Release: Critical Issues Nature Therapist Studies; Arrogant Welfare Exploitation Abuse

An Outdoor and Nature Lovers Holistic Learning Process Remedies Disorders and Increases Personal, Social and Environmental Well-Being.

Michael J. Cohen, Ph.D.

A critical moment is fast approaching. Now is the time to act powerfully if we care about the welfare of human and global life. We and Earth are at risk.

Due to racial prejudice, it has taken 200 years to reduce our irresponsible exploitation of people of color.

Due to sexist prejudice, it has taken 200 years to reduce our irresponsible exploitation of women.

However, today, around and within us, we continue to irresponsibly deteriorate the natural world. Due to the frightening depth of our prejudice against nature, we have neither addressed nor significantly reduced our unreasonable exploitation of nature, in and about us.

To our loss, we excessively suffer many disorders because most of us have learned to identify our conquest of the natural world as "progress," "economic growth" and "the advance of civilization," not as the runaway prejudice against nature and the natural that it is.

Most of us refuse to recognize our degradation of nature as a form of discrimination or as the heart of our unsolvable problems. This is critical. Without identifying our detrimental ways as a profound prejudice, we neither know how to address nor remedy our destructive relationship with natural systems in the environment and each other.
It is as misguided as trying use aspirin to cure headaches that are caused by a brain tumor.

Today, May 5, 2009, search engine findings for "prejudice against nature" link almost exclusively to my twenty-seven year old book Prejudice Against Nature (Cobblesmith, 1982), and to my articles on this subject. Seldom is our detrimental prejudice against nature identified or taken seriously. It is as if I have simply imagined it all these years, that I am mistaken or hallucinating, that our biased degradation of the natural does not really exist.

We are part of nature and its perfection. Its renewing way flows through us. What we do to it, we do to ourselves.

What does our dim-witted destruction of nature's life say about us other than we suffer because our prejudice against nature won't give nature a right to its life or treat it fairly.

The moral and ethical values of Industrial Society are disgraced by the damaging effects of our unholy prejudice against other forms and diversifications of life. Out of our shame, we are unable to admit to the insanity of us knowingly injuring the balance and beauty of the natural world and the flow of its grace around and in us.

Nature's life is a purifying, nurturing and healing essence of our life. It is a form of madness to destroy our own life support system.

We are at risk because our arrogance has convinced us that we are advanced thinkers. Our ego won't admit to its prejudice against nature, to doing something as stupid as knowledgeably letting us shoot ourselves in the foot by injuring natural systems.

Nature is self-correcting, healing and restorative as it flows. Being blind to our prejudice against nature, we delude ourselves. We can't see that our prejudice against nature and its support of well-being, underlies most of our personal, social and environmental problems. Our anti-nature bigotry has short circuited our thinking.

Fortunately, an antidote has appeared. Today, many nature lovers have discovered that a new, nature-enhancing process, Educating Counseling and Healing with Nature (ECHN), gives us the remedy we need for our anti-nature lunacy.

The remedy works because it genuinely plugs our thinking and feeling into the regenerative and renewing powers of nature, backyard or backcountry. It makes nature's wisdom our ally, not an enemy to conquer or exploit.

Similar to a lasting walk in the park, ECHN helps us continually clear our mind. It increases our critical thinking as it encourages the flow of natural systems to recycle the garbage or pollution that Industrial Society has dumped in our psyche.

When given the opportunity, nature's flow through our mentality has the ability to compost and transform the contamination of our mentality into constructive relationships.

Individuals who are lovers of nature are the hope of the world. They are usually thoughtful, dedicated and sensitive souls who appreciate the empowering art and science of ECHN and its unique contribution to well-being.

ECHN provides us with a potent preventative for what ails us. Our saving grace may be that those who recognize that life is sacred can to learn to use and teach ECHN. It enables them to apply their respect for nature's ways to simultaneously strengthen our lives and all of life.

Those of us who care about the peace of life-in-balance can learn and teach the online sensory science of Educating Counseling and Healing with Nature. We can take advantage of subsidized nature-connected degrees, courses and career opportunities that enable young or old to increase the health of the web-of-life, including humanity.

Enhance your profession and your personal relationships. Empower your passion to "green" industrial society and to reduce our violence and global warming. Project NatureConnect invites you to benefit from ECHN tools, degrees, jobs and grants.

For further information visit:

http://www.SaneEarth.com/
http://www.ecopsych.com/prejudicebigotry.html

An additional article is available at:

http://www.ecopsych.com/hallucinatearticle.html