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INSTITUTE OF GLOBAL EDUCATION
Project
NatureConnect
Funded, Educating,
Counseling and Healing With Natural Senses, Spirit and Love.
Online books, personal training, courses and degree programs
that improve mental-environmental wellness
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How to invite the
powers of Natural Systems to help our thinking make greater sense
and increase our personal, social and environmental well-being.
[Instructions: first read this entire page, then
return to its links and explore those of interest.]
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ABSTRACT
1. No known substitute supercedes
the perfection of intact natural systems. They sustain their
health because, through natural attraction balancing powers,
they continually correct themselves to further support life.
2. To be part of a natural
system, or any system, a thing must be in communication with
the system, otherwise, uncorrected, it strays.
3. We are each naturally born
as part of nature and earth's natural systems. Our senses and
feelings along with the wind, hills and stars each are parts
of natural systems in action.
4. When we are in contact with
natural systems at least 53 natural senses register these
systems in our consciousness, providing communication.
5. Each natural sensation we
experience is part of the perfection of a natural system in action
within and about us. The sensations of thirst and wetness
exemplify this with respect to water and its flow.
6. To our loss, we live over
95 percent of our lives and thinking while excessively disconnected
from natural systems and their restorative ways. For example,
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A person surfboarding a wave
adopts their thinking and behavior via natural sensory communications
from the sun, wind, waves, motion, temperature, directions, water,
hunger, sound, balance etc. Each communication attracts and registers
in this individual's awareness somewhere; nature's perfection
helps the surfer safely guide himself.
In comparison, the dysfunctions
we suffer result from the "normal" separation of our
thinking and being from natural systems and their correction
powers. For example, many of us are not aware of the immedialte
local weather until we hear it digested into words for us and
reported on commercially slanted news broadcasts as "good"
or "bad" weather.
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7. Be alarmed: our thinking
is our destiny.
8. Be hopeful: it only takes
two hours to learn how to connect
our thinking with natural systems. Thereafter, it takes 15 minutes
to do it, whenever it might be helpful.
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"If you slice off part
of a ball, you make both the ball and the slice dysfunctional;
neither will roll with the same perfection as when the ball was
whole. The same holds true for our extremely nature-separated
lives and the way they split our heart, mind and spirit from
our "ball," our living planet, Earth.
Today, a sensory tool is readily
available to help us reconnect our thinking with the grace, balance
and restorative powers of nature. Using Organic Psychology, the
tool enables us to increase our well-being, wholeness and belonging,
and help others do the same."
From The Web of Life
Imperative
.......by Michael J. Cohen
"Personal transformation
is best cultivated by partnering with the supreme agent of change,
the Earth. Life is change, and nature is the wizard who enlivens
its magic cycles."
-Philip Sutton Chard
"Nature is doing her best
each moment to make us well."
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- Henry David Thoreau
FORGET NATURE?
Researchers have demonstrated
that by learning to habitually forget nature we cause many of
our great personal, social and environmental disorders.
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U.
S. Surgeon General
Mental Health Report, 2000:
Data developed by the massive Global Burden of Disease study
conducted by the World Health Organization, the World Bank, and
Harvard University, reveals that mental illness*
ranks second in the burden
of disease in established market economies such as the United
States.
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A point source
that causes mental illness disorders is the nature-desensitization of contempory thinking. Mental illness disorders
are not normal in the natural systems of people and Earth. |
We must lean to remember that
we are part of nature, the vital force that pervades the earth
and universe. The precarious state of the world says we can no
longer continue to think and act in ways that forget and injure
nature, our Mother Earth and its natural systems within and about
us.
ORIGINS
Industrial society teaches
us to forget that the birth of our life is a momentous gift from
the natural systems of Earth's global community. On our first
real birth day, together, all members of nature's global
community "love" us so much that they are attracted
to physically and spiritually become us. They supportively flow
their eons of balancing life attractions, wisdom and experience
through us. They birth us out of our human mother and into the
more supportive and universal womb of Mother Nature, so that
we can help it support all of life.
We are born as contributing
planetary citizens with unique skills to contribute to the welfare
of all of life.
The above is equally true for
every member of the global life community.
DISCONNECTION
To our loss, we spend more
than 95 percent of our lifetime in buildings, cars and offices.
99% of our thinking is disconnected from natural systems within
and around us. Our excessively nature-separated indoor ways cause
us to lose much happiness and wellness that would otherwise be
afforded us from conscious sensory contact with natural systems.
