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Project NatureConnect
Institute of Global Education,
Dept. of Integrated Ecology  
Special Consultant United Nations Economic and Social Council

P. O. Box 1605, Friday Harbor, WA 98250    
360-378-6313
Email: nature@interisland.net



Educating, Counseling and Healing With Nature
Practical, green, degree programs, courses and holistic careers online based on Natural Attraction Ecology


- Master a balanced thinking and relationships career, job or hobby.

- Learn the lively science of genuinely connecting our psyche to the grace and
.....restorative powers of nature.

- Renew your living earth bonds. Strengthen global life sustainability.

- Benefit from enjoyable sensory contact with nature's regenerative ways and
.....spirit, in and around you.



............ Applied Ecopsychology and Ecotherapy in Action

 


"Most people seem to have some kind of rainbow attraction that continually escapes them. If they search for it for a thousand years, they may find its peace.

With this program, I learn the process of walking out my back door and thinking with the colorful purity of a rainbow...with the dance of the trees, the grass, the song of the wind...the clouds.  I sense attraction and respect for nature's renewing balance and beauty.

I love the enchanting feeling of nature's vitality flowing through me.  

Connecting my senses with nature's wisdom clears my head and opens my heart.  The perk of my livelihood is that I am paid to teach the science of this powerful path to well-being."


 

 

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"Use, teach and profit from sensory nature-connecting activities. Improve your life and all of life by adding the green spirit of nature's balance and beauty to how you think and feel.

Learn how to correct Industrial Society's great underlying disorder while you remedy its hurtful symptoms."





Project NatureConnect

Department of Integrated Ecology, Institute of Global Education
Program founded in 1959. 50th Anniversary Year June 2009-2010
Birthplace of the integral sensory science Natural Attraction Ecology
Most recent website update 8/25/09
360-378-6313 Email: nature@interisland.net



Website Synopsis


All living things, including our planet and us, enjoy optimums of life, cooperation, diversity and health when they are nurtured by the streaming cycles of nature. Nature purifies them. It achieves balance and beauty without producing garbage or our excessively abusive and destructive effects.

Natural cycles and their restorative ways are attracted to flow through, in and around us. Our natural senses register our need and attraction for this flow. It satisfies them. This is exemplified by the water cycle and our senses of thirst and excretion. The latter are felt-sense attractions to water and its flow through us. They satisfy. 

The fulfillment of our natural senses convey to us that all is well. This is exemplified by water satisfying our sense of thirst and urination satisfying our sense of excretion.  We feel more content, happy and relieved.

We produce problems because we excessively bond our natural attractions to substitutes for nature, to nature-separated and nature-exploitive places, stories, thoughts and relationships. Their artificial and disconnecting side effects can be hurtful. They remove nature's purity, streaming and satisfactions from our thinking, feeling and spirit.

Our disconnection of our thoughts and feelings from our life-giving contact with nature triggers our natural senses to register a disturbance. It alerts us to our disconnection. For example, over time, a lack of contact with water energizes one of our attractions to water, our sense of thirst into our awareness. We reasonably respond to this feeling by drinking water. Our appropriate action satisfies us. We feel fulfilled and happy by engaging in it. 

As demonstrated by a quiet walk in a natural area, the grace of nature's flow not only corrects, restores and balances life in the natural area.  It also benefits thoughts and feelings of our psyche.

When we don't have nurturing contact with nature's powerful recycling and renewing properties, our imperfect substitutes for them often leave our natural senses feeling unfulfilled. This creates in us a natural sensation of wanting.  Our psyche registers that the balanced wholeness of life is missing and it wants it.

When we want there is never enough. We come to feel that we are not enough because we can't make ourselves feel full, complete and happy. We become greedy, stressed and unbalanced.  These disorders  deteriorate our personal, social and environmental well-being.


The paragraphs, above, explain why even a short walk in the park helps us feel renewed. The visit is a healing re-creation and reconnection of our psyche and nature, not just "recreation" or an escape from reality.
 

We usually live, work and play in excessively separated ways from nature's renewing flow in natural areas.

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ackyard or backcountry, the science of Educating, Counseling and Healing With Nature (ECHN), enables our thinking to, at will, make natural sensory connections with, and benefit from, nature's restorative flow through and around us.  

The ability to apply ECHN is an important and teachable part of our daily lives. It empowers us to increase the integral health and welfare of all, including nature and our living planet.



THE VALUE OF NON-LITERATE WISDOM

Nature is wise, but seldom literate. Unlike us, plants, animals and minerals neither hear, read, write nor tell stories with words.

Our words and stories are abstracts. They are shortcuts we use to know/label/identify the real natural world. For example, the word  "tree" and a real Tree are two entirely different things. The word "tree" as it appears on this screen does not need air, water, food, soil and supportive relationships to exist. However, a real tree cannot exist without them. Similarly, we can't eat the written word "apple" and have it satisfy or nourish us. We also can't breathe a dollar bill.

"My fake flowers died because in my imagination I forgot to water them."

- Anonymous

Although only 10 percent of our mentality registers and relates to the world in literate-abstract ways, we are trained to think and feel mostly through the words and symbols of literacy. To our loss, they are usually shortcuts, exploitive or half-truth stories about the natural world.

Nature designed almost 90 percent of our mentality to
register and relate to the world through non-literate natural attraction sensitivities, as do all other members of the nature's plant, animal and mineral communities. This sensory-feeling way of knowing is one that we biologically inherit.  It is a seamless continuum of nature's self-correcting and purifying intelligence.  It is sometimes referred to as our "Mammalian" or "Horse" Brain," or the "Old Brain."

In contrast, only 10 percent of our mentality knows and thinks with abstract word and number stories or images. It is sometimes called our "Neocortex" or "New Brain"

Our nature-disconnected abstract New Brain stories seldom gratify or inform us in lasting, balanced and regenerative ways, like the authentic Old Brain way that nature works.

The essence of nature is its satisfying and nurturing, non-literate, natural attraction flow.

Wordlessly, the flow supports, balances, and restores vigor and aliveness everywhere today, as it has for eons.

It is worth repeating that the ways of nature's renewing flow
produce nature's optimums of life, diversity and balance.  The flow accomplishes this feat without producing garbage or pollution or our abusiveness and disorders.
 
We endure and produce great problems because as we learn to bond our natural senses to our society's nature-conquering stories, we disconnect our psyche from the healing powers
of nature's flow.

We seldom learn how to let nature genuinely touch, no less embrace or recycle, the nature-disconnected,
wounding, destructive and polluted ways that we too often learn to think and feel.

A POWERFUL ANTIDOTE:

The natural attraction process of Educating, Counseling and Healing with Nature (ECHN) helps us remedy our loss of nature's renewing grace in our senses, thinking and feeling. It enables us to discover who we are and with respect to the whole of life and its wellness.

ECHN empowers us,
moment by moment, to let sensory contact with nature's purifying flow satisfy and strengthen our body, mind and spirit. It is an integral ecology and psychology that helps us enjoy our satisfactions in ways that satisfy and sustain all of nature. It helps us feel good reasonably, in a good way, meaning, "To the benefit of all."

The more that the unifying touch of nature helps us think and feel in balance, the more the world enjoys the peace of well-being."


- Michael J. Cohen, Ph.D.



HELP THE WISDOM OF NATURE'S POWERS REVERSE OUR DISORDERS

Personally or globally, we can't change for the better if our thinking does not know how to release the emotional and sensory bonds that lastingly attach us to our nature-disconnected stories and the disturbing relationships they produce.
 
Enable yourself to establish balance, improve health and increase happiness by reducing our destructive attachments. Help nature help you remedy our wide range of personal, social and environmental disorders.



The Sensory ECHN Science of Whole Life Psychology Makes Sense

Our natural sense of taste is part of nature's old-brain wisdom. In congress with our 52 other natural senses, including our sense of reason, taste intelligently conveys what and when something may be permissible to eat.

August 6, 2007:
Researchers gave a group of 3-5 year old children two identical servings of many different kinds of food. The only difference between the two servings was that one was wrapped in a McDonald's wrapper, the other in a plain wrapper.

Overwhelmingly, the children said the identical food placed in the McDonalds' wrapper tasted better. Their psyche had been misled. At this early age, their natural senses and sensibilities had already been prejudicially socialized by the money-making story and images conveyed on the McDonalds' wrapper.  That story, along with its questionable values and effects, had distorted and stressed the childrens' natural ability to think and feel appropriately with respect to their natural sense of taste.  Their healthy natural attachment to healthy food had been polluted and disturbed.  They were delusional. They had been robbed of part of their vital natural intelligence and its joy.

Educating, counseling and healing with nature helps you remedy this problem.



THE DANCE OF NATURAL INTELLIGENCE

We are born as part of nature's organic grace and purity.

Each of us are part of the non-literate dance of nature. Each of us are the self-correcting and nurturing ways of the dance manifesting itself as us.

For our survival in balance, the natural attraction energies of nature -the binding forces that hold the world together- flow through and about us. They register in us as 53 natural attraction senses. Each sense helps keep us alive and well by seeking healthy natural fulfillment from natural attractions that we register.

One of our 53 natural attraction senses is our
sense of taste. Another is our sense of language, our literacy/story way of knowing the world.   Our additional 53 natural senses include our natural attractions to reason, trust, water (thirst), place, community, color, beauty, consciousness, music, temperature, cooperation and love.

At any given moment, nature and we naturally consist of its eons of balanced and beautiful optimums of life, diversity and cooperation.  Our 53 natural senses, when healthy, attract and register in our consciousness, the wide variety of mutually supportive natural attraction relationships that contribute to the welfare and richness of life in each moment.

When our natural senses are injured, distorted or missing, we can't register, be aware, or make good sense of the truth of the world and ourselves. We sense, instead, that we hurt and we may be at risk. 

It is the nature-disconnected, irrational and manipulative parts of our industrial-story way of knowing, along with its excessive conquest of nature in and around us, that causes us to produce our troubles.  

The misleading or unwhole parts of our story world "McBurger" the wisdom of our natural dance and the ages. This does not just happen only with our sense of taste. Our other natural senses also habitually learn to attach to, and support, Industrial Society's excessive drumbeat of profit, power and the conquest of nature and the natural. For this reason we suffer the all too common garbage/pollution, abusiveness, illness, excessiveness and disorders in and from Industrial Society.

Educating, counseling and healing with nature helps you remedy this problem.

NOTE: Genuinely nature-connected people(s) seldom cause or display our disorders.


