I’m just landing now from a fourteen day dieta working with master plants from the Amazon. ⠀
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One meal a day of a little rice and beans and a few glasses of water. Dry fasting (no food, no water) for twenty two hours a day. Sometimes no tasting or touching water up to forty eight hours. All you do is concentrate. ⠀
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We give the plants our hunger and thirst because it is the only currency they accept, my maestro says. No materials will do. Attention is the currency of creation, and it’s in giving it everything - concentrating on being as still as possible and letting everything else fall away - that we receive information from the plants. It’s the art of reconstitution. When you drink water for the first time in three days you feel it it in every cell. You feel life and color in every cell. ⠀
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Fasting helps us remember just how interconnected we are. The sun is our heart in the sky, pumping life into us. We derive our life force from the plants who, over the course of millions of years, have evolved to elegantly translate the sun into nutrients. How wonderful! And to think that we are the most intelligent... ⠀
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We are always human, you know, but we’re so busy most of the time. I’ve never felt more human than I do now. What does that mean? The word human finds its origins from the Latin humus, meaning earth. These traditions, practices and plants teach me just that - that I’m of the Earth, a member in an ever-evolving family of things. Suddenly I don’t feel so strange on this planet. It brings me home.
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