Project NatureConnect
Institute of Global Education Personality Psychology
Special NGO Consultant, United Nations Economic and Social Council
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How Nature Works: The Natural Systems Thinking Process
NOTE: The quoted information, below, contains parts of field study samples from anonymous participants in our sensory green nature-connection program. Other examples and findings are available through links on our survey page.
"I sense the nature of love symbol at the beginning of the chapter as an animal that is caught inside a trap - in a cycle of suffering - no way out - not unlike the closet.. It bears the imprint of a mechanized left-brained symbolism world on it's side - a square shape. It reminds me of, when I worked as a biologist, we imposed our mechanistic worldview on wildlife in order to count them, "inventory" them and "manage" them, not as a nature friend. This Thoreau nature lover quote sums it up nicely for me: "A man's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town".
The quote, "The heart has its reasons which reason does not know" evokes, for me, the validity and importance of following one's deepest feelings, emotions and natural sensations which are sometimes inexplicable to a sense of reason that has been culturally trained to ignore, demean or deny (DENIAL) about nature or love and the natural.
The sentence that summed up the chapter for me was "The war against NIAL, against being who we naturally are, physically as well as emotionally, injures us." That's my experience, too. The echoes, the remnants of these injuries may always be with us, but they need not control our lives anymore as long as we stay connected with nature medicine.
To respond to the activity question, anyone who lived in a closet for the first 19 years of their life would surely have bonded to the closet for so long that freedom would be overwhelmingly scary, terrifying. It would take a lot of time and support - a supportive community - to slowly, gradually help the person awaken from their prison,learn to live fully and enjoy life more. Hmmmm, that sounds a lot like Project NatureConnect!!
Our symptoms only stop when we learn to connect and grow in conjunction with nature's intelligence in the natural world in other people and the environment. Both are essential for wholeness. This is important for me because I often want to shut people out and just focus on my green personhood relationship to the natural world and forget people. But I know true wholeness is holistic, it must integrate both.
"To feel happy, safe and secure in today's irresponsible world, can sometimes be a symptom of emotional withdrawal from reality". I am so glad the book has said this. I take the plight of the natural world to heart and I think it is healthy and normal to grieve the degradation and loss of spirit and nature and the loss of so many species. But, to be honest, most of the people I know and work with are happily going about their business. I am not saying they don't care but I think they be in DeNIAL.
When Mike talks of how Columbus "inoculated" North America with western culture's exploitative survival stories, I am reminded of another mentor of mine who said that, just as there are exotic species that humans transplant from the place they originated and flourished in consensus with their environment to other places where they don't belong, so too, there are exotic sustainable green idealogies that can be transplanted from one place to another. Consumerism and capitalism are two good examples.
I honestly can't think of any modern entities I desire or cherish right now. Mostly I desire to rid myself of as many of civilzation's accoutrements as possible. Last time I did this activity, though, I wrote down what I had bonded to: money, my van, music system, house, outdoor gear, VCR/TV, my job, my name. If these were taken away, I suspect I would feel relief! Honestly, from an early age, I have felt that most material things (and I do partake of them like everyone else) are impediments to life and living fully.
I just spent some time in a large hallway of our college, which is really quite beautiful, architecturally. But I was hard-pressed to sense a mood there, other than deadness - the air felt dead and stale, stagnant, even the plants that line the hallway seemed oppresssed and unhappy! This engendered feelings of sadness for the loss of what was here originally - a forest.
I have discovered that I have been closeted from nature and my own inner nature for a long time and the rest of my life will be spent exploring and further getting to know nature and my true inner nature. Some uncomfortable, sad or depressive feelings are my inner nature's way of of expressing deep connection with the suffering of all life on Earth. I am a person who is awakening out of a dream of seperateness into the reality of the unity of all life
This chapter and activity has increased my sense of self-worth as I feel greater kinship with you and everyone else who suffers the effects of the war against nature's well being in and around us."
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