THE NAE GUIDELINE ACTIVITY:
Invite nature's  natural attraction (NA) powers (NNIAL) to help you peacefully increase trust, balance and unity now. Try to become aware of the natural attractions that you sense in this moment. Be sure to include as one of them your natural attraction to achieve this awareness.
   
  WHAT ARE YOU THINKING OR FEELING?
     - mad...NNIAL has been taken away
     - glad...NNIAL support is present
     - sad...The loss of NNIAL
     - scared...A need for more NNIAL support

Moment by moment, the unifying pulse of natural attraction in places and people holds things together in balance today, as has been true from the beginning of time. The "turn on and turn off" sense of thirst and our relationship to water and the water cycle exemplifies this. It shows that "thirst" is an intelligence we inherit as part of nature.

In the minuscule fractions of the first second after their pure single creation from "nothing", the first particles and energies of our universe, including the Higgs Boson, appeared like one seed containing the intelligence, life and energy that it needed to grow and mature attractively, over time, into our attractive universe.

The first particles and energy either contained, had an instinct to, or simply were attractioning to form, grow, cool and coalesce, to attach to each other in purity and balance. Over the eons, they have grown the seed into the "Now," the present moment, the self-correcting flow of energy and atoms of the universe that are found in all things, including our sensory selves and psyche. 

Restated, from its inception, natural attraction has been an NA seed that includes its attributes, potentials and growth.  Attraction of itself is the unified field essence and spirit of the growing universe and earth-community process.

In my Plant Physiology class we made balls of wet Plaster of Paris a little smaller than a tennis ball.  While the plaster was wet we pushed a kernal of corn, a corn seed, in the middle of the ball and sqeezed the ball closed around it.  The ball hardened in an hour and it was completely set as a hard rock ball within three days.  A week later the rock ball cracked open from the growing power of the corn seed.  It seemed impossible but the power of Natural Attraction was clearly demonstrated in a single seed without the help of the Army Corps of Engineers.

The source of the original natural attraction seed of our universe is unknown and is too often destructively argumentative. Wars are sometimes fought between those who are attached to different origin stories or opinions. Millions have been killed and continue to be put in harms way over the differences in creation stories our psyche has been attached to, especially during early childhood.

Our 53 natural senses can register natural attraction at work at any time in a natural area, backyard or backcountry as well as in our selves.  Natural attraction supports the one, single, whole web-of-life, including all its parts including the growth and well-being of ourselves and our natural attraction sensitivities and sensibilities. 

Our misguided attachments to stories that lead our psyche, thoughts and feelings to omit genuinely connecting with the whole of nature, the real thing, are the dualistic heart of our dilemmas.  Our limited and limiting attachments that result from this duality contain mind-polluting NNIAL toxins that make us loose the wisdom, good energies and balance that we seek.

From womb to tomb, our nature-disconnected stories indoctrinate or addict our thoughts and feelings to suck from the nipple on a bottle of booze that we have invented, rather than from the breast of Mother Earth. The latter is a readily available, rewarding procedure that is the prime remedy and preventative for the former.

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“I believe that the universe is one being, all its parts are different expressions of the same energy, and they are all in communication with each other, therefore parts of one organic whole. … The whole is in all its parts is so beautiful, and is felt by me so intensely in earnest, that I am compelled to love it and to think of it as divine.”

- Albert Einstein

"I know that I am part of the essence of nature. I love nature's attractive ability to produce the perfection of its self-correcting balance and beauty. My reasonable attractions in natural areas help me register that nature's original natural attraction is the pure origin of my ability to be attracted to reason, to be attracted to nature or to peace, unity, love, trust, community or cooperation."  

- Michael J. Cohen

With few remedies in sight for most of our increasing personal, social and environmental disorders, a powerful confrontation to how most contemporary individuals think and feel has been put forth by Dr. Michael Cohen at Akamai University.

Cohen believes that his argument with our central way of building relationships is an essential encounter. He says that without this quarrel we don't even begin to think about the core dysfunction that we suffer. He finds  that core is a curable disorder that, un-remedied, threatens life as we know it. He has said:

"The disconnection of our thoughts, feelings and spirit from Mother Nature is similar to removing a baby from its mother's breast and replacing the mother with a nipple attached to a bottle of whiskey. Until the child's physical and emotional bonds to its human mother are restored, they, along with the child's innate love of life, become, instead, bonded or addicted to the whiskey, bottle and nipple, along with their harmful effects.

As long as we remain psychologically attached to the 'whiskey nipple' we feel that life sucks, and that we are helpless to make it better.  This underlies our anger, anxiety and self-confidence. We know that, via whiskey, we have neither the ability or power to make our lives change for the better.  I know from experience, and from my observations of others, that achieving this ability may be accomplished through Educating, Counseling and Healing with Nature (ECHN) natural attraction ecology online activities, books and courses. They help our thinking embrace and suckle from our other and original body, Mother Earth.

ECHN earth-connecting activities, degrees and careers help us  increase our personal, social and environmental well being. They enable our psyche to eliminate the confusion from duality by using the eons' singular, unifying power of natural attraction (NA) to recycle and correct our destructive thoughts and feelings.