Although Mother Earth is our "other body," society
rewards us to disconnect from, exploit and conquer her, rather
than unashamedly love her.
We are challenged by our indoor
story that tells us that the conquest of natural systems is essential
for industrial progress, personal power, economics and happiness.
Some of us recognize this story as a directive from God, as in
Genesis: "Multiply and subdue the Earth, and take dominion
over it." We posture our lives and thinking to be prejudiced
against nature.
" From the masses to the
masses'
The most Revolutionary consciousness
is to be found
Among the most ruthlessly exploited
classes:
Animals, trees, water, air,
grasses."
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Gary Snyder
Our disconnection of our consciousness
from natural systems deprives our thinking of the extraordinary
abilities of these systems in congress. Natural systems correct
dysfunctions and create optimums of diverse life and relationships
without producing garbage,
undue stress or abusiveness. Nothing is left out. This demonstrates
that nature can be seen as a unifying organic form of what might
be called "unconditional love." Although we usually
omit them, we desperately need the attractions in natural systems
to be conscious sensory parts of our lives, thoughts and relationships.
SUMMARY
Unquestionably, because we
are part of nature our psyche contains nature's vital force.
However, our education and socialization teach us that it makes
sense for us to exclude nature from 99% of our thinking. We learn
that nature is to be exploited for its resources and a profit,
not loved as a mother whose grace and rare gifts -soil, water,
air, sunshine, community, intelligence, sensation and consciousness
-are life essentials that deserve to be loved, supported and
protected, not conquered.
Our omission of natural systems
from our thinking deprives our mentality, spirit and destiny
of nature's attractive balancing and restorative powers. Without
them, we further condition our thinking to fear, conquer and
exploit nature; we lose conscious sensory contact with our personal
and collective legacy, with nature's unifying perfection, cooperation
and beauty.
WHAT TO DO
Our society insists that we
be literate in order to know what's happening in our culture
and thereby become good citizens of it. However, we learn to
omit being literate of natural systems in this process. We suffer
our dysfunctions because we do not insist that we learn to make
direct sensory contact with the natural systems that touch our
immediate lives and to speak from that knowledge. For this reason
we lose conscious sensory contact with natural systems. Their
grace, balance and beauty don't enter and benefit our thinking
and relationship building. We lose contact with our inherent
ability to be good citizens of our planetary home. That's our
missing element.
This omission is simply remedied.
Like we daily brush our teeth, we can daily engage in two
simple activities that immediately help us bring the beneficial
contributions of natural systems into our consciousness, thinking
and lives. This is easily accomplished. However, it is extremely
challenging to get ourselves to do it. It goes against our cultural
prejudice, our fears of nature, our norm to conquer, not embrace
natural systems. We need to help ourselves "walk our talk."
Being severely
disconnected from nature's grace, balance and renewing ways,
is it any surprise that our thinking, and we, short circuit and
suffer serious troubles? The source of this key disconnection
is identified and rectified with nature connecting activities
and support community in the Project NatureConnect Orientation
Course, EC0 500:
Psychological Elements of Global Citizenship.
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"This
is the course that every civilized person will be required to
take if we are to reverse our runaway disorders."
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- Charles
Sierra,
Counselor
CONSIDERATIONS
If you are a normal citizen
of contemporary society, the frenzy of your daily existence and
socialization causes your thinking, moment by moment, to block
or overlook your relationship with nature or take it for granted.
For example:
- how often do you feel good
every day because you sense nature's grace and restorative powers
that rejuvenate and renew every part of the global community
including your psyche and spirit?
- Do you remember that when
the landscape or your skin get scraped, nature restores them?
- that when you get sick nature
helps you recover?
- that nature constantly heals
and purifies itself?
- that nature creates and sustains
unpolluted, attractive relationships?
- the nature has regenerative
powers?
- that nature is and has great
spirit and creative energies?
- Are you, right now, feelingly
filled with love and respect for the air that you are looking
through as you read these words, or have you learned to overlook
this air and deprive yourself these good feelings?
- Do you feel wonderful and
supported because this air before your eyes is a gift from nature
and the eons that is giving you your life and your potential
for joy? If you have forgotten this you may refresh
your memory by holding your breath for a minute. A natural
sensation will arise in you that will help you remember the gifts
of air.
- Do you realize that natural
systems, in addition to the joy of breathing air, provide 52
different additional fulfillments or satisfactions through 53
natural senses you inherit from nature.?
