Living in the wisdom of nomadic culture, Aboriginal Australians live in harmony with plants and animals in the barren geography of the desert where they still live. They have an extraordinary relationship with nature. According to them, everything in the universe has a reason for existence and a purpose. Nothing is random, meaningless or wrong. There are only misunderstandings and secrets that have not been revealed to mortal man.

The tribe of these real people never goes without food. They send mental messages to the universe and wait calmly. Never do their messages go unanswered. They believe that the world is fertile and abundant, even in the deepest deserts of Australia. There will always be a being who will offer himself to them as food and they know it. They know that it comes for them, that it offers itself to them. It could be a reptile, an insect, a plant that grows above or below ground, an animal that flies or jumps. They ask for food, wait for it to appear, and when it does, they are sincerely grateful and thankful and sincerely honor it for offering itself as food. Sometimes they would make special requests, but they would always end with the wish "for the good of all life forms in the universe".

In "A Pair of Hearts", Marlo Morgan describes her time with them in detail and lets us get to know them and their lives and their great wisdom. Without taking the plants above ground, they could tell whether they were raw or mature by the vibration of their hands on the plant. They knew that it had not yet grown and would continue to grow, or that it was ready to give life for them. They asked the plants if they were ready to honor their reason for being. Taking permission from the universe, they would run the palm of their hand over the plant, and on a mature plant, the palm would become warm or the fingertips numb. The entire plant bed was not uprooted, but left in the soil to reproduce and survive. They were attuned to the song and silence of the soil and the messages that came from it. Every meal was preceded by the same universal celebration of thanksgiving and gratitude.

Even in this desert environment, where water was most precious, they would leave their scent in the water they found by listening in rock crevices or under the ground, trying not to frighten the animals. And they never took all the water, it also belonged to the animals and they needed it to live. Because the animals did the same thing. They could quench their thirst with a sip of water. All forms of life were in unity and beauty here.

Nothing was wasted. Everything was recycled in nature and returned to the earth. They lived without leaving a single piece of garbage behind. They were in an order established to integrate with the universe and make full use of it, but never disturb it.

Like the Aborigines, the hunter-gatherer societies that emerged 40,000 years ago had a relationship with the natural environment based on the principle of reciprocity. There was not a hegemonic relationship between the natural environment and society, but a relationship of mutual equality. They lived by consuming the food they found readily available in the environment. They ate the edible parts of the plants they gathered and the animals they hunted, dried or prepared the parts they would use for illness and healing, gave some to their animals, meticulously prepared the parts to be used for heating or other purposes, and returned the rest back to nature. It was buried in the ground, leaving no trace, no waste.

In the agrarian societies that emerged 10,000 years ago, the relationship based on reciprocity with the natural environment disappeared and human beings began to intervene in, change and exploit the natural environment.

Nowadays, instead of living the universal truth, we have buried the universal law in the deepest depths of comfort, materialism and insecurity, waiting for the destruction of the world.

Mukaddes Pekin Başdil

Researcher-Author

Source: Denizli Haber