MISGUIDED SOCIALIZATION

Our wide range of personal and global problems result from our misguided socialization by Industrial Society. The unreasonable distortions in its nature-disconnecting and exploitive stories too often McBurger how we think, feel and sense.
Educating, counseling and healing with nature helps you remedy this problem.

Motivated by prestige, conquest and monetary rewards, the contemporary world conditions us to separate from and excessively supervise nature throughout our lifetime
.....not to be naturally attracted to its intelligence, no less revere it or let it express its love for our natural selves.
Educating, counseling and healing with nature helps you remedy this problem.

We have built our lives into a vicious cycle. Industrial Society's impact on our psyche erodes our thinking as it captures our natural senses and attaches them to nature conquering stories, artifacts and technologies. This removes our psyche from nature's restorative qualities.  With them missing, we are unable to sensibly deal with our most challenging personal, social and environmental problems. These problems are often non-sense. They result from the excessive disconnection from nature of our natural ability to make sense.
Educating, counseling and healing with nature helps you remedy this problem.
 
Our major problem is that our nature-inaccurate and nature-conquering stories secretly remove nature's restorative grace from our daily lives, thoughts and feelings.
Educating, counseling and healing with nature helps you remedy this problem.
 
Without realizing it, we often feel depressed or unworthy because the dance of our natural vitality, integrity and sensibility has been reduced or incapacitated. We have excessively separated from nature's flowing intelligence and vitality.
Educating, counseling and healing with nature helps you remedy this problem.

Our greatest troubles result from us being in denial. Industrial Society denys that, for profit, it encourages us to excessively and destructively conquer or exploit nature in and around us, including our natural senses.
Educating, counseling and healing with nature helps you remedy this problem.

Instead of helping us remedy our irresponsible disconnection from nature, Industrial Society encourages us to view our nature-separated lives as "Normal," "Progress,"  "Economic Growth" or "Excellence," etc. This is non-sense with respect to living in mutually supportive balance with the world.
Educating, counseling and healing with nature helps you remedy this problem.

The immense loss of nature's beneficial ways and joy in our lives leaves us wanting, stressed and helpless. This turns us to destructive "fixes."  For this reason, almost 80 percent of us are in
some kind of therapy.
Educating, counseling and healing with nature helps you remedy this problem.


HOPE

In the "McDonald's Wrapper Study," cited above, a minority of 25 percent of the children retained their ability to clearly register that the food samples were identical.  
In such clear-thinking individuals there is hope.

Project NatureConnect
empowers any clear-thinking individual who recognizes, rather than denies, the destructiveness of our excessive nature-disconnection dilemma. It helps these individuals reverse their, and our, disorders by learning, using and teaching the renewing and substance-free process of Educating, Counseling and Healing with Nature (ECHN).

Backyard or backcountry, ECHN enables caring individuals to beneficially enlist the assistance of nature's corrective and curative attractions and their powers, rather than continue to unreasonably disconnect from or conquer them. To this end, ECHN provides online training, degrees and financial support.  

ECHN helps you green any discipline, talent or profession and give it added value.

"Whenever we omit ECHN from our daily lives, we dangerously strengthen the root of our disorders. We must now learn to help nature help us heal our psyche.  That will enable us to think, feel and relate like the natural attraction beauty of nature's peace works."


You may, online, attain a low cost ECHN certificate or degree. It is subsidized to you for your sensible desire to make a contribution to well-being by adding the organic application of nature-connecting psychology (Applied Ecopsychology) to your livelihood or hobby.


"Due to brain injury in a cycling accident, Bart, a writer, could no longer write due to head pain. For years he suffered constant hurt that that did not respond to repeated surgical, chemical,  psychological and meditation treatment.

Bart sought alternatives on the Internet, discovered ECHN  and took an
online ECHN class. He did the course's required nature connecting activities with a group of trees that attracted him in the center of his town. This heightened his natural 53-sense relationship with them, and with his online classmates, too. The ECHN experiences that they all shared by email enhanced the good feelings he experienced.

Through these interactions, nature's grace enabled Bart to renew many natural senses and energies, recycle his mental contaminates, and overcome his pain so that he could write again. He said the pain "had reduced and it had also transformed into pleasure."

Later, when the trees were to be removed for a development, Bart reasonably and passionately rallied the town to protest their forthcoming demise. The townspeople saved the trees and became involved with ECHN."
(see many similar results and outcomes)


"I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order."

- John Burroughs 


CONCLUSION

To our great loss, we deny that the nature-disconnected way we learn to think deteriorates our personal, social and environmental well-being.  

We deny that nature is the fountainhead of authority about how it works and the well-being of life in balance.

We deny that our thinking has been McBurgered to excessively separate from, and conquer, nature and its regenerative ways in and around us.

No matter our occupation or beliefs, the faster we admit that we are bonded to a harmful and unsatisfying natural attraction disconnection from nature, the faster we may learn and teach
ECHN.  It is a remedy for our destructive bonding and for our denial of our detrimental estrangement from the natural.  


SOME HONEST QUESTIONS

No offense intended, but if you reject the Conclusion, above, is it because it is incorrect, or is it because your multiple sensibilities and tastes have been McBurgered? Can you, or we, afford to practice the non-sense of our excessively nature-separated thinking and feeling just because it is considered "normal," "accepted" or "fundable" and gets us "good grades?"  

Educating, counseling and healing with nature helps you remedy this problem.

What McBurgering is your life dancing to?  Does the influence of fashion, fame, fortune, religion, commercialized music, high marks, prestige etc., leave you feeling unsatisfied or unreasonable? Does it seem like lasting, wise and supportive naturally attractive rewards are missing from your life or from the life of your community?
Educating, counseling and healing with nature helps you remedy this problem.

Do you sense that you feel dependent on flawed authorities?
Does your solution for a problem usually produce a new problem?
Do you sometimes feel that you are more of a "cultural object" rather than your true self?

Not to worry. You are not crazy.

These results are to be expected when we excessively remove nature's sanity from our psyche.  It is natural to suffer these symptoms. They painfully signal to us our profound loss of nature-contact and balance.  They try to attract us to find and follow new restorative attractions in nature, natural attractions whose energies help our psyche recycle itself and heal so we may think and relate more reasonably. 

Educating, counseling and healing with nature helps you achieve this end.


FOR THE RECORD: in Industrial Society, on average, less than twelve hours of our entire lifetime is spent consciously thinking, feeling or building relationships while we are in tune with the gratifying and sensory wisdom of nature's balance and beauty.  Many studies demonstrate that we suffer our troubles because, during 99.9% of our life, our thoughts and feelings are disconnected from nature's self-correcting ways and purity.
Educating, counseling and healing with nature helps you remedy this problem.

We usually suffer from natural sensory deprivation. It prevents us from fully making sense. We render ourselves unable to think like nature's balanced perfection works even though we inherit this ability at birth. Our nature deficit disorders undermine our life and the quality of life.
Educating, counseling and healing with nature helps you remedy this problem.

If a person temporarily loses their sense of sight, nature strengthens their many other natural senses to compensate for this loss. This helps the blind individual continue to think and relate sensibly. In addition, when possible, and sometimes when medically supported, nature heals and restores the blind individual's sense of sight. ECHN enables us to help nature engage in this restorative process for all our senses, to do so on our and its behalf. It invites nature to enter our thinking and do what it does best.

ECHN makes space for us to enjoy and benefit from genuine sensory contact with nature's flow,
backyard or backcountry.  Engaging our thoughts in its process empowers us to lastingly heal our McBurgered senses and stories. This results in us naturally thinking, feeling and relating in wellness and cooperation with others and the environment.
This is how and why educating, counseling and healing with nature helps you remedy personal, social and environmental problems.


NOTE: You can easily strengthen and improve your professional and personal life. If the synopsis
, above, makes sense to you, you are eligible, now, to save much time and money. Simply respect your natural sensibilities and attractions. Learn and benefit from lessons and techniques that lastingly connect you and your psyche to nature's restorative flow rather than continue to remove you from it.

If you have ever had even one uplifting experience in nature, such as a renewing walk in the park, you know that connecting with nature works.  Have you learned to simply take this for granted and thereby ignore its potential to help you improve your livelihood and our society's sustainability?

Take advantage of PNC career opportunities and subsidies. They help people revive their natural sensibilities and balance. Your best immediate route is to make an exploratory call to us at 360-378-6313. Then take our online, University accredited Orientation Course. Experience the demonstrated benefits of ECHN
for yourself. After completing it, you may choose to continue in our online training and degree program.


FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: call 360-378-6313 or visit these links, below, or scroll down this page or go to the Table of Contents

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OVERVIEW

Discover how to increase your success and happiness by strengthening personal, social and environmental well being.

We honor your prior training and life experience by providing financial assistance and equivalence credit for it.


Humanity is part of nature, biologically and spiritually.

Do you recognize that, due to a misguided way that we learn to think in Industrial Society, we and nature's global life community suffer many disorders?

Do you sense or feel the loss of well-being that results from our thinking's excessive exploitation of natural systems and attraction energies, in and around us?




We can't solve a problem when we don't recognize its source.  

Are you one of the few who realize that the origin of our runaway disorders is Industrial Society's refusal to admit that it is unreasonably disconnected from nature?

Do you see that our excessive conquering and exploitive relationship with nature's benefits, in and around us, makes us dysfunctional and produces many disorders?  


You can make a potent contribution to person and planet well-being. Be paid to learn and teach a green remedy for our destructive prejudice against nature and its hurtful effects.

 


A simple problem solving tool helps us connect our thinking and feeling with  nature's wisdom.

Nature's web-of-life community has the attractive self-correcting ability to restore itself, be the injury a bulldozed landscape, a scraped knee or our stressed psyche.

Nature can't help us correct our disorders when our thinking is prejudicially socialized to disconnect us from nature's ability to do this.




The green truth is that:

We are naturally born into, and part of, the global ecosystem life community. Our body, mind and soul are designed to be in natural attraction tune with, and nurtured by, the living earth throughout our lives, and vice-versa.



To be part of any system, one has to be in communication with it. 

To this end, we inherit from nature more than 50 natural senses. For example, when in a natural area, our natural attraction sensations/senses of thirst, motion, trust, belonging, color, place, taste, music, temperature, beauty, consciousness and community are all natural system connections and communications that we beneficially experience.



We are naturally designed to consciously register our 53 natural senses and thoughtfully balance our lives with nature through them.

Each natural sense helps us make greater sense. Each is an attraction to support life, a deep, inherent love of nature, a natural feeling and spirit.



To our loss, we learn  to dismiss rather than to validate, honor and think with our natural senses, moment by moment.

