Sustainably Growing the Local Food Economy

T h e  T a s t e  o f  o u r  E r a


Our era has opened up its chest in a massive outpouring. The most
treasured mysteries hitherto held and guarded in the interior of
mankind are now set before us as if in an exquisitely magnificent
banquet, a feast of superb scents  and  tastes.  This  era  pronounces
directly  and  for  the  first  time  its timeless vision of unity in
the collective 'we' globally; from the popular dictums such as 'we are
all one', 'to reach our fullest potential', 'to know/be who and what
we  really  are'  etc., to  the  extraordinarily  unprecedented
international declaration 'We the Peoples of the United Nations...
united for a better world'.

However conditioned or erroneous these pronouncements of unity may
be, they nevertheless could not possibly occur unless absolute unity
is our reality; unless intrinsically we are already unanimously
obliged by our reality's perspective; unless we have the potential,
aptitude and will to rise up to it perfectly, and unless it is our
era's time to pioneer its unfoldment explicitly.

Our fullest potential
is a concrete subtle place wherein
when we become hidden, the Real is apparent.
Our fullest potential is the Real, the Beloved,
reachable immediately

In our era's taste, to know that we are nonexistent apart from the
One Being, is the single most important prerequisite for understanding
anything whatsoever, let alone our unity. Our collective we, has never
been an accretion of beings. We have never been - individually or
collectively. Nothing has ever been, is ever going to be or become by
or in itself.  The One Being is the becoming and the  utter existence
of our infinite diversity.  How could we possibly know or be perfectly
and completely who and what we are if we determine ourselves first, as
separate autonomous existents and then qualify ourselves further by
preposterous partiality?

Without this frame of reference, perfection is as unnatural - or
rather supranatural - as Love is! Who could just like that, emulate
the One who loves His own Self appearing as the Existence? However
sophisticated, merely by our natural propensity we are imperfect,
incomplete and denigrated even below the lowest natural form.
Spiritual abjection however is eminence. The height of oneness is so
by its incomparable infinite encompassing wherein the entire degrees
of existence, from the absolute to the relative right down to the
lowest of the low are included by an essential equality of identity.

The person brought to abasement in oneness is brought to its height
of encompassing where he is shown clearly that the One is his
existence as well as the existence of all, and that consequently, his
existence was never his. This person may be called by his exterior
form a human being, but by his reality he is a representation of the
singular plurality, mankind. This reality is our universal DNA which
qualifies us by its total identity and nothing less! To  exclusively
affirm or deny even a single phenomenon from existence, is to deny
one's magnitude, to deny one's very being.

Union is our essential education
intimate to Love's manner of being

Only oneness is proof for oneness, and hence is itself the perfect
aptitude in the 'who', the 'what' and the 'how' of our being. Our
humanity starts solely and unequivocally from this high order of
descent wherein the act of oneness is union and unification; it is a
quid pro quo - one's totality for the One's totality, or one's
illusioned identity for the One's reality.

Effectively union is re-cognition that oneness is not only actor but
necessarily acted upon in all actions. Hence oneness aspires and is
aspired to, in all our qualities, attributes and perceptibility. Long
before we know of it and whether we admit it or not, the pull,
response and preparation towards union are already the acts of union
in union!

This newly emerging auto-didactic mode in our era, eclipses former
secondary mediations by the unitive act itself without denying any. In
the eye of union, all 'things' are necessarily reconsidered and
expanded beyond their limited 'known-ness' into the unlimited
munificence of the Known-to-itself, wherein they receive their most
honourable due. This expansion of vision is ultimate freedom of
choice, without which the most sincere student of oneness remains
unsatisfiable and torn apart as he observes how the looped chain of
endless apparent causes and effects respectively usurp an exclusive
aggrandisement while condemning the rest to profanity.

The one touched by reality in the depth of his origin, even if he were to
gather the  weight  of the  universe  itself  as the total  causality of human
pains and suffering and then add it to his own, it would be stripped away at
once and disappear irrevocably into non existence. In the absence of
their causes, all pains and suffering are tasted as an incomparably
intense attraction, Love's attraction towards its supreme happiness;
therein, it is as if the bare universe is redressed with its original
identity - Beauty in a perpetual love affair with Herself; Beauty is
Lover and Beloved in all that loves and is loved, and the sole
subject/object of all that loves and is loved.

Beauty's love affair
moves all towards Her view point