When Will The Herd Be Disturbed?
Musings on Biomimicry and Our Future
by Brian D. Jones
We see it all around us. We see it within the atomic structure and the design of our solar system. We see it in our history books, our microscopes. Some say we see it when we pass from this living plane. They say the next plane is similar to this one. It is biomimicry, nature’s grand evolutionary design where specific design, form, and function, time-tested through millennia, is duplicated throughout nature’s micro and macro living realms. Governed by specific natural laws that ensure its evolution and further refine its development as time unfolds, nature’s designs are seen over and over again in all of Earth’s systems.
We experience these designs in something as simple as a gaze into the air with the curiosity and wonder of why and how does a bird fly—leading to the grand machines we glide in from coast to coast. It makes sense. We reason, it looks like it can do what we believe it can do, and the mimicry continues with each generation, adding improvements and following the grand design. Industry grasped this natural imagining concept long ago and fabricated functional, useful designs in which our species lives, works, and travels.
Nature duplicates this biomimicry design down to the most minute level—that of bacteria, viral and fungi, families of each forming colonies that offer so much good and can offer such distress, all part of the balance that must be maintained in order to flourish. They live in something called biofilm, and conforming to the millennia-tested form and function, much of the biofilm looks just like a bird’s nest. It protects them, offering a home to permit them to do what they need to do, whether it is disease-causing crusades like Lyme disease or other more protective ventures, like probiotics in our gut as the first line of our defense against disease.
These designs are working and have been working through the ages. They are governed by specific laws that, when broken, cause specific changes to be set in motion that are sometimes not able to be corrected because they became too far out of balance. The design is further governed by natural laws of evolution in that, if these designs are flawed, continually flawed, as in genetic damage that is altered by carcinogens or other simple, continually flawed food intake, the cellular design is programmed to destroy itself, thereby preserving the larger design. In the case of a cancer cell that is replicated, our cellular laws can call for its destruction should it threaten the host (us).
Are we are seeing this process occur presently within our human species and the relationship we have with the larger design—Earth? When continually flawed through all that we can plainly see that flaws this design—toxins, chemicals, hatred, flawed thinking—nature will program its death. In health realms, the cell undergoes cellular death, apoptosis, the genetic limitation of the lifespan of cells. Is the human species inhabiting Earth similar to the cells inhabiting our body? Have we become flawed? Will we continue to replicate this design, much like cancer and the spreading cells that, governed by programmed death so as not to threaten the larger design, can simply experience programmed death and necrotize—cease to exist?
Perhaps we believe that we are in control of this process. But when will the herd be disturbed? What critical mass will dictate a larger, more massive human drive to act in order to correct this? Earth has shaken us, flooded us, and like a silent, grazing herd of buffalo on the Great Plains awaiting the approaching storm, some lightning bolt will disturb our herd. It is coming soon, very soon. It must come, or the form in which we are now may change significantly, by design.
How might we be able to heal these wounds, correct these flaws, conquer cancer, and prevent a possible exclusion of our species in the grand design? Is the task too large, the wounds too deep, the cancer too complex to begin to sort this out? As a health practitioner charged with sorting out seemingly complex health issues, a prerequisite to true healing involves the empowerment and knowledge of those being healed. Do we believe that we hold no ownership on development of healing answers, that someone else is to do the job? Are we on our own self-centered human odyssey where we can simply go it alone, not needing others? Our human species has encountered this before, and the events and history are embedded at our cellular level. Our world knows how to do this, our body and mind knows how to do this, we already know how to do this. We have recovered from dire events. We know how to heal; we remember it. We can let it happen. Let our body and mind heal in the manner in which it knows how. Let the Earth heal in the manner in which it knows how.
You see, our behavior and our health are familiar with patterns. And like our morning cup of coffee, our mind is familiar with patterns. We keep old, negative patterns by practicing old, negative patterns. They are patterns that we are used to, patterns of how we take care of the Earth and ourselves. We rebuild new Earth restoration patterns by practicing new Earth patterns. The positive, beautiful, natural state of grace that is us and the Earth is its natural state of grace. Can we simply assist it in doing what is has known how to do for millennia?
