Of NDE's, Homesteading and Technology

I'm finishing a book called Proof of Heaven by Eben Alexander, M.D. He's a neurosurgeon who had a near death experience and has written about it in this book. It's an interesting read as it talks a great deal about science and how he relates that to his experience. The part that interested me more than the actual NDE he experienced as how he resolves his experience with quantum physics and other sciences.

He talks about how as a Western society we have become so enamored with technology and science that we have gotten further and further from the true nature of our existence, our human spirit.

"The shadow side of high technology--modern warfare and thoughtless homicide and suicide, urban blight, ecological mayhem, cataclysmic climate change, polarization of economic resources-- is bad enough. Much worse, our focus on exponential progress in science and technology has left many of us relatively bereft in the realm of meaning and joy, and of knowing how our lives fit into the grand scheme of existence for all eternity." (Alexander, pg. 152)

Personally, I think this is the reason so many of us are turning to homesteading. This is the reason so many of us are interested in getting back to our roots as a species. Learning how to do crafts and trades that have almost disappeared from our culture. Did you know there's a big resurgence of apprenticing in skills like blacksmithing? It's making a comeback. Many people want to feel connected in a non-cyber way. They want to feel a connection to the earth, to actual subsistence other than working hard at a job they hate so they can buy food from a store that trucks it in from thousands of miles away.

Think of all the things that are becoming vogue again: gardening your own food, raising chickens in both rural AND urban settings, homesteading small farms, starting small business of handmade and not mass produced products, learning trades like blacksmithing.

We are truly all connected. The basic tenants of quantum physics show us this. We are connected to everything and everyone. There is no separation of objects, it's just how we perceive the world to be. The homesteading movement and others with similar ideals give me hope that we will not become a species that is completely controlled by the technology we've built.