Participatory Universe

Gregg Braden--"In a participatory universe, you and I are part of the equation. We are both creating the events of our lives, as well as the experiencers of what we create. Both are happening at the same time! In other words, we are like artists expressing our deepest passions, fears, dreams, and desires through the living essence of a mysterious quantum canvas. The difference between us and conventional artists, however, is that we are the canvas, as well as the images upon the canvas. We are the tools as well as the artists using the tools. And just as artists refine an image until it is just right in their minds, we may think of ourselves as perpetual artists, building a creation that is ever changing and never ending. Through our artist’s palette of beliefs, judgments, emotions, and prayers, we find ourselves in relationships, jobs, and situations of support and betrayal that play out with different people in different places. What a beautiful, bizarre, and powerful concept."

Homemade Sausages (PostPunkKitchen.com)

1/2 cup pinto beans, rinsed and drained
1 cup cold vegetable broth
2 tablespoons soy sauce
2 cloves garlic, very finely minced (or 1 t garlic granules)
1/4 cup nutritional yeast
1 1/2 teaspoons fennel seed
1 teaspoon red pepper flakes
1 teaspoon sweet paprika
1 teaspoon dried oregano
Several dashes fresh black pepper
1 1/4 cups vital wheat gluten

Before mixing your ingredients, get your steaming apparatus ready, bring water to a full boil. The rest of the recipe comes together very quickly.

Have ready 6 sheets of tin foil.

In a large bowl, mash the pinto beans until no whole ones are left.

Throw all the other ingredients together in the order listed, except for the vital wheat gluten and mix with a fork.  Mix in vital wheat gluten.

Divide dough into 16 even parts. Place one part of dough into tin foil and mold into about a 5 inch log. Wrap dough in tin foil, like a tootsie roll. Don’t worry too much about shaping it, it will snap into shape while it’s steaming because this recipe is awesome.

Place wrapped sausages in steamer and steam for 40 minutes.

Serves 8