We suffer our greatest troubles because, on average, our society's unwarranted prejudice against nature has "McBurgured" and habituated us to disconnect over 98 percent of our time, thinking and senses from nature's renewing ways.


This profound loss leaves us wanting.

While we want, there is never enough and we feel that we are not enough.

Our wanting spawns our greed, stress and lack of self-worth along with our excessiveness, abusiveness and disorders.



Our denial of our prejudice against, and excessive disconnection from, nature's self-correcting web of life is our underlying problem.

To reduce this destructive bias, we must reasonably learn and teach how to genuinely reconnect our psyche with the web of life. We must increase and strengthen our familiar, attractive, mutually-supportive connections with nature's restorative powers, in and around us, backyard or backcountry.

A refreshing walk in the park demonstrates the outcomes of genuinely connecting with nature.




Reducing our disconnection from nature benefits us.

It enables us, moment by moment, to authentically reconnect to our natural origins, to increasingly think, feel and relate in balance and beauty, like the dance of nature's perfection works.  

There is no need to prove this green truth.
Any good experience we have already had in nature -like a refreshing "walk on the beach"- is the proof. Life in balance is evidence and proof of itself.



Project NatureConnect scientifically and spiritually empowers you to make your life and interests increase well-being by reducing our unreasonable bias against and disconnection from nature.  

Help your occupation further increase health and wellness.  Add peace, enjoyment and income to your work. 
No need to wait.  Heighten personal and professional satisfaction.  Call us at 360-378-6313

Benefit from online, nature-connected courses, jobs, funding and degree programs.

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Instructions/Directions

How to most effectively use this web site for educating, counseling and healing with nature jobs, training, funding, careers, degrees and activities:

The art and science on this web site is like an affectionate and tender supermarket of relevant and timely knowledge.

On these supportive web pages, as explained further below, you simply identify and select what is attractive, makes sense, and is of value to you. Then you place it in a "remember to explore this further" section of your mind, an imaginary "this truly makes sense" shopping cart.  Better still, write it down.

This web site immerses you in a wide range of real life information about human ecology and the organic application of ecopsychology and ecotherapy. If you use the site fully it will bring you to where you may feel excited, and perhaps a bit lost, due to the profound newness and benefits of this nature-connected way of knowing and relating. When this happens, congratulations!  Not to worry. This means you have used the site correctly and to its fullest. Just follow the procedure below.

Procedure:

1. First bookmark and read through this homepage, then follow its links of interest.

Always return to this page to find additional information and links when you desire them.

2. Explore and collect attractive information from these pages, information that supports your personal and professional needs. Place that information in that imaginary "supermarket shopping cart," in your mind, or your notepad.

3. Contact Mike Cohen, Ph.D., a qualified, often fun, adviser who will help you, without pressure, to customize the information you gather here so that you may best meet your professional,  academic training, personal or financial goals. 360-378-6313. (Pacific Time Zone, USA.), or email him.

IMPORTANT NOTE: our Procedures page is the page to explore for application and participation in our online training courses and degree programs. Then call 360-378-6313 to benefit from distance learning and applying the program within the means of your time and budget.

This site's purpose and procedure is to help us help you benefit from online training experiences, jobs, accredited course work, certification or degree programs that enhance your personal or professional life via nature-connected experiential education. This helps you to become a more supportive citizen of the global web of life community and Industrial Society.

Use this homepage to add skills and rewarding benefits to your present interests, prior training and/or life experience.

Questions? Comments? Participation? Contact Mike Cohen, 360-378-6313.


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Website Contents
 

"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek." 

- Barack Obama



Below is a suggested sequence to follow for this page and its prime links. Better still, you can scroll down the page to explore its entire contents in sequence.

NOTE: Don't get lost. Bookmark this page, or use "back" on your browser to return to these Contents.


Website Synopsis (above)

Instructions  (above)
Important: how to most effectively use this website

Overview (above)

Enrollment and Participation Page: 
How to Participate in Courses and Degree Programs online.

Orientation 
Topics
Found
Outcomes
Benefits
Contact Us  email: nature@interisland.net


Preface and Introduction 
Website Overview, Goals and Purpose

New and Free (located in the Preface)
Articles, Books, DVD, Buttons

Part One:
Application of the Program:  Professions and hobbies. Links to significant pages


Part Two:
Rationale.  How and Why:  Ecopsychology Science, Organic methods and materials; Links to associated pages. An experience-based presentation of this material is also available at Natural Attraction Ecology.com


Articles
Read these for a wide range of information, they are available for re-publication.

Outcomes
Survey of Participants, Journaled Reports, Research Findings

Enrollment and Participation Page: 
How to Participate in Courses and Degree Programs online.


Gain the expertise to reach your greatest potential. Master our core Psychological Elements of Global Citizenship online Orientation Course.
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ORIENTATION:

WEB SITE TOPICS:

Ecopsychology in Action: News, Degrees, Holistic Community Training Courses, Jobs

Books and Grants for Organic and Gaia Psychology, Ecotherapy and Therapists, Nature Deficit Disorder, Interdisciplinary Earth Wisdom Study, Peace Corps, Graduate Schools

Environmental and Human Services CEU, Holistic Outdoor Counseling, The Secret Natural Law of Attraction, Green Spirituality, War on Terrorism

Climate Change Answers, Sustainable Soul Coaching, Stress Relief Management and Meditation, Natural Health and Wellness

Inner and Global Peace, Alternative Education Grants, Debt Solution Money, Global Warming Remedies, Who are You?

Stress Management, Dream work, Native American Studies, Home Schooling, Organic Leadership Consciousness.

We use Trust Based Learning and Funding: you schedule and pay for your program courses and/or degree only what you can afford and on a time schedule that fits your needs.

 

 

FOUND: A critical missing component in industrial society

At home school or work enjoy and teach the healing nature-sensitivity online process of Organic Psychology. Help reverse our destructive prejudice against the web of life community.  We are part of this community, not superior to it.

Benefit from motivational psychology,  the self-correcting and purifying ways of natural systems within and around us.

Add holistic sustainability and resilience to your personal and professional life.

 

OUTCOMES:

Boost your energy and joy. Think and feel like nature's perfection works. Advance your professional and outdoor life.

Activate the 53 natural senses you inherit from nature to become more
- thoughtful, sensitive and likable,
- trustable, friendly and secure,
- helpful, confident and peaceful with people, places and things.

 

BENEFITS:

Increase pleasure. Reduce depression. Transform the pollution in contemporary thinking into the happiness of constructive balanced relationships and meditation with the whole web of life.

Correct the falsehoods that painfully injure the wholesome attraction sensitivities of the natural within and around us.

Empower yourself with nature-connected community and conflict resolution techniques.

 

PURPOSE:

To provide and fund tools for open minded, multiple-intelligence thinking and feeling that help us reduce the detrimental effects of our excessive separation from, and exploitation of, nature's web of life.

 

 

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PREFACE TO THE INTRODUCTION 

This web site contains portions of the books: Reconnecting With Nature, The Web of Life Imperative, and Educating, Counseling and Healing With Nature  by Michael J. Cohen, Ph.D.

The books are texts for Psychological Elements of Global Citizenship, our online Orientation Course that is rooted in 47 years of living and learning with people and the equality of balanced relationships learned from direct sensory contact with natural areas.  

Our courses can be used as self-designed accredited electives for any degree program as well as to fulfill CEU or professional certification (clock hour) requirements for counselors or teachers. They include trust-based funding: you schedule and pay for your program courses and/or degree only what you can afford on a time table that fits your needs.

Please inquire about being paid for published reviews of our books, courses or this website.  We welcome financial or other types of donations.

For best results, first explore this homepage, its directions (above), and then its links. Collect information that has value to you. As questions arise call 360-378-6313 to learn how you may participate independently or through our self-help grant program (email us for a toll-free number).

The program of Project NatureConnect is subsidized and strengthens any endeavor or discipline. The major requirement for participation is your caring intention to learn how to increase personal, social and environmental well-being.


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- The free, 45 minute, online DVD: Naturally Attracted: Connecting With Michael J. Cohen captures Project NatureConnect and its participants in action at workshops, lectures and in the field as it documents the program.  It is also reviewed and available by donation online. It is included, along with two books, in the materials for the Orientation Course Psychological Elements of Global Citizenship.

- Obtain a free nature-connection button that helps you build sensible relationships and increase friendships and cooperation.

- You can discover the green essence of personal and global sanity in less than ten minutes: visit  Who Am I?  Who Are You?  Who Are We? 

- Online, get the unbiased facts that can help you reverse our society's destructive disconnection from nature, in and around us. Learn about Natural Attraction Ecology: The Practical Application of Art, Science and Spirit in Balance

- The most complete and verified description of the PNC program, its science, rationale, validity and history is the refereed, free e-book or hard copy Natural Attraction Ecology: Educating Counseling and Healing With Nature  and its associated course.

- Educate yourself. There are 27 Free Online Articles you can read, quote or republish.

- Questions? Would you like to customize the PNC program for yourself? Email nature@interisland.net or, better still, call 360-378-6313

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INTRODUCTION

"This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands."

- Barack Obama

A word to the naturally wise.....

Welcome, and thank you for your strong interest in advancing the well-being of all of life on Earth, including humanity.

Thank you, too, for recognizing that our individual and collective well being has deteriorated due to industrial society's insensitive and excessive conquest of nature, within and around us.

We have been socialized to think that we are superior to the the web of life when we are simply an equal part of it, and vice versa. Our thinking has learned to be unreasonably biased against nature and we seldom acknowledge this. This trespass underlies most of our disorders, great or small.
Educating, counseling and healing with nature helps you remedy this problem.

On personal and political levels, our sense of reason demands that we make responsible changes to remedy this situation.

Any individual who has enjoyed a good experience with nature -- in backcountry forest or backyard garden...or at the beach...or on a park walk...or with their pet,...or in contact with the wind, sea or stars -- recognizes that, without the use of books, teachers or lessons, sensory attractions in nature renew us. We inherently enjoy and benefit from their ability to help us think and feel better. They momentarily increase our bliss and wellness, our abiity to reason with greater clarity. We more fully enjoy our true biological and psychological self in natural community, as did many Native Americans. 

To our profound loss, our "natural attraction self" usually lies buried and frustrated in us due to our excessive, nature-exploitive, socialization and disconnection from nature. This stresses us.  We are wanting, competitive and angry, not compassionate, when our natural senses are unfulfilled or aggravated.
Educating, counseling and healing with nature helps you remedy this problem.
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Try to remember, for a few minutes, a good experience you have had in nature, one you would be attracted to repeat again because it was attractive. 

- Can you remember natural colors, sounds, aromas, textures or flavors that were part of the experience? 