As a health practitioner and soil, rebuilder, one is able to simply give the body, give the soil what it needs to do, what it already knows how to do. It knows the behavior patterns. Can we begin to build the behavior, health, and Earth restoration patterns and watch them grow so that major change takes places as more and more thought, intention, and emotion build behind the efforts, until, just like the Berlin Wall could truly no longer stand, what we do to each other, what we do to the Earth, can no longer stand? Science knows this phenomenon as morphic resonance, which is when there is a greater degree of similarity between objects, the greater the resonance, which leads to a persistence of particular form and function being repeated.
Can this phenomenon be repeated with other behavior and other living systems? Science says it can. Can this be the form and fashion in which we can be healed? Is this how biomimicry is applied to heal ourselves and the Earth? Perhaps it could be as simple as a smile to another person, a smile in our mirror, holding the door for another, a phone call to a friend to ask for forgiveness or to give it, giving a random gift, giving a seat to another, sending light to a wheelchair victim or an accident victim. The wall will come down. It is the way it is supposed to be. We deserve it—now.
Are we now being presented with the presence of models of how to do this, due to our thoughts that the need is now? Is there a mental shift, a thought shift that actually creates the reality of the models’ presence as more and more of us establish that the need exists?
Similar to the increasing wind speed and energy near the eye of a hurricane, our human species presses closer to one another as we move closer to the vortex of change itself. Is it the vortex gateway that we must pass through in order to experience the calm? Does this calm become our reality once we recognize that we have more in common than we have differences, and, like the calm in the eye of the hurricane, we must pass through the turmoil of the eyewall prior to our own calm? Again, biomimicry in action—does the healing of our species and the Earth mimic the method of healing our very being at the cellular level, from the inside out?
The fusion of science and medicine is now occurring as we see this mimicry unfold. We now know that disease and sickness begin with negative shifts in emotional thought followed by shifts in energy, often a lower vibrational energy at the cellular level, followed by actual physical shifts in well-being. We see this when we become ill. We are tired at first, and then our emotional self takes over and thoughts of self-care become evident, often followed by full physical symptoms for which we seek professional care. Like the cells within our body that become ill, can our entire human species become sickened through shifts in thought, followed by shifts in energy as millions adopt the same shifts in thought, followed by actual physical changes that further degrade the host (Earth)? Morphic resonance says it can. Is that what we are experiencing now as Earth’s movements—its physical symptoms—are awakened?
Through the knowledge of biomimicry, might we see a model for healing? In my practice, I have not seen true physical healing regained without mental and emotional shifts first. It is as if the body will not permit true health and healing without first dealing with the negative thoughts, beliefs, and actions that created the negative energy shifts of cellular disease. Positive healing words and energies have been seen to shift beings to a healing mode. It has always been a precursor to physical healing. Is the answer to Earth’s healing, our species healing, right in front of us?
Science supports this healing. Spontaneous healings have taken place in hospital corridors throughout the world through positive affirmations and prayer. The first two weeks are difficult as we make a loving gesture, a kind gesture, a smile where once a harsh word or frown occurred—mental and physical patterns not wanting to change. However, something happens after two weeks that makes it easier. We realize that our gestures toward another are really happening to our being. It is happening at the cellular level. Like the feeling we get when we give a gift, not just when we receive. These shifts can and will heal us. We use this healing mode every day with various approaches in our holistic health practice.
So has the herd been disturbed, and is it moving, sparked by the lightning bolt of healing need and hope from the masses who simply wish for this to occur? The herd is recognizing what it has known all along. We are shifting, and the Earth and our species shall never be the same.Brian D. Jones is a traditional naturopath in Santa Barbara, CA. He works at restoring Earth balance with a company directing natural, organic soil systems as well as using organic and natural means to restore human health balance involving common and chronic conditions. He is a naturalist, surfer, writer, TV fitness expert, and public speaker. He can be reached at 610.587.4198, brianjones@theshineonhealth.com, or www.theshineonhealth.com.
