Potentization The Principles & History of Gardening & Farming Beyond the “Natural Senses” “Nowadays people know the price of everything, but the value of nothing.” – Oscar Wilde In order to tell the story of potentization, we must address some ideas that are foreign concepts to the collective modern materialistic worldview. Nature works on a higher order than mere physical substance. Life is more than the sum of its parts. Life has a rhythm that’s all its own that cannot be reduced to a price point. It has an order that is wild and deliberate. Operating on instinct, Nature seeks balance unconsciously. But the egolution of humanity has changed all of that. We consume more than we produce. We are immersed the greater energetic world, but we ignore it. Our ego consciousness is unique on Earth and provides us an opportunity to manipulate our environments and dilute our instincts. We see ourselves in the mirror and make up our own minds. Think about that…what allows that separation of ability? There are different levels and a higher energetic order involved. For instance, plants are even more different still. They lack mobility, but they are intimately connected with the greater cosmic environment. Plants are well known to respond to moon and celestial rhythms. They’re more in touch with their instincts. When we get in the way contaminate the natural process, it messes with the magic of life. The methods used by life to connect and interact with other living things has been circumvented. This is the entire point of pesticides, herbicides or fungicides. This is also the danger of genetically modified organisms (GMO). Now that we have produced these mutant plants and animals, there is no turning back. It amounts to a grand experiment on ourselves. ©2012 Progress Earth • Wilmington, NC, USA • P: 910‐777‐5372 • F: 910.777.5373 • [email protected] • www.ProgressEarth.com P a g e | 2 Just consider some of these routine food scenarios: When we create Vitamin C in a lab as ascorbic acid and call it the same thing as from an orange. It’s not. But the FDA allows orange juice companies to tell you that you’re getting your 100% daily value. Over 90% of the food grown in this country is grown with artificial fertilizers and pesticides. We are using man-made synthetic materials to try and grow living plants. Is it a wonder that food is no longer our vitamin? We pasteurize milk and juice so it will sit on a shelf when it cheapens the health value. Most in the modern world live a filtered existence. We strip the life force out of it. Our food is not alive. Name something in your diet that comes directly from a vine every day? Nature works indirectly through symbiotic relationships. There is a never ending complexity to how it all works. And there is an energy, or life force, that organizes and flows through the entire process. Have you ever thought about how fish school? Or how birds flock? Type in “flock of birds” in YouTube and hold on tight! How do they know where the others are going? How does a monarch butterfly travel from New England to Mexico without a roadmap? Or whales or bluefin tuna on their annual trans-global migrations. How do they do it? There aren’t any highway signs in the ocean? The truth is nobody knows exactly how these processes work. Life has a different setting than mere physical substance. Some call it a spirit, others ignore it completely. There is a method to the madness of Nature. But Nature is not black and white. Things are not always as they seem and almost nothing happens directly or in the same way every time. This idea is extremely hard for modern science to handle. Modern science tends to reduce things to a mere constituent of its parts. We rip things apart to look for the truth. And, of course, we often miss it. ©2012 Progress Earth • Wilmington, NC, USA • P: 910‐777‐5372 • F: 910.777.5373 • [email protected] • www.ProgressEarth.com P a g e | 3 We can’t see the forest from the trees. For example, when growing and juicing wheatgrass for health, it is not one component that allows the therapeutic effect. Researchers can identify many components that are beneficial – high chlorophyll, all amino acids and elements, high enzyme count, etc. – but none of the components by itself create the results found from drinking wheatgrass. Wheatgrass is known to increase red blood cell count, lower blood pressure, stimulate the metabolism and the thyroid gland, curb obesity, restore alkalinity to the blood, detox the body, turn gray hair to its natural color, fight tumors and so much more. Again, name something in your diet that you eat that is alive directly from a vine every day? Our food lacks life force. Healing cannot occur with only components of wheatgrass juice. In fact, the therapeutic effect of the synergy of the juice has a name, the ‘grass juice factor’. In other words, the way our science is organized is not capable of measuring the healing result of consistently drinking the juice. Or, another way of looking at it is, wheatgrass juice cannot be reverse engineered. Neither can seawater, or worm castings, or compost, or any natural material that has not been adulterated by artificial man-made processing. In the same way animals respond to a higher order and awareness of their surroundings, there is a life force that can work on water and any animate material if it is in harmony with natural process. The order in which products are formulated determines the energetic value of the final product. It’s called the ‘stacking order’. There is a sequence to chemical reactions in the same way there are for energetic reactions. We pay attention to this. Nature works on substance by building up energetic resonance, creating cooperation amongst its constituents, or, potentizing the material so that it supports life. To potentize is to render the latent power in materials, to bring higher energetic order, or greater harmony and synergy, amongst ingredients. When materials are potentized they take on a greater meaning and importance to living systems. There was more experience and a stronger agreement. ©2012 Progress Earth • Wilmington, NC, USA • P: 910‐777‐5372 • F: 910.777.5373 • [email protected] • www.ProgressEarth.com P a g e | 4 Potentization is a tool of the BioEnergetic approach to growing. Even “organic” farming lacks a synergistic wholistic approach to growing food. “Organics”, as it is defined by the USDA says nothing about the nutritional value of the food grown, only how it is grown. Big difference. The words potent and potential are both apt descriptions. It takes very little of a potentized material to create dynamic influence and the possibilities are limited only by the imagination. Nature works by potentizing. Most human process involves a destructive and explosive means of creating energy, but Mother Nature is the opposite, her methods are implosive, regenerative and upbuilding. When Nature creates something there is purpose and meaning behind every method with no wasted energy. Not so with humans. Our energy production is explosive and polluting with very low energy transfer. Most of it is lost as heat and pollution. A condensed way of looking at this is that Nature brings things together and man tears them apart. It is our responsibility to manage this unique ability. We do that by remaining conscious of natural rhythms and energies and incorporating them into our methods and products. When we potentize our products we are following Natures lead. We are utilizing the forms and procedures of Nature to bring a greater meaning to the ingredients. In addition to proprietary process we have developed over the years, we use the form of the vortex and other frequency and implosion-based processes to undertake this work. The result is products that are born of natural rhythms that cannot be created by mere mixing and agitation. This allows us an ability to use FAR less material relative to traditional fertilizers and gardening products, and get an equal if not greater result. When you use our products you are using something fundamentally unique to the garden. We take this approach with all of our products. Take Earth Tonic. When the ingredients of Earth Tonic are brought together, incredible things happen. It results in literally all Earth-bound elements. Why would Mother Nature make an element that was not needed in the garden? But we don’t simply mix the ingredients together. We undertake propriety potentization techniques that take it to an even higher level. Every step of the formulation process for Earth Tonic is undertaken with careful consideration and for deliberate reasons. For instance, we don’t merely go out to the ocean shore for the solution contained within Earth Tonic, we travel to special places in the ocean up to 80 miles out in order to harvest the living seawater contained in the product. ©2012 Progress Earth • Wilmington, NC, USA • P: 910‐777‐5372 • F: 910.777.5373 • [email protected] • www.ProgressEarth.com P a g e | 5 We create a "mother" with this sea water that includes colloidal clay, nettles tea and the BioDynamic preparations BD500-508 that is then potentized via proprietary vortexial and inversion mixing and implosion processes before the product is formulated. Materials from one batch are carried on into the next, as well as being potentized themselves. This allows the solution to become stronger over time as the information generated from the previous batch is carried on into the next.