The process of ECHN gives our intelligence the ability to reconnect and think with the purifying wellness energies of nature's attractions, backyard or back country because it provides the four conditions that attach our story world into congruence with the way nature's intelligence works.

• It helps our intelligence recognize that NA is the singular seed and essence of nature's purifying balance and beauty 
• Backyard or backcountry, it consciously connects our body, mind and spirit to NA communications from nature around and in us.
• It provides our psyche with the correct story and structure that it needs to make sense and to register and integrate sensory communication NA contacts with authentic nature.
• It provides social and economic support from the parts of society that are sane enough to appreciate nature rather than exploit it in excessive and destructive ways.

These four conditions let ECHN procedures help us increase mutually supportive familiarity with nature to overcome our Industrial Society's prejudice against nature and our denial that we have this prejudice."

Although we are drowning in a sea of personal, social and environmental troubles, we instinctively sense that a natural solution for them is readily available. We innately know these troubles are not found in nature's purity, our inner nature senses this. We inherently know that our deep desire, our attraction to survive in peace and happiness is not just an accident. We are conscious at some level that we deserve to live, it is attractive, it is part of our nature and it is all of Nature.

We are born with the feeling that an attractive, nature-built life raft, a singular NA feeling of survival, is always present that supports and saves our lives. We see its organics promoting, transforming and purifying life everywere, without producing garbage.  Our innermost core senses that we are part of this life raft, that we come from and inherit the ability to live in its balance and beauty.

Our great challenge is that we learn to argue, sometimes to death or murder, about the correct way to get on the life raft, or who invented it. 

We suffer because our thinking is conditioned to overlook the fully visible, attractive entrance staircase on to the life raft that welcomes us aboard, free of charge. That entrance is our direct, sensory NA connection with nature.

Our great problem is a duality, that we not only learn to be prejudiced against nature, but we learn to deny that we are prejudiced, as well. This short circuits our ability to think reasonably about our dilemma and destiny.

We must engage in the best solution to remedy our prejudice. It is to feel attracted to engage in a procedure that helps us build conscious, intimate, binding and mutually supportive familiarity with nature, in and around us. Project NatureConnect gives us an ECHN process that helps us meet this goal.

Our conditioning is not going to change until we remove the dualistic blinders that hide nature's attractive life raft staircase entrance from how we think, feel and relate, moment by moment.

The unrecognized NA power of the eons that can help us reverse our troubles is natural attraction energy.  Its self-correcting abilities flow in, around and through us as well as throughout all of nature. However, we are paid for our thinking to refute, conquer and exploit this power rather than engage in its inviting and restorative ways. That's our challenge. Thinking in exploitive and abusive ways is not attractive.  It is why we lose the balancing wisdom natural attraction offers us, free of charge.

Cohen responded to the above.  He says:

"As you read this, your habit may have kicked in of not believing that natural attraction power is something that is real and valuable. If so, this habit is probably coloring your thoughts and feelings in disbelief.  For this reason I present you, or anyone else, with an aggravating but vital challenge:

Get real. Show me a thing, place or relationship that, since the single Big Bang beginning of our Universe, has not, or does not consist of the unifying power of natural attraction to bind things together, to attach them in ways that become and strengthen the whole-life perfection of nature's purity, balance and beauty...around and in us.  Show me something that, like the Higgs Boson or nature itself, accomplishes this magnificent feat without producing garbage, pollution and the other disorders that we suffer.   

I have yet to find anyone that can produce an example of whole, natural, non-attraction. This is simply because its existence is a complete and unmitigated lie with respect to the totality of nature. It doesn't happen on a macro level in nature, with one, well-hidden exception.

In NA thinking and feeling, any unattractive or negative thing is actually a natural symptom or calling for us to connect to the whole with additional natural attractions, for they and it support us. 

We fear nature because we ignore or reject natural attraction to be the life-enhancing core of the Universe and life as we know it, including how we think and feel. We seldom recognize that the universal tension-relaxation pulse of all relationships is formed by strong-weak-strong-weak attraction pulse, not by attraction-repulsion. For example, the rest period between contractions of the heart is not repulsion. Neither is the shorter-longer-shorter-longer distance between Planet Earth and the Sun as it orbits around it, nor the night-day, night-day, night-day heartbeat of our living planet.  None of these examples are dualistic if the pulse of life has its own life-giving integrity.

We suffer because we hold a false, unattractive story that says that the whole of nature may hurt, repulse, reject or abandon us.

The mutually supportive relationships of all natural things is intact because natural attraction has maintained the integrity of its non-polluting, unifying, ways since the beginning time of our universe.  In and between atoms, as well as in raw energy, the ways of natural attraction are flowing in and around you at this very moment. They have been since your biological conception. They sustain your life and sanity.

Here is some consistent knowledge that has been consistently ignored. (What do you think we are we waiting for? Note the dates on the quotes, below):

"My favorite part of quantum physics is that it is actually the spaces in between our atomic structure that actually makes up something like 70 - 90% of earth's bio mass. And that nutrinos flow through, in and all of this space/atomic structure - without disturbing a thing.  That is just too wacky beautiful for words."

- Leslie Whitcomb (2010 A.D.)

