Thank you so much for the urine therapy information, TheseEyesGod . I feel that this is definitely something I need to check out. Perhaps the universe and the planet conspired to get me to look into it through your words. Thanks.
When I first moved to the town I currently live in I was warned not to ever drink the tap water. All I had to do was put a glass under the faucet and fill it with water. I didn’t need to be warned. The water is opaque. You can’t see through it. It is cloudy and you can see little particles of something floating around in it. And furthermore it has a foul odor. I tasted it once and had to immediately spit it out. It was disgusting.
After doing some research I learned that the water here is very polluted, mostly with agricultural chemicals. It has very high glyphosate levels as well as other toxic chemicals. Then there are all the chemicals the city adds to the water like fluoride.
So I have been purchasing distilled water and drinking that instead for the last 8 years. I drink between three-fourths of a gallon and a full gallon of distilled water a day. The first two glasses of water in the morning I add drops of lemon juice from a real lemon. The rest of the day I drink plain distilled water. (It’s possible to over-alkalize, especially in regard to the gastrointestinal system.) I also only use distilled water in cooking.
I once tried to calculate how much money I spend on distilled water and was shocked. But I will have it no other way.
Back when I was a kid growing up my mother had a plethora of rules she expected us kids to live by. Sadly, one of those rules was that we must never, ever, ever, ever go outside without shoes on.
Once, I was playing badminton with one of my younger sisters and I was doing so with bare feet on the grass in the backyard. My mother caught me and grounded me for two weeks. And I was prohibited from playing badminton for a month. I didn’t really care about the later punishment but I questioned why I was being punished.
Many years later when I was studying Lakota spirituality and doing 2 to 4 sweat-lodges a month I learned that the native people considered the ground around sweat-lodges to be sacred and that no moccasins or shoes of any kind were allowed near a sweat-lodge. Whether it was winter or summer, no shoes were allowed! To fully connect with the mother planet there could not be anything separating our feet from ‘HER skin.’
When my daughter was old enough to go outside and run and play out there her very first inclination was to go out there barefoot. Unlike my own mother, I strongly encouraged this. And I got barefoot to play with her. Now she is in her mid-thirties and if she had her way she would go barefoot 24 hours a day. She hates wearing shoes. (Sadly, she currently has a job where she works 50 hours a week at which she would be fired from if she went barefoot.)
And now my daughter has two daughters of her own. One day last fall when I was over at their house playing with them I said, “Hey, let’s go outside to play.”
The reactions from my granddaughters was enthusiastic but the response from them was diametrically opposed. My oldest granddaughter immediately put on socks and shoes. My youngest granddaughter immediately took off any socks or shoes she may have had on.
I took the lead from my youngest granddaughter and took off my shoes and socks.
My oldest granddaughter said, “Ew! Grandpa, aren’t you afraid you’ll step in some dog poo?”
“If I step in some dog poo I’ll just wipe it off on the grass and keep playing.”
“Grandpa, that’s so gross!”
My youngest granddaughter didn’t care about dog poo or thorns or anything. All she was interested in was playing. She has been quickly becoming one of my greatest teachers. She is still intimately connected to the planet she is part of and I hope she always will be.