- Can you truly achieve happiness
or well-being if most of your natural senses lie frustrated within
you due to their disconnection from their rejuvenating origins
in nature?
- Have you become dependent
on destructive relationships, substances, technologies or professions
because they satisfy, short-term, the frustrations and hurt of
your disconnected natural senses?
- Have you been taught the great
lie that you can't increase your well-being by learning how to
connect your senses to nature and its restorative powers? Do
you recognize that just the renewal you enjoy from a short walk
in the park refutes the great lie?
THE TRAGEDY OF OUR OMISSION
The excessively stress-filled,
polluted, physically and emotionally sick "normal"
society that our thinking produces shows that our mentality has
learned to overlook its inborn ability to sense, register and
appreciate hundreds of nature's wise and amazing creations, like
air, sunshine and trees, along with the refreshing rewards each
offers. Due to this profound omission, our mentality has become
dysfunctional in many
areas.
Why doesn't nature repair this,
and our other dysfunctions like it heals most other natural things?
Isn't it because we live extremely nature-separated lives?
Spending over 99 percent of
our thinking out of tune with nature and over 95 percent of our
time indoors, blocks, redirects, addicts or brainwashes our mentality
to obtain love from substitutes for nature, substitutes that
we are goaded or paid to invent, obsess for and crave. However,
our inventions seldom contain nature's unifying balance and recuperative
powers. Instead, they often produce detrimental side effects
like pollution, stress, disease and habitat destruction. They
deteriorate natural systems, the same systems that we consist
of and that ordinarily support our lives.
Our knowledgeable major loss
of nature's life-gifts traumatizes us into denial. We deny that
we are rewarded for fearing and exploiting, rather than embracing,
nature and its systems in people and places. We deny that we
and our happiness are psychologically addicted to nature-disconnected
thinking that produces personal, social and environmental dysfunction.
Even when we visit a natural
area, our mind is conditioned to be elsewhere. Instead of thinking
in tune with nature, we remember past incidents or hurts, contemplate
problems, take pictures, quell fears, discuss unrelated topics
and try to physically "conquer" nature. We philosophize
or place artificial and abstract names on nature's nameless ways.
A PARADOX
The critical
question is this: "How can nature
even begin to help our thinking improve, our psyche and body
heal, our spirit strengthen, and our relationships unify when
our thinking continually and habitually separates us from
the ability of natural systems to help us?"
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THE RESPONSE
A maverick
genius has responded to this important question with a simple
answer. Working in natural areas for over forty years throughout
the seasons, his associates and he have created an organic
psychology, the Natural Systems Thinking Process, a readily
available nature-reconnecting tool.
This accredited, love-of-nature science helps us, while in contact
with a natural area, to rejuvenate over 45 natural senses we
have numbed. By doing this, we support and make stronger our
natural ability to love life and make sense of our lives.
Adding this ability to our
contemporary lives is so important that funded courses,
training, degree programs, jobs and careers are available on
the Internet that enable you to master this organic form of psychology
and apply it to any area of our society or of your life that
needs improvement.
If you are aware of the value
of Natural System Organic Psychology and would like to receive
training in its use, that opportunity is available to you through
these web pages. You start with our
Orientation Course,
"Psychological Elements of Global Citizenship." Upon
its completion you know, from first-hand experience what this
work can offer you and others.
The Orientation Course works
because, as mentioned, our excessive mental disconnectedness
from nature usually deadens as many as 53
natural senses we biologically inherit. The course helps
us help natural systems awaken these senses in us. And, once
awakened, these senses enable us to reconnect our thinking with
the renewing powers and beauty of natural systems within and
around us. We begin to walk our talk.
It has been demonstrated
that we and nature reap many rewards from this process including
stress reduction, closer relationships and increased wellness.
We heighten sensitivity, critical thinking, mutual support and
energy. We increase our love of nature and our protection of
what we love. We increase nature's innate love and care of us.
The effects of this nature-connecting
art speak for themselves in many web of life books
and web pages. Most people can
easily learn to use and benefit from it;
they can even earn a subsidized training certificate or degree
on line that will strengthen their livelihood, credibility and
contribution to social and environmental wellness. They may incorporate
this skill in any profession or relationship.