"At our most elemental we are not a chemical reaction, but an energetic charge. Human beings and all living things are a coalescence of energy in a field of energy connected to every other thing in the world. This pulsating energy field is the central engine of our being and our consciousness."

- Lynne McTaggart  (2008 A.D.)

"What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it."

- Isaac Bashevis Singer (1972 A.D.)

"This world...lies wide around.  Its attractions are the keys which unlock my thoughts and make me acquainted with myself."

- R.W. Emerson  (1850 A.D.)

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The soul is identical with love, with the Cosmos. My desire, your desire, all our experience is shared with each other and the Universe.

- Plotinus (270 A.D.)

"Always think of the universe as one living organism, with a single substance, and a single soul."

- Marcus Aurelius  (180 A.D.)

"The soul of man... is a portion or a copy of the soul of the Universe and is joined together on principles and in proportions corresponding to those which govern the Universe."

- Plutarch circa (75 A.D.)

"The goal of life is living in agreement with nature"

- Zeno (450 B.C.)

The love that produced your biological conception in your mother's human womb is a valid example of natural attraction in action. (see references, below)

The confrontation that I'm presenting here can hopefully save you, me and Earth from further hard times and help us clean up our present act.

If you are not thinking with and continuously benefiting from your inherent natural attraction power(s), it is simply because, for profit, Industrial Society has taught your intelligence and IQ  to ignore, disown or conquer them, often for monetary profit. Our society has disconnected our body mind and spirit from the unifying nature paradise that it continues to pave over.

We have separated our essence from the beautiful reality of life in purity and balance on this planet.

Our hurtful disconnection is no accident. Rather, it arises from us learning to attach/bond ourselves to conquer nature for excessive monetary income and power.  

Industrial Society empowers non-organic thinking, enterprises and spiritualities to sell you and me artificial fulfillments to replace nature in our lives.  You and I suffer because these fulfillments are inadequate substitutes for the grace of nature's attraction powers. Too often these artificialities deteriorate nature in and around us.

With the profound satisfactions of NA power missing from your life, is it any wonder that you may have excessive wants and needs? Do you feel that you never have enough?  For example, no matter if they are rich or poor, most people feel they need 15 percent more money.

Trying to identify the original source of natural attraction power, like the "God Particle" Higgs Boson, is a divisive and often aggravating religious or spiritual side issue. It distracts us from doing things that can help you, me and the environment now. In fact, unlike the unifying ways of natural attraction, this "origins issue" too often turns us against each other.

What is vital is that we acknowledge the unifying power of natural attraction in each moment for the good of all things.  Through the ECHN of applied ecopsychology you can learn how to gain its consent to help you modify your destructive thoughts, feelings and habits, along with the detrimental attitudes of others, too.

If you have ever had a good experience in nature, you already know the momentous ability of a natural area to reduce your stress, increase your joy and clear your mind without producing destructive dependencies. That's what is naturally normal. From atomic nuclei to the solar system and beyond, all things, including space, ourselves and "mind" hold, or are, in common, natural attraction in action. In its pristine form on Earth this natural attraction process is known as "wilderness." 

From living with others in nature for decades, I have learned and taught how to create moments that, via NA, let Nature/Earth teach.  

I evaluate the truth or value of things by considering their empirical evidence and their short and long term effects.  This is especially true of their ability to benefit all of life, for that is how nature works, in NA balance and beauty, to produce its perfections. To this end, the following scientific observations are facts of life that, to our loss, our stories condition us to overlook.      

About 14 billion years ago, before the time, space and matter of our Universe began, as far as it is known there only existed the nothingness of a unique vacuum (and "god," or "mind" or "consciousness" for those of us who are trained to these belief stories.)

In this vacuum of nothingness lay the beginning of our Universe along with the beginning of time as we know it. This beginning was a desire, a verb, a natural attractioning to gain fulfillment, or perhaps an attractioness to gain satisfaction. If, however, it was a specific person, place or thing, it was a noun and should be capitalized: Natural Attraction (NA). There was nothing, then there was NA, nature's original essence. We don't live in nothing nor are we nothing. Until proven otherwise are, and are part of, the growth of the original NA.

Reasonable evidence from observing the Universe today suggests that its true beginning consisted of its natural attraction to begin, to be, to grow.

In order to exist and grow into what it became in its first split second and now, this powerful attraction had to contain some essence of life, and of consciousness, of a reasonable and intelligent desire to become an ever increasing and greater attractiveness. That is the direction natural attraction took as an energy.  

In its original "ylem" moments, to begin NA was an immense energy, a hot, dense and turbulent fundamental attraction force that was attracted to expand and cool. It remains, today, at work as an essence of the universe.

"Driven by the forces of love (NA), the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come into being."

- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Elements of NA gravity, electromagnetism and nuclear forces became unified into a single super attraction. As expansion and cooling started, a mix of matter and antimatter appeared and they were attracted to annihilate matter in a burst of radiation, leaving behind randomly scattered pockets of matter that make up the universe today. 

As cooling and growth continued, resonating "strings" developed whose pulsating attractions attached to other pulses to begin to form a wide variety of sub-atomic particles. The Gluon and Higgs Boson particle may have been part of that process.

