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ECO-SENSORY PERCEPTION
The EcoSensory Intelligence Test
2/2/2020: UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres issued a searing indictment of humanity's suicidal "war" on the environment in a speech in which he urged everyone to prioritize "making peace with nature."
"We are facing a devastating pandemic, new heights of global heating, new lows of ecological degradation and new setbacks in our work towards global goals for more equitable, inclusive and sustainable development. To put it simply, the state of the planet is broken."
The Preface, below, written in 1999, may seem too strong and confrontive. However, in light of the UN Chief's 2020 indictment, above, it was not strong enough to make a significant difference.
PREFACE
INTELLIGENCE
Most knowledgeable people consider Planet Earth to be an act of genius by the Universe and/or God. Like or as a living organism, through natural attraction energies, Earth intelligently organizes itself to edit the light, heat and particle flow from the sun and cosmos. This makes possible an optimum of life to flourish in balance while sustaining an optimum of diversity and cooperation. The Earth community intelligently accomplishes this by recycling, regenerating and transforming substances and relationships without producing garbage or pollution. In Earth's natural systems, war, abusiveness, and insanity are virtually unknown. Seen from the moon, Earth is a marvelous, gigantic ball of wisdom, a glowing orchestra in the sky constantly performing a peaceful symphony of color and silence in motion. Some believe Earth is an intelligent, fertilized, egg of the Universe.
Any person who could conceive and perform the functions of Earth or Nature would be considered a super genius ten times over.
NON-INTELLIGENCE
Intelligence as most of us practice it is unintelligent because it is out of synch with the life giving creation wisdom of our planetary home. The way we think deteriorates Earth and its ability to support life, including our lives. That is not intelligent. For example:
Two people producing 24 grandchildren is poor mathematics if you don't want to destructively overpopulate the Planet.
Economic growth based on resource depletion is insane when the resource is your life support system. It is unethical and immoral.
Knowledgeably producing harmful chemical substances that poison the planet life system, including us, is stupid.
Our thinking is sick when we use fuels to the point that they increase the temperature of the living planet and give it a fever.
It is dumb to damage ecosystems and erode their habitats for they are and support life.
It is asinine to elect leaders who refuse to act intelligently with regard to helping Earth sustain its and our integrity.
It is stupid to learn to think and relate 99% of the time indoors, closeted from nature's ways, and then believe we know how to manage the global life system. The results speak for themselves.
See Disconnected Intelligence for additional examples and dealing with them.
The Eco-Sensory IQ test.
This is an opportunity to learn if you have survived the abusive conquest of nature by our nature estranged society. You may discover that you are a maverick genius in contemporary society and, if so, how to use this to your advantage while improving the quality of life.
Background:
The way most members of Western Civilization think has resulted in altering the ability of Planet Earth to sustain life in balance. In the past 200 years our intelligence has devastated natural plant, animal and people populations as well as depleted and polluted the soil, water and air. With respect to the global life community, we are knowledgeably producing the same holocaust we inflicted on Native American and extinct biological populations, Worse still, we can't stop. As recent elections confirm, we want to increase our consumption of energy and goods at the expense of the natural world.
The profound stupidity and inhumanity of our relationship with Mother Nature so deeply pains our consciousness that we are psychologically in denial of our madness. To protectively hide our destructive effects from ourselves, we proudly call what we do "progress," "economic growth" and the "American way of life." Most people are intelligent enough to recognize that this way is destructive in the long run, but we lack the level of consciousness needed to stop it. We partake in it every day. It is normal.
Nature supports, not destroys, itself in the long run. As part of nature, people are born with the natural intelligence to do likewise. Most cultures of the world have done this over the the millennia. The learned to think with their natural intelligence while Western Civilization thinks of ways to alter it.
Altered Intelligence
In 1974, after two months of being kidnapped and brainwashed by extremists, the consciousness and thinking of an American graduate student, Patti Hearst, transformed dramatically. From being an excellent scholar and constructive campus citizen at the University of California, Patti became an active, gun slinging member of a group of militant murderers with a political agenda. Many times she could easily have escaped from them. She didn't simply because she had learned, under duress, to consider it intelligent to join the violence group in story, feelings and actions.
Ms. Hearst was finally arrested, prosecuted and jailed along with the gang. She was later forgiven because authorities determined that she had been brainwashed into doing what she did. She has not acted that way since.
As demonstrated by Ms. Hearst, brainwashing is a process that contaminates a person's intelligence and ability to think clearly. Things that define the brainwashing process include that it:
- Takes an authoritarian and hierarchical stance.
- Imposes a doctrine over person.
- Restricts full awareness on the part of the learner.
- Rewards a person for thinking a certain way and punishes them when they don't.
- Uses an instructional mode to persuade.
- Controls a person's time and, if possible, physical environment.
- Creates a sense of powerlessness, covert fear, and dependency.
- Suppresses much of the person's old behavior and attitudes.
- Instills new behavior and attitudes.
- Uses mystical manipulation.
- Puts forth a closed system of logic
- Allows no real input or criticism.
The case has been made that with respect to intelligently living in balance with nature and Earth, people in contemporary society have been destructively brainwashed to fear, conquer and destroy nature against their better judgment. Like Ms. Hearst, we find ourselves unable to change without a radical form of assistance. Most of our destructive technologies, lifestyles and relationships reflect our anti-nature cultural training. We act as though our thoughts and acts are not causing life forms and systems to suffer.
During our 18 formative childhood years, our innate ability to think clearly with respect to living constructively with nature and people is far more brainwashed than was Patti Hearst during her mere two-month capture. Throughout childhood and most of our lives we are victims of:
- Education that takes place indoors; it is required for twelve formative childhood years and strongly encouraged for an additional 4-6 years of higher education.
- The doctrine of most science and religion: to survive we must conquer and subdue nature.
- Learning to spend over 95% of our lives indoors.
- Over 99.9% of our thinking being disconnected from sensory contact with the non-verbal process by which nature produces its balance and peace. We are "in tune" with nature less than 12 hours/lifetime, on average.
- Worshiping a God that lives in Heaven, not on Earth. We become spiritually detached from the environment and believe humanity is divinely superior to all other forms of life.
- Rewards from high grades, approval and money for being good citizens of a society that is separated from nature. We delude ourselves into believing that we can intelligently manage the world, grind nature into cultural resources, improve the land, and impose artificial systems on the natural.
- Disapproval for truancy, low grades, and low-technology relationships.
Exceptions to the rule:
Throughout the history of our civilization, some individuals have not completely fallen prey to our cultural brainwashing. Some, have somewhat survived it or, like Ms Hearst, recovered from it. If you have read this far, chances are you may unknowingly be one of them. These individuals display an exceptionally high ecological intelligence (IQ) and are sometimes acknowledged as "maverick" geniuses. The quality of their thinking is often admired but it is seldom integrated by popular culture because society's quest is to overcome nature, not applaud its support.
NOTE: From books of quotations and the internet, in an eight hour period we collected the statements that appear on the IQ test. There are a great many other statements that are similar; all are and have been accessible since their original publication. You can be sure that some of the teachers and administrators of our education system were exposed to these statements during their education. That they may not have included these statements in most people's education further reflect's our brainwashing against nature. For an fascinating look at this phenomenon and maverick genius in action, visit Disconnecting From Nature
 Readily available, online, natural science tools for the health of person, planet and spirit 360-378-6313 <email> www.ecopsych.com ORGANIC ADVANCED ECOPSYCHOLOGY IN ACTION The Natural Systems Thinking Process Dr. Michael J. Cohen, Director send email
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