Skyscrapers and Pirates
This is about the power and pain of tall buildings. It was the invention of elevators and the wide scale availability of structural steel that made sky scrapers possible. Those towers send a message that plays directly to our programming as physical humans; tall is adult.
As children we look up at those who have the power over our lives. The ones up there can see farther, plan better and we have to trust them with our future, or fly away with Peter Pan. But then, all of the adults are Pirates.
The number of people working from home has exploded. They work primarily in one and two story structures, or ground floor coffee shops. In 2008 17 million people were working from home, by now that has escalated even more as new businesses have proliferated.
Traditionally the upper executives take the offices at the top of the building. Orders come down from upstairs. The feeling downstairs is often that 'those people are out of touch'. Well actually, often they are. Our body's have an electrical system that uses Direct Current, just like the Earth from which we spring. Direct current has a positive and negative pole that flows in one direction.
The health of our body's depend on having our bare feet on the ground, whether that is grass, or dirt or beach sand, to keep our polarities sound. Visually this is like those little charging pads that you drop your cell phone on, and without any wires connecting them, they charge the battery. It's like magic!
When you work or live in a high rise, your body is very far away from an unobstructed source of Earth like Direct Current. Meanwhile, you are surrounded by Alternating Current, Radio Waves, Microwaves and who know what else, that are all destructive to the body to a greater or lesser degree. Even wearing rubber soled shoes insulates us from the earth current. Not that long ago in a healthier time shoes all had leather soles.
There are technologies that you place under your feet or your bed that simulate the Earth Current and that help your body's electrical system function better. When you don't have a steady relationship with the Earth Current your nervous system gets increasingly erratic, and you revert to the fight or flight reflex much more quickly, resulting in adrenal burnout. It is not quite psychotic, but it's not so good either.
One of the results is the desire to remove yourself from any kind of danger, to take actions to protect yourself that are out of proportion, irrational and immoral. That pretty well describes the dysfunctional behavior that led up to the banking crisis that derailed the economy these past few years.
Is it any surprise that the millions of independent people working from their homes look at the tower dwellers as pirates? Maybe it's time to make the pirates work at home, on the first floor, in leather soled shoes and see if a semblance of sanity returns to America. (c) 2012 DeAmicis