By the end of three minutes after the Big Bang expansion, the universe was attracted to become cool enough to allow the "strings" to form familiar attraction particles of today's matter, protons and neutrons, to form from their constituents.

• - The particles, over time, were attracted to come together to form nuclei, the charged cores of atoms.
• - Further attraction to cooling produced the adhesion of the nuclei of hydrogen and helium, the simplest and most common chemical elements in the universe.
• - The resonating life-pulse of attraction to become all the other elements - including the carbon, oxygen and nitrogen needed for life as we know it on Earth - emerged with the first massive stars many millions of years later.
  

Then, for 13 billion years that followed, the natural attraction to grow, expand and cool continued through eons, attracting atoms, light and hydrogen-helium fusion stars and gravity to form, as exemplified by our sun as it functions now. (see #6 in the sequence at http://ssscott.tripod.com/BigBang.html)

The sun is very attractive. It attracts the Solar System to orbit around it while attracting Earth's life community to grow in cooperative balance. Part of this process was the creation of our 53 natural attraction senses so that we could register, think and consciously participate in the Earth's web of life in a good way....to the benefit of all.

Too often we ignore that Natural Attraction's attraction to become something like water also became the sensory attraction of thirst to connect life forms with water.  Similarly NA sensory attraction to grow "food" also grew sensory attraction to food that we call our natural sense of hunger occasionally along with taste and smell. This is also the biology for our 50 other natural senses.

Culturally, we label and define the above sensitivities in many ways, depending on our overriding cultural story: non-material, spirit, needs, drives, fairys, instincts, Gods, love, angels, wants, energy, light, consciousness, divas etc. Scientifically, however, the totality of NA, its properties and its subdivisions are seen in the Natural Attraction Ecology (NAE) webstring model as the singular, prime connection and growing force of the eons, as the uni in universe and Grand Unification. To repeat, as such, natural attraction is labeled and capitalized here as a proper noun, as Natural Attraction (NA) that has its own wholeness, history, properties and integrity.  

Some individuals or ideologies maintain that the essence of the eons is not NA, rather it is "consciousness." However, when they include NAE ECHN activities in their practices and create sensory moments that let Earth teach, they discover:

• a strengthening of their meditations or rituals and their effects.
• the limiting or injurious effects on our psyche that result from being born and raised a society that is extremely disconnected from nature
• valuable NA contributions that their consciousness is separated from in Industrial Society. 
• the NA omission warps in their psyche that they need to address in order to come into balance. 
• the misguided support that their truncated adult consciousness gives to detrimental, nature-disconnected aspects of Industrial Society, in and around them.
• you can't make conscious contact with nature's NA essence when, in childhood, you have injured the NA senses that enable you to register NA. 
• some forms of meditation excessively omit contact with nature as being essential for meditation success. It is as if the real world consists only of the closet that Industrial Society has built and is addicted to live in.
• how Buddha may have obtained his knowledge because he was meditating outdoors for 49 days under, and perhaps occasionally leaning against, a Bodhi tree. 
• transcendence, enlightenment, nirvana or Einstein's general field may not be obtained by staying in a closet that separates our NA sensibilities from authentic nature for nature is the fountainhead of authority about how the universe works.
  

The universe's original NA had the ability to flow and grow into becoming the attractive time, space and matter that we now recognize as the Universe/Nature. The universe, as well as each of its parts, including us and our psyche/mind, is held together/unified by the pulsating power of NNIAL, NNIAL is its original, non-dualistic, natural attraction fundamental.

The essence of NNIAL is its pulse, the aliveness of its constant love to grow more attractive relationships, moment by moment.  

We inherit the NA ability to consciously register the pulse and powers as at least 53 natural senses and sensations.  Each brings our conscious awareness to the essence of NNIAL.

This page can't bring us to NNIAL because the page consists of words and images. Each is a duality. Each brings our consciousness to the meaning we have learned to attach to the word or image. Each of them is a representation of, not the reality of, what they convey as a felt senses.  For example the word "tree" and the felt senses of a real tree are two different realities; the word thirst and the felt sense/sensation of thirst are two different ways of knowing that register through two or more different natural senses.  Each is a "truth" of its own, so how do we, discover, think and relate to reality, the real truth?

The experience of being treeness, a real tree, and the label for it "tree" are completely different.  Treeness is NNIAL, attraction-based experience. "Tree" is simply a word, an abstract symbol literacy of the treeness NA experience. This duality prevents our thoughts and feelings from relating to treeness, how the intelligent integrity of the tree knows itself to be.  It is like comfortably standing in a boat and then attempting to walk onto another boat.  When you have one foot in each boat and the boats spread apart, you lose your underpinnings and end up in the water. This is a similar when we may be on skiis or roller skates, but not on a skateboard for it is one "indivisible" thing.  

We are in hot water because most of our thinking and feeling is dualistic, rooted in two boats.  One boat is the word/story/symbol and the other registering the real thing via our senses and sensibilities. Different parts of our brain register either our senses or our word abstractions. 

The secret cure is that when we relate to the singular pulse of NA the duality is gone.  The word "thirst" and the NA sense and feeling of thirst are identical by definition.  Trusting and validating our senses aligns our story world indivisibly with our sensory knowing.

