlitude of radiation into it's surrounding space of 9 planets; some of this radiation penetrates the atmosphere of the third planet and falls onto its salty ocean. Nearby, on the edge of the landmass, sits a male Homo sapiens overlooking the event; the radiation reflecting from the ocean surface, penetrating his retina, sending electro-chemicals to his brain; and something happens in this male Homo sapiens...he 'feels' an achy warmth surrounding his 'heart' that stirrs him to shed tears as he gazes at the dancing diamond glaze; he 'misses' his female companion who died two years before, this being the spot where he asked her to be with him forever. He hasn't been interested in any other females ever since, and was at that moment contemplating of jumping off the edge of the landmass, ending his 'sufferring'; but alas, he turns around at the thought of causing his offspring - his little boy - more suffereing...


How does this empirically explain the 'selfish gene'? Better yet: why does a hippopotamus - filmed in South Africa - risk its own safety by chasing away a crocodile which attacked a little entelope, and sit by it, lifting the head of the entelope with its own, untill the entelope dies of its wounds?

There are many more such mysteries on this lonely 'third' planet in the vast universe of parts; mysteries that point a finger past the veil of illusion that blinds us from the Light that cast all these shadows; our collective mind being the leaves of the tree through which this Light shines.


Science is the study of these shadows; the study of the world above water, and reductionism being te side effect of failing to acknowledge the vast world beneath the surface. Science is only the one leg of understanding Being; the other leg, is the study of the Great Mystery.

Oh, there you are!

After a very long silent period, I break the ice with this: never assume that, because you follow tha narrow and just path, believing that you are a good person and therefore deserve good things coming your way, that it will happen like that. That is why I always feel that this bandwagon of 'law of attraction' is leading people astray...

Our son was born and diagnosed with a rare cancer in May (hence my long silence). It was probably the most difficult period in my life, and am now, for the first time, touching ground again. Fortunately, our son is doing well; but alas, it is as if the Universe one day looked upon the billions of souls here on earth, and said: oh, there you are Jean Erasmus; let us give you a little something...we will give your son a rare cancer...

Malignancies in the newborn are extremely rare, and this also counts for neuroblastoma. In fact, less than 10 births per year in the UK are diagnosed with it. It is as if we've win a lottery; only this lottery brings angst and tears.

Life is not about manifested desires (believe me, I am one of the most idealistic and positive people on the planet). It is not about manifesting more money and romance etc. Life happens when you make those idealistic plans. I've said it before: Life is the ultimate school for transcending beings like us; making the shift from animal to spirit. Life is there to experience the sour and the sweet, and return with this elixir to where we came from one day...

Instead of forcing your desires upon the universe, rather allow your Inner Self to blow 'Thy Will' of the One Consciousness through you, and manifest the road you need to walk in order to grow spiritually.

Allign and Allow

Best wishes