Allan, It's fine you've apologized, but I wouldn't go overboard with it. Some people have weak and defiled minds and can't help it, and you aren't responsible for their state--they are. They will punish themselves accordingly until they learn better. There is no reason you should shoulder their burdens and their pain in addition to them doing so.
On topic, many years ago I was unable to find the arvense growing anywhere near me, though the hymale grew abundantly in sugar cane ditches south of here in both Georgia and Louisiana. So I asked my mentor, Peter Escher, about the advisability of using the hymale. He allowed that I might as well try it, even though the fine division of leaf in the arvense was a very desirable plant gesture (relating to sulfur, which the spirit "moistens it fingers" with in order to work into the physical--more or less as a sculptor moulding clay) and it would be preferable to use it. So I harvested a truckload of the hymale. It worked very well indeed. I could see little difference between the two, though it was possible to buy the arvense from Frontier in bulk at quite decent prices. Of course, a truckload for the labor of cutting it with my scythe and loading it with my pitchfork was much cheaper. You'll notice that Courtney, at your conference, identified the equisetum as the most under-used of the BD remedies. I'm not sure that is true, especially if he is basing his view on how much equisetum is purchased from him. His price doesn't compare with Frontier's bulk price, and it sure doesn't match the truckload deal. But let me assure those who have the hymale and don't have the arvense that the hymale works well and it can be used in lieu of the arvense whenever need be. People using equisetum tea as the fluid base in compost tea makers will doubtless want to use the most cost effective type, whichever it may be. It is great on fruit trees and tomatoes, and would be very good on leafy greens in wet periods. Much of the roadblock to putting BD into practice is this crazy idea that everything has to be done just so--as for example thinking one must use the arvense since that is the one Steiner mentioned in his lectures. Keep in mind that in Australia there is no horsetail whether arvense or hymale, so what they use there is the Katurina, also known as the Sheoak. It isn't even the same genus, let alone the same species. But it exemplifies the same principle in its operation, which is what is important. If BD is to wait until the perfect, ideal, ONLY right way of working is found we will fail utterly in putting it into practice. It is the same way with the so-called planting calendar. People sometimes wait for the ideal constellation to plant in--and then it rains cats and dogs and they either can't plant or make a hash of it and have a crop failure. Weather is a bigger consideration than the planting calendar. What is truly perfect is far more subtle, complex, amazing and beyond our grasp than we can possibly imagine. So generally we imagine we are falling way short of being perfect--when we are being more perfect than we realize. Maybe what I'm saying is this. Shame, blame and regret are victim trips--disempowering stuff. The notion that responsibility equals assumption of guilt is equally disempowering. If one is to get things done in life--in short, be empowered--one has to quit whining, take responsibility (shoulder the load) and get to work. To commiserate, go into agreement with other people's victim games, to heap coals on our own heads and the heads of others--what kind of hope, joy, satisfaction will that result in? Growing up with a father who was in a wheel chair, it didn't dawn on me until I was grown what a handicap it might be--because he never uttered a word of regret or sorrow or self-pity, but seemed able to do anything he set his mind to, which was a lot more than most other folks I knew. Gradually I realized we are all handicapped in a wide variety of ways. So what? So we have a choice to make the most out of it or not to. We can enjoy life or not. One of the best ways to learn to enjoy life is to get thrown in prison. It rather clairifies the fact one has a choice. Richard Cory, who had every advantage in life, committed suicide. Job, who had every kind of calamity befall him, unswervingly kept his faith up and his spirits high. One was empowered. The other was not. Some people, with nowhere near the supposed ideal in land, conditions, resources make BD work beautifully. Others seem to fall short here or there and end up failing completely. We have a choice. Best, Hugh Lovel >> > >One last attempt at explanation. > >First off, I didn't make those pictures. The pictures are from a >website called THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF EQUISETUM >http://members.eunet.at/m.matus/ where the botanical content of the >pictures are apparently deemed to be strong enough to offset the >potential objectionable portions. > >Secondly, I had no realization that the pictures were as graphic as >they are. I certainly wouldn't have forwarded the link had I seen >that was the case. You have to understand that literally from the >waist down the picture is not visible on my screen without >scrolling, which I didn't do because I was looking for pictures of >Hymale. For me, these picture is the first that really that make me >realize that Hymale can be identified by SIZE as much as by form. > >I'd like to get this back on the topic of how to make good 508, >something that is really important. > >If you need me to say that I'm not a pornographer and do not >encourage the use of pornography, I'm happy to say that also. >Hopefully, from the bulk of my work, this is obvious to many. > >Again, I apologize to anyone this carelessness has upset. > >-Allan > > >>Please, I hope this does not happen again. I do find the >>aforementioned disrespectul and degrading to the value of the female. >> >>Mary Ann >> Visit our website at: www.unionag.org
