The
Ringing Cedars: Reconnecting to Nature through
Spiritual Permaculture
Leonid Sharashkin, M.S.E.S., A.B.D.
PRESENTATION ABSTRACT
Both ancient teachings and the present-day science see close interaction with plants as a prerequisite for bodily health and spiritual well-being. However, the practical understanding of the ways to establish a flow of nourishment between humans and the plant world and the underlying physical and metaphysical mechanisms have been all but forgotten. This knowledge has recently been rediscovered and publicised by Vladimir Megre in his Ringing Cedars Series of books, which have already sparked a massive back-to-the-Earth movement in Russia and beyond.
The presentation will have a PRACTICAL focus: what are the everyday practical ways to establish & maintain our connection to Nature, for mutual benefit? Drawing on The Ringing Cedars books and many other sources, we will discuss
- how human mind & body influence plant growth,
- how plants influence our mind and body,
- how to give plants the information they need to grow food custom-made to suit the needs of your body and spirit, and;
- how the world can feed itself without any government subsidies, oil-dependent heavy machinery, pesticides or genetically modified plants.
BIOGRAPHY
Leonid
Sharashkin is writing his doctoral dissertation on the spiritual, cultural
and economic significance of the Russian permaculture gardening movement, at the
University of Missouri at Columbia. He is also editor of the Ringing Cedars Series
by contemporary Russian author Vladimir Megre -- influential books on humanity's
spiritual connection to Nature and practical ways to re-establish this connectedness
through gardening. Leonid travels internationally, speaking on the practice of
spiritual permaculture as well as The Ringing Cedars books' global impact. After
receiving a Master's degree in Natural Resources Management from Indiana University
at Bloomington, he worked for two years as Program Manager at the World Wildlife
Fund (WWF Russia) in Moscow, where he also served as editor of Russia's largest
environmental magazine, The Panda Times. Together with his wife, Irina Sharashkina,
he has translated into Russian "Small is beautiful" and "A guide
for the perplexed" by E.F. Schumacher, "The secret life of plants"
by Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird, "The continuum concept" by Jean
Liedloff and "Birth without violence" by Frederick Leboyer. Leonid and
his family now live in an eco-village in Central Russia.
Ringing Cedars website: www.RingingCedars.com
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