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ARTICLE
Prejudice
Against Nature: The Organic Source and Solution for our Most Challenging
Disorders
SYNOPSIS
In
industrial society we suffer our greatest troubles because we are born
into the excessively nature-separated socialization process of our
contemporary way of life. Our socialization attaches our psyche to an
arrogant human superiority story that prejudices our thinking
against nature. The story's prejudice against nature teaches us to
demean and exploit nature's self-correcting, whole-life ways that have
sustained nature's purity and well-being through the eons.
Our
prejudice against nature makes us reject the supportive guidance,
healing and balance that nature offers to all of life. With it
missing in our thinking, we become destructively unbalanced.
A
remedy for the troubles caused by our prejudice against nature is to
engage in the nature-connecting organic psychology process offered by
Project NatureConnect's Webstring Natural Attraction Model. Its
sensory methods and materials reward us for, backyard or backcountry,
thoughtfully reconnecting our nature-prejudiced thinking to the grace,
balance and restorative powers of nature. The model helps us learn that
it is reasonable for our thinking to respect, heed and support nature's
ways within and around us as well as teach others how to do this.
The significance of the
Webstring Natural Attraction Model is that it is not
theoretical. It is a readily available, tested tool that
helps us increase our well-being by enabling the way we think to make genuine sensory connections
with natural systems in and around us. They support the well being of all things.
ARTICLE
If
we are to prevent the increasing environmental and social disasters
that now face us, it makes sense to clearly identify and address the
elusive core of how and why, against our will and better judgment, we
continue to deteriorate personal, social and environmental well
being. The heart of our major problems is that our thinking is
flawed and we have no tool to fix it.
Nature's global life
community can be seen as a flowing river of dancing attraction
relationships, a river that strengthens its well-being by growing into
an ever-increasing diversity of attraction currents. Every current is
encouraged to live and support its life by supporting the life of the
river and vice versa. The greater the diversity and strength of
the currents, the stronger the life of the river, and vice versa.
How we think and feel is our destiny. The Webstring Natural Attraction Model
helps us recognize that we suffer our troubles because industrial
society socializes our psyche to believe it is separate from, superior
to and has more intelligence and rights than the river of life and its
natural attraction dance. This prejudice leads our thinking to,
like a cancer, ceaselessly conquer, exploit and deteriorate the river
along with our whole selves as part of it.
Prejudice consists of any unreasonable attitude that is unusually resistant to rational influence.
Our prejudice against
nature excessively separates our thoughts and feelings from the sensory
callings in the river that sustain its, and our, well being. We
suffer our disorders because our psyche has lost contact with and does not respect the
attractive grace, balance and restorative powers of the river. A
sensory tool, the Webstring Natural Attraction Model enables our
thinking to genuinely reconnect with the river and its supportive ways.
An
essence of our personal, social and environmental troubles is that our
nature bigoted story conditions us spend, on average, over 99 percent
of our thinking and 95 percent of our time separated from and out of
tune with the river's renewing dance, the dance we call nature.
Our
key challenge is to recognize that we don't acknowledge that we are
deeply prejudiced against nature and how this reduces the well-being of
all. Instead, we learn that our excessive exploitation of nature
is progress, economic growth or our superior intelligence and God given
rights in action. This is similar to the KKK not addressing the harm
that resulted from its prejudicial relationship to people of color.
Instead, it justifies that relationship with the false story that
America was settled by Christian Whites for Christian Whites. Uniquely, the Webstring Natural Attraction Model
recognizes our prejudice against nature as the anomaly that we must
address to improve well-being. Every aspect of humanity is
naturally part of and supports nature except our thoughts and feelings
that are prejudiced against nature. Our prejudice excessively
separates us from Earth's life community. It destructively makes us
different than every other member of the plant, animal and mineral
kingdom and their spirit.
The Role of
the Webstring Model
The Webstring Natural Attraction Model
works because its method is logical and reasonable. Since we suffer
from our thinking being prejudiced against and therefore disconnected
from nature, the Model's process enables our thinking to appreciate
genuinely reconnecting with nature and its beneficial grace, balance
and restorative powers, backyard or backcountry. The Model helps
us accomplish this by providing us with activities that enable us to
create thoughtful sensory moments in natural areas, moments that let
earth teach. During these moments, natural attractions intermingle with
and connect our ability to think and feel with its origins in the
corrective callings and ways of natural systems. This helps us
reconnect any or all of 53
natural senses
in our psyche to nature and its eons of whole-life experience. During
these connective moments, nature and our thinking become a flowing
continuum, as of old. This enables our thinking to recycle the
garbage that has been placed in our psyche by our prejudice, so it may
think clearly, like nature's perfection works. Over time, this
becomes a habit because it feels good and makes sense.
