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INTRODUCTION
A
Word to the Naturally Wise.....
Welcome,
and thank you for your strong interest in advancing the well-being of
all of life on Earth, including humanity.
Thank
you, too, for recognizing that our individual and collective well being
has deteriorated due to industrial society's insensitive and excessive
conquest of nature, within and around us. We have been socialized to
think that we are superior the the web of life when we are simply an
equal part of it, and vice versa. Our thinking has learned to be
unreasonably prejudiced
against nature and we seldom
acknowledge this.
Any
individual who has enjoyed a good experience with nature -- in
backcountry forest or backyard garden...or at the beach...or on a park
walk...or with their pet,...or in contact with the wind, sea or stars --
recognizes that, without the use of books, teachers or lessons, sensory
attractions in nature renew us.
We
inherently enjoy and benefit from their ability to help us feel better.
They
momentarily increase our bliss and wellness, we think with greater
clarity and we more fully enjoy our true biological and psychological
self in community, as did Native Americans.
To
our profound loss, our "natural attraction self" usually lies
buried and
frustrated in us due to our nature-exploitive socialization. This
stresses us. We are competitive, not compassionate, when our
senses are aggravated.
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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.
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Can you remember natural colors, sounds, aromas, textures or flavors
that were 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?
The above are
some of the
results that people have reported from remembering their attractive
experiences in natural areas. The web of life helped them sense and
feel the
true natural being that they were born. They could think with it. They
became aware how
their natural self and their dreams had been excessively stressed
by Industrial Society's exploitation of nature within and around them.
Are
you aware that the contact of your psyche with the web of life
increases
well-being? Even bringing the above nature-connected memories to mind for a few minutes
temporarily reduces your blood pressure. By helping you continually
make conscious sensory contact with natural systems within and around
you, Organic Psychology enables you to benefit from an evironmentally
supportive form of stress management and ecotherapy.
Too
often we take this gratifying nature-connection gift and its wonderful
powers for granted. We call it an escape from real life: recreation,
not re-creation. However, biologically and
spiritually, this gift is a momentous part of the person and community
each of us is
naturally born to be.
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"Nature
is doing her best each moment to make us well. Why, Nature is but
another name for health."
-Henry David Thoreau
An
astounding fact: We
are born as part of nature's global life community and its purity yet, on
average, over 98 percent of
our time, thinking and feeling is out of touch with the grace, balance
and restorative powers of nature and the natural.
To
our cost, in our industrial society it is
"normal" for our thinking and feeling to be estranged from the benefits
of nature's beauty
and balance. Hands-on, conscious, sensory contacts with natural areas
demonstrate that we suffer our isolation and disorders because we are
missing this essence of our natural sanity and peace of mind.
Organic
Psychology works because it genuinely
reconnects our thinking to nature and the worldwide self-correcting and
supportive
ways of the web of life, backyard or backcountry
Unwittingly,
due to a dangerous prejudicial falsehood that it promotes, industrial
society socializes or indoctrinates us into
excessive,
nature-exploitive habits and attitudes.
Prej-u-dice
n. an unreasonable attitude
that is, due to bonding,
unusually resistant to rational influence.
We seldom change because we
become bonded to artificial materials and stories, even though we know
that their side effects are often detrimental and erode well being in us and
other natural beings.
Truly
reasonable individuals thoughtfully recognize that we learn to become
prejudiced
against nature as well as learn not to admit that we are.
This secret prejudice underlies most disorders within and around
us.
Just as we once prejudicially gave no legal rights to slaves, we still give no legal rights to nature, including the web of life's inalienable right to its life.
As an integral part of the web of life, is it surprising that we stress ourselves as we stress the web?
On
line, at Project NatureConnect, social workers, counselors, teachers,
parents, therapists and students together learn and teach nature-connecting
activities that help us
transform our destructive prejudice into balanced, constructive, environmentally
sound relationships.
Sadly, we suffer greed, depression and dysfunction
because the progression of our excessively nature-separated lives
demeans and disconnects our mentality and loving from the web of life. We lose the support of
our inherent biological and spiritual wholeness. We are missing the the
mysterious illumination and kind humility that we share with our
natural instincts, values and origins in the global life community and
its genius. This profound loss causes our psyche to want, and when want there is never enough.
We
fail to recognize that the most trustable truth of our life is what we
experience in each immediate moment of our life, in the "now" of life.
However, we spend less than .0001 percent of the "now" with our
thoughts and feelings consciously in contact with the innate way the
web of life
produces and sustains its balanced perfection in and around us,
including within the life of our psyche. To counteract this loss, Project
NatureConnect provides the means for us to,
at will, effectively include nature, the real thing, backyard or
backcountry, in the now of our life.
