Well, hello there!
I hope you've been able to make good use of the forum lately - and sorry for the lack of a more timely response. If other members are anything like me, they'll have read your post and decided to mull over a thoughtful reply. Then your thread slowly disappears off the bottom of the list.
Thankfully, you'll notice my habit of trawling through recent threads and picking up the stragglers that get's exercised at least occasionally.
It sounds like you've developed some great skills over the past decade. I'm something of a fan of permaculture myself, not least because it can support a strategy of doing as little as possible
What extracts do you make? It's always nice to have a good collection of herbal tinctures, IMO.
Looking forward to seeing you around the forum and intrigued to find out more about your experience with herbalism and cultivation. I feel the same way about the Nexus as you do, but also that it's helped with the heart side as much as the brain side (in truth, there is little in the way of separation)
“There is a way of manipulating matter and energy so as to produce what modern scientists call 'a field of force'. The field acts on the observer and puts him in a privileged position vis-à-vis the universe. From this position he has access to the realities which are ordinarily hidden from us by time and space, matter and energy. This is what we call the Great Work."
― Jacques Bergier, quoting Fulcanelli