The distortions from duality can be seen in believing that repulsion exists in nature by observing a magnet. It is magnetic because all its molecules lie in a unifying attraction to each other.  Folks try to prove repulsion is part of nature by separating two magnets that hold each other together and then placing the like poles near each other so they repel. (Does this disturbing act disturb the magnets?).  This, folks believe, demonstrates that repulsion is also part of nature. (Does the magnet somehow register this as a repulsive act?  If not, why does it always try to re-align itself as it originally was?) What their thinking overlooks in this example is their duality.  It is their "disturbing" story to distort nature, to turn the magnetic poles around, that produces the repulsion.  Nature does not make the story, our NA disconnected abstract "scientific" thinking both creates and imposes the disturbance on the life of the magnets. If the magnet(s) could speak they might say "Leave us alone, we are happily attracted to each other through NA, we are contributing to balance in this happy alliance and we are causing no harm"   In this example, we project our repulsion story to be a repulsion property of nature, and the latter is not true. Without the disturbing interference of our story world, the magnet is only attracted to its non-polluting original NA status, not to repulsion or to being "repulsive" to itself and its environment.

Since NNIAL is alive, "things" that seems like repulsion in nature are actually the "things" being attracted to run for their life, run towards their NNIAL attraction to support life.  Allow the magnets to be mobile and watch them again line up in north-south attraction. (Do you realize that we "harness" this NA power in magnets to make electricity. How has NNIAL been harnessed in you that so you sometimes feel like a cultural object?  Is being "sentenced" as a child to 18,000 hours of indoor literacy and education a way of excessively harnessing us?  Where is the wisdom of NNIAL taught in the classroom?).

Our nature conquering thoughts and feelings disturb the world. This is because being excessively disconnected from NNIAL, we are disturbed personally, socially and environmentally. What is really disturbing is that our story world calls this disturbance "normal" "progress" and "economic growth." It pays us more as we learn to do it better and increase our disturbing effects on nature and each other.

Different things experience or relate to NA in different ways. The classic ability of natural attraction to bind, resonate and unify a universal, wide range of diversity where all things contribute and belong, identifies NA as a prime essence, an essence we sometimes call unconditional love in that everything is naturally attracted to everything.

Swirls throughout nature, from pine cones to snail shells to galaxies are based on the Fibonacci Integer Sequence where each number is the sum of the two previous numbers 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8 etc.  This may originate in the big bang coalescence if, at the constant speed of light, the attraction based universe continually grows.  This pattern has been observed to be biologically advantageous and therefore is also aesthetically pleasing to our senses. It is, however, a mathematical representation of NNIAL, not the real thing, for NNIAL is nameless.  

Natural Attraction-love has the energy to bring together and feed unique molecular attachments. So energized, these attachments grow into attractive adult forms of life (including mineral crystals increasing in size).

As through the eons, today, the universe's original natural attraction "spirit" is a growing, alive, aware, reasonable, moment by moment resonating act that sustainably continues to weave the NNIAL web-of-life of the universe, including our living planet and each of us. (see references, below).  For this reason, all things, including the life of Earth and how we sense, think and feel, are part of nature's pulsating attraction for this universe to survive and grow in attraction relationship. Some believe the Aquarius time, when we will organize ourselves in harmony with the web-of-life, begins now.  Can that really happen if we are not using NAE? 

Although much of information about the past of the universe is speculative, as the universe ages and we research it we are able to become increasingly confident in our knowledge of its history.

By studying the way in which the universe exists today it is possible to learn a great deal about its past.

Too often we overlook that the natural attraction energy of the universe is the essence of nature's remarkable powers on our planet. NA on Earth is wilderness, a wild form of love that is, and that gives nature on earth the unique ability to create and sustain its optimums of

Via NA, nature accomplishes this profound achievement without producing garbage. Nothing is wasted or discarded, everything belongs and is pure. Excessive abusiveness, isolation and destruction, including war, are virtually unknown in nature.

As part of the whole of life, our inborn attraction to, and love of, life (survival), along with our 53 natural senses, enable our sense of consciousness to register nature's attractive ways and participate with them cooperatively.  This is accomplished by thinking and feeling with them.  

No surprise, the results of not thinking and feeling with all our 53 natural senses are sooner or later unbalanced, unattractive and destructive.

Adjusting and balancing to a variety of environmental attractions, NA strengthens and weakens as it grows.  This pulse can affect our thinking, feeling and spirit, along with everything else.  However, we can produce and support beneficial long-term effects and well-being by, at any time, seeking how the whole of NA is operating successfully in any given moment.  We can then connect with successful attraction to help our thinking do the same.  Making this connection puts us in tune with the whole life power of the Earth and universe attraction-growth process.  It is the heart of the science of Natural Attraction Ecology (NAE) and sustainability.  We have all experienced samples of it when we have had a good experience in nature. NAE gives us the ability to have it available continuously as we experience the seamless flow of NA in and around us.

SUMMARY: Moment by moment, the singular life-pulse of NA holds things together in balance today, as has been from the beginning of time. In minuscule fractions of the first second after their creation from "nothing", the first particles of our universe were attracted to form, to coalesce, to be attached to each other to become the seed of the universe, including ourselves and our psyche. 

