The Frogs in the Pot-

Let’s talk about frogs. Not the cute kind—the cautionary kind.

You know the story; drop a frog in boiling water, it jumps out. But heat it slowly? It thinks " O' yeah... a nice warm relaxing hot spring" and it will stay in the pot until it's to weak to jump and dies.

Turns out, that’s not even true about frogs—but it’s painfully true about humans.

One generation swapped the forest for fluorescent lights, the next generation forgot how to use the stars to guide them, build a fire or forage.

Now we’re “civilized,” but we can’t survive without apps, outlets, and anxiety meds. We call it progress, but perhaps it is the heat rising as we climbed into the pot. We take our children to parks surrounded by cities to play outside around trees, we fish from polluted lakes and rivers we can't eat from. Surviving on processed food that's poisoning us with nervous system disorders.🤔🛝🤯 

Like frogs adapting to gradually heating water, each generation has normalized increasing disconnection and dysfunction. What would have horrified our ancestors—children raised by screens, elderly dying alone, communities replaced by corporations—has become unremarkable. The statistics paint a portrait of civilizational collapse. Yeah, you read that right. Now , let me break it down for you....................

We look at addiction, crime, mental illness—and we love to point fingers. Bad choices, we say. Personal failure. But what if the real bad choice was building a world that breaks people?

We can plainly see that society has criminalized living with the land. In some states, it’s illegal to collect rainwater. In others, you can’t live off-grid without being fined or evicted. A woman in Florida was nearly kicked off her own property for refusing to hook up to city utilities. We’ve built a system where survival is a subscription service to viable life sources—renewable monthly, subject to blackout, and always increasing in price. 🚫💧🏠

But here’s the twist: we’re not doomed. We’re just disoriented. And the path back? It’s not new. It’s ancient.

The Wisdom We Forgot (and Are Finally Remembering)

Indigenous cultures, which make up just 5% of the global population, protect 85% of the world’s biodiversity. Not because they’re “eco-warriors,” but because they never forgot that Earth is a living being. Scientist are now confirming through multiple lines of evidence what the Indigenous people already knew, that we’re part of Earth, not above her. That healing isn’t a product of man—it’s a relationship with Earth. Humans are meant to thrive in nature not concrete and black top. 💖🌍💖

Indigenous peoples, despite genocide and ongoing oppression, maintain technologies of connection and wisdom of balance. These aren't museum pieces or romantic notions—they're working systems that have survived everything colonization threw at them.

Ecovillages demonstrate that sustainable abundance remains achievable. People are literally doing it right now, growing food, sharing resources, making decisions together. Nordic societies prove that prioritizing wellbeing over wealth creates healthier populations. It turns out humans don't actually need billionaires to function. Shocking, I know.

Self-governance demonstrates superior outcomes:

• Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy: 800+ years of participatory democracy influencing the U.S. Constitution

• Australian Aboriginal Corporations: "Two-way governance" blending traditional law with modern requirements

• Canadian First Nations: 50+ self-government agreements replacing colonial administration

• Universal pattern: Indigenous-managed lands maintain higher biodiversity than government "protected" areas

Science is finally catching up.

Crystals? They vibrate at measurable frequencies. The energy is real.
Herbs? They’re the original medicine—food we can forage and grow.
Astrology? The moon literally moves oceans—why wouldn’t it affect us?
Psychedelics? Indigenous peoples used them for connection long before Western labs started publishing studies on their mental health benefits.

This isn’t new age nonsense, evil witchery or woo. It’s wisdom. And it’s calling us home.

We’re not just talking about “vibes” here. We’re talking about vibrational frequencies, gut-brain connections, and the Wood Wide Web—yes, that’s a real thing. Dr. Suzanne Simard's research documented how forests communicate through mycorrhizal networks—fungal threads connecting trees in webs spanning kilometers. "Mother trees" recognize and preferentially feed their offspring, share nutrients with struggling neighbors, and warn of insect attacks through chemical signals. Trees are not competing individuals but cooperating communities—a model civilization.

And the Gaia Hypothesis? Once dismissed as hippie nonsense.

It’s now the foundation of Earth System Science. Lovelock and Margulis's proposal that Earth self-regulates like a living organism, initially dismissed as mysticism, now underlies NASA and IPCC climate models.

The Boiling Point Is Now

Let’s not sugarcoat it. It's time to put back on our bell-bottoms: the water is boiling. Six of nine planetary boundaries have been crossed. Climate chaos, biodiversity collapse, chemical pollution—it’s not a future threat. It’s now.

