| Over the last fifty years our kids have been | | | | we can die with dignity with our toys around |
| processed, packaged and raised in closed | | | | us.For the one that is making the decision it |
| environments, in controlled environments that | | | | is usually always about "me," with little |
| are unhealthy.What does this mean for a new | | | | regard for the rest of the family. Seldom do |
| generation of thinkers? The underlying | | | | I hear a partner asking the other if they |
| message that can only be learned from this | | | | want to take the risk of poor health and |
| experience is that the world is not a safe | | | | children are never involved in the |
| place to work or play in. In North America | | | | discussion. It is always a personal decision, |
| nine out of ten breaths taken by anyone of us | | | | assuming that what is good for the one makes |
| or our children will be taken indoors.What is | | | | it is OK for all. The decision not to take |
| called the cocooning effect is a demonstrated | | | | steps is a selfish decision not a selfless |
| tendency to live indoors. Over the last | | | | one.What I most often get is "no one in the |
| twenty or more years "home improvements," | | | | house is sick or has problems yet!" So what |
| have increased dramatically and families are | | | | are they waiting for?When one gets asthma, |
| re-mortgaging their homes to add patios, | | | | bronchitis, emphysema, is that the time to |
| saunas, hot tubs, family theatres and game | | | | take measures. It is the same reasoning that |
| rooms. New emphasis is on keeping the family | | | | smokers have; cancer always happens to the |
| at home and most alarmingly in the house.The | | | | other person, it won't happen to me. |
| most shocking thing to come to light is that | | | | Medication for respiratory problems costs |
| by doing so we are slowly killing ourselves. | | | | thousands of dollars a year to keep up, many |
| Our priorities are distorted and we are | | | | times more than what it would have cost to |
| reacting from fear and ignorance.In our zeal | | | | prevent them. Still it is not a priority for |
| to fill our houses with things, we are | | | | most; it is at the bottom of the list.Most |
| exposing family to a slow death from the home | | | | all of us have missed the connection with the |
| environment and the processing that is going | | | | one symbolic physical action that we do that |
| on in our homes.For instance in an effort to | | | | clearly demonstrates the body's own awareness |
| save a little money on our heating bills we | | | | of its environment.We all have windows that |
| hermetically seal our houses, so that we can | | | | open, WHY?Mental development and spiritual |
| no longer breath in them. The air in our | | | | security are also processed in the home. They |
| homes is 20-70 times more polluted than the | | | | are also part of the Greenhouse process. Our |
| air outside. Because there is very little | | | | awareness of the world community and affairs |
| fresh air coming in, we are slowly | | | | are being brought to us in our packaged |
| suffocating. For every breath that we take, | | | | homes. We are learning about the world while |
| we exhale carbon dioxide and that mixes with | | | | not being in it, but by being separated from |
| the air to degrade it. As part of the human | | | | it. The information that we receive often is |
| function, we all fart (couldn't resist this | | | | distorted or down right lies.We are packaging |
| one), not only ourselves but all the members | | | | the awareness that is brought to our children |
| of the family, including our pets. That is a | | | | in nice little neat bundles of what is good |
| lot of methane pumped into the house each | | | | or bad, right or wrong, or what works or does |
| day, with no escape, and we haven't even | | | | not work. We expect our children to accept |
| talked about chemicals. A typical household | | | | these principles or beliefs without critical |
| in North America will deposit about forty | | | | thinking. We bring the children into our |
| pounds of dead skin in the house every year | | | | lives and then neatly process them into a |
| and that is what we are putting into our | | | | finished product that has no soul, alienated |
| lungs, it is what we breathe.For every one | | | | from spirit, raised on drugs and fortified |
| ounce of dead skin there will be around five | | | | food in a greenhouse that was never meant to |
| or six million dust mites in it, some alive | | | | sustain live or be life affirming. It is the |
| and some dead along with their faeces and the | | | | common thought that everything that is "bad," |
| bacteria produced by them. This situation is | | | | happens out there, or to someone else. It is |
| worse than smoking. A smoker will get several | | | | out there that is bad, and we deny the lie |
| minutes of air between cigarettes into their | | | | that it is in here that is even worse.When it |
| lungs if they are outside. In your home you | | | | doesn't work out, we send them to new |
| take a lung full of stale air every second or | | | | Greenhouses for reprocessing, institutions |
| so, and it is filled with your house's | | | | that are no better than what they just come |
| pollution.Even though you may think your home | | | | out of.Humanity is connected at some level of |
| is clean, it is the things that you cannot | | | | consciousness. Human kind was never meant to |
| see that will cause the most harm. In North | | | | be segregated or isolated from each other. |
| America, respiratory issues are at epidemic | | | | Interaction between humans is essential for |