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WHAT CAN
BE DONE
Our troubles will continue
until we and our leaders engage in a process that helps our immediate
lives make conscious sensory contact with natural systems within
and around us. We must commit ourselves and each other to respectfully
enlist nature and its regenerative powers to help us improve
our thinking and transform our destructive psychological addictions
into constructive relationships. A hands-on, nature-connected
learning book, the Web of Life Imperative,
gives anybody the means to accomplish this through nature-connected
education, counseling and healing. By design, it is taught and
learned as well via the Internet as it is in a traditional or
outdoor classroom. It's Organic Psychology is a practical contribution
to solving a wide range of disorders because the Internet makes
it readily available to over 600 million people. This enables
us to help heal our society as well as ourselves and each other.
A book
review/press release about the process of nature-connected
thinking helps you follow nature's path to self, social and environmental
improvement.
Project
NatureConnect
CAUSES IDENTIFIED
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FOR YOUR INFORMATION:
A REVIEW OF FACTS ABOUT OUR
RELATIONSHIP WITH NATURE
NEWS CONCERNING INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY AND SENSORY NATURE
RELATIONSHIPS
NEWS: The percentage of our
lifetime that natural systems try to nurture and heal people
physically, emotionally and spiritually, as they do for all of
nature.
.....100%
NEWS: The average percentage
of a contemporary citizen's lifetime that is spent indoors, separated
from the supportive wholeness, balance and restorative powers
of nature and its systems.
.....95%
NEWS: The average number of developmental
hours in nature-disconnected indoor study that are required to
obtain cultural literacy and a high school diploma.
.....18,000 hours
NEWS: The average number of outdoor hours
studying natural systems in people and places that are required
for a high school diploma:
.....0
NEWS: The average percentage
of a contemporary citizen's thinking that is separated from and
not in tune with natural systems within and about them:
.....99.9%
NEWS: The average number of
hours in a sixty year lifetime that our thinking is connected
to nature-disconnected cultural stories.
.....540,000
NEWS: On average, the number
of hours in a total sixty year lifetime that our thinking may
be in tune with nature.
.....11.6
hours.
NEWS: Terms used to describe
the results of industrial society's extreme estrangement from
nature and the natural:
.....-prejudice against nature
.....-nature bigotry
.....-bewildered (wilderness-separated)
NEWS: Terms used to describe
the type of estrangement industrial society has from natural
systems:
.....-addictive
.....-emotionally bonded
.....-habitually conditioned
.....-brainwashed
NEWS: Terms used to describe
industrial society's relationship with nature and its systems:
.....-exploitive
.....-conquering
.....-abusive
.....-stressful
NEWS: The estimated percentage
of the U.S. population who have had at least one beneficial or
feel-good experience in nature.
.....99%
NEWS: The percentage of the
U.S. population who at some level recognize that we are part
of nature, that our basic ability to think, sense and feel is
part of our inborn inheritance from nature.
.....95%
NEWS: The estimated percentage
of the U.S. population who at some level recognize that the separation
of our mind from the wholeness and powers of natural systems
leaves us with a mental void as well as stressed or disturbed
thoughts and feelings.
.....95%
NEWS: The percentage of the
U.S. population who learn to disregard good experiences with
natural systems as an essential part of their path to well being.
.....99%
NEWS: The percentage of U.S.
population who have used nature-connected alternative education
and counseling and have enjoyed an increase in their well being
(Visit this study).
.....95%
CONCLUSION:
As planetary citizens, our
omission of the wisdom of natural systems from our thinking is
similar to removing from our mind our ability to reason, learn
and communicate in words and numbers. Both omissions render us
unintelligent. However, prejudiciously, we call the former "normal"
and the latter "outrageous stupidity."
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OBSERVATIONS BY EXPERTS
As demonstrated by the quotes
below and elsewhere, the mutually supportive, renewing
relationship between nature and our psyche is well recognized.
(Many others throughout history have had high "EcoIQ's."
When you have time, you can learn from theirs and check your
own, too, at our Eco
IQ page)
However, almost always missing is "how to
do it," the
recognition and use of a readily available enabling
tool whose process today helps us strengthen our love for
nature and its healing
powers. That tool empowers us and our leadership to genuinely
connect with natural systems within and about us and unify and
improve personal, social and environmental wellness.
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"The human need for nature
is linked not just to the material exploitation of the environment
but also to the influence of the natural world on our emotional,
cognitive, aesthetic, and even spiritual development."
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- Edward
O. Wilson
Harvard University Pulitzer Prize Recipient (To the American
Psychological Association National Convention) |
"It is quite clear to
me after several years in the environmental movement that all
physical problems of man's impact on the environment - pollution
of the air and waters, the desecration of the land, the contamination
of the food chain - all start within the environment of man's
mind."