Normally,
from infancy on, we learn to detach our
sensual psyche and soul from the self-correcting life-spirit and support
of natural systems and their flow. This rupture stops the streaming cycles of
earth's natural systems and their regenerative powers through the life
of our mind. It breaks their vital circuit. The loss of their
nurturance and vigor weakens our psyche. It desensitizes
how we think and feel, our self-esteem is reduced, our dreams frighten
us, we become vulnerable. In turn, our best thinking unwillingly injures the world and its
people.
Our
lack of respect and reverence for the
consistent and giving pulse of the web of life community underlies our
discontents. This
helps to explain our "crazy world," why it often feels like we are
stressfully rolling down hill like a snowball that's heading for hell.
With respect to our balanced origins and nature, including global
warming, our thinking has become blocked and bewildered (meaning
"wilderness separated"). We seldom recognize that "wild," "natural
life"
and "God" may be synonymous.
This
website and it origins
present nature-connecting social
technologies, studies and biology adventures. From them you
may learn and teach how to overcome the estrangement of our
mind from natural systems, and the nature deficit disorders that result.
The
removal of our thinking and feeling from nature's (Gaia's)
self-correcting, whole (holy/sacred/divine) ways of community
self-government and
self-organization reduces our sanity, our humor, our fun and fitness.
Our loss of contact with great spirit (the force) creates the quandary
of our predicaments and our inability to fulfill our fondest dreams.
- The Web of Life Imperative
Life
is evidence of itself. The scientific process of Project
NatureConnect uses the self-evident truths of
phenomenological experience in natural places as a means to produce
practical solutions
for our dilemmas. It works because it connects us with nature, the
fountainhead of authority with respect to living in peaceful balance
and purity.
Patient
and persistent, we, together, in natural areas, learn how to invite
nature to safely reconnect our thoughts and feelings back to their
non-polluting perfection in the web of life. We honor this
authoritative and decisive act of ours as the tipping point that makes
a difference.
"Our
imaginative passion for reconnecting with nature helps us create sober
character, fortitude and courage. We build for ourselves and the world
a reliable, ecologically sound, individual and social security."
- Reconnecting With Nature
In
Project NatureConnect, our
classroom
consists of creating moments that let Earth teach, moments that bring
out its knowledge in us that we inherit but learn to suppress. Then, by
email, we share that sensory understanding with classmates and
counselors via the internet and we learn more, by email, from their
nature-connected experiences that they email to us.
"This
world is so beautiful that I can hardly believe it exists."
-Ralph
Waldo Emerson
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nature-connected application of ecopsychology.
Our
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Peace,
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suffer."
- Elisabeth Ryland, San Bernadino
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Instructions/Directions
How to most effectively use
this web site for
educating, counseling and healing with nature jobs, training, funding,
degrees and activities:
The art and science on this
website is like an
affectionate and tender supermarket of relevant and timely knowledge.
On
these web pages, as explained further below, you simply identify and
select what is attractive, makes sense and is of value to you. Then you
place it in a "remember to explore this further" section of your mind,
an imaginary "this truly makes sense" shopping cart, or write it down.
The
web site immerses you in a wide range of real life information about
human ecology and the organic application of ecopsychology and
ecotherapy. If you use the site fully it will bring you to where you
may feel excited, and perhaps a bit lost, due to the profound
newness and benefits of this nature-connected way of knowing and
relating. When this happens, congratulations! Not to worry. This means you
have used the site correctly. Just follow the procedure
below.
Procedure:
1. First bookmark
and read through this homepage, then follow its
links of interest.
Always
return to this page
to find additional information and links when you desire them.
2. Explore
and collect
attractive information from these pages, information that supports your
personal and
professional needs. Place that information in that imaginary
"supermarket shopping cart," in your mind, or write it down.
3. Contact
Mike Cohen, Ed.D., a
qualified advisor who will help you, without pressure, to customize the information
you gather here so that you may best meet your professional,
academic training, personal or
financial goals. 360-378-6313. (Pacific Time Zone, USA.),
or email him.
IMPORTANT NOTE: our Procedures page
is the page to explore for application
and participation in our online
training courses and degree programs. Then call 360-378-6313
to benefit from distance
learning and applying the program within the means of your time and
budget.
This
site's purpose and procedure is to help us help you benefit from online
training experiences, jobs, accredited course work, certification or
degree programs that enhance your personal or professional life via
nature-connected experiential education as part of the web of life
community.
Use
this homepage to add skills and rewarding benefits to your present
interests, prior training and/or life experience.
