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Greenhouse Kids

Over the last fifty years our kids have beenwe can die with dignity with our toys around
processed, packaged and raised in closedus.For the one that is making the decision it
environments, in controlled environments thatis usually always about "me," with little
are unhealthy.What does this mean for a newregard for the rest of the family. Seldom do
generation of thinkers? The underlyingI hear a partner asking the other if they
message that can only be learned from thiswant to take the risk of poor health and
experience is that the world is not a safechildren are never involved in the
place to work or play in. In North Americadiscussion. It is always a personal decision,
nine out of ten breaths taken by anyone of usassuming that what is good for the one makes
or our children will be taken indoors.What isit is OK for all. The decision not to take
called the cocooning effect is a demonstratedsteps is a selfish decision not a selfless
tendency to live indoors. Over the lastone.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 areare 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 gametake measures. It is the same reasoning that
rooms. New emphasis is on keeping the familysmokers have; cancer always happens to the
at home and most alarmingly in the house.Theother person, it won't happen to me.
most shocking thing to come to light is thatMedication 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 aretimes more than what it would have cost to
reacting from fear and ignorance.In our zealprevent them. Still it is not a priority for
to fill our houses with things, we aremost; it is at the bottom of the list.Most
exposing family to a slow death from the homeall of us have missed the connection with the
environment and the processing that is goingone symbolic physical action that we do that
on in our homes.For instance in an effort toclearly demonstrates the body's own awareness
save a little money on our heating bills weof its environment.We all have windows that
hermetically seal our houses, so that we canopen, WHY?Mental development and spiritual
no longer breath in them. The air in oursecurity are also processed in the home. They
homes is 20-70 times more polluted than theare also part of the Greenhouse process. Our
air outside. Because there is very littleawareness of the world community and affairs
fresh air coming in, we are slowlyare 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 withnot being in it, but by being separated from
the air to degrade it. As part of the humanit. The information that we receive often is
function, we all fart (couldn't resist thisdistorted or down right lies.We are packaging
one), not only ourselves but all the membersthe awareness that is brought to our children
of the family, including our pets. That is ain nice little neat bundles of what is good
lot of methane pumped into the house eachor bad, right or wrong, or what works or does
day, with no escape, and we haven't evennot work. We expect our children to accept
talked about chemicals. A typical householdthese principles or beliefs without critical
in North America will deposit about fortythinking. We bring the children into our
pounds of dead skin in the house every yearlives and then neatly process them into a
and that is what we are putting into ourfinished product that has no soul, alienated
lungs, it is what we breathe.For every onefrom spirit, raised on drugs and fortified
ounce of dead skin there will be around fivefood in a greenhouse that was never meant to
or six million dust mites in it, some alivesustain live or be life affirming. It is the
and some dead along with their faeces and thecommon thought that everything that is "bad,"
bacteria produced by them. This situation ishappens out there, or to someone else. It is
worse than smoking. A smoker will get severalout there that is bad, and we deny the lie
minutes of air between cigarettes into theirthat it is in here that is even worse.When it
lungs if they are outside. In your home youdoesn't work out, we send them to new
take a lung full of stale air every second orGreenhouses for reprocessing, institutions
so, and it is filled with your house'sthat are no better than what they just come
pollution.Even though you may think your homeout of.Humanity is connected at some level of
is clean, it is the things that you cannotconsciousness. Human kind was never meant to
see that will cause the most harm. In Northbe segregated or isolated from each other.
America, respiratory issues are at epidemicInteraction between humans is essential for
levels, especially with children. As a Homepersonal growth and that must be close
Air Quality Inspector I am faced with theseinteraction, hands-on communication,
issues every day.There are precious few thattouching, feeling, loving, sharing, crying
are willing to spend what it takes to cleantogether, praying together, working together,
up their homes. Priorities are reversed asplaying together and fighting together.As we
the things in the home have greaterprocess and package our children we alienate
precedence than health issues. Goodthem from the environment and build new
furniture, big screen TV's, computers, nicecultures and subcultures that can only look
cars, expensive clothing, dining out, allout of the windows at each other and wonder
have priority over the very small amount ofwho they are.Life itself pondered what it was
money needed to insure that the familyuntil it found a way to experience itself in
members will be alive or healthy enough tothe physical realm. Life is a process that
enjoy the expensive toys and activities.Thosebest works out of the box (Greenhouse). Life
that are concerned for their family's healthreasoned that it could experience itself by
seldom will spend what it takes to insurereacting and intereacting to itself in the
that good quality air comes into the home. Inphysical world, that is why you are
my experience they prioritize what they willhere.There is nothing right or wrong about
spend on health and it is a very lowthe way we live, it simply is a physical
priority. Many of the people I deal with willexpression of a thought process. We are not
make only small token gestures to have theirvictims of our circumstances; we are creating
homes upgraded, spending less than twelve orthem, personally and en masse with everyone
thirteen percent of what it would take toelse.I am not trying to make any judgements
correct the problem. Once again putting moneyhere; I am observing that this is the way it
into this issue is a low priority and isis in my experience of this world. Humanity
often done begrudgingly to appease a guiltyhas absolute freedom to create all that it
conscience.I believe that more value isdesires and wishes to experience and I
placed on the appearance of doing somethingcherish that freedom, it is the highest
positive rather than on the quality of theexpression of unconditional love.These
actual results. In my experience, goingsymbols mean different things to many people,
low-cost, makes things worst when it comes toand we will not agree on them, that is also
cleaning up the environment. There is nofree choice. When we finally reach the
partial way of cleaning a ducting system, itawareness that what we are doing is no longer
must all be cleaned, as once you disturb theworking for us, we must know that we created
dust it makes things worse. There is ait all and that we have the sole and absolute
plethora of businesses out there that arepower to change it. Help is not out there
willing to do half a job and take advantagesomewhere. The power is within us,
of one's ignorance, and there are even moreindividually to change. When we feel the
people willing to pay for it, because it fitsconnection to others we will change together
into the cost they have prioritized forwith them for the benefit of all.There is a
health issues. I can only smile at theirconclusion to raising Greenhouse kids, when
decisions; I think free choice is wonderful.we reach that awareness things will change
It clearly demonstrates physically a thoughtonce again as part of a collective
process that is born of ignorance about whoconsciousness.Roy E. Klienwachter is a
and what we are, and what value we place onresident of British Columbia, Canada. A
our lives.Radiant heated homes have no airstudent of NLP, an ordained minister, New Age
circulation and rooms get very stale. AllLight Worker and Teacher. Roy has written and
homes must be vented, old air must be removedpublished seven ebooks on New Age wisdom and
and new air brought it.These are major healtha new book coming out in late 2005 in paper
issues that are for the most part ignored. Inform. Roy's books are thought provoking and
my experience it seems that the ones the candesigned to empower you to take
afford to pay for good health measures areresponsibility 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 afterthe 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 ishas to say. You will always come away with a
paid for on credit cards. Stature andnew perspective and your thinking will never
cosmetics take precedence over good healthbe the same.Roy's style is honest and comes
that would keep one in a position to enjoystraight from the heart without all the
them longer.It would seem that status symbolsmetaphorical mumble jumble and BS.
over good health are very important so that



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