Chapter 9- Horticulture: Contraindicated

Activities Contraindicated:

• Limestone work
• Clockwatching
• Morbid thinking
• Regressive therapies
• Cave exploration

The qualities of Limestone bear the antithesis to those of our garden of Grace, in that the ‘rock’ itself is immature and dull – both to work with and to be in the vicinity of. It does not respond to a ‘lightness’ around it. Esoterically its properties signify a dense absorbent plane which can actually cordon off many otherwise incoming or outgoing positive influences.

In other words, it would be extremely impractical to attempt inspiration or prayer in a limestone dwelling, and because of its ‘deathliness’ (an aspect of deceased material which even can be found in our own bones in part) it is a lowly talisman to be near, let alone build a house upon!

The emphasis of Horticulture is on Life and Life-perpetua. The qualities of the limestone belong in the same place as where we might place our disused nail-clippings or skin flakes! This chalky memorabilia, dry, clumped, and without the majesty of true crystalline formation is best left quite far away from people (and faeries). 

Clockwatching invokes the will, where the will shall surely become frustrated. If we are impatient for the time to pass, and make a habit of this impatience, we become incontinent to the moments as they soon present, disrupting our consciousness with an unnecessary anxiety then, and then later.

In respect to Horticulture, and for those who have difficulty with this subject inwardly, one can examine the outcome from clock-watching and soon discover its impropriety amongst the senses and the natural equilibrium of the psyche. When I am occupied and content with my time spent – not noticing the minutes pass – there is a flow of life which coherently takes me into each hour. However, if I place my consciousness into questioning, or observing that procession of minutes as incremented within the clock’s reasoning, I am then given to the task of assuming the mind of the clock itself.

Every man knows for himself that time is not comprehended evenly within our natural mindset. One hour or one day is not comparable or equitable time-wise. It is a very good example of how machines and Man do separate off within their experience of living. We do not argue that time can be measurably incremented, what we suggest is that it works in relation to our perception in a most different way.

Many men and women have had the experience of time slowing down during some crisis in which the events around them have appeared to play out as if they were in a slow-motion movie. Thinking of this situation - or even of time as it is experienced in a dream - we can know for ourselves that there are extremes to the experience we have day to day which have no bearing whatsoever on clock-time.

Therefore we can ask, what does occur when we try to follow clock time in our consciousness and make of this our first perception?

The human physiology is always responsive to external circumstances and never runs in isolation to an anticipated routine of time. If the pulse speeds or slows, if the digestion is awakened or the lungs provoked, we find certain cycles of operation, yet within those predictable functions there is always a consciousness of response. Not one part of the human body functions independently from the rest. You could not have, for example, one organ try to beat out a rhythm of operation on its own simply because it ran to a perfectly moderated time-beat … the homeostasis is ever in flux and flow. 

Our consciousness cannot by its own experience, reconcile to this either. It is a good case in point where there is a nonsense occurring in the effort we are attempting, and this in turn becomes an anxiety. Added to this anxiety of nonsense is the further anxiety of consciously feeling as though one were ‘out of time’. This, to those who have experienced it, is a sufferance whereby you feel so ‘out of whack’ that nothing appears to fit in the moment and you perceive yourself to be either just behind or willingly too fast for the time at hand. In these two regards clock-watching is disorientating and therefore cautioned against – particularly in relation to Horticulture as the very tensions invoked inhibit the appreciation of the free-flowing properties as given to Life as they work cooperatively in reality.
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