ALUNA TEMPLE MAGAZINE EDITION No5 'ALCHEMY' | Page 72

4: BE KIND TO EACH OTHER: The true purpose of our group evolution as human beings is the Ascension of the Whole Planet! This means that all competition is irrational since we are not going anywhere until everyone is ready. It’s not a race to the finish line for the smartest or the biggest bully but rather more of an organic process, where we all help each other up! So you see how far we are from the mainstream ideal of success in the material world! There is evidence of great evolution however. Human beings as a planetary culture have been pretty much grouped together and described en mass. I believe it was only recently in one of Thomas Hardy’s novels, written in the late 19th century, where an individual soldier of no rank was given a personal name in literature for the first time. Prior to this moment the cannon fodder of the age had no consequence. The Individual is the first step. 5. WHAT YOU EAT AND DRINK BECOMES YOU I have a broad view of alchemy. I believe the kitchen is today’s alchemic wonderland. Cooking wonderful food from exotic and local ingredients is a deep kind of alchemy using the stomach as the cauldron and activating the brain in new ways: remembering the first of our brains is indeed located in our ‘guts’. 72