| levels, especially with children. As a Home | | | | personal growth and that must be close |
| Air Quality Inspector I am faced with these | | | | interaction, hands-on communication, |
| issues every day.There are precious few that | | | | touching, feeling, loving, sharing, crying |
| are willing to spend what it takes to clean | | | | together, praying together, working together, |
| up their homes. Priorities are reversed as | | | | playing together and fighting together.As we |
| the things in the home have greater | | | | process and package our children we alienate |
| precedence than health issues. Good | | | | them from the environment and build new |
| furniture, big screen TV's, computers, nice | | | | cultures and subcultures that can only look |
| cars, expensive clothing, dining out, all | | | | out of the windows at each other and wonder |
| have priority over the very small amount of | | | | who they are.Life itself pondered what it was |
| money needed to insure that the family | | | | until it found a way to experience itself in |
| members will be alive or healthy enough to | | | | the physical realm. Life is a process that |
| enjoy the expensive toys and activities.Those | | | | best works out of the box (Greenhouse). Life |
| that are concerned for their family's health | | | | reasoned that it could experience itself by |
| seldom will spend what it takes to insure | | | | reacting and intereacting to itself in the |
| that good quality air comes into the home. In | | | | physical world, that is why you are |
| my experience they prioritize what they will | | | | here.There is nothing right or wrong about |
| spend on health and it is a very low | | | | the way we live, it simply is a physical |
| priority. Many of the people I deal with will | | | | expression of a thought process. We are not |
| make only small token gestures to have their | | | | victims of our circumstances; we are creating |
| homes upgraded, spending less than twelve or | | | | them, personally and en masse with everyone |
| thirteen percent of what it would take to | | | | else.I am not trying to make any judgements |
| correct the problem. Once again putting money | | | | here; I am observing that this is the way it |
| into this issue is a low priority and is | | | | is in my experience of this world. Humanity |
| often done begrudgingly to appease a guilty | | | | has absolute freedom to create all that it |
| conscience.I believe that more value is | | | | desires and wishes to experience and I |
| placed on the appearance of doing something | | | | cherish that freedom, it is the highest |
| positive rather than on the quality of the | | | | expression of unconditional love.These |
| actual results. In my experience, going | | | | symbols mean different things to many people, |
| low-cost, makes things worst when it comes to | | | | and we will not agree on them, that is also |
| cleaning up the environment. There is no | | | | free choice. When we finally reach the |
| partial way of cleaning a ducting system, it | | | | awareness that what we are doing is no longer |
| must all be cleaned, as once you disturb the | | | | working for us, we must know that we created |
| dust it makes things worse. There is a | | | | it all and that we have the sole and absolute |
| plethora of businesses out there that are | | | | power to change it. Help is not out there |
| willing to do half a job and take advantage | | | | somewhere. The power is within us, |
| of one's ignorance, and there are even more | | | | individually to change. When we feel the |
| people willing to pay for it, because it fits | | | | connection to others we will change together |
| into the cost they have prioritized for | | | | with them for the benefit of all.There is a |
| health issues. I can only smile at their | | | | conclusion to raising Greenhouse kids, when |
| decisions; I think free choice is wonderful. | | | | we reach that awareness things will change |
| It clearly demonstrates physically a thought | | | | once again as part of a collective |
| process that is born of ignorance about who | | | | consciousness.Roy E. Klienwachter is a |
| and what we are, and what value we place on | | | | resident of British Columbia, Canada. A |
| our lives.Radiant heated homes have no air | | | | student of NLP, an ordained minister, New Age |
| circulation and rooms get very stale. All | | | | Light Worker and Teacher. Roy has written and |
| homes must be vented, old air must be removed | | | | published seven ebooks on New Age wisdom and |
| and new air brought it.These are major health | | | | a new book coming out in late 2005 in paper |
| issues that are for the most part ignored. In | | | | form. Roy's books are thought provoking and |
| my experience it seems that the ones the can | | | | designed to empower you to take |
| afford to pay for good health measures are | | | | responsibility for your life and what you |
| the ones that put it at a very low priority, | | | | create. His books and articles are written in |
| preferring to take care of poor health after | | | | the simplicity and eloquence of Zen |
| it has happened. Houses can be mortgaged, | | | | wisdom.You may not always agree with what he |
| cars are bought on time, and furniture is | | | | has to say. You will always come away with a |
| paid for on credit cards. Stature and | | | | new perspective and your thinking will never |
| cosmetics take precedence over good health | | | | be the same.Roy's style is honest and comes |
| that would keep one in a position to enjoy | | | | straight from the heart without all the |
| them longer.It would seem that status symbols | | | | metaphorical mumble jumble and BS. |
| over good health are very important so that | | | | |