Welcome to the Earth Interbeing Food Commons Workbook
The direction of the current global corporate food system causes the need for this workbook, written for people wanting to both transform our food system and to overcome the great harms the global corporate food system inflicts on people, other life, and the Earth. We need a food system that meets the needs of the hungry, protects the right to grow food, preserves cultural diversity, and restores our wholeness with the Earth and all life. Throughout this workbook, we will highlight the deep changes needed in our Western beliefs and views for a commoned food system to emerge, a transformation already in process.
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Author Archives: Louise Gorenflo
Bessie the Cow on Place
I’m back, Bessie the cow, the Earth Interbeing’s messenger. This time I get to tell you about place. Here we enter a way of living most of you will have a difficult time getting your head around. Way back in … Continue reading
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Hexagram 37 Way of Earth Interbeing
The way of Earth Interbeing. Benefit from obeying and yielding to the spirit. The I Ching has a deep history. Its roots go deep into the oracle bone divination of the Chinese Bronze Age, and its philosophical commentaries dating … Continue reading
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Stopping What Harms
To free ourselves of complicity with the Imperium, we must stop living the ways of a colonizer. The spiritual path to healing ourselves of complicity and turning toward caring for the Earth and all life begins with the moral discipline … Continue reading
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Welcome back to the Interbeing
by Bessie the Cow Hi! Welcome back to the Interbeing. As I said earlier, I have the job to reacquaint you with the sacred Interbeing. Yet before I do that, we would best start with an understanding of what I … Continue reading
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I Ching Reading – Hexagram 47
Keeping a Glad Mind Oppressive situation. Blessings. Proving the sage. Be trustworthy Words untrustworthy. The I Ching has a deep history. Its roots lie reach down into the oracle bone divination of the Chinese Bronze Age, and its philosophical commentaries … Continue reading
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Welcome to the Imperium’s 21st Century
It began with perceiving our differences as special, a delusion that ultimately festered into the disease of exceptionalism. We came to believe that the Earth and all life have the sole purpose to meet our demands of them and that … Continue reading
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Welcome to the Interbeing
by Bessie the Cow The Interbeing chose me to speak to you because I know people-talk and people like cows. I rolled my eyes and said, “Yeah, they like us so much they eat us.” But they insisted and wore … Continue reading
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Food Sovereignty Pillar One
The corporate food regime’s status quo offers a food system that harms people, cultures, other life forms, and the Earth. According to most researchers and the actual experience of affected people, meeting the challenges of world hunger depends upon increasing … Continue reading
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The Great Absence
Ann Arbor is set to celebrate its 200th Anniversary Celebration in 2024. In preparation for that, we did some limited research and came up with a timeline of the history of indigenous people living in southeast Michigan from the … Continue reading
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Doctrine of Christian Discovery
The Doctrines of Christian Discovery originate with 15th century Papal Bulls that were issued by the Vatican and implemented by Monarchies, sanctioning the brutal Conquest and Colonization of non-Christians who were deemed “enemies of Christ” in Africa and the Americas. … Continue reading
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