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-Maurice Strong
Founder: the United Nations Environment Program
Co-Chair: U.N. Commission on Global Governance |
"Our task
must be to free ourselves from (our) prison by widening our circles
of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of
nature in its beauty."
...- Albert Einstein
"In order to achieve more
effective environmental protection and conservation, internal
balance within the human being himself or herself is essential."
...- Dalai Lama
...Nobel Prize recipient
"Our greatest problems
result from the difference between how people think and how nature
works."
...- Gregory Bateson
"Until mankind can extend the circle
of his compassion to include all living things, he will never,
himself, know peace."
...- Albert Schweitzer
...Nobel Prize recipient
"Wilderness is the ultimate
encyclopedia, holding answers to more questions than we have
yet learned how to ask. That's the magic in you. You've
got it; let it out."
...- David Brower
"The environmental crisis
is an outward manifestation of a crisis of mind and spirit. There
could be no greater misconception of its meaning than to believe
it is concerned only with endangered wildlife, human-made ugliness
and pollution. These are part of it, but more importantly, the
crisis is concerned with the kind of creates we are and what
we must become in order to survive."
...-Lynton K Caldwell
Human behavior is rooted most
deeply in nature's intentions and desire. The rhythms of nature
underlie all of human interaction: religious traditions, economic
systems, cultural and political organization. When these human
forms betray the natural psychic pulse, people and societies
get sick, nature is exploited and entire species are threatened.
...-Stephen Aizenstat
"What we are doing to
the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we
are doing to ourselves and to one another."
-Mahatma Gandhi
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"We have repressed far
more than our sexuality: our very organic nature is now unconscious
to most of us, most of the time, and we have become shrunken
into two dimensional social or cultural beings, aware of only
five of the hundreds of senses that link us to the rich biological
nature that underlies and nourishes these more symbolic and recent
aspects of ourselves.".
...- Norman 0. Brown
...Author of Love's Body
"We are dysfunctional
socially and environmentally because we are cut
off and isolated from the world of nature and the natural."
...-Albert Gore, (edited)
...Senator, United States
...Author, Earth in
the Balance
"The "Great Nest
of Spirit" includes matter, nature, body, mind, soul, and
spirit, yet they're always situated in the context of the four
quadrants (of nature, systems, self and culture) and they are
all correlated with one another."
...Brad Reynolds explaining Ken Wilbur, the "Einstein of
Consciousness"
"Nurture your felt love
for nature. Never deny it. That love is nature's voice, our origins
in nature, the eons, the purifying intelligence, beauty and diversity
of natural systems sustaining us in the spirit of their perfection
and wellness."
...-from The Web
of Life Imperative
"He looked upon us as
sophisticated children -- smart but not wise. We knew many things,
and much that is false. He knew nature, which is always true."
...-Saxton T. Pope (said of Ishi, America's ...last hunter-gather Native American)
"Over the years, I've
spent a lot of time fighting. Fighting against logging, pollution,
nuclear power...as long as we fight all the time there's going
to be a winner and a loser...(we must) build bridges across to
the people who are fighting."
...- David Suzuki
"Our religion keeps reminding
us that we aren't just will and thoughts. We're also sand and
wind and thunder and rain and the seasons. All those things.
You learn to respect everything because you are everything. If
you respect yourself, you respect all things."
...- Least Heat Moon
."At root, ecology is an erotic
attitude of closeness, relatedness and care. We have made it
into a rational/activist project and lost sight of its heart."
...-- Thomas Moore
"Sensory experience, we
might say, is the way our body binds its life to the other lives
that surround it, the way the earth couples itself to our thoughts
and our dreams. Sensory perception is the glue that binds our
separate nervous systems into the larger, encompassing ecosystem.
For the senses are our most immediate access to the more-than-human
natural world." ...-David Abram
...Author, Spell of the Sensuous
Like music and art, love of
nature is a common language that can transcend political or social
boundaries.
...-Jimmy Carter
"Personal transformation
is best cultivated by partnering with the supreme agent of change,
the Earth. Life is change, and nature is the wizard who enlivens
its magic cycles."
...F-Philip Sutton Chard
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MAKING A
DIFFERENCE
How to do it:
"A small group of people
gather in a park by a river. The cottonwood trees sway in the
wind and brightly colored leaves are everywhere on this crisp
autumn afternoon. The group includes a woman recovering from
chemotherapy and a man recovering from a stroke, a poet, a community
activist, a First Nations musician, a secretary, a mental health
professional, and a naturalist.
