George Washington Carver

 

Are you ready for a revelation? Prepare to be happily amazed to discover the “absolute magnitude” of a familiar historical figure who has been “hidden in plain sight” all these years. A few people know already…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In George Washington Carver’s vision:


  • Human economy is arranged so that we all are living in plenty, health and happiness.
  • The world has no waste stream. (He had almost none himself, and used his science to demonstrate how.)
  • All farming is what we now call “organic.” (The term “organic farming” didn’t exist in his time, but he stated its basic principle—that healthy plants resist disease and pests—thirty-eight years before the man credited with doing so.)
  • We human beings understand that we are all very similar and need to cooperate for our happiness and survival. (As the first black invited to speak at many segregated white Southern colleges and universities, he was a potent force for understanding and goodwill. He loved all humanity, from the poorest black sharecroppers he worked with to the rich and powerful Henry Ford, who consulted with him at every opportunity.)
  • The psychological distance we have created between ourselves and nature has been removed. (As a teacher, he put nature study at the heart of education.)
  • We are focused on healing, not killing, each other. (He achieved astonishing healings by massaging people with infantile paralysis and other ills with his formulations of peanut oil. He was disgusted with war as a failure of vision.)
  • The world’s scientists have learned to look deeper than appearances to find Spirit and allow God’s divine intelligence to inform their work.

Peter D. Burchard's credentials for this achievement lie in more than twenty years of dedicated labor. He has read 100,000-plus pages of raw material, visited archives around the U.S. and interviewed about forty wise and wonderful people scattered around the country who knew and loved George Washington Carver as a life-molding mentor. Along the way, he has been featured on a History Channel Modern Marvels show called “George Washington Carver Tech,” written a 200-page Special History Study for the Park Service, been flown around the country to speak, and consulted on book, video and museum projects for the Carver National Monument, the Chicago Field Museum and others.