01-21-2017, 03:54 AM
Yup, sleep deprivation and tangential thinking, good times. Redo.
To answer your question Tom with an example:
Dr Friday said in a previous response that he did not think that the OWA experiment would work to deter AB from MP. He felt confident enough to put this in writing, (without a lick of investigation to back up his assertion.) Not very scientific, yet packing the punch of one in authority.
The elusive dots to which I refer are as follows.
Ecological function of fire on forests....all creatures abhor fire or signs of fire....ash as such could be assumed to be an insect repellent....but we don't need assumptions because we have chemistry: ash when mixed with rainwater becomes light solution of KOH which when interacting with fats saponifies....insect larvae are known to shield in a biofilm which is a fat...ash is insecticide....ash contains phosphorous, potassium, magnesium, ie, tree food..... plus calcium to counteract acidity in soil due to vog; fungal pathogen can't thrive in alkali... so the tree not only gets medecine, a repellant but also an IV.
Dr Friday failed to connect the dots, even when he was handed the beginning and the end of the equation, but he is in good company because no one else in the scientific community did either.
I believe I was only able to see what I feel is obvious because I spent most days in the forest for two years. It took me a while to see that the trees were communicating with me. Wonderful forest. To paraphrase a great herbalist (de Bairicli Levy/ thanks Erzi!), when speaking about caged animals,
we have been separated from our kinship with nature.
Ask yourself these questions: Do you grow your own food or know anything first hand about soils? Do you butcher your own meat, care or tend for animals other than house cats? Do you possess hand tools that can aid you in chopping wood? Do you even notice trees unless they are having a mass die off? Do you know their planetary function and absolute necessity to human survival? Do you realize how unique and magical the Ohia are here on the on the side of this active volcano? What other tree can grow out of barren lava?
If you answered no to any of these questions it is likely you are separated from your kinship with the nature of this fierce land. Yoga retreats just don't count.
While I am not suggesting we go back to living in caves, it is clear that some of the more vital (natural world) survival skills that we all once shared out of necessity have given way to a culture of dependence. Needing to and knowing how to connect with the earth was systematically erased on the mainland. Native Americans dismissed as savages and butchered, while European female herbalists were burned at the stake for being healers. This is powerful training to indenture ourselves to a system of dependence. Kind of sounds like slavery. Let's hope we don't find the proof of this in food shortages. It is interesting that you equate old ways with poison when modern fertilizers made from the same synthetic nitrates, as mustard gas and resultant overpopulation, are actually poisonous to whole ecologies. "Omnivores Dillemna" by M. Pollan. Read it.
I didn't mean to put down the general scientific community (as arbiters of conventional wisdom) because they seem truly bound to specific rules of methodology and other political vacuums, but it is irresponsible to give carte blanche to synthetics pushers when so much in nature works unrefined. An example, while synthetic fertilizers have allowed for 3 out of 5 people to be alive today (Pollan), planetary functions cannot bear up under the added burden.
Speaking of knowledge, read this blurb on Ambrosia beetles:
http://www.thetreegeek.com/problems/ambrosia-beetle/
To answer your question Tom with an example:
Dr Friday said in a previous response that he did not think that the OWA experiment would work to deter AB from MP. He felt confident enough to put this in writing, (without a lick of investigation to back up his assertion.) Not very scientific, yet packing the punch of one in authority.
The elusive dots to which I refer are as follows.
Ecological function of fire on forests....all creatures abhor fire or signs of fire....ash as such could be assumed to be an insect repellent....but we don't need assumptions because we have chemistry: ash when mixed with rainwater becomes light solution of KOH which when interacting with fats saponifies....insect larvae are known to shield in a biofilm which is a fat...ash is insecticide....ash contains phosphorous, potassium, magnesium, ie, tree food..... plus calcium to counteract acidity in soil due to vog; fungal pathogen can't thrive in alkali... so the tree not only gets medecine, a repellant but also an IV.
Dr Friday failed to connect the dots, even when he was handed the beginning and the end of the equation, but he is in good company because no one else in the scientific community did either.
I believe I was only able to see what I feel is obvious because I spent most days in the forest for two years. It took me a while to see that the trees were communicating with me. Wonderful forest. To paraphrase a great herbalist (de Bairicli Levy/ thanks Erzi!), when speaking about caged animals,
we have been separated from our kinship with nature.
Ask yourself these questions: Do you grow your own food or know anything first hand about soils? Do you butcher your own meat, care or tend for animals other than house cats? Do you possess hand tools that can aid you in chopping wood? Do you even notice trees unless they are having a mass die off? Do you know their planetary function and absolute necessity to human survival? Do you realize how unique and magical the Ohia are here on the on the side of this active volcano? What other tree can grow out of barren lava?
If you answered no to any of these questions it is likely you are separated from your kinship with the nature of this fierce land. Yoga retreats just don't count.
While I am not suggesting we go back to living in caves, it is clear that some of the more vital (natural world) survival skills that we all once shared out of necessity have given way to a culture of dependence. Needing to and knowing how to connect with the earth was systematically erased on the mainland. Native Americans dismissed as savages and butchered, while European female herbalists were burned at the stake for being healers. This is powerful training to indenture ourselves to a system of dependence. Kind of sounds like slavery. Let's hope we don't find the proof of this in food shortages. It is interesting that you equate old ways with poison when modern fertilizers made from the same synthetic nitrates, as mustard gas and resultant overpopulation, are actually poisonous to whole ecologies. "Omnivores Dillemna" by M. Pollan. Read it.
I didn't mean to put down the general scientific community (as arbiters of conventional wisdom) because they seem truly bound to specific rules of methodology and other political vacuums, but it is irresponsible to give carte blanche to synthetics pushers when so much in nature works unrefined. An example, while synthetic fertilizers have allowed for 3 out of 5 people to be alive today (Pollan), planetary functions cannot bear up under the added burden.
Speaking of knowledge, read this blurb on Ambrosia beetles:
http://www.thetreegeek.com/problems/ambrosia-beetle/
