Full of Empty

Hi everyone,
I am currently at a health conference in Georgia hosted by Clayton College of Natural Health and have had the good fortune to attend some incredible classes by people who I have the greatest respect for; Dr. Elson Haas, Dr. Annemarie Colbin, the herbalist Rosemary Gladstar and many others. I listened to someone yesterday, Charles Eisenstein, who wrote the Yoga of Eating, and is really more of a philosopher, who was truly inspirational chatting about our connectedness. Here is a little test he gave us: close your eyes and imagaine you as pure existence, pure life. We all did. He then asked the group (probably 300 hundred people) if we were alone when we imagined ourselves this way. Every single person raised their hands. Personally I was standing at the ocean breathing the salty air and being calm. He was not surprised. He then told us that when you ask this question to an indigenous elder (in many cultures) they could not comprehend being alone. Being alone in some cultures would probably mean death. You need your community to stay alive. In our society we simply don't have that connectedness to each other. In one village a man came in because his son was very ill and he said his family was sick. In most cultures just because the son was sick, the brother or sister or parents, the whole family, were certainly not sick. To this father, however, there wasn't the separtedness that we have in this culture and I believe, as does Charles Eisenstein, long for.
If we eat foods that give us no nutrients we are full of empty and still hungry. Perhaps we are also this way with other aspects of our lives. Just food for thought....
Best of health.
Patty