- Did it contain comforting motions or attractive feelings of community, trust or place? 

- Do you feel it was enchanting, self-enhancing or spiritually pleasing? 

- Was it supportive, peaceful or both? Did it reduce stress? 

- Did it help you feel that you were part of a greater whole?

The above are some of the results that people have reported from remembering their attractive experiences in natural areas. Their direct contact with the web of life helped them escape their "industrial story-world" for a few moments and sense and feel the true natural being that they were born. They could think with that truth. They became aware how their natural self and their dreams had been excessively stressed by Industrial Society's exploitation of nature within and around them. It helped them more completely answer the question "Who am I ?"

If you have ever had such experiences, or you would like to have them, you are eligible to enter and benefit from the program of Project NatureConnect.  

You may want to keep in mind that nature-centered people and societies seldom display or cause the problems of our nature-conquering "civilization." 


State of consciousness...

Are you aware that the contact of your psyche with the web of life increases well-being? Even bringing the, above, nature-connected memories to mind for a few minutes temporarily reduces your blood pressure. By helping you continually make conscious sensory contact with natural systems within and around you, the life long science of Organic Psychology enables you to continually reap the rewards of an environmentally supportive form of stress management and ecotherapy.

Too often we take our gratifying nature-connection gift and its wonderful powers for granted. We call it an escape from real life: recreation, not re-creation. However, biologically and spiritually, this gift is a momentous part of the person and community each of us is naturally born to be.

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"Nature is doing her best each moment to make us well. Why, Nature is but another name for health."

"What we call wildness is a civilization other than our own."

"Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads."

-Henry David Thoreau

 

 

An astounding fact: We are born as part of nature's global life community and its purity yet, on average, over 98 percent of our time, thinking and feeling is out of touch with the self-correcting grace, balance and restorative powers of nature and the natural, in and around us.

This monumental disconnection of our psyche from our nurturing origins is similar to walking around with our head in a bucket of sand for all but ten hours of our entire life, on average.

Consider the state of the world. The destructive madness and disorders resulting from how our McBurgered "head in a bucket" makes us think, feel and relate, speaks for itself.  We have reached a point where those who try to correct this insanity and its discontents are seen as "environmentalists" or "nature freaks" or "fuzzy thinkers" of some kind, rather than individuals whose thoughts and feelings struggle to remain reasonable and balanced.  

We endure our troubles because most of us learn to accept that the way we suffer from this disconnection is "real life."
Educating, counseling and healing with nature helps you remedy this problem.

To our cost, in our industrial society, we are educated to believe it is "normal" for our thinking and feeling to be estranged from the benefits of nature's beauty and equilibrium.

The benefits of thinking while in hands-on, conscious, sensory contact with natural areas demonstrate that we bear our isolation and disorders because we are "bucketheads" and because we expertly train and elect "bucketheads."

Our lives are missing the powerful essence of whole life reasoning, natural sanity and peace of mind.
Educating, counseling and healing with nature helps you remedy this problem.

Organic Psychology works because it enables those of us who are wise enough to understand our situation to learn how to genuinely reconnect our thinking to nature and teach others how to engage in this healing process. We personally and professionally help all members of Industrial Society connect to the worldwide purifying and supportive natural attraction ways of the web of life, backyard or backcountry. This produces beneficial outcomes that increase personal, social and environmental well-being.  As seen by their history since Josh Lieberman's 1931 Creative Camping book and program, the benefits have long been verified and improved.


Prejudice against nature

Unwittingly, due to a dangerous prejudicial falsehood that it promotes, industrial society socializes or otherwise indoctrinates us into excessive, nature-exploitive habits and attitudes.

Prej-u-dice n. an unreasonable pre-judging attitude that is, due to bonding, unusually resistant to rational influence.

We seldom change our destructive ways because, by age seven, we become bonded (McBurgered) to our nature-disconnected artificial materials and stories. They usually remain with us through adulthood, even though we can see that their side effects are often detrimental and erode well being in us and other natural beings.
Educating, counseling and healing with nature helps you remedy this problem.

Truly reasonable individuals thoughtfully recognize that we are McBurgered and educated to become prejudiced against nature as well as not to admit that we are. This secret bias underlies most disorders within and around us.

Just as we once prejudicially gave no legal rights to slaves, we still give no legal rights to nature, including the web of life's inalienable right to its life and happiness. Its life includes our natural self, the flow of natural systems and the happy fulfillment of their expression in and around us. We prejudicially demean them and their balancing wisdom. Is it any wonder that we suffer problems that we can seldom solve?

As an integral part of the web of life, is it surprising that we stress ourselves as we stress the web?

Online, at Project NatureConnect, social workers, counselors, teachers, parents, therapists and students together learn and teach nature-connecting activities that help us transform our destructive prejudice into sustainable, balanced, constructive, environmentally sound relationships.


Results from omitting conscious sensory contact with nature.

Sadly, we endure our greed, depression and dysfunctions because the progression of our excessively nature-separated lives demeans and disconnects our mentality and our loving from the web of life. We lose the support of our inherent biological and spiritual wholeness.
Educating, counseling and healing with nature helps you remedy this problem. 

We are missing the mysterious illumination and kind humility that we share with our natural instincts, values and origins in the global life community and its genius. This profound loss causes our psyche to want, and when want there is never enough.
Educating, counseling and healing with nature helps you remedy this problem.

We fail to recognize that the most trustable truth of our life is what we experience in each immediate moment of our life, in the "now" of life. However, we spend less than .0001 percent of the "now" with our thoughts and feelings consciously in contact with the innate way the web of life produces and sustains its balanced perfection in and around us, including within the life of our psyche. To counteract this loss, Project NatureConnect provides the means for us to, at will, effectively include nature, the real thing, backyard or backcountry, in the now of our life.

Normally, from infancy on, we learn to detach our sensual psyche and soul from the self-correcting life-spirit and support of natural systems and their flow. This rupture stops the streaming cycles of earth's natural systems and their regenerative powers through the life of our psyche. It breaks their vital circuit. The removal of their nurturance and vigor weakens our natural intelligence. It desensitizes how we think and feel, our self-esteem is reduced, our dreams frighten us, we become vulnerable. In turn, our best thinking unwillingly injures the world and its people.

Our lack of respect and reverence for the consistent and giving pulse of the web of life community underlies our discontents. This helps to explain our "crazy world," why it often feels like we are stressfully rolling down hill like a snowball that's heading for hell. With respect to our balanced origins and nature, including global warming, our thinking has become blocked and bewildered ("wilderness separated"). We seldom recognize that "wild," "natural life" and "god" are related and may be synonymous.

"I believe in God but I spell it Nature."

- Frank Lloyd Wright


Solutions

This website and it origins present nature-connecting social technologies, studies and biology adventures. From them you may learn and teach how to overcome the estrangement of our mind from natural systems, and the nature deficit disorders that result.

The removal of our thinking and feeling from nature's (Gaia's) self-correcting, whole (holy/sacred/divine) ways of community self-government and self-organization reduces our sanity, our humor, our fun and fitness. Our loss of contact with great spirit (the force) creates the quandary of our predicaments and our inability to fulfill our fondest dreams.

- The Web of Life Imperative

 

Life is evidence of itself. The scientific process of Project NatureConnect uses the self-evident truths of phenomenological experience in natural places as a means to produce practical solutions for our dilemmas. It works because it connects our thoughts and feelings with nature itself, the fountainhead of authority with respect to living in peaceful balance and purity on Earth.

Patient and persistent, we, together, in natural areas, learn how to invite nature to safely reconnect our thoughts and feelings back to their non-polluting perfection in the web of life. We honor this authoritative and decisive act of ours as the tipping or turning point that makes a difference.

"Our imaginative passion for reconnecting with nature helps us create sober character, fortitude and courage. We build for ourselves and the world a reliable, ecologically sound, personal and social security."

- Reconnecting With Nature

 

In Project NatureConnect, our classroom consists of creating moments that let Earth teach, moments that bring out its knowledge in us that we inherit but learn to suppress. Then, by email, we share that sensory understanding with classmates and counselors via the internet and we learn more, by email, from their nature-connected experiences that they email to us.

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Engage in extraordinary online friendships, exciting training and sensible, whole life Organic Psychology degree programs that our society usually omits. Based on trust, these community-based programs help you improve your personal and professional life via an economical and accredited sensory distance learning process in organized or homeschooling and counseling situations.

"Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential." 

- Barack Obama

Project NatureConnect's visionary funding program financially assists deserving individuals who are conscious of the history of our society's great discord and want to master the organic remedy for it that this web site offers. You simply add our Organic Psychology process to your present and prior life-experiences and/or training. It is a nature-connected application of ecopsychology.

Our program is subsidized because the unique art and science it offers is essential for increasing the well-being of individual and planet. After completing our online Orientation Course, you pay for your courses and/or degree only what you can afford on a time table that fits your needs.  A special $1000 training grant is available to appropriate professionals for completing this short online course so that they may help increase the well being of their clientele and the environment. Call 360-378-6313. 

Learn our quantum nature-connected education and counseling techniques that help you increase personal, social and environmental health.

Please inquire as to how we can help your personal and professional life strengthen well-being within and about you. 360-378-6313 email

For Peace,

Michael J. Cohen, Ph.D.

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"Project NatureConnect presents an accessible, simple, enjoyable and extremely powerful way that love for all life may heal the deep wounds that we suffer."

- Elisabeth Ryland, San Bernadino

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"Now, I am more sympathetic, self-sufficient and happy. I support the environment, and my health and friendships have improved; all this just from doing these thoughtful sensory activities with natural attractions that I discover in the park and then share with my Internet study group."

- Project NatureConnect Participant

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Rationale: The How and Why of Nature-Connected Education Counseling and Healing.

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Towards the Sustainable Health and Wellness of People, Careers and Places: Environmental Distance Learning With Nature.

Below appears one of thousands of journal entry quotes that convey unadulterated empirical evidence for your consideration.  It comes directly from the stress-reducing experience of a person whose thoughts and senses registered, first-hand, the outdoor events this entry describes:

"This nature-connecting activity helped me become aware of my attraction to the crescent moon as it hung over two hills near my home. Soon, its mellow glow, framed by peaks and trees, embraced me in a wordless, ancient primordial scene. Timeless power, peace and unity swept me up. I just wanted to stay in that state of awe, I felt in balance with all of reality. I was simply "BEING." No tension, no pressing goal, just truly belonging to the global life community. This natural attraction captured my stress laden pulse and seduced it to the rhythms of Earth. The sleeping disorder I have battled all my adult life dissolved in this restorative power. For the first time in decades, I gently fell asleep after dark and arose shortly after dawn. With elation, I celebrated the breakthrough and I thanked nature. I thanked the endearing activity, too. I'm attracted to it because it helps me reconnect with nature whenever I choose, and I can teach it to others."