To bring
to mind how Webstring Model connections feel, try to remember, for a
few minutes, a good experience you have had in nature, one you would be
attracted to repeat again because it was attractive. Can you
remember colors, sounds, aromas, textures or flavors that might have
been part of the experience? Did it contain comforting motions or
attractive feelings of community, trust or place? Do you feel it
was enchanting, self-enhancing or spiritually pleasing? Was it
supportive, peaceful or both? Did it help you feel that you were part
of a greater whole? These are some of the results that others
have reported from remembering their attractive experiences in
nature. Are you aware that contact of your psyche with nature's
ways improves well-being, that even just by bringing these memories to
mind you have temporarily reduced your blood pressure?
Orientation to the
Problem:
Biologically,
scientific thinking has recognized humanity as a seamless continuum of
natural systems. As the cycles of these systems dance and flow within,
about and through us and the life of our psyche, they build and sustain
nature's optimums of life, diversity, balance, cooperation and
well-being. As demonstrated by the pre-Columbian natural world
and its people in North America, nature produces these natural optimums
without creating garbage or pollution, nothing is left out. In
addition, things in nature seldom suffer the excessive abusiveness,
greed and disorders that result from the ways of contemporary society.
Prejudice
is resistant to
rational influence. The resistance indicates that we are
attached/bonded/conditioned or addicted to a conflicting, less
reasonable attitude or relationship.
We have long known that the
unreasonable excessiveness produced by the nature-abusive way we learn
to think irrationally deteriorates the well being of nature and its
life support systems within and about us. At this late date, with
all our warnings, stress and lack of justice for all, including justice
for Earth's natural systems, we still don't relate to nature more
reasonably than we do. This demonstrates that we are unaware or
don't care that we are prejudiced-against nature as well as
prejudiced-for excessively exploiting it.
We suffer from our
prejudice against nature because our biology and culture originated in
the consistent warmth, food, shelter and medicines of the Tropics. Like
a womb, the tropics naturally rewarded and fulfilled our many natural
senses.
When our ancestors migrated from the tropics into
colder climates, nature's seasonal fluctuations replaced the consistent
womblike support we enjoyed in the tropics. This harsh change for
us unbalanced our thinking. It became prejudiced against nature and its
fluctuations. Instead, it favored its own creation of an artificial,
tropic-imitating, temperature-controlled, agriculturally-fed,
food-preserving, technology-medicine, indoor world. Our thinking also
created self-aggrandizing stories about its ability to do this.
As
our psyche bonded with the immediate security and sensory fulfillment
of the artificial indoor ways it produced, it became unreasonably
biased against the fluctuations and diversity of nature. We may not
have known at that time that nature's fluctuations and diversity were
the attraction dance of the river of life that supported long-term,
whole-life survival in balance. We do know that now.
However, our deep-seated nature-disconnected attitudes and behavior
have not significantly changed.
We became prejudiced against
nature because we were naturally born as tropical warm blooded animals
without fur, fangs, claws or fleetness for survival. We needed special
adaptations when we were in more challenging climates. A heightened
ability to thoughtfully map the world in our consciousness and to
design tools for survival was one of our adaptations to life in the
temperate and arctic zones. However, unlike nature-centered
societies, our map for survival short-circuited itself. Its
prejudice against nature rejected nature-connected relationships as a
prime source of information, survival and happiness. Instead,
prejudicially, the map's rationale said that we must conquer, exploit
and "improve" natural systems to survive, produce our artificial indoor
kingdom and achieve happiness. Our loss of the balancing powers
of these systems in our thinking made us destructively excessive as
well as unable to stop being excessive.
We
are prejudiced against nature to the point that we portray Satan, the
essence of evil, to have claws, scales, fangs, a tail, horns, fur and
pointed ears. Many of our taboo swear words describe natural
products or acts. And although our thinking today knows it is
unreasonable for us to destroy our own natural life support systems,
our nature-disconnected and nature-desensitizing rewards from excessive
profits and power reinforce this tendency and our prejudice against
nature. No doubt, prejudice against my 1983 book Prejudice Against Nature has helped to keep us unaware of this prejudice.
Orientation
to the Webstring
Model
Solution:
The Webstring Natural Attraction Model
Our prejudice against nature has overridden the rationale of us living
in thoughtful, mutually supportive, communicating, attraction
relationships with our global web of life community and each
other. The discriminatory way we learn to think about and
relate to the natural world and natural people is a juggernaut that has
eroded every great ecosystem and natural society in America. Our
holocaust against natural systems has destroyed 85 percent of the
American wilderness and it people. It has knowingly released toxic
pollutants that cause health disorders to most forms of life. We
have been alerted en-masse to this situation since, at least, 1948
through the best-selling books Road to Survival and Our Plundered
Planet. However, our socialization bonds to our prejudice against
nature makes us continue on our destructive path, even while we admit
that our nature-exploitive relationships are excessive, irrational and
symptoms of insanity.
