The Biodynamic Agricultural Organism and the Other Me

Originally published 2025-12-17. By Jose Aviña, JPI Biodynamics.

thoughts about our relationship with the Earth

In times like these, where efficiency and productivity seem to greatly influence the decisions that steer the course of our daily activities, where every minute counts in the future outcome of what we are hoping for from our attention invested in a particular activity, why get together to talk about soil, vegetation, health, and even the stars in the sky to plan activities in the fields where the seeds for our food are sown?

Why, in these times of uncertainty about where social structures will build their new scenes, in a valid longing to establish a new form of interaction that is both calmer and more creative, take the trouble to travel thousands of kilometers to meet a group of people of different nationality and culture, to talk and share food at a table?

Precisely because of this, because today this act takes on a very special value, to have that time and freely choose to give it to others as a space where understanding can sprout, a mutual recognition of basic needs and access to them, which we biological beings use as stepping stones and bridges to continue the constant task of transforming ourselves physically through our substantial exchanges with the sacred food provided to us by the sky, the earth, and the work of farmers in harmony with all the kingdoms where they coexist.

And this is perhaps only half of the equation, because the other half is that inner life that we biological beings who inhabit the planet carry with us at every moment, whether electrically, instinctively, or consciously through that self that seeks to recognise itself and communicate with others by writing words or talking about concepts that stir and excite him, which for 12 hours a day is responding automatically or not, from within that broth of stimuli coming from outside that impact the sensory apparatus equipped to experience the world.

It is from these two streams, from what the world communicates to us and from what we “cook” internally to respond to it, from where the attempt to

coexist with humanity is offered, eager to understand ourselves so much so that we deliberately interact to make an appointment with the other to learn about their perspective, vision, experiences, on topics and areas of reflection that concern us all as a species and at the same time are lived in a unique way within each individual.

Dedicating our appreciation to that greater organism in which we have appeared – on this Earth – through that gaze of wonder and reverence that enables us to resituate ourselves on the geological time scale, reminds us of our natural ability to relate to our spaces as integral parts of an intelligent organism. If we allow ourselves to be honest, it shows us that there is a need and a call to equilibrate our interventions in these spaces from a more truthful and just perspective. There is no greater efficiency than being complete human beings, humans who sustain and support each other because they are part of the same giant body.

Perhaps it is simply a matter of bringing to the present that in the daily work of the field, the number of elements that surround the activity itself, and its attempts to provoke a harvest, is full of practices, ideas, and inspirations that, if we approach them and touch them from their life and movement, open up the possibility of having different versions of the living, where they are arranged by free choice, fit into a multitude of possibilities, and from that love amalgamated by the existence of the space for exchange and reflection, allow the emergence of that ancestrality that brought us to the present day, woven with the current realities projected by the human subconscious, always taking into account the Other self and agricultural activity as the backdrop.

Invitation to the Biodynamic Agriculture Workshop

We invite you to join us on Saturday, January 10, to share space, share food, lectures, talks, and practices so that together we can co-create a moment of reflection and activity that will help us as a community and as individuals to broaden our perspective on our tasks and participation in the ecosystems in which we intervene daily.

Palma Serena is immersed in one of the most special oases on the peninsula, surrounded by a colorful community and artistic culture, where you can enjoy peaceful spaces to socialize in the town, eat fresh fish from the coast with its unmatched flavor in various restaurants, watch sunsets on the beach, the landscape of the dry tropics combined with desert areas and the impressive depth of the Pacific Ocean make this area one of the places to visit this winter.

In addition to the possibility of traveling 2 to 4 hours around the town to continue exploring and find your special place where you can stop to connect with the beginning of a very special year, it is also the time when we are blessed with the visit of the whales.

Learn more here.