EC0 500
Elements of Global Citizenship:
The Science of Connecting With
the Web of Life
The Art of Thinking With Nature
Letting Nature Teach
Welcome to this nature and psychology Orientation
Course that is open to all interested parties.
The object of this course it to learn some basic
elements of a process that lets conscious sensory contact with the web
of life teach us how to think like nature works and thereby co-create with
Earth.
To participate in this course, the candidate must
have submitted a completed application
form and completed and be ready to submit the
prerequsite material
(sections B and C) to their interact study
group.
The Natural Systems Thinking Process
As you may have read elsewhere, I recently participated in a hurried, almost
stressful training program for people whose differences kept them arguing
amongst themselves. They had little interest or time to hear an explanation
from me of the unifying and healing benefits of the reconnecting with nature
process.
In the midst of this hubbub, a young bird flew into the meeting room
through the door. It could not find its way out. Without a word, the behind-schedule
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. Yet when they accomplished this feat, they cheered their role, not
the role of the bird. In their story of the incident, the role and impact
of the bird went unnoticed. They returned to the hubbub of the meeting,
as if nothing special had happened.
I wanted to say something about the powerful effect of the bird but
I didn't. People would have scoffed. They would have said that what happened
was not important or useful for it was uncommon to have a wild bird interrupt
their lives. It was their "human spirit" and intelligence that
they applauded, not its orgins, connections and existence in nature.
Reconnecting with nature during that incident brought a special joy
and integrity to people's lives. The individual and collective benefits
were evident. It is the continual gross lack of such natural attraction
contacts that tends to create our disorders. People feel distraught, yet
helpless, about Earth's life and their lives being at risk, like the bird.
Doesn't our love for nature have unifying powers globally? Do you remember,
in 1989, when two whales, caught in the ice in Alaska, broke through the
Iron Curtain? To save the whales, opposing nations united. So did labor
and industry, corporations and environmentalists, spiritualists and scientists.
Close to a billion dollars was spent to save two whales, while some scientists
argued that they were "unfit" and should be left to die. I suggest
that the whales contributed a unifying energy to Earth and its people,
a love that too many of us, including scientists, have learned to ignore.
This course helps you scientifically tap into that energy and improve your
life as you improve all of life.
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