From its inception, NA has been an essence of the growing universe and earth-community process. Our natural senses can register it at any time in a natural area, backyard or backcounty and in our natural selves.  It includes, as part of its efforts, the growth and well-being of ourselves and our natural attraction senses. (see references, below)

Our misguided attachments to stories that motivate our psyche, thoughts and feelings to omit genuinely connecting with nature, the real thing, are the heart of our dilemmas.  These limited and limiting attachments make us loose the wisdom and good energies that we seek.

"We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals.  Remote from universal nature and living by complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge and sees thereby a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion.  We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate for having taken form so far below ourselves.   And therein do we err.  For the animal shall not be measured by man.  In a world older and more complete than ours, they move finished and complete, gifted with the extension of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear.  They are not brethren, they are not underlings: they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time."

- Henry Beston, "The Outermost House" 1928

We often learn to think that we deserve to have good feelings because we have thought or acted in a socially acceptable way. We seldom learn that we inherently deserve to have good feelings. They are naturally attractive, hormonally produced (endorphin-dopamine) rewards from Mother Earth and the universe for fulfilling one or more our NA senses, including our senses of consciousness, literacy and reason. For example, when we drink water to fulfill our NA sense of thirst, we not only feel satisfied, quenched and happier, we also can become verbally aware that we feel this and that it makes sense. 

Humans have spent 99.9 percent of their evolutionary history in natural environments that weave themselves into being themselves through pulsating natural attraction relationships. In this respect, getting back to nature is a psychological and physiological homecoming.  It is similar to having Christmas all year round

What is abnormal is that today, on average, we learn to spend less than 12 hours of our total lifetime connected to, and in tune with natural attractions in natural areas. Over 95 percent of our time is spent indoors. Another word for this foolishness is either "misguided" or 'stupid'

As casualties of our society's excessive disconnection from nature, is it any wonder that we are often disturbed, ailing, ungrounded and out of balance? We are bewildered (wilderness separated). We have trouble identifying who or what we are.  We are like billiard balls being bounced around by the pool stick of Industrial Society.

"My client had been in a motor vehicle accident and had multiple injuries that prevented her from getting out and about.  She was in chronic pain and was having severe anxiety attacks. 

There was a nice potted plant in her living room (I think it was a Dieffenbachia, but I'm not sure).  I described how we are in a mutually-supportive role with plants -- they provide us with oxygen and we provide them with CO2.  I suggested that when she was feeling anxious she should breathe with the plant, exchanging gases and and recognize that they were being mutually supportive.  As she did so, I could see her visibly relaxing.  Within a few minutes she reported that her anxiety was gone and her pain was somewhat reduced. 

Over the next few weeks she successfully used this technique whenever she was anxious.  As her physical abilities improved she began spending time in the garden and then began gardening from her wheelchair.  Her anxiety was completely controlled without medication.

I don't know what she bonded to, but she developed a sense that the plant (and later her garden) was her friend and that they were in a mutually supportive relationship.  This feeling was able to help her overcome her anxiety."

John Scull, Ph.D. Neuropsychologist

You were probably never taught that we inherit 53 natural attraction senses that are a continuum of natural attraction through the eons. As are water and air and minerals, our natural senses are a shared part of us as part of nature.

"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

Attraction intelligently unifies and balances. Again, fFor example, our NA sense of thirst appropriately turns on and off to bring water into, through and out of us as our life needs it. Thirst is a balanced and nurturing sensory power, an intelligence that supports all of life. It unifies us with water.  It makes our life part of the life of the global water cycle, and vice versa. It does this in a good way, meaning that it benefits all and it purifies all. That is nature's intelligence.

Connecting to water is a common attraction/sensitivity in the plant, animal and mineral kingdoms. So are each of our other natural attraction senses.

We inherit 52 additional NA senses that organically operate in other natural cycles just like the sense of thirst does in conjunction with the water cycle. Each of them are an intelligence, a great truth about life in balance. While we are in natural areas, they have the ability to register natural attraction directly and purely in our mind, often unaffected by the bias of our dogmas, hurt and culture. This is a magnificent intelligence yet Mother Earth could not take, no less pass, a standard IQ test.

Connecting our natural senses to nature calms our psyche and brings it into a happy balance  This universal, organic, consciousness makes natural attraction a monumental NAE tool for person/planet unity, community and communication.  It enables us to create moments that let Earth teach.

Considering the wars and disagreements that flourish over "God," natural attraction senses give us a potent "environmental spirituality that unifies." This is neither fictional or accidental.  In order to be part of a system, one has to be in communication with the system, otherwise trespasses, conflict, stress and disorders result. NA not only communicates attraction, it is an intelligence that everything holds in common.

Our 53 natural attraction senses are NA in us playing a vital communication role in our relationship with the global life system of Planet Earth, if not the universe. They register the ways of the natural world in our NA sense of consciousness.

The truth is that our society trains you and me to think with less than eight of our 53 natural senses. This results in our isolation, disorders and disunity from Earth and each other. Is it any wonder that we are stressed-out and anxious? Have you noticed that, as exemplified by our relationship with wolves,  we seldom make sense, or act sensibly in a good way, a way that benefits all?  

