When we are thirsty, we drink from one another.
(Zulu Folklore)

The World Trade Organization said that the twentieth century was known for its wars for oil, but that the twenty-first century will see wars of water.

We are committing suicide by destroying the earth. Industrial commercial civilisation steers into an ecological cul de sac. Pollution is a costly by-product of our generally excessive material aspirations. We have sacrificed forests, lost clean water, dug up, divided and sold the earth itself…

…not to mention the white noise that will haunt us if we lose our sense of spirit and vitality.

Water, our life force, is at stake.

Water is that communal thread that runs through all of us…the thread that keeps it all together.

As foetuses we are 99% water and gradually decline in liquidity to about 50% when we die. So for most of our lives humans, physically are water.

‘No two snow crystals are exactly the same’ – a simple fact you learn in high school physics. What you don’t learn is:

When water is frozen, and the crystals are analyzed, they differ in shape and pattern. When water is exposed to different elements such as love, scolding, music or television, the water crystals form differently. When exposed to a positive element, the crystals take shape in clear and balanced structures, while those exposed to negative elements seldom form crystals. Water, therefore has the ability to copy and memorize information.

Water could be the most underestimated recording system of our planet.

It records and distributes information that it’s exposed to. Our individual eco-systems, that we call our bodies require healthy water.

The manner in which we conduct ourselves has a massive impact on the greater natural, cultural and social ecologies. Similarly, the more we are exposed to positive aspects, the more we will ‘crystallize’.

Stagnant water decays. River water stays pure because of its constant movement. This analogy can be applied to the body. When water – or blood – stops circulating, the organs stop functioning.
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Water is the fuel that drives the earth’s life. Water transports oxygen, nutrients and energy throughout every facet of the biosphere – so simple; its power often overlooked. No surprise, that water has lost the mystical reputation it once had for our ancestors.

Similarly the basics of life have become passé. The denial of people’s basic rights and needs in a capitalist world has turned living off the land, masses into poverty and drinking from rivers into a distant memory.

The problem lies not so much with people as it does with their misguided aspirations.

As with water, the complexity of our beings, regardless of our material wealth, is often disregarded in modern society. Our essence ignored.

Life is the complex interconnections between the smallest atom in your body to a current that brings warm water down the coast of a landmass.