Viterbo, March 8th 2026
Dear Friend,
What does our personal freedom have to do with taking care of our planet?
Everything! I’ve been reflecting on that a lot, and I want to share my thoughts on this with you.
I heard Jane Goodall speak quite a few times, and for me, one of the main takeaways of her huge legacy was, that you must first help the humans sort out their main needs, in order for them to become able to look after their natural environment.
She saw poverty as one of the greatest threats to nature. She talked about how starving humans will cut down the precious trees or kill the precious animals in their surroundings, and sell them to unscrupulous traders, if this is the only way they know, of getting any food.
If you ask me, poverty is also one of the greatest obstacles to freedom. When we’re poor, we have low-to-no freedom of choice when it comes to where we live, what we eat, or how we spend our time.
The way things are going right now, even in the rich, “civilised” West, we are behaving exactly like the indigenous people in distress Jane Goodall was talking about. We feel so scared, and poor, and anxious, that nature becomes one of our last concerns.
Let me analyse that.
We’re facing, on a collective scale, the exact same situation we get into as individuals, when we’re under stress. We go into fight-or-flight mode, we scramble around frantically, and during that time, all our defence, growth, and nurture functions cease. When society as a whole feels like that, the needs of the environment fade into the background.
The forces in power thrive on our distress on many levels, and have masterful plans to prevent us from getting out of that:
If we can only afford the cheap, poisonous food they want us to have, we get sick. Then they sell us the drugs they choose at the price they choose, to alleviate the symptoms of our sickness. Natural remedies are easily declared illegal, and ancient therapies are often frowned upon and ridiculed.
Why? Because healthy people don’t bring money. But sick people do!
Have you ever heard of the Codex Alimentarius?
It’s a set of “international food standards” created by the World Health Organisation and the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations. Its official goals are to eliminate trade barriers and protect consumers, which sound like desirable things. But its effect in reality is one only: to protect the interests of Big Food and Big Pharma. And to make things worse, the World Trade Organisation enforces their standards, pushing globalisation and inequality.
They want you sick, weak, scared, poor, depressed, ignorant, and convinced that you are totally insignificant and powerless. That’s what the whole system is built to achieve. The education system, the health system, the financial system, and more and more the whole social system, all of that is just a huge slave farm. And then from time to time the slaves get fed up and start revolting a little bit. Nothing to worry about, you give them slightly shinier chains and they’re happy. How handy is that!
We’re at a point in time right now, where the powers that rule over us scared humans are creating a whole new situation. They’re doing everything they can to scare us even more, to numb our compassion with that whole horror overload, to provoke some chaos and unruly reaction, so they can then show a bit more of their power by putting an end to all of that, and by creating a new, “safer, easier, better regulated, less stressful” world for us.
They make it sound attractive, but what they mean is: even more rules, more control, more coercion, and even less freedom.
What we need now, in order to reverse this, is to
● go back to buying local produce, from farmers’ markets, and pay them in cash as often as possible. We need to
● support local businesses, to
● buy simple things and cook them at home. We need to
● go out in the sunlight and the fresh air. We need to
● start growing even the smallest amounts of our own food. Herbs grown in pots on the kitchen window sill are pure magic! Or sprouts! Have you ever grown your own sprouts or micro-greens? If we can get access to a little bit of land, that’s fantastic, and maybe we can barter some of our tomatoes for some of the neighbour’s cucumbers. We need to
● build or cultivate our personal network of local people, have some kind of a community in flesh and bone around us;
● leave out all the mental poisons, we really don’t need to see the latest horrors from the media. We need to
● stop poisoning our bodies with processed junk, and to
● make sure we get proper rest, like sleep at night with no lights and phones and wi-fi on, and rest during the day and the week when we need it. We need to
● go out and talk to human beings, not do everything online. We absolutely need to
● always think, talk, and act, from a place of love and compassion. We need to
● let go of past baggage and forgive, I discussed this point many times in the past;
● be grateful, be amazed, be hopeful. In other words, we need to
● heal, so we can
● live a real human being’s life.
We need to stay human in this strange time where humanity is constantly vilified. We are hugely powerful beings, when we’re not traumatised out of our wits and out of connection with our own souls.
It’s up to us, it’s our awareness, our decision, our choice, our responsibility, to not let a small number of deranged people destroy all of our lives. It’s up to every single one of us, to remain true to ourselves. If we find the courage to remember who we are, to acknowledge who everyone else is, and to stand our ground together, nothing can go wrong.
The monsters won’t make it out of this in one piece. But he real humans will come out at the other end strong, healthy, happy, and in their full power ❤️
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