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Integrity 101: The Remarkable Benefits of Thinking and Learning with Nature (return to start of course)

 

SECTION TEN: Conclusion

We seldom recognize that, what we call cultural loves or bonds, are actually natural sense attraction-energies in us that have made cultural attachments, be they constructive or destructive.

Information that tells destructively bonded people like alcoholics to not drink and drive is no more effective than telling NADS people that they should love their neighbor, be that neighbor a person, rock, raccoon or tree. To be effective, in addition to "take notice" messages we must offer an effective psychological recycling process. The process must enable a person to achieve these goals by enjoying more responsible relationship satisfactions and bonds. When energized, the rewards and punishments in reasonable relationships outdo, and therefore replace, our destructive bonding to 'the Boss' (Jones, 2001 #21).

Cohen shows that many great thinkers over the millennia have concluded that, to be reasonable we must embrace and support the environment (Cohen, 2000u). However, without having experienced decades of year-round, conscious sensory connections to natural attraction energies in Nature, these great thinkers seldom offer, and often disregard NSTP, an empirical, nature reconnected, thinking process that enables our NADS polluted consciousness to identify, resist or change our destructive bonding (Jones, 2001 #22).

 

NSTP is effective in reducing NADS because its process goes beyond the abstracts of books and words. It offers a vehicle we can ride to reach our goals more responsibly, an instrument we use, a hands-on, enjoyable experience, a recycling tool that we own. NSTP empowers us to create safe, supportive, moments that let sensory rewards in authentic Nature help us reverse our addiction to mind polluting NADS disconnection.

NSTP is 9-leg thinking. It says that in addition to abstracting we may thoughtfully tap into the non-verbal, purifying, world of the eons and learn from its perfection through sensory experiences with natural attraction energies that constructively transform 'the Boss.'

"The interior landscape responds to the character and subtlety of the exterior landscape; the shape of the individual mind is affected by the land as it is by genes."

...........- Barry Lopez

 

Compassion is a natural sense, a community enhancing attraction energy. Nobel Peace Prize winners, Albert Schweitzer and Albert Einstein said in effect that, until mankind can extend the circle of his compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty, he will never, himself, know peace (Schweitzer 1996, Einstein 1997). NSTP helps us do this.

Einstein also noted: "We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive."(Einstein, 1997). He, however, neither identified or implemented that manner of thinking. Cohen does (Jones, 2001first paragraph).

NSTP empowers us to recycle our destructive nature-disconnected addictions by encouraging each of us to seek responsible rewards in Nature for our sense of reason and for our soul.

"For what else is Nature but God and the Divine Reason that pervades the whole universe and all its parts."

............- Seneca the Younger circa 25 A.D.

 

 

 

 

"The results of using the Natural Systems Thinking Process were even happier, more practical and lasting than those for participants in the "Survivor" TV shows. We did not compete for a million dollars but what wealth we gained! Using local natural areas, we learned how to sustainably live in supportive balance with each other and the environment. We were all winners, as will be those with whom we share the nature reconnecting process."

...........- Carol Biggs, Counselor-Naturalist, ...........Juneau, Alaska

 

Even though this NADS revealing free course presents you with a means to improve your life and all of life, note how it has very little effect on the roots that motivate your behavior. Our 4-leg roots are tied to the habitual 5-leg NADS way we have learned to think and relate.

"Apathy is the greatest evil of all,"

...........- Helen Keller

 

This course is not designed to loosen our ties. Its purpose is to show you how natural attractions in natural systems can help you and others choose to loosen these destrictive ties to your benefit.

The long term effect of this free course is like placing a small drop of purifier into a contaminated swimming pool that needs 50 gallons of purifier to be recycled. Most of us have yet to believe the pool is contaminated or that a purifier is readily available. What we do know and feel, however, is that life is more than we are making of it; something seems radically wrong. We hope the course has helped you trust the validity of that feeling.

 

NOTE: As we complete the writing of this chapter and course, we have been notified that a Bald Eagle, our national bird, has its foot caught in some junked wire netting left on the beach. The Eagle is flapping helplessly and will die without assistance.

Is this not an appropriate image to end this course?

 

If now or later you want to know how to begin to thoughtfully loosen NADS ties and beneficially redirect them CONTINUE TO THE ORIENTATION COURSE

Other options for you are available through the links listed in the left side column.

Thank you, and our congratulations for your interest and for completing this course. The world needs lots more folks like you.

Mardi Jones

Mike Cohen

 

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IMPORTANT NOTE:

To get academic, professional training or continuing education credit for this free course, in numerical order follow the options listed below until you get the credit:

 

FREE CREDIT

1. If you did the suggested Integrity Questions before the course do them again now and compute your score.

If you did not do the Integrity Questions before the course, do them now.and compute your score.

2. Get permission to use your score and the questions to fill the requirements of another course you may be taking

3. Get permission to use the questions and course as life experience learning that you can add to your resume or transcript.

 

TUITION BASED CREDIT (1 unit of credit based on 30 hours of study)

1. Email nature@interisland.net and inform them that you want to take the Integrity 101 course for transferable academic or professional credit. Ask them to send you a PSU course and credit application form. (this 1 unit will cost you $42.00 and it is from an accredited USA university. It and the course are worth $100-300 in most academic programs. Including the book and postage; your total cost will be about $60.00)

 

1. If you did the suggested Integrity Questions before the course do them again now and compute your score.

If you did not do the Integrity Questions before the course, do them now.and compute your score.

 

2. Review any "good experiences in nature" that you brought to mind as instructed in the course and print them out.

 

3. Integrate the course and your attractive nature experiences by writing a 300 word, or more, "9-leg" paper on this topic and title:

"'What I found attractive about the Integrity 101 course and why I feel these attractions are important for myself, society and the environment."

 

4. Obtain and read the book Einstein's World. It will cost you $16.95 delivered via priority mail.

Read the book and for each chapter find and write a sentence or two about two important attractions you find in each chapter.

 

5. Do the activity in Chapter 7-10 in the book and write a few sentences about what was attractive about the activity and its outcomes as well as about the outcomes submitted by others that are written there.

 

6. Do the suggested Integrity Questions again after completing 4, above, and compute your new score.

 

7. By postal mail submit 1-6 above including the credit application form and fee.

 

 

 

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