Questions?
Comments? Participation? Contact Mike Cohen, 360-378-6313.
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Applied Ecopsychology
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Organic Psychology and the Natural
Systems Thinking Process
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I am more sympathetic, self-sufficient and happy. I support the
environment, and my health and friendships have improved; all this just
from doing these
thoughtful sensory activities with natural attractions that I discover
in the park and then share with my Internet study group."
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- Orientation Course:
every
program starts with this course. Learn from personal experience how
to think with the intelligent cooperation and
peaceful balance of natural systems in and around us.
Towards
the Sustainable Health and Wellness of People, Careers and Places:
Environmental Distance Learning With Nature.
Below
appears one of thousands of journal entry quotes
that convey unadulterated empirical evidence for your
consideration. It comes directly from the stress-reduciing experience of a person
whose thoughts and senses registered, first-hand, the outdoor events
this entry describes:
"This
nature-connecting activity helped me become aware of my attraction to
the crescent moon as it hung over two hills near my home. Soon, its
mellow glow, framed by peaks and trees, embraced me in a wordless,
ancient primordial scene. Timeless power, peace and unity swept me up.
I just wanted to stay in that state of awe, I felt in balance with all
of reality. I was simply "BEING." No tension, no pressing goal, just
truly belonging to the global lif community. This natural attraction
captured my stress laden pulse and seduced it to the rhythms of Earth.
The sleeping disorder I have battled all my adult life dissolved in
this restorative power. For the first time in decades, I gently fell
asleep after dark and arose shortly after dawn. With elation, I
celebrated the breakthrough and I thanked nature. I thanked the
endearing activity, too. I'm attracted to it because it helps me
reconnect with nature whenever I choose, and I can teach it to others."
- Project
NatureConnect Participant
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The
rapture in this phenomenal outdoor journal quote goes against the
public's stress-producing cultural bias to excessively discredit,
exploit or
conquer nature. Nature includes the self-correcting and purifying ways
of natural systems, of "Gaia," our living planet and community that
flows around and
through us.
The
quote conclusively demonstrates this extraordinary fact: the action of
conscious sensory connection with natural systems helped the writer
reduce his sleep disorder, increase his satisfaction and self-worth as
well as deepen his respect for nature.
As
with this sleep disorder example, Project NatureConnect money-back
guarantees
that the outstanding nature-connected self-help coaching, wellness and
counseling tools,
activities and jobs offered on this website help you help yourself and
others, by 32 percent or more, increase personal, professional and
environmental well being. You will reduce puzzling disorders,
dysfunction, trouble, conflict, stress, issues and dependencies. Your
mind will cooperatively improve self-esteem and relationships in
general; your meditations will help protect endangered species and
natural systems.
"By
interlacing our mind with
nature, the
science of Organic Psychology enables our thinking to tap into nature's
grace, balance and regenerative processes. This helps us transform and
recycle detrimental ways we think and feel.
Uniquely, we learn how to
help the web of life decompose
into fertile thoughts the garbage that destructive aspects of
industrial society have dumped into our mentality and spirit.
Educating,
counseling and healing with nature, backyard or backcountry, is trustable. It results
in beneficial coaching and teaching that compassionately increases our
personal, social and environmental health. IQ and other analytical
tests show that this process is a potent, cost-free antidote and social
work tool. We enjoy a smart, stress reducing euphoria, a thoughtful
tranquility we normally miss in our excessively nature-separated lives."
- The Web of
Life Imperative
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Present Source of our Disorders: A Profound Distortion
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"Truth is what stands the test of experience."
- Albert Einstein
"Any
thoughtful feeling of attraction to nature that we experience while in
a natural area is a truth of the ages."
- The Web of Life Imperative
"Over
80 percent of our social and medical problems result from significant excessive stress. In
addition, stress erodes our personal and environmental relationships.
This reduces our hope and self-worth."
- The Web of Life Imperative
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"Most
people know that we live on the surface of Planet Earth. But do we?"
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Reconnecting With Nature
Today,
we unnecessarily suffer dysfunction and pain because contemporary
educators psychologists and health professionals unknowingly teach us
an extremely dangerous distortion that disconnects us from nature's
supportive ways.
As
children, from the time we first begin to talk we obtain adoring
rewards (social approval, food, shelter, water, air, light, love,
community, place, trust) that inextricably socialize us - that is,
emotionally bond us during childhood- to destructively
excessive parts of industrial society and its leaders.
At an early age, like a bad habit,
whenever we think or feel, what first
automatically comes to our mind is the conditioned, nature-disconnected, "exploit and profit"
warp we have learned that shapes our thinking. We register our
excessive tendencies as being normal, progress and economic
growth.