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The rapture in this phenomenal outdoor journal quote goes against the public's stress-producing cultural bias to excessively discredit, exploit or conquer nature. Nature includes the self-correcting and purifying ways of natural systems, of "Gaia," our living planet and community that flows around and through us.

The quote conclusively demonstrates this extraordinary fact: the action of conscious sensory connection with natural systems helped the writer reduce his sleep disorder, increase his satisfaction and self-worth as well as deepen his respect for nature.  

As with this sleep disorder example, Project NatureConnect money-back guarantees that the outstanding nature-connected self-help coaching, wellness and counseling tools, activities and jobs offered on this website help you help yourself and others, by 32 percent or more, increase personal, professional and environmental well being. You will reduce puzzling disorders, dysfunction, trouble, conflict, stress, issues and dependencies. Your mind will cooperatively improve self-esteem and relationships in general; your meditations will help protect endangered species and natural systems.

 

"By interlacing our mind with nature, the science of Organic Psychology enables our thinking to tap into nature's grace, balance and regenerative processes. This helps us transform and recycle detrimental ways we think and feel.

Uniquely, we learn how to help the web of life decompose into fertile thoughts the garbage that destructive aspects of industrial society have dumped into our mentality and spirit.

Educating, counseling and healing with nature, backyard or backcountry, is trustable. It results in beneficial coaching and teaching that compassionately increases our personal, social and environmental health. IQ and other analytical tests show that this process is a potent, cost-free antidote and social work tool. We enjoy a smart, stress reducing euphoria, a thoughtful tranquility we normally miss in our excessively nature-separated lives."

- The Web of Life Imperative

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The Present Source of our Disorders: A Profound Distortion

 

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"Truth is what stands the test of experience."

- Albert Einstein

 

"Any thoughtful feeling of attraction to nature that we experience while in a natural area is a truth of the ages."

- The Web of Life Imperative

 

"Over 80 percent of our social and medical problems result from  excessive stress. In addition, stress erodes our personal and environmental relationships. This reduces our hope and self-worth."

- The Web of Life Imperative


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"Most people know that we live on the surface of Planet Earth. But do we?"

- Reconnecting With Nature 

 

Today, we unnecessarily suffer dysfunction and pain because contemporary educators psychologists and health professionals unknowingly teach us an extremely dangerous distortion that disconnects us from nature's supportive and healing ways.

As children, from the time we first begin to talk we obtain adoring rewards (social approval, food, shelter, water, air, light, love, community, place, trust) that inextricably socialize us - that is, emotionally bond us during childhood- to  destructively excessive parts of industrial society and its leaders.

At an early age, like a bad habit, whenever we think or feel, what first comes to our mind is the McBurgered, conditioned, nature-disconnected, "exploit and profit" warp we have learned that shapes our thinking. We learn to register our excessive tendencies as being normal, progress and economic growth. 

As if we are looking through distorted eyeglasses, our leaders' distortion makes us perceive in ways that produce much stress and conflict. Their falsehood says that we live on the surface of Planet Earth while, from direct sensory experience, the wisdom of our deeper sensory selves instinctively knows full well that we don't.

Troubles arise when we learn to discount the truth and value of our personal senses and experience. In this case, our natural senses of color, motion, distance, consciousness, gravity, light, direction, texture and reason register that we live in the Earth, 300 miles below its atmosphere, beneath its air, clouds, rain, snow, tree tops and flying creatures above our head. Isn't this experience true for you? If so, why does it usually feel uneasy, foreign or strange to say "I live in the Earth" or "We/humanity live in, not on, the Earth?"

We think and feel conflicted because, moment by moment, our false story separates our mind and heart from what we sense to be true. We learn to deny the truth we experience from direct, sensory contact with our nurturing origins in the grace and balance of the web of life and its renewing powers.
Educating, counseling and healing with nature helps you remedy this problem.

How can we truly know who we are in our natural relationship with life if the McBurgering bias of our story of who we are gently, but powerfully, misleads and exploits us?  

Our industrial lives are dancing to the tune of a malicious fiddler. We can see and feel how the dance hurts Earth and us. Our thinking has been unable to change this situation because our mentality and psyche remain bonded to misguided information. 

 

"Well-being always increases when our stories tell us the whole truth."

- Anonymous

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When we learn to prejudicially think stories about life that undermine the attractive reality that we register when we experience nature's balance and beauty, our psyche becomes conflicted and misled. This conflict excessively stresses and harms us. We become disturbed. Worst of all, we may learn to think that this disturbance is a normal part of life, something like "God places us in our conflicts so that we can learn from the experience."
Educating, counseling and healing with nature helps you remedy this problem.

The momentous question that rocks us is this: do we simply live on the Earth, or is our mind, body and spirit in and part of Earth's web of life community?

This is monumental.

Earth is the biological origin and nurturing source of life as we know it here. Our Planet's nature is an essential unifying root of our thoughts, feelings and survival.

We become troubled and we create trouble when, from birth on, we are conflicted or misled about this relationship:

It makes our thoughts and feelings lose contact with who we really are and what and where we really are.

It makes us dependent upon the nature-disconnected and exploitive "McBurger" stories of Industrial Society that often cause, rather than resolve, problems.

Our discord about life, and our life, stresses the depth of our natural senses of place, trust, community and belonging as well as 49 additional natural senses. In Industrial Society, most of these senses may only express themselves in the safety of social work, counseling or therapy.

Our stressed natural senses undermine the delight and joy of our intact mind body and spirit. Stress erodes the integrity of whole social and environmental relationships.

It produces the discomforts of anxiety, depression and panic.

We feel ungrounded, uncentered vulnerable or abandoned.

We lose our natural negotiating skills and can't enjoy our true ecopsychological self.  

Too often, this is how we "normally" experience ourselves. 
Educating, counseling and healing with nature helps you remedy this problem.


The person-planet clash in our thinking is secretly destructive. It troubles our natural senses and they deteriorate.  Confused and disoriented, we take this discord for granted because we see it all around us most of the time.

To reverse our troubles, from our place in the cosmos we need familiarity, strength and support, not stress.

To feel grounded, we need contact with the healing purity of nature's regenerative ways to help us solve the cancer of our runaway problems.

Our major problem is that due to our learned prejudice against nature, we deny that contemporary thinking and our teachers are almost entirely disconnected from the self-correcting power of nature's renewing energies.
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The scientific fact of Ecology is that we are embedded in and nurtured by Earth's biosphere, a 20 mile band of life that sits above and below the land and ocean. We are as much a part of the biosphere as is any leaf, molecule or atom, any plant, animal, mineral or weather system.

The discovery of the biosphere in 1929, makes as great a contribution for good as did the finding by Copernicus, in 1536, that the Sun, not the Earth, is the center of the solar system.

For the past 75 years science and society have recognized the biosphere and its cyclic systems as the central pulsating life community and ecology of Planet Earth.
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"Life prepares its own environment"

- John Storer,
The Web of Life (1953)
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The biosphere is a community. It consists of creation's self-organizing, cooperative integration of atmosphere, sunshine, ocean, soil, plants, animals, minerals and energy, a web of life attraction symbiosis that supports all of life (Gaia), including human life. It nurtures us as we nurture it. For this reason, for example, we are born as cat, dog and pet lovers, we are not trained through hypnotherapy or any other process to naturally love animals or life.

It is natural attraction, the love of life, that energizes and organizes how nature works. 

The essence of the biosphere and Earth is the pulsating flow of natural systems. They are driven by natural attractions to support life. 

Wherever or whenever that flow of ecology is stopped, life as we know it deteriorates or dies.

Many folks generalize the biosphere as being "star energies" or the "Universe." This "answer" can remove their thinking from the benefits and destiny they might otherwise enjoy by making conscious sensory contact with natural life and its web of life natural attractions, the real thing, backyard or backcountry.

 

"I did the activity that directs you to visit a natural area and thoughtfully learn to sense it and the natural attraction flow of its systems. You then try to determine where nature ends and you begin. I was surprised and grateful because in 20 minutes I discovered a new depth of who I really am and what has happened to me."

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"This home schooling activity helped me realize that even if I'm in a natural area but I'm thinking or talking about some rock band or the problems that face me in the classroom or with my boss or my girlfriend, I'm not fully connecting with my natural attractions and nature."

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Natural systems and their flow are self-correcting and purifying. They recycle and renew the natural deterioration of themselves and every molecule on earth. For this reason, nature rarely creates abuse. It seldom produces garbage, pollution or the destructive stress and pain of our aggravated relationships.

Moment by moment, the pulse of natural systems and their natural attraction power flows through all of life. This includes the life of our mind and spirit, of our thoughts feelings and perceptions.

Natural attractions are a prime commonality and unifier that we share with all people, places and things, past and present. This commonality includes what we hold in common with spiritual leaders like Moses, Jesus, Mohammad and Buddha.

Most artificial substitutes for natural systems exclude the natural unifying energies and organic healing ways of natural attractions. This omission leaves our thinking to unknowingly produce our conflicts, discomforts, moods or deterioration, sooner or later.

Our whole life health and happiness ultimately depend upon the streaming pulse of natural systems through us. But because of the prejudicial distortion in our leaders' biosphere-detached thinking, in the name of "progress" "profit" or "economic growth" our socialization teaches us to excessively separate ourselves from, exploit and conquer nature and its attractions, as if they are harmful.

What we do to nature, we do to ourselves as part of nature. We become stressed consumers instead of responsible and happy life-community citizens.
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REMINDER: To our loss, on average, throughout our lives we learn to disconnect 98 percent of our time, thinking and feeling from conscious sensory attraction contact with nature and its systems.

Our extreme exploitation of and disconnection from natural systems stops their beneficial flow through our psyche. The loss of their natural attraction vibrancy wounds our psyche. It numbs our thinking and feeling. It erodes our trust and our sense that we naturally belong or have value.

Our pain and numbing desensitization results in the excessive disagreements, violence, abuse, stress, hurt, disorders wants and addictions that mark our lives.

We are troubled because something's missing.

We don't know or relate to the ways of nature, in and around us, as balanced attraction-love life relationships, as do other natural beings.

We seldom embrace natural things as relatives, attractions, loves or spirit kinships. For example, the organism that we call a "tree," "board-feet" or "potential profit," nature-centered people(s) might call "treeing," "tree spirit," "friend" or "relation."