Deaths of despair—suicide, overdose, liver disease—are skyrocketing. Yikes! Not from war or famine, but from the soul-crushing weight of trying to exist in a world that isn't natural to them.

We’re living in a world where collecting rainwater is illegal in some states, but billionaires can launch rockets for fun. Where people are jailed for living off-grid, but corporations get tax breaks for poisoning the planet.

State by state, corporate lobbying has created regulations that criminalize self-sufficiency:

• Alabama: No state net metering policy, making off-grid solar economically punitive

• Indiana: Utilities successfully rolled back solar compensation while fighting distributed generation

• Mississippi: Grid disconnection appears illegal in most areas, forcing utility dependence

• Multiple states: Prohibit rainwater harvesting, require expensive septic systems, mandate grid connections

Where half of all Americans report chronic loneliness, a condition as deadly as smoking 15 cigarettes daily. And honey, I've done both, and at least cigarettes give you something to do with your hands at parties

We’ve gotten so tangled in the rat race—chasing promotions, defending ideologies, degrading each other online for being different like it’s a sport—that we’ve stopped asking the bigger questions.
Like: what’s all this defending actually defending? A system that’s burning us out? A lifestyle that’s killing the planet?

Are we so busy proving we’re right, many forgot to check to see if they were wrong?

I see you, though; people that are waking up.

Ecovillages that are thriving. People that are turning to meditation, crystals, herbs, and astrology not because it’s trendy—but because we are in desperate need for something natural and real. Because it feels like truth in a world full of noise.

The System Was Designed to Disconnect Us

Let’s rewind.

The Enclosure Acts in England privatized 6.8 million acres of common land. Historian J.L. Hammond described how Enclosure "created a new organization of classes" by dispossessing small farmers who had survived through access to common pastures, woodlands, and wastes. Unable to afford the legal costs of fighting Enclosure or the expense of fencing their small allotments, millions were driven from the countryside. People who once lived in harmony with the land were forced into cities, factories, and dependency. Sound familiar?

That same pattern—privatization, dispossession, dependency—spread globally. Indigenous lands were stolen. Traditional knowledge was criminalized. And now, even trying to live simply—like Eustace Conway in North Carolina—gets you shut down for not having the right paperwork.

We’ve been trained to forget how to survive without the system. Modern humans cannot make fire without matches, find water without faucets, build shelter without money and hardware stores, preserve food without refrigeration, or navigate without GPS.

What happens when we can't access internet and have to figure out how to live on our own abilities? Makes you wonder if we're really that advance or just greatly off balance.

So What Do We Do?

Do we freak out, throw rocks, buy all the toilet paper and burn it all down— Honeydew, not today.

We need to remember where we came from. To reconnect. To rebuild the web of relationships that kept our ancestors alive and sane. And we need safe spaces to do that—without judgment, without gatekeeping, without pretending we’re not all a little lost.

That’s why www.rhizomesoul.org was created —a online community for people who feel the pull toward nature, the universe something deeper. For us to be able to connect, inspire and support each other.

Using technology to unite together and slowly but surly start healing ourselves, each other, and our earth💖

Our online community continually is posting resources to realign ourselves and our nervous systems with practices like astrology, Herbal Wellness (fun fact: I have a recipe for an all-natural wrinkle filler cream that rivals what celebrities use in Beverly Hills- it alone is worth more then the monthly membership cost😉🙂), Mindful Meditation, Diaphragmatic Breathing, Spiritual & Ancient Connection with Crystals and Biophilic Living—let's bring nature back into our homes. 🪻🍄🌳 But more than that, we offer human connection. Support. Diversity. Change.

Because the water is boiling. But we’re not frogs. We’re stardust with nervous systems, ready to manifest our best life. ✨

The Slow Path Back: From Boiling to Healing

We didn’t get here overnight. We won’t get out overnight. But we can start. One herb. One moon phase. One honest conversation at a time.

Our ancestors weren’t “primitive.” They were tuned in. They knew the moon affected planting. That food was medicine. That intuition was intelligence. And now, science is backing them up.

We're not crazy. We're just awake.

And once enough of us wake up, once enough of us start turning up the heat on the systems instead of ourselves, once enough of us remember our connection to nature and the earth…....🌈💖

Our ancestors are watching. Our children's futures our counting on us. The earth is waiting. Your soul knows the way.

Come hang out with me🙂To connect with the earth, restore our health and reunite with our intuition. Support us to support peoples right to nature, autonomy, and better health.
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