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Project NatureConnect
Dr. Michael J. Cohen, Director,
MESA, Continued from Page Two
Do you know and practice a proven process that effectively produces the personal, social and environmentally responsible relationships people and Earth so desparately need?
We claim to be the most intelligent species on Earth yet for centuries civilized people have in literate ways been meditating, praying, educating, legalizing, compromizing, negotiating, politicizing, preaching, celebrating, spiriting, warring, theorizing, dancing, singing, marching, confronting, arguing, purchasing, voting, philosophizing and taking action to produce life in peace and balance.
For all of this, today, Earth and its people are more at risk than ever. Even Jesus was unable to fulfill this goal. Why? Because each of these well intentioned efforts attempt to achieve balance while thinking in literate ways that are estranged from the preliterate wisdom and unity by which nature works and achieves them.
The separation of our literate mind from nature deludes us into thinking we are more intelligent than nature's eons of creation in balance. Even those who say we need to be in conscious sensory contact with the environment seldom know how to effectively practice what they preach.
Who among us claims to have and teach the knowledge that substitutes for consciously being plugged into the preliterate web of life? Is it just an accident that our wisest leaders spent great amounts of time in the wilderness?
To be effective, each of our practices to establish environmentally sound personal growth and social justice must include the nurturing our preliterate wisdom into our conscious thinking. Each practice needs to add an effective tool, a culturally compatable component that enables them to create preliterate sensory moments in natural areas. In backyards or backcountry, each of these teachable moments lets Earth help them think like nature works.
The needed component in our society exists and is readily available (2) It is a scientific psychological technology anybody can use and experience (5). However, our attachment bonds to nature separating stories prevent most of us from using it. For this reason, we remain on the destructive thinking treadmill that we have created.
There is obviously a missing link in the way we think and relate. It will remain missing until we stop denying that our most challenging problems are caused by our psychological addiction to our planet-disconnected literate ways of knowing and acting. We don't know how to think with our preliterate wisdom, balance and beauty, like nature works, because within us we have learned to bulldoze this wisdom into our subconscious.
It is worth repeating the obvious : without choosing to scientifically let genuine contact with the preliterate world (2) help us bring our inner nature into our awareness, the nature void in our thinking keeps us thinking in ways that produce our problems. Doesn't the motto "God helps those who help themselves," apply here?
The deteriorating state of Earth and its people have led many individuals to agree that the four paragraphs on the following page represent the most important news since Earth Day 1970.
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PROJECT NATURECONNECT
The Natural Systems Thinking Process
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Let sensory connections with nature's purity recycle our polluted thinking.
The Natural Systems Thinking Process helps you genuinely connect to nature.
NOTE:The best way to learn the Process is to engage in it through our short, online Orientation Course. You may then intern and later teach the course if you choose.
To benefit from more experience
with the topics on this page, read and do the activities in Reconnecting With Nature
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