Natural folks are socialized to validate their innate attractions to Earth, to trust Mother Earth as a true mother, not as a dead third rock from the sun. We can't afford to overlook that these folks seldom cause the troubles we produce.  Many of them have no word in their language for pollution, garbage or waste. Everything belongs.

"At root, ecology is an erotic attitude of closeness, relatedness and care. We have made it into a rational/activist project and lost sight of its heart."

- Thomas Moore

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Disjointed Origins of Contemporary Thinking and Feeling

To be part of a system, a thing must somehow be in communication with that system, otherwise it unknowingly trespasses it.

We are part of nature and its systems. Our excessive disconnection from them prevents them from registering in our thinking so, to our loss, we trespass them within and around us.

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We may best begin to address our natural attraction disconnection troubles by understanding their origins:

The fossil record demonstrates that creation, biologically, culturally and spiritually evolved humanity in the tropical environment of Africa. In that naturally attractive "Eden like" womb of the biosphere, warmth and food were consistently available because seasonal changes were minimal.

Natural People: As ancient humanity migrated into areas with dramatically changing seasons, most cultures socialized themselves with stories that said: "We must seek, register and respect the attractive and ever changing sensory signals from this place and our love for it. We must respect how its signals help us feel and think in a good way. The Great Spirit of Mother Nature will help us survive by sensuously communicating her fluctuations to us so that we may act appropriately and supportively."

Natural survival depended upon expertly sustaining emotional sensitivity and gratitude to life-supportive sensory-emotive communications from natural attraction and the flow of natural systems. For example: when a certain flower turned blue it attracted a natural person's sense of color and signaled this was the time the salmon were running, that food was available or that seeds should be planted.

Tropicmakers: The ancient groups that originated contemporary culture socialized themselves to a different story. It said: "To survive throughout the seasons, we must create artificial tropic-simulating 'closets.' By living in these imitations of the tropics, we may protect ourselves from nature's changes and enjoy a constant warmth and food supply, as if we were in a tropical area. Our survival does not depend upon thinking that includes attraction signals from our natural senses and feelings while in contact with nature. Rather, it depends upon our leaders' creativity and intelligence to develop 'tropic-making' techniques/technologies."

Our society programs our natural attractions, thinking and perceptions to be prejudiced against nature and, to be attracted to artificial tropic-like substitutes.

We learn to use natural sensitivities and systems in people and places as resources. We learn to love and support our leaders and their ability to produce imitations of tropical life. They can artificially and creatively replace the tropic's natural warmth, food supply, medicine, food storage, entertainment, recreation and transportation that we need for our survival and happiness."

Today, we are increasingly disconnected from the beneficial sensory pulse and resonations of natural systems. The tropicmaking thinking of contemporary people has fixated or addicted us to excessive sensory rewards from nature-exploitive stories, technologies, profit, power and prestige that often act as a form of terrorism against natural systems.

Tropicmaking also addicts us to tranquilizing the emotionally-abusive discomfort created by these nature-disconnected substitutes and their adverse side-effects on us, as well as on the environment.

It is reasonable to recognize that we seldom improve personal or global peace and well being because we are secretly socialized to fight an undeclared war against nature within and about us. To destroy our own life-support system is a form of insanity. It underlies the stress and madness of contemporary life.

Insight from our 53 natural attraction senses and feelings have little value in our tropical-imitation indoor world. We learn to train, subdue or conquer them rather than support them. Too often, to produce a profit, we learn to think and feel like we are cultural objects rather than as contributing sensitive members of Earth's life community.

As tropicmakers, constant blessings from imaginative distant-God stories and/or technologies often replace the joy and other supportive rewards we would ordinarily receive from the recuperative flow of natural systems in our immediate environment. We also lose the value of expressing our inborn, community-building gratitude to nature and our natural attraction love for the natural life-spirit that we find in people, places and things.

Tropicmakers often experience the natural to be "flaky, fuzzy, environmentalism, fearful, emotional, unscientific or taboo."

The key to contemporary survival has become nature-disconnected thinking and its controlling stories that often stress our senses and loves. That process deteriorates well-being.

Unfortunately, as our fixation to these stories supports excessive technologies, profits and industrial growth, they increase our disorders. This occurs because disconnected stories further deteriorate our natural systems and the common natural attraction sense they give us.
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Delusion: During the first six years of childhood we socialize (McBurger) youngsters to change from their birth as natural beings into fledgling tropicmakers. Our tropicmaking socialization leads us to believe that the disconnection of our thinking and feeling from its attraction to nature's grace and restorative powers is progress, that it is benign and that it does not underlie the discomforting falsehoods, emotional imbalance, psychic wounds and isolated lifestyles that stress us.

It is not possible to amputate away the loves or ecstasy of an organism and not have that organism suffer and want. The organism senses that something valuable about it is missing. It never has enough. Without the tranquilization of its discomfort, it always wants more, if nothing else, more tranquilizers.

This is especially true when the organism we amputate is us and what we amputate away is our inherent natural love of life and our planet.

Our tropicmaking mentality today is like a computer that has foolishly unplugged itself from its energy sources. Without its sources, the computer is stupid. It is unable to discover what's wrong or compute how to re-plug itself. Our excessive disconnection of our thinking from nature's balanced natural attraction ways is doing the same thing to our psyche.
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Restoration: Once we recognize the tropicmaking source of our dysfunctions, the story of how to remedy them becomes apparent: "Learn to use a tool that helps you replace what's missing. The tool helps you genuinely plug your thinking and feeling into the natural attraction vibrancy and wisdom of natural systems. Restore their attractive flow in and through your body mind and spirit. Enjoy the safe, lasting satisfaction and renewal this provides. If you don't do this, your psyche will more severely express its hurt and wanting sooner or later, for it builds up."

"We are dysfunctional socially and environmentally because we are cut off and isolated from the world of nature and the natural."

-Albert Gore (edited)
Vice President, USA
Author, Earth in the Balance

The positive process along with the specific outcomes and general outcomes of genuinely reconnecting our thinking with natural systems speak for themselves. Some people consider the process and its results to be a contemporary form of Shamanism or Pantheism.

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How Organics Help Things Change

We seldom have the ability to change our socialization by industrial society for it is an accepted form of addiction or brainwashing. We can, however, sensibly choose to bypass its limits and trespasses and increase well being by using tools that connect our thinking with the transformative and recycling powers of natural attractions and systems. Over time, this new habit we develop helps how we think and feel change for the better.

The Natural System Thinking Process in Organic Psychology says:

"Make sense by learning how to respect and resonate with the flow of nature's natural attraction pulse rather than by excessively controlling it or fortressing yourself from it.

Delight in the rewards that come from direct sensory connections with the energetic spirit and love of life in natural systems and areas, rather than from stagnant indoor substitutes for it that have harmful side effects.

As part of family, dating or singles life, learn to connect directly with nature's life-spirit in natural areas, backyard or backcountry. It sustainably helps you convert the stress that erodes your well-being, into good feelings. This results because sensory connections to nature trigger the release of Dopamine and Serotonin as well as help you develop supportive personal and environmental relationships you trust and enjoy. You sense and feel that you and others belong to something worthwhile because you do.

Recognize that tropicmaking science limits our thinking by omitting the validity of natural sensory knowing. For example, tropicmaking does not include the natural attraction sense of thirst as a fact that is as real as water or as part of the global water system, of the water cycle, or as one of the "five senses." Omissions like this disconnect our thinking about thirst from the purifying water cycle, from nature's sensory grace, balance and recuperative ways.

Thirst is an intelligent sensory attraction. It informs us when we need water so we bring water into us and benefit. Our thirst also turns off to signal us that we have enough water. Similarly, our sense of excretion tells us to contribute our excessive water as food and water for the welfare of other members of the global life community. At least 51 additional natural sensory attraction-loves serve this same supportive purpose with regard to personal and global well being. This includes sensations of fear, pain, anxiety, depression, death, dying and grief. They signal that something important is missing and that we must seek it.

We excessively suffer because the way we learn to think, feel and relate is too often non-sense. We use only 10% of the natural sensory wisdom we inherit as part of nature. This leads us to foolishly applaud our excessive conquest of natural systems, in and around us.

Learning to genuinely reconnect with nature, the real thing, helps us reverse this dilemma. For example, it helps us with dieting and weight loss as we satisfy ourselves with sensory fulfilling food instead of excessive eating.

 

"Personal transformation is best cultivated by partnering with the supreme agent of change, the Earth. Life is change, and nature is the wizard who enlivens its magic cycles."

- Philip Sutton Chard

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Overcoming Personal, Social and Environmental Disorders

As described above, Organic Psychology helps us reverse our tropicmaking disorders by giving us the tools to help natural systems and their fulfilling benefits once again flow through and register in our psyche. It is a process that enables us to preempt or bypass the false and destructive aspects of our socialization and our learned prejudice against nature. It empowers us to directly reconnect our disconnected and wounded thoughts and feelings with the essence of our origins in natural systems and their healing ways. This re-connection gives us the ability to:

Override or transform hurtful nature-disconnecting ways and childhood distortions that we learn in industrial society.

Become more intelligent as we benefit from first-hand contact with the truth and regenerative powers of natural systems and the eons.

Build relationships based on immediate trustable attractions to natural systems in and around us that we hold in common, rather than to stories that divide us.

Increase personal and environmental well-being by thinking and feeling with nature rather than against it.

The core of our troubles is that, since Aristotle and before, our most powerful leaders, thinkers and teachers have been rewarded while they are/were victims of our culture's nature-conquering ways. As a result, while we are infants, our leaders prejudicially bond us to the same disconnecting half-truth labels and stories that they have been conditioned to believe. As if brainwashed, we emotionally attach to a way of thinking and relating that restricts, distorts and demeans natural systems. It estranges us from them and the flow of their beneficial pulse.

Out of habit, our ingrained life science story rejects the supportive attraction flow of natural systems in our psyche. Our biased thinking stops that beneficial flow.

The deteriorating state of natural systems suggests that we learn to fight a prejudiced undeclared war against them. How else can we explain that at the same time that the biosphere and its natural systems were discovered 75 years ago, so were Scotch tape, the jet engine, the EEG, the condom and Monopoly? Why, other than prejudice, have the latter thrived while the health of natural systems has dangerously declined.

Don't we suffer because we conquer and exploit, rather than think, feel and relate in support of natural attractions and their gifts for well-being? Have we not become ecozombies or "bucket heads" to a greater or lesser extent?