I give a brief talk based on
change and impermanence in nature from a chapter of "Reconnecting
with Nature" by Dr. Michael J.
Cohen and then explain today's activity. We silently separate,
asking permission to learn from nature. Some sit by the river
and meditate on the flowing current and standing waves, others
move into the woods and consider the trees and falling leaves.
After about 20 minutes we gather
together again and share our experiences and impressions. The
talk is profound and the listening is respectful. Everyone's
experience was different, but everyone's was the same, too. We
say goodbye and return to our separate lives, feeling safer and
happier and more connected than when we arrived.
I learned to share my connection
to nature in this way through online courses
with Dr. Cohen's Project Nature Connect. The process was the
same in the internet courses as in these nature meditations.
We read a chapter in a book, spent some quiet time doing an activity
in nature, and then shared our experiences via email. As we repeat
these brief sessions Cohen's Natural Systems
Thinking Process helps people re-establish their connection
with nature and learn to live more enriched and connected lives.
Dr. Cohen's work has made a significant
and enduring contribution to my life and to the lives of
many other members of my community."
- John
Scull, Ecopsychologist
Doing Organic Psychology
online:
"Enthusiastic" is the way Carol feels about
the online orientation course she is
taking entitled "Psychological Elements of Global Citizenship".
She knows what is important in it to her because in its prerequisite
material she identified areas of interest and results that previous
course members found important for themselves. She also tried
some of the activities with friends and knows they work well
for her.
Carol reads her course instructions
online from a "base camp" web page in her The Web
of Life Imperative book. She learns from them what
activity she and her email partners, who live in many different
countries, will to do on this scheduled day in their local park,
backyard, or even with a terrarium. In general they have been
doing two activities a week.
As Carol begins this day's
activity she senses what is most attractive to her in a local
natural area at this moment. Unexpectedly, she becomes aware
that the delicate sparkle of a water droplet on a fern attracts
her. She does additional activities that reinforce this nature-connected
sensation and she becomes aware of other things that come to
mind from the total experience. They include other times she
has felt its joy and meaning as well as her past disconnection
from it, what caused the disconnection, and the effects of the
loss. She discovers the droplet being attractive to her was not
an accident. It was subconsciously attractive to parts of her
that sought the fulfillment of the balanced tenacity, brightness
and refreshment it provided. Contact with the droplet brought
these parts of her into her awareness.
Carol has already read material
which helps her understand the activity she has just done and
how she might apply it to improve and further enjoy her daily
relationships with people and the environment. She closely follows
the twelve guidelines that come with the activity instructions.
Carol goes on-line and shares
with her 7-person interact group, who live in the USA and abroad,
her thoughts, feelings and reactions from her nature connecting
experience. One shared activity she receives was done with penguiins
in Antartica, another in a Hong Kong garden. She also downloads,
reads, and later reacts, to the attractions she finds and things
she has learned in all the email she receives from the group.
They become the course textbook. They convey her group member's
true experiences in nature with the same activity and readings
she just did. Later she reads their reactions to the letter she
just sent to all of them.
Carol finds the course process
is enjoyable and educational. She feels relieved that participants
hold something important in common and are therefore supportive
and not bogged down in "flaming" arguments about differing
viewpoints, ideologies, religions, politics etc. She feels alive
and spirited, sustained by her email partners commonly held responses
and the group's rejuvenating reconnection to nature.
Her day brighter and energized,
Carol looks forward to applying the activity by using what she
learned to further connect with people and natural places that
attract her. They gain additional value and she becomes aware
of an often unrecognized natural self-worth in herself and others
along with new values in natural areas. She has increased confidence
for she has done the activity and known its effects. She owns
it, can teach it, and gain its rewards again at will.
The course work feels simple
and enjoyable to Carol, but explaining to others how and why
it works challenges her intellect and spirit. The process and
its effects are so steeped in nature's mutually supportive relationships
that for most people they are, like nature's perfection, beyond
words. To be known and understood by others, she must help them
sense the effects first hand, or remember them from their previous
good experiences in nature.
"The
Web of Life Imperative offers more tools, knowledge and
personal power for good than most therapies and spiritualities.
It's course enables us to reverse our
destructive relationships by empowering us to make thoughtful
sensory connections with genuine nature. This connection responsibly
satisfies the aching, ever-wanting hole in our psyche that has
been produced by our excessive separation from nature, a hole
that leads us astray"
- Susan
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