When our 53 attraction senses work together we are able to think and act in conjunction with the wisdom of their eons and balancing powers. They help us make clear decisions that are sensible and sustainable. They enable us to build relationships that ground us, that are supported by natural attraction sensibility, a wisdom that pervades the web of life.  

Each of us has experienced the above-described phenomena beginning to occur during our quiet time in a natural area. Too often we learn to demean this experience as an escape from reality, as recreation rather than re-creation. 

You and I suffer because we have been programmed to deny that NA is a vital essence of nature and life. Our denial produces a major problem. When we deny the existence of our natural attractions and their powers, we can't even become conscious of the central issue that we must address, no less resolve it.

Our dilemmas result from our society rewarding us for being "objective," for not validating our "subjective" NA sensations as facts when they appear in our thoughts, feelings and relationships.

Again, NA power is what we deeply hold in common with the world and each other.

To our loss, we learn to pride ourselves in creating stories that attach us to things that are destructive or seldom agree with each other....rather than to the unity, unifying and healing ways of nature and its NA process.  We are attracted to these stories. The pain they give us is a signal for us to find more attractive stories.  

When we "Run for our life" the thing we are running from energizes in us nature's attraction to have us act from our natural attraction to live (attraction senses 25-27).

Natural attraction can be seen as the metaphorical elephant that the classic blind wise men tried to describe from their many different points of view. They may have argued about or fought over their findings but at least their senses registered that an elephant was present. We have placed misguiding labels over NA. Although we are born with it, we are socialized to be blind to it and its value.

The blind men on the elephant are similar to how we usually perceive nature.  As a demonstration we might hang a rope from a tree limb with a weight tied to its free end. We'd push the weight hard so it swings like a rope pendulum from the limb. This could be used as a model of how nature works in balance, by "attracting and repulsing" back and forth. What this observation omits, however, is that the energy that keeps the pendulum swinging is the universal NA of gravity along with our attraction to make the original push.  After fulfilling our reasonable attraction to push the weight, it is the constant natural attraction of Gravity that keeps the pendulum swinging up and down both ways from the middle. This rhythm is similar to our heart beat contracting and relaxing as part of our attraction to survive and grow attractively.

If we had the power to turn off "gravity" the pendulum would stop. However, we have the power and do disconnect our thoughts, feelings and relationships from nature's attraction energies. The troubling results speak for themselves.

Omitted in the above interpretation is the natural attraction of "reason" and its story to of how and why to set up the pendulum demonstration. Other pulsing natural attraction senses come into play, too, senses like motion and consciousness to climb the tree. It addition are the natural attractions that cycle and hold together all the atoms and energies that make the total scene possible, including those of our body, mind and spirit.  All these natural attractions diversely evolved from, and are seamless continuums of the pulsating life of the NA original attraction/desire to grow attractively since the beginning the universe.

 

You and I have, readily available, a natural attraction tool that can help us genuinely reconnect our psyche to nature's attractive balance, beauty and healing powers.

The tool is a science whose process is an art that supports attractive, sensible attitude while we are in natural areas, backyard to backcountry. You may be interested in reading an overview of its process.

The tool is a procedure that enables our thinking to reduce our troubles and increase our love of the natural in and around us. This is significant because we protect and save what we love.

Get real. We can't solve our problems because we don't acknowledge the NA omission that causes them and we don't use the NAE natural attraction NNIAL antidote we have to help us solve them.

BOTTOM LINE: The means by which Industrial Society leadership is producing economic profits and power is just like selling the public cars that they know have no brakes. As people drive them they injure the well-being of environment and themselves.  The same science that has the know how to convert the NA material world into an automobile also knows how nature's "brakes" unify and balance the natural world via NAE. However, for profits and power it omits or demeans this NA information. Instead, our personal and collective intelligence is indoctrinated to mediate and map our lives using a "Disney World blueprint" that is as detached a distortion of nature as are Mickey Mouse, Magic Mountain or a Disney film that conveys the nature-lie that lemmings are suicidal:  

"The 1958 Disney film White Wilderness that won an Academy Award for Documentary Feature, included staged footage showing lemmings jumping into certain death after faked scenes of mass migration.  A Canadian Broadcasting Corporation documentary, Cruel Camera, found that the lemmings used for White Wilderness were flown from Hudson Bay to Calgary, Alberta, Canada, where they did not jump off the cliff, but were in fact launched off the cliff using a turntable."  

- Wickipedia

The inconvenient truth is that what we call our "normal" or "civilized" daily thinking and relating is really like living in the fantasy of Disneyworld with respect to nature and its intelligence.  In fact, Disneyworld is more honest because it at least admits that it is a fantasy.  We call the Industrial Society we have designed, live in, and train our children to adapt to, the "real world."

Before it's too late, to remove ourselves from Industrial Society's turntable of suicidal social and environmental insanity we may empower our psyche to become SANE simply by incorporating NAE in every aspect of our thinking and feeling.  You and I can help folks benefit from the NAE antidote by helping them become involved with its procedure.  

We must refrain from supporting individuals who refuse to use a valid ECHN "love-invigorating" NA tool to help create peace on earth through peace with earth.

"Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better everyday. And you will come to love the whole world with an all-embracing love (NA)."

- Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1880

In the final analysis, no matter what they be, the needs, goals and wants that we experience or construct are a means to satisfy one or more of our inherent natural senses. Fulfilling these senses directly through sensory connections to natural attractions located in people and natural places produces our most balanced, organic and inexpensive fulfillments. Fulfilling them with artificialities usually produces questionable side effects and additional problems.

The whole truth is that if our basic connection or foundational understanding is not a singular essence or truth, all things that spring from it will be dualistic, confusing and deceiving.

Whenever we sense an unadulterated natural attraction in nature, (in ourselves, others or a natural area), in that moment(s) we become, as well as register, the unifying NA seed that started the eons. To help that seed to grow, we simply use NAE to help others find their natural attractions in nature.

"One touch of nature makes the whole world kin"

- William Shakespeare

What is critical is that a preponderance of evidence presently indicates that we are inherently aware of the singular pulsating life and eons of NA to grow the Universe and us in attractive balance and purity.  For survival, our senses are attracted to find it, register it, enjoy it and be happily satisfied by doing this.

It is crucial for us to recognize that every moment we spend with our NA energies attached to nature-substitute stories, spiritualities or technologies, instead of NNIAL in natural areas, is a destructive moment for us and nature because it

• repeats and reinforces our disconnectedness, 
• prevents nature from helping us heal our disorders,
• separates our psyche from nature's self-correcting ways, 
• has adverse "side effects" on natural systems in and around us,
•  strengthens our nature-exploitive economy, 
• increases our stress, anxiety and anger, 
• increases our need for tranquilizers and substance rewards, 
• makes us feel that we don't have enough 
• makes us feel that we are not enough since we can't solve our problems or maintain good feelings and relationships  
• makes us dependent on polluting and non-sustainable industries 
• makes questionable industries profitable.
• increases our shame for the things, above, and brings us further into denial that all this is happening. 
• decreases our sensitivity to the fact that we are using 150 percent more "resources" than our planet is producing.
• makes us so demented that we seek predictions and solutions from our indoor world when we have experienced the antidote we seek when we spend quiet time in natural areas.  

Because there is no credible evidence that humanity as Homo sapians existed as such at the original NA Big Bang, we must conclude that the beginning was not the result or pawn of any human term, story, thought or act. When we reasonably register the Big Bang's attractiveness or raw balancing and unifying powers, we must learn to call and relate to it as NA. It is no surprise that the distorted stories and thinking that suppress this practice produce the disturbing results that we suffer.

It might just be that when we experience a strong attraction to something in nature, we are sensing or being the NA of 14 billion years ago as it is operating today, or maybe even then, too.

Our attraction to smash atomic nuclei to find the NA Higgs Boson may not work if Higgs Boson is what attracts the universe into being and growing. We may just smash what we are looking for if it is the essence of attraction including our sensory attractions. Do we really need to smash that seed, is it reasonable behavior?  Is it a natural attraction or NA attached to atom smashing rather than to other ways of knowing?

"What we are looking for is what is doing the looking."

- Saint Francis

"An eye can see the world but not itself."

- Zen

"I thank God for beginning this world with the seed of NNIAL and its instinct to grow attractive relationships."  

- Project NatureConnect Student (edited)

 
The good effects of us choosing to connect our thoughts and feelings to nature's wise, whole-life, NA essence speak for themselves. When we choose to do otherwise we choose to produce the dualities, arguments and disorders that we suffer.  This is exemplified by a 1998 article that includes familiarity of my 1993 published identification of NA as a non-dualistic essence of all relationships, and then does not advocate applying NA to help stop the destructiveness of duality.  Sadly, Industrial Society has prejudicially indoctrinated most of us not to apply "the action of attraction." 

DO THE NAE GUIDELINE ACTIVITY:

Invite nature's powers (NNIAL) to help you peacefully increase trust, balance and unity now. Try to become aware of the natural attractions that you sense in this moment. Be sure to include as one of them your natural attraction to achieve this awareness.
   
  WHAT ARE YOU THINKING OR FEELING?
     - mad...NNIAL has been excessively removed
     - glad...NNIAL support is present
     - sad...The loss of NNIAL
     - scared...A need for more NNIAL support

"Love is the life force that holds the universe together."

- Ed Boardman

"Nature is the unseen intelligence that loved us into being."

- Elbert Hubbard

"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about language, ideas, even the phrase each other
doesn't make any sense."

- Rumi  (circa 1260 A.D.)

"The ability of a relationship to be increasingly friendly and to avoid disorders depends upon the health of the unifying power that binds the relationship."

- Michael J. Cohen

Our "educated" and established thinking is unable to help us live in the optimums of life, diversity, cooperation, peace, purity, balance and beauty that the undisturbed natural attraction world enjoys. This suggests that we are indoctrinated to wear blinders to nature's extraordinary NA information and intelligence that we inherit and that is available in and around us.  This information is identified in 20 fundamental axioms that are the foundation of Natural Attraction Ecology. They identify ten major NA observations, below, that we indoctrinate ourselves to omit in our everyday thoughts and feelings. For this reason we suffer our many disorders:

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