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Irene’s Love the Earth Hike
And what it turned into
Irene and her friends had been celebrating Earth Day together for eight years. Each year a new friend was recruited. Now there were fifteen people going on Irene’s ‘Love the Earth Hike.’
At first the hike was mostly about picking up trash. Equipped with garbage bags and sticks with nails on one end, they went to local state parks and other recreation areas and picked up trash until everyone’s bags were full. Trash is usually quite plentiful in these areas.
But then Irene read, The Hidden Messages in Water, by Masaru Emoto. The book provided scientific evidence of how water responds to both positive and negative vibrations projected by humans onto the water. Irene figured that if water responds to human vibration so must everything else; rocks, soil, trees, birds, grass. She figured that Mother Earth must respond thusly.
So the annual Love the Earth Hikes became about more than just picking up trash. All the members of the group still brought their trash bags and pointy sticks but after the picking up of trash was over they gathered together overlooking some beautiful vista and they would empty their minds of thoughts and together project as much love and joy as they could out into nature. Surely Mother Earth would feel that cumulative love and respond.
