Continuing from part 3. We need energy, our brains are using 20% of our "at rest" energy, we need to procreate, (not as often as we’d like, it turns out), and we need shelter. Once we have those basic physical needs under control, the rest of the day is ours. Sounds utopian, right?
What actually happens is that those primary needs end up using all of our days and the best part of our focus.
Our primary needs
- Nutrition - energy and spare parts
- Sex and affection/acceptance covered in part5
- Shelter
Nutrition - as best I can tell from over 25 years of experimenting with gardening and diet
If we are having energy issues from not having access to nutritionally dense, low oxidative, bio available foods. Our organ systems will not generate the physical or mental capacities to reach our performance potential.
Our ancestors seem to have made it through ice ages lasting for at least several thousand generations at a time. Just consuming meat, fat and water. Thats not a rigid opinion, it just seems to be easily verifiable considering the availability of edible plant matter at the time was so limited and we can *know, it is totally not required.
*( To test this, I have personally gone for months without consuming plant matter, so far it appears that I do better without fibre and carbohydrates). I remain open to new experiences, but so far, this is opening my mind to new possibilities.
It is true we can add plants and fungi to our diet when they are available, but doing so appears to be a highly hazardous business, as we must then learn how to balance and neutralise extremely bio-active compounds.
Consider that diabetes is basically carbohydrate intolerance that is further complicated by oxidative stress from seed based polyunsaturated fats. It looks very much like heart disease is early stage diabetes and most cancers are the result of surviving long enough to avoid the heart attack.
Ayurvedic medicine evolved over thousands of years to help understand how to handle the use of plants in our diets. Further processing, refining and concentrating seeds, their oils and fructose has taken us into a realm that herbal law can no longer compensate for.
High blood sugar, oxidative stress and inflammation are arising not form animal products like we have been told, but from plants. The products of agriculture, (which looks like a war on nature) that require an enormous amount of investment. Investment which requires an enormous amount of persuasion and education. I do not wish to sell these ideas or turn them into "opinions" - that would be counter productive to remaining open and sensitive to what is.
Ironically, thousands of people are now finding that they perform much better without any plants in their diet. I do not mention this this to promote or detract from anybodies personal eating preferences, that is none of my business.
It is merely interesting to consider the impact the “belief” that plants are a viable source of human food has had on our “needs” as a species. How that has impacted the conflict between nomadic people and land “owners”.
How we end up "needing" to work and produce something to trade for our "food" that had to be cultivated in vastly energy demanding, wilderness replacing fashion.
When our food used to wonder around feeding itself, and nobody “owned” it. “Entitlement” increased with investment and identification with groups who had “rights” remained a survival level necessity.
Joining a group may have increased our security, but is it not interesting just how far from Natural habitat and independence, that has actually led us?
I do not mean to suggest any right or wrong in any of this, it is just an exploration of what was, what is and what could be. With less emotionally anchored stories, are we able to see more of the pieces and how they fit together?
Is clarity a subtractive process, or is it only necessary to let go where we are clinging most tightly?
Wisdom as Action Series
Act 1 - Do you remember?
Act 2 - What is Love?
Act 3 - Feeling Swell
Act 4 - Bound to be Free
Act 5 - Trust Issues
Act 6 - Knowledge
Act 7 - All you Desire
Act 8 - Virtue Reality
Act 9 - @tension
Act 10 - Rote learning vs Understanding
Act 11- Morality Paradox
Act 12- Body Language
Act 13 - Adaptability pt1 - survival
Adaptability pt2- attunement
Adaptability pt3 - focus
Adaptability pt4 - nutrition
Adaptability pt5- sex and intimacy
Adaptability pt6 - shelter