I make it a practice not to touch receipts because I came to understand years ago that they are full of endocrine disrupters which negatively affect our hormonal balance. This, along side nail polish remover and take-out containers and hormonal birth control and personal care items and so much more. It is as if we are living within a toxic soup of poisonous chemicals that are slowly rendering the human race infertile.
Men’s sperm counts are down staggering degrees, testosterone levels of a 25 year old male today is that of a 70 year old male decades ago, young women are increasingly turning to pharmaceutical companies for fertility issues. In vitro fertilization is a huge business, surrogacy is on the rise and artificial wombs are yet to come.
The human race has reached a fascinating and astonishing precipice where we have largely divorced ourselves from our sacred biological capacity, which is integral to our physical, mental, emotional and spiritual well being, and yet speaking this truth has become increasingly controversial.
The other day I was in a grocery store. There was a lovely young woman working at checkout. We had a sweet interchange. She was vital and strong and could not have been more than 20 years old. Her eyes were innocent. She was connected to her joy.
After she bagged my groceries I told her, as always, that I did not want a receipt. She smiled, printed out the poisonous paper, grabbed it, then crumpled it up in both hands as I watched on. In that moment a feeling of sadness and guilt washed over me, and I made a decision.
I said to her - you know, those receipts are very toxic, full of endocrine disrupters that affect one’s health. Perhaps you might want to look into it, they are not a good thing to touch…
And in that moment, her whole countenance shifted to suspicion. Her eyes slanted as she said - oh, right, okay. I’ll think about that, and then turned abruptly away.
And in that small interaction I felt the weight of these last years, and the weight of understanding something that far too many refuse to begin to grapple with and comprehend.
It makes no difference whether one believes it to be intentional, or not, the human race is being gravely poisoned. As the powers that be tell us we are a scourge upon this planet and that we need to limit our procreation, we are being quietly depopulated.
We are loosing our fertility, our virility, our potency, our vital life force. For our ability to procreate is a direct representation of our biological well being. Our children are riddled with autism, autoimmune, and mental health disorders which can all be easily linked back to endocrine and hormonal health. And yet too many refuse to even look at the reality of what is occurring, preferring to continue to live life within a lethal bubble of toxic and putrid chemicals and falsehood, divorcing themselves further and further and further away from natures sacred call, and the reality of the profound wisdom of our biology.
What is it to live within a state of divorce from one’s own sacred nature?
What is it to slowly poison and destroy our physical form, rendering it functionally useless?
What is it to deny our soul force?
What is it to defile the earth?
As I walked away from that young innocent girl, I understood that she thought that I was crazy, just as so many of my former friends in these last years have come to believe.
It doesn’t really matter to me.
It was in that moment that I planted a seed to free her mind, with love, and with attention towards her own unborn children, if that be her future path.
And I prayed that in the months and years to come, when the time was ripe, she might take the path out of the woods and into the clearing before her, to come to understand that things are not as they appear to be, and that it is her glorious birthright to know all of the power of who she is.
May it be so.
Beautiful and true. And good for you for trying.
got me again, sweet sister. the whole thimng is a poem as usual, but for today i will extract this: And yet too many refuse to even look at the reality of what is occurring, preferring to continue to live life within a lethal bubble of toxic and putrid chemicals and falsehood, divorcing themselves further and further and further away from natures sacred call, and the reality of the profound wisdom of our biology.
What is it to live within a state of divorce from one’s own sacred nature?
What is it to slowly poison and destroy our physical form, rendering it functionally useless?
What is it to deny our soul force?
What is it to defile the earth?
A-HO