Organic Psychology gives us a trustworthy antidote and preventative for our nature-disconnection problem. We can use its activities to make thoughtful sensory contact with the transformative powers of natural attractions and experience an elation and wisdom that our socialized thinking ordinarily omits. We can add this process to our personal and professional lives. Its benefits speak for themselves.
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"It's great. Mike Cohen is right to make the responsibility for living on good terms with Gaia a personal one."

- Dr. James Lovelock,
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John Dewey noted, "We only begin to think when confronted by a problem." Confront yourself. Confront our leaders. Most of them have learned to become ecozombies. If they don't correct their biosphere and natural attraction lies and support nature-connected learning and healing, refuse to support them until they do. If you don't confront them, who will make them think further? We must stop supporting leaders who don't know what to do about an essence of our problems.
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"Illegitimus non carborundum"

- Joe Stillwell,
Four-Star American General

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Our Challenge for Sustainable Well-Being

Consider the two significant 20th century observations that, among many others, help us improve our personal and global wellness.
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"Human behavior is rooted most deeply in nature's intentions and desire. The rhythms of nature underlie all of human interaction: religious traditions, economic systems, cultural and political organization. When these human forms betray the natural psychic pulse, people and societies get sick, nature is exploited and entire species are threatened."

-Stephen Aizenstat

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"Scientific research is based on the idea that everything that takes place is determined by laws of nature, and therefore this holds for the action of people."

- Albert Einstein

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Industrial society's greatest problem is that its logic often teaches us to betray the natural psychic pulse, the pulsating natural attraction wave and flow of our life-spirit.
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We are born as part of nature's perfection and integrity. But, as previously mentioned, we learn to spend over 98% of our lives and thinking separated from nature's ongoing support of our mind, psyche and spirit. That support is readily available in natural areas, backyard or backcountry, whenever we use Organic Psychology sensory tools to help us access it.

We suffer our dysfunctions because our immediate material and economic rewards habituate us to a cultural and spiritual bias against nature and the natural.

Today we are additionally stressed by our uncontrolled stupidity. We exploit and conquer natural systems while fully aware that they are key to our survival and to our recovery from disorders. This way of thinking and acting is nonsense. Fortunately, the antidote for it, Educating Counseling and Healing With Nature, is readily available and is important enough to be subsidized. Anyone can learn and use it.
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Summary: The Effects of Psychic Pain

Nature's absence in our lives leaves a wanting, hurting hole in our psyche, and when we want, there is never enough. For example, in our society, no matter how rich or poor a person is, it is normal for them to feel they need about 15 percent more money. To feel good about themselves they must out-compete, or win, over others, over natural systems and their flow in and around us..

Our induced, insatiable wants produce our vulnerability to detrimental temptations and weakened resilience. This destructively stresses us. It has become a national epidemic. As mentioned, 75-90 percent of our primary care medical advice and treatment is related to stress disorders.

We can't resist society's unwhole and taxing demands and lures. These include the salary we receive for excessively doing unhappy jobs directed by leaders who massage us to exploit natural systems and their flow.

Disconnected from the natural peace and satisfactions provided by the ways of natural attractions, our thoughts and feelings often lose their inherent life wisdom. Then they cannot adequately help us address the detrimental expectations placed on us by others or by misguided parts of our thinking. As we discover this it often produces "mid life crisis."

Too often we forget that nature has the profound ability to heal itself, be the injury a bulldozed landscape, a scraped knee or an emotional hurt. However, nature seldom helps us correct our dysfunctions or improve our wellness when we disconnect our time, thinking and feeling from nature's ability to do this.

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Destructive Normalcy

Sadly, in our excessively nature-separated society, we are often taught to believe that our strong attraction to nature's perfection, its enchanting peace, nurturing, beauty, cooperation and sanity indicates that something is wrong with us. We learn to think that we are escapists, strange or different "hippie," "environmentalist" "earth muffin" "flakes." This is hurtful and false. Our attractions to nature are actually intact remains of natural systems within our consciousness.

Natural attractions that we experience are often fortuitous fitness residues that have struggled to survive our excessive exploitation of nature.

The surviving natural parts of ourselves may be stressed, but they are resilient and trustable. They refuse to be converted, to be further separated from nature, to be conquered or undermined. They will not submit to the competitive madness of our society and its detrimental ways. Instead, at risk, the hurt in these natural attractions trys to teach us to find nature's peace. They emotionally signal our consciousness to protect, seek and promote contact with the nurturing and restorative powers of our biological and spiritual origins in natural systems. This includes the natural powers and integrity that remains alive in our family, neighbors and other supportive individuals.

Project NatureConnect dedicates itself to providing financial and technical education assistance that helps frustrated natural attractions and systems in us reconnect with their nurturing origins. To this end, PNC provides an online activity or two to help you become more aware of natural attractions and natural systems' flow.
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On this web site you will find many teachable Organic Psychology self-help and other tools that assist us to meet our nature-disconnected challenges in a good way ("good" meaning supportive of the whole). They have value because Organic Psychology enables generations of us to personally and professionally benefit through co-creation with natural systems in any area of endeavor, rather than through additional exploitation of these systems.

"This program helps us plant the last Truffula seed from the Lorax in the fields of education, psychology and health."

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Natural Wisdom

Organic Psychology is for those of us who are naturally wise enough to neither trust nor depend upon the nature-disconnected processes of industrial society that cause our problems, to help us remedy these same problems. For us, it makes sense to confront this detrimental way of thinking and transform it with recuperative assistance from natural systems. We enable ourselves to make destructive parts of our personal and collective lives subside.

Over 85 percent of industrial society seeks help, or uses self-help, for their natural attraction discontents on some level. However, therapies and education we use that are not organic seldom solve our problems. Instead, they move our problems to another time place and context where we, our neighbors or our children will face them in even more destructive forms because we have reinforced them, rather than recycled them into cooperative relationships and well-being. By using nature-connected education counseling and healing, any ardent person can easily break this habit.

 

"A solid approach that applies the same consistent attitudes to living with people as it does to living with nature."

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Society and Individuals in Denial

Our core challenge for improving our well-being is to recognize that our thinking is often in denial:

  • We deny that the biosphere-detached way we learn to think produces personal, social and environmental dysfunctions, including global warming and prejudice against nature and the natural.
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  • We deny that we psychologically condition or addict to familiar stories, technologies and relationships. We won't admit that they habitually separate our mind and spirit from thoughtful connections to nature's balance, peace and sane renewing energies.
    Educating, counseling and healing with nature helps you remedy this problem.
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  • We deny that beneficial sensory tools are readily available to help our thinking and psyche more fully tap into nature's energizing beauty and healing ways.
    Educating, counseling and healing with nature helps you remedy this problem.
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  • We deny that connecting our consciousness with authentic natural attractions and systems helps us change our discontents into constructive relationships.
    Educating, counseling and healing with nature helps you remedy this problem.
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  • We deny that our natural reasoning, senses and feelings, like plants and animals or the wind hills and stars, are natural attractions in action.
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  • We deny that the life-sustaining sensitivities of natural attractions are all that we hold in common with each other and the plant, animal and mineral kingdoms...that the loss of these sensitivities in our thinking produces our greatest troubles.
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  • We deny that we personally need assistance in dealing with our loss of nature, that this is all fine and good for "others," but not ourselves, that Industrial society did not influence our natural ability to make sense in a good way.
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"Any clear-thinking person can profit from today's most important and rewarding jobs, careers and training. They can enter or promote sustainable livelihoods by adding organic psychology education, counseling or healing with nature activities to them. They help our polluted thinking get out of the nature-disconnected closet that is polluting it. This helps us stop global warming, the fever we have given our living planet.

We can each make a difference. No surprise, the rewards of most education, psychologies and therapies in our nature-exploitive society tend to further exploit nature. In contrast, the rewards of Organic Psychology increase our well-being and the health of the environment, too. You can add it to any relationship, therapy or profession."

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Coming to Our Senses

This website's nature-connected thinking tools strengthen our ability to benefit from, and to protect, the unifying ways of natural attractions. Here, we discover how to more fully belong, to find the sanity of nature's peace within and about us; we enhance our intelligence and spirit; this contributes to saner living.

"Our religion keeps reminding us that we aren't just will and thoughts. We're also sand and wind and thunder and rain and the seasons. All those things. You learn to respect everything because you are everything. If you respect yourself, you respect all things."

- Least Heat Moon

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The flow, swirls and eddies of a river are part of and exemplify the streaming of the biosphere. This similarity challenges the tropicmaking ways of most science because science gathers its best evidence under standard laboratory conditions of temperature, pressure, motion and light. But nature's life-pulse in/of the river constantly fluctuates. It has no standard conditions, they would stop the river's natural attraction pulse.

Our addiction to power, status and money drives us to pay objective scientists to produce standard conditions and controls, such as dams and death-producing pollution. They degrade a river's life-flow. Like a hypnosis that produces global warming, such science is not objective. It is directed and financed by tropicmaking goal-setting, greed and values to satisfy our unfulfilled wants. We must add to it a whole life sensory inquiry where things like the biosphere, water and the sensation of thirst are equally regarded as important natural attraction facts, facts of life.

How and when will we, with enthusiasm, come to our senses, our natural attraction senses, our inherent ability think and feel with the flow of natural systems, to co-create with nature? Organic Psychology offers a trustable art and science to help us achieve this goal and increase well-being.

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"Our greatest problems result from the difference between the way we think and how nature works"

- Gregory Bateson

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Project NatureConnect:

Confronts and breaks through our denial that we are addicted to technologies, relationships and stories that have stress-producing destructive effects. It offers us innovative organic tools to help us tap our thinking into nature's restorative ways.
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Guarantees that the nature-connecting accredited processes it offers are readily available online to help us, backyard or backcountry, come into a supportive balance with ourselves, each other and the environment.
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Shows that we uniquely benefit from adding this website's easily learned Organic Psychology method and nature jobs to our lives and livelihoods.
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Demonstrates that the heart-desired science of this site's Natural System Thinking Process enables us to restore our deteriorated natural consciousness and resilience. This helps us reduce dysfunctions and disorders in ourselves, others and the environment. We enjoy the ability to increase peaceful and rewarding well-being, within and around us.
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"This is not a reading experience, it's a hologram. It is communicating through talking leaves, something of what whales communicate to each other...you are there."

- Robin E. Lagemann, Indigenous People's activist.

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"Its impact lies in the fact that the author has lived its wisdom of these past twenty years... I have learned first had that its theories prove themselves in the fruition that its education delivers. It offers the medicine that disillusioned humanity and the endangered environment needs."

