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Note that the following is based predominantly on my non-Indigenous knowledge and experience: this is NOT in any way intended to portray or be instructive of or speak on behalf of First Peoples practices or knowledge, although I have learned a little of that, including from my (First Peoples - Wiradjuri and Widjabul-Wiabol) birth family (I am a member of the Lost Generations - children who were adopted BEFORE they could know anything about their culture [and many have died without ever knowing of their First Peoples heritage], whereas the Stolen Generations were older, and had that initial contact until they were stolen).
When Country (in the First Peoples sense) is sick, the people, animals, and plants there will also likely be sick. When this land (Bandaiyan, also known as Australia) was occupied only by First Peoples, ceremonies (and other practices such as cultural burning) would be done to heal and tend for the land, and that would continue until land and the life on it was healed, healthy, and in balance - and continue after to keep it that way.
Since 1788, the situation has changed, and there are places where Country has been bulldozed and changed so much it is difficult to see how it can be healed - especially given the high concentration of people in those places, also known as cities, with many of those people suffering the additional ills that comes from the greed and selfishness of capitalism, producerism/“protestant work ethic”, and more recent illnesses such as neoliberalism.
People influence their environment by - in the words of this blog - psychic means. So, if the people are unbalanced (“ill”, in a sense - or nonBPM rather than BPM, in the words of this blog), their influence will tend to harm whatever land they are on - especially given the lack of knowledge of basic skills such as psychic protection (which is why I have used the term "four million leaky auras" to refer to the city [Naarm, also known as Melbourne] that I live in [although it is now five million]).
But that also goes the other way.
If the people in a city are “healthy”, or, in the words of this blog, BPM, they will radiate a steadying, balancing and healing influence to the Country that has been chopped and hacked to enable the building of the city, and that will, to some extent, offset the harm done that is making the Country under the city ill.
In addition, when the people in the city are “healthy”/BPM, they are more likely to initiate and/or support healing actions such as open green space (parks and public gardens) and trees and innovations such as vertical gardens (all of which MUST be cared for! ... to prevent fire risks as well as for maintaining health and healing) that will also help to heal country.
So ... to answer the question in the title of this post:
How does one heal Country in cities?
By healing - in as many senses of the word as possible - the people there
Ultimately, that will also likely open the doors to allowing the First Peoples of those lands to do what else is needed to heal that Country ...
Possible flaws
Where I can, I will try to highlight possible flaws / issues you should consider:
- there may be flawed logical arguments in the above: to find out more about such flaws and thinking generally, I recommend Brendan Myers’ free online course “Clear and Present Thinking”;
- I could be wrong - so keep your thinking caps on, and make up your own minds for yourself.
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