The alarming deterioration and
disappearance of natural areas, people and ecosystems reflects that, by
conquering our the inherent natural wisdom of our psyche in organic
balance with nature, our nature-prejudiced socialization teaches us to
fight a technologically overpowering, undeclared war against the whole
of nature and the sanity of its non-polluting, life supportive dance.
Our
reasoning is alarmed by the stress, madness and destructive outcomes of
contemporary life. We know it is immoral, it frightens us, it doesn't
make sense, it places the well-being of global life as we know it at
risk. Yet, we don't significantly modify our ways because our ability
to think rationally about nature has been polluted.
Today,
our prejudicial thinking not only omits information obtained from
contact with nature, it also omits learning the means to obtain this
information. It is as if having contact with nature is an illicit
affair. For example, we feel little concern about spending, as
stated above, on average, over 95% of our time and 99% of our thinking
disconnected from and out of tune with the perfections of nature and
the natural. The bizarre word that we use to describe this
extraordinarily unbalanced and detrimental relationship is “normal.”
Our
contaminated, nature-prejudiced thinking seldom recognizes that our
profound loss of nature's support for the life of our psyche collapses
the heart out of our psyche and causes us to want. When we want there
is never enough. For this reason we have become vulnerable to our
indoor-oriented society that, for profit, intensifies our wants as it
intensifies the fulfillment of our wants from "more of everything:"
more power, money, materials, sensations and relationship
satisfaction. Because, due to our prejudice against nature, we
are missing sensible and rewarding co-creative relationships with
nature, our unsatisfied wants drive us to inappropriately produce: -
excessive air, water, and land pollution, agricultural clearing, mono
cultures, livestock grazing, predator extermination and global warming;
- excessive
consumerism, stress, tranquilizer use, abusiveness, mental imbalance,
medical disorders, unhealthy dependencies and social injustice;
- excessive poaching, hunting, fishing, and trapping;
- excessive logging, mining and energy exploitation;
- excessive ski areas, resorts, golf courses, off-road vehicle use, urban and suburban sprawl;
- excessive
agricultural and forestry biocides, non-native species introduction,
road building, fire suppression, dam building, irrigation diversions,
groundwater depletion, stream and river channelization,
- excessive human population growth.
In,
around and through us, natural systems flow as a seamless attraction
continuum. Each of us are born as them attractively expressing
themselves as humanity. To sustain its health, the river of life
gives every part of life, including us, an equal right to life and
well-being because this is an attractive way to support life in
balance. However, due to our prejudice against nature we suffer
because our prejudiced thinking injures natural systems, as described
above. Once injured in the environment, these same injured natural
systems can't correctly support our body, mind and spirit, and vice
versa. Our nature-dysfunctional thinking does not recognize that,
like a disease, we suffer from a nature bigotry that has injured and
unbalanced both our psyche and our planet.
Our prejudiced,
nature-disconnected thinking is similar to us riding a train that we
know is on a destructive track that we have built. We are
socialized/brainwashed to stressfully spend our lives unceasingly
competing for a more luxurious seat on the train, for more approval and
rewards or money. Our need for more of everything keeps our thinking
and relationships off-track. All too few of us recognize that to
improve our situation we must, through the Webstring Natural Attraction
Model, learn how to ask the train to help us get our thinking off our
runaway track to excessiveness and back on to the train's original path
of well-being for all, a track that we naturally inherit at birth and
learn to bury in our subconscious. The train's original track
consisted of a co-creative attraction dance that the train itself
designed and used for eons before we decided that we were super
intelligent and could take over the railroad.
Orientation to the Webstring Model Solution:
The
Webstring Natural Attraction Model is an antidote and preventative for
our deterioration of well-being in and around us. It enables us to
counteract our prejudice against nature by reconnecting our
nature-separated thinking and senses with nature's self-correcting
balancing and purifying ways so that we may benefit from them and learn
to appreciate them.
Our society has had some experience
dealing with prejudice against race, religion, creed and social
justice. We have learned to replace the irrational stories that
we have been attached to, with accurate stories, protective laws, and
remedial or therapeutic experiences. Our reward for doing this is
that we have built mutually supportive relationships that replace the
hurt and stress that our prejudice against human populations once
produced. We have provided justice for those whose rights we
denied due to our prejudicial feelings about them. The methods
and materials of the Webstring Model enable us to do exactly the same
thing with regard to our prejudice against the natural world. They
empower us to reverse our irrational thinking and feeling that pit us
against the global life community.
The
Critical Question
“If we don't use
and support the Webstring Natural Attraction Model, is it because the
Model is not reasonable and it does not work, or is it because our prejudice against nature
blinds us to its important contribution?” Support and training to use and
teach the Model is available to those who recognize its value and benefits.
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