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Questions the program and application help you to address
To help yourself observe how much you meaningfully learn from this program and grant application, apply the question and response in the box below to each question on this page now.
- and again after you take courses.
We invite you to add your own questions to this list now and review your growth after the completing the grant application or a course. NOTE that the responses do not expect you to know the answers to the questions, but they simply ask you how much confidence you have in thinking that you know reasonable answers.
SAMPLE QUESTION AND RESPONSE
40.- Do I want to obtain a grant for the Project NatureConnect program?
On a piece of paper, record the course question numbers along with the number here that indicates your degree of confidence in your response to the question..
My confidence level in responding reasonably to this question is:.
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1. -How much of our ability to sense and feel do we inherit from nature?
My confidence level in responding reasonably to this question is:
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2. -Why are webstrings often subconscious and how do I bring them into awareness?
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3. -What are the five steps to letting nature help you reduce destructive attachments?
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4. - Do you deserve to have good feelings? Why?
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5. - How many natural senses do you have? Do you think with them? How?
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6. - What is the point source of contemporary society's environmentally destructive ways?
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7. - What is the key factor that makes people different or separate from nature?
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8. - What value is there in you safely feeling closer nature?
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9. - What is the greatest truth in your life that you can trust? (Clue: the answer is neither God, love, honesty nor nature.)
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10. - What is the difference between a fact, a thought and a feeling?
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11. - How many natural senses can you name that you can know and learn from?
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12. - Why do we continue to assault nature and people when it doesn't make sense and we don't like doing it or its effects?
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13. - Is there a relationship between our challenging social and environmental problems?
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14. - How does nature within you know how to relate responsibly to nature in others and the .environment?
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15. - If life has a purpose, what is it?
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16. - Can you be sane if you are a good citizen of an insane society?
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17. - Is our innate ability to sense and feel of, by and from nature?
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18. - Do our formal education or our leaders competently address the above questions?
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19. -Why don't our cultural stories and dollar bills produce balance and purity, like nature works?
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20. - What is consciousness and who invented it?
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21. - Do miracles happen in contradiction to nature?
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22. - What is the relationship between nature and the human spirit?
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23. - Do our unresolveable problems result from the difference between how we think and how nature works?
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24. - Since nature produces no garbage, does nature practice unconditional love?
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25. - In nature, does two plus two equal four?
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26. - Where in nature do you find life abstracted?
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27. - To be part of a system, you have to be in communication with it in some way. We are part of the global life system and vice versa; how does it communicate with us and we with it?
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28. - What is the relationship between natural attractions and consciousness?
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29. - How and where do you collect self-evidence?
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30. - Is nature a form of perfection people can achieve and if so, how.
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31, - If we learn to be who we are, what factor in modern education teaches us to produce our lasting problems?
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32. - What is the force that produces environmentally and socially destructive economic relationships?
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33. - Since we are part of Nature, what is the major difference that makes us destroy the environment while everything else in Nature usually enhances it?
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34. - Can you cite a model, community or process that successfully produces sustainability?
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35. - What produces the wanting void in our psyche, the discomfort, greed, and loneliness that fuels most human and thereby environmental disorders?
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36. - Why do we deny that we are addicted to stories, technologies and relationships that separate us from nature's balanced ways and restorative powers?
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37. - How can we restore to our thinking the missing 48 sensory intelligences that contemporary society has buried in our subconscious?
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38. - Why does contemporary society often identify a person's love of nature as "escapist recreation and fuzzy thinking" rather than "peaceful intelligent re-creation?"
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