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"I recently participated in a hurried, almost stressful health and wellness training program for people whose differences kept them arguing amongst themselves. They had little interest or time to hear an explanation from me about the unifying and healing benefits of our reconnecting with nature process and they therefore decided to omit it from their agenda. "The trees and rocks are not the problem, they are not dysfunctional, they don't have abusive chemical or interpersonal dependencies, they don't commit crimes or have learning disabilities" they said.

In the midst of this hubbub, a young bird flew into the meeting room through the door. It could not find its way outdoors.

Without a word, the behind-schedule, argumentative meeting screeched to a halt. Deep natural attraction feelings for life and hope filled each person for the moment. For ten minutes that frightened, desperate little bird triggered those seventy people to harmoniously, supportively organize and unify with each other to safely help it find its way back home, outdoors. Yet when they accomplished this feat, they cheered their role, not the role of the bird. They felt like heroes for the moment and congratulated their humanity for its wisdom and compassion.

In their story of the incident, the role and impact of the bird went unnoticed while they cheered the human spirit.

The group returned to the hubbub and conflicts of the meeting, as if nothing special had happened. They completely overlooked that the bird had united them while it was there, something they could not do without its presence. Similarly, we who learn to consciously invite nature into our lives and embrace us enjoy the grace of its natural attractions. They help us overcome our stress and conflicts by uniting our mind body and spirit with our balanced and restorative origins in nature's flowing community within and around us. As a result, we increase our appreciation and love for natural attractions and their healing ways. This natural system connection motivates us to further support and protect all of life."

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"The activity attracted me to lie in the water beneath that sky of reddish and orange colors, with the sun rising more powerfully than I've ever seen it before. And there I was, all alone in the pond, but at the same time feeling totally held by the outdoor moment. I knew this is where I belonged. I felt a powerful energy being given to me by everything around me. I had a feeling in my throat that made me feel like crying and shouting with joy at the same time; and also a sense of peace, like everything was telling me "It's all right, it's all good."

My sense of isolation, this sense of loneliness, of being abandoned, of having the world against us is a common feeling. But how could a person be lonely when they could feel as part of a pond or see themselves in a lovely flower, in the trees and animals, and in other people? Think of all the lonely people who have no idea that we are so connected to nature.

We are truly not alone but only disconnected from our natural state. I used to be so depressed and now when I feel it come on me I think about how connected I have become to all things. I am less and less depressed now. Imagine if everyone could experience this outdoor connection. It would become a different world."

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"I felt the connection the first time that I tried to connect with nature and it becomes easier each time that I try to reconnect. In 1998, I was on a humanitarian medical mission to Haiti. I contracted St Louis Encephalitis during that mission and have suffered from migraine headaches since that time. Lately after starting my studies, when I get a headache, I just go outside and connect with nature. I calm down, I get a feeling of completeness and my headache resolves in minutes."

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"This program offers an environmentally sound, educational process that reduces apathy, catalyzes peace and promotes mental health. It fulfills our personal and economic needs, deeper ideals and spirit; it deserves the attention of every person who seeks to reverse our troubles."

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"The activities work, they move students. I see significant improvement in their self-esteem and value. They find something outside themselves that is actually a truth within themselves."

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"I wept as I sensed the unity of nature and myself. Honoring my nature experiences energizes and restores me. It enables me to more effectively help others recover. As these unique nature activities make me more whole (holy), my sense of self becomes more alive and active. The activities feel safe, they stimulate me. They free me to let go, to be in the moment. As I co-create with nature's rejuvenating processes, my life becomes more fun, balanced and joy-filled. These learning moments enable anybody to touch nature and enjoy its embrace."

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The challenge that Project NatureConnect addresses:

"Oh, what a catastrophe, what a maiming of love when it was made personal, merely personal feeling! This is what is the matter with us: we are bleeding at the roots, because we are cut off from the earth and sun and stars. Love is a grinning mockery because, poor blossom, we plucked it from its stem on the Tree of Life and expected it to keep on blooming in our civilized vase on the table."

- D.H. Lawrence

 

Do you have or want to have a working knowledge of what "cuts us off" and how to overcome it?

"Thousands of tired, nerve shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity."

- John Muir , 1901 A.D.

 

 

"The Web of Life Imperative offers more tools, knowledge and personal power for good than most therapies and spiritualities. It enables us to reverse our destructive relationships by empowering us to make thoughtful sensory connections with genuine nature. This connection responsibly satisfies the aching, ever-wanting hole in our psyche that has been produced by our excessive separation from nature, a hole that leads us astray."

- Susan Chernak McElroy,
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Program Founder and Director:

Recipient of the 1994 Distinguished World Citizen Award, Ecopsychologist Michael J. Cohen, Ph.D. is a Director of the Institute of Global Education, where he coordinates its Integrated Ecology Department and Project NatureConnect. He also serves on the faculty of Portland State University and Akamai University. Dr. Cohen has founded sensory environmental education outdoor programs independently and for the National Audubon Society and Lesley University (AEI), conceived the 1985 National Audubon Conference "Is the Earth a Living Organism," and is an award winning author of The Web of Life Imperative, Reconnecting With Nature, Einstein's World, How Nature Works and Educating Counseling and Healing With Nature He is an accomplished folk song artist and contra dancer who presents traditional music programs for the U.S. National Park Service and Elderhostel on San Juan Island, Washington.

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"Mike Cohen is a crackerjack teacher. What counts is that his words help us do what we must do to save ourselves and Gaia."

- Pete Seeger

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INDEX ONE

Course Activity Outcome Reports From Students

See the reports located in the middle section of the pages below

Home Schooling
Global Warming
Basic Problems

Natural Choice
Adult Education

Active health
Gaia
Consciousness
Enlightenment
Education
Counseling teaching
Global solution

Globalization
Legal
Homeschool
Who am I

Vision dreams
Native American
Organic Gardening
Pantheism
Yoga Meditation
Interior Design
Earth Passion
Love Animals
Web of Life
Good News

Ambassador
Sponsor

Rivers
Adolescents
Health Insurance
Maryland

California
Utah
Wyoming
Virginia
Vermont
Rhode Island
Pennsylvania
Montana

New Mexico
Idaho Nature
Colorado
Iowa
Missouri
Nevada
Indiana
Mississippi
Illinois Nature
Minnesota
Kansas Nature

Energy Nature
Head Injury
Clergy
Multiple Senses
Writing Magic
Anonymous Home
Friendship Poem
True Self
Community Course
Nurturing Baby Bird
Grounded Centering
Sanity of Earth

Natural Healing Energy
Reverence
Body-Mind-Spirit
Ecotherapy Guru

Life Experience
Growing Secure
Tulip Garden
Great Intelligence
Bird Watching
Flowers
Property Owner
Voices
Anti-Terrorism
Disorders
New York

New Hampshire
Michigan Nature

Massachusetts
Maine Nature
Connecticut
Canada Nature
Arizona Nature
North Carolina

Washington
Georgia Nature

Oklahoma Nature
Oregon Nature
Tennessee Nature
Florida Nature
Ohio Nature
Heart Principles
Creative writing

Organics
Depression Hurt
World Student
Wilderness Values
Jesus Therapy
Jesus spirit

Gobal Knowledge
Earth Dance
Meditation Business
Social Science
Organics
Moon Breathe

Model Reasoning
Console Child

Cooking Soil
Interspecies
Valentine
President
Attraction Law
Stress Manage
Bleep Rabbit

Financial Aid
Gratitude
Healing
Self-Help Game
Good City Woman
Sand Beach Energy
Natural Life Course
Web of Life Course
Self-Discovery
Strength Lilac
Web of Life Sensation
Natural Wholeness
Grace and Intelligence
Environment Home Job Anthropology Organics
Outdoor Park Renewal
NatureConnect Book
Nature Disconnection
South Carolina Nature
South Dakota Nature
North Dakota Nature
Leadership Lies Nature
Montessori/Waldorf
Safe Happy Partner

Cave Living Legend
Junk Yard Garbage
Abandoned Abuse
Unitarian Organics
Surfwalk Barefoot
Positive Relating
Intuition Lessons
Vacation Birth

Mother Liberation
Nature Phenomena

Negative Attitude
Stop Global Warming
Traditional Folk Music
Heart Principles
Wilderness Values
Passion and Patience
Philosophy Education
Natural News
Creative writing

Organics
Depression Hurt
World Student
Great Understanding
Pleasure
Self-Confidence/Worth
Trees and Forests

Stop/Prevent War
Topics of Interest
Dysfunctional Leaders
Organic Farming
Taoism Organics
Organic Therapy
Grounded Trust Walk
Reiki Self-Healing
Al Gore Omission
Dog/Cat/Pet Love
Landscape Pond
Sunlight Life Signs
God Love
Book Review
Human Resources Gift

Divorce & Abandonment
Columbia Park Hiking
Bear Loving Story
Sad Irritating Parent
Earth Science
Family Course
Communication Course
Growth Sensitivity
Reasoning Logic
Unity Solace
Mimbres Art
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INDEX TWO

 

  Website Summary
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  Topics Professional Applications
Resilience,
Self-help, self-improvement,
Self-confidence, self-esteem
Sensitivity activities,
Personal, community and
environmental recovery,
Books,
Careers,
Courses by email,
Certification,
Low cost distance learning degree programs, scholarships and grants,
Internships,
Post doctoral training and research,
Discussion groups,
Workshops,
Online, interactive, discovery trails 
Value reinforcement,
Responsible relationship technologies,
Behavioral science,
Newsletters,
Earth day activities,
Globally balanced thinking,
Webstrings,
Non-verbal unity,
Sensory ecology,
Applied Biophilia,
Free courses and activities,
Organic Psychology,
Improved parenting,
Personal and Environmental Wellness,
Natural Systems Thinking Process,
Nature-Connected Pychology,
Assertiveness Training
Body Language
Cosmic Altered State
Nature Jobs
Teaching & Education
Personal Life Coaching
Social Work
Holistic Leadership
Psychology: Transpersonal, School, Counseling & Therapy
Healing Arts
Environmental Education & Psychology
Outdoor and Wilderness Therapy
Stress Management
Alternative Medicine & Holistic Health
Naturalist, Nature Interpretation
Meditation & Spiritual Counseling
Science: Holistic, Natural, Social.
Creative Writing

Ecotourism & Ecotherapy
Reiki Coaching
Energy Medicine
Conflict Resolution
Burnout Recovery
Chemical Abuse
Addiction Recovery
Ecopsychology
Food disorders
Peace Studies
Midlife Crises Recovery
Hospice Caregiving
Mental Health
Pastoral Counseling
Violence Prevention
Retreat Centers
Aromatherapy
Reinstatement
Child Development
Herbal Remedies
Anger Management

 


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