Integrity 101:
The Remarkable Benefits of Thinking and Learning with Nature
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SECTION EIGHT The Contribution of NSTP
Pollution can
be defined as anything that prevents the perfection of natural
systems around and within us from operating normally. Our contemporary NADS
mind-set pollutes our thinking by insisting we deny ABC, and
instead trust and bond to nature-conquering abstracts inherent
in the dogma of our society (Jones, 2001 #17).
NSTP empowers
anybody to use ABC to discover for themselves practical, rewarding
answers to our destructive ways. (Jones, 2001 #15). It enables us to seek these
answers by thinking with A, B and C while in conscious sensory
contact with attraction energies in natural systems found in
ourselves, other people and natural areas. Translating these
feelingful experiences into words, thinking with them and sharing
them with others completes the process. It's exactly the same
thing that therapists do, but they do it indoors and thereby
lose valuable wisdom and integrity (Cohen, 1991; Jones,
2001
#15, 17).
NSTP books
and courses offer 130 sensory Nature reconnecting activities
along with their rationale and effects. As exemplified in Sections
6 and 7, each activity helps us more authentically be with a
natural area. Each enables us to think in holistically, to be
in tune with nature by connecting our abstract thinking to natural
attractions in ourselves while they are connected to those we
non-verbally sense and register in natural area. This enables
us to register and think with the harmony of colors, motions,
sounds, textures, scents, memories, contrasts, quietude, community,
trustfulness, beauty, joy, light. Translating these attraction
experiences into words and thinking with them, sharing them with
others and then sharing what you learned from others and the
activity completes the process.
"We have dramatically
increased our program's effectiveness by adding the Natural
Systems Thinking Process to it. It enables our participants
to connect with their sensory origins in nature and use that
peaceful power to improve their relationships with self, society
and the environment. "
- James Rowe Ph.D., Director, Outward Bound School, Costa
Rica
Due to culturally
generated NADS mind pollution, most people don't recognize that
personal or professional relationships that are genuinely connected
with attractions in Nature are more enjoyable, successful and
responsible than those isolated from Nature.
We are part
of Nature's global life community (Wilson,1993). The more we
disconnect from, conquer and injure Nature, the more we do the
same to ourselves and suffer. NSTP helps us reverse this anomaly. However,
since the Boss's bigoted thinking defines "intelligence"
to be its abstract, 5-leg, disconnected way of knowing and relating,
the intelligent leaders we appoint usually lead us down our wayward
path.
What is hopeful
is that NSTP empowers each of us to purify our NADS mind pollution,
become immune to the Boss, and further establish environmentally
sound education, mental health and social justice ( Cohen, 2002f;
Jones,
2001
#17). That would produce more adequate leaders.
"In the woods we return
to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me
in life--no disgrace, no calamity (leaving me my eyes), which
nature cannot repair. Standing on the bare ground, --my head
bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space, --all
mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing,
I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through
me; I am a part or particle of God. "
...........- Ralph Waldo Emerson circa 1860