As
if we are looking through distorted eyeglasses, our leaders' distortion
makes us perceive in ways that produce stress and conflict. Their
falsehood says that we live on
the surface of Planet Earth while, from
direct sensory experience, we know full well that we don't. However,
we often learn to discount the truth and value of our personal
experience. In this case, our natural senses of color, motion, distance,
gravity, light, direction, texture and reason register that we
live in the Earth, 300
miles below its atmosphere,
beneath its air, clouds, rain, snow and flying creatures. Isn't this
experience true for you? If so, why does it usually feel uneasy,
foreign or strange to say "I live in the Earth" or
"We/humanity live in, not on, the Earth?"
We
think and feel conflicted because, moment by moment, our false story
separates our mind and heart from what we sense to be true, from what we experience from contact with our
nurturing origins in the grace
and balance of the web of life and its renewing powers. How can we
truly know who we are in our natural relationship with life if the bias of our story of who we are gently, but powerfully,
misleads us?
"Well-being
always increases when our stories tell us the whole truth."
- Anonymous
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When
we learn to prejudically think stories about life that undermine
the attractive reality that we register when we experience life in balance, our
psyche becomes conflicted. This conflict excessively stresses us. We become
disturbed. Worst of all, we may learn to think that this is a normal part
of life, that "God places us in our conflicts so that we can learn from
the
experience."
The
monumental question that rocks us is this: do we simply
live on the
Earth, or are we completely in and part of its web of life community?
This is monumental. Earth is the
planetary origin and nurturing source of life as we know it. It is an
essential
unifying root of our thoughts, feelings and survival. We become
troubled and create trouble when we are mislead about this
relationship. It makes our thoughts and feelings lose contact with who
we really are. It makes us dependent upon the nature-disconnected and exploitive stories of Industrial Society
that often cause, rather than resolve, problems.
Our
discord about life, and our life, stresses the depth of our natural
senses of place, trust, community and belonging as well as 49 additional natural
senses that often only express themselves in the safety of social work,
counseling or therapy. This stress
undermines the delight and joy of our intact mind body and spirit as
well as the integrity of whole social and environmental relationships. It produces the
discomforts of anxiety, depression and panic. We feel ungrounded,
uncentered vulnerable or abandoned. We lose our natural negotiating
skills and can't enjoy our true ecopsychological self. Too
often, this is how we "normally" experience ourselves.
The
person-planet clash in our thinking is secretly destructive. It
troubles our natural senses of trust, peace, place, community and belonging. They deteriorate
along with many other sensitivities. Confused and disoriented, we take
this discord for granted because we see it all around us most of the
time.
To
reverse our troubles, we need familiarity, strength and support, not
stress, from
the power of our place in the cosmos. To feel grounded, we need contact with the healing
purity of
nature's regenerative ways to help us solve the cancer of our runaway
problems. Our major problem is that due to our learned prejudice
against nature, contemporary thinking and our
teachers are almost entirely disconnected from the self-correcting power of nature's
renewing energies.
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The
scientific fact of Ecology is that we are imbedded in and nurtured by
Earth's biosphere, a 20 mile band of life that
sits above and below the land and ocean. We are as much a part of the
biosphere as is any leaf, molecule or atom, any plant, animal, mineral
or weather system.
The
discovery of the biosphere in 1929, makes a far greater contribution
for good than did the great finding by Copernicus, in 1536, that the
Sun, not the Earth, is the center of the solar system.
For
the past 75 years science and society have recognized the biosphere and
its cyclic systems as the central pulsating life community and ecology
of Planet Earth.
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"Life
prepares its own environment"
- John Storer,
The Web of Life (1953)
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The
biosphere is a community. It consists of creation's
self-organizing, cooperative integration of atmosphere,
sunshine, ocean, soil, plants, animals, minerals and energy, a web of life symbiosis
that supports all of life (Gaia),
including human life. It nurtures us as we nurture it. For this reason,
for example, we are born as cat, dog and pet lovers, we are not trained
through hypnotherapy or any other process to naturally love animals or
life. Love of life is how nature works.
The
essence of the biosphere and Earth is the pulsating flow of
natural systems. Wherever or whenever that ecology flow
stops, life as we know it deteriorates or dies.
Many
folks generalize the biosphere as being "star energies" or the
"Universe." This thought can remove their psyche from the benefits and
destiny they might otherwise enjoy by making conscious sensory contact
with natural life and its web of life systems,
the real thing, backyard or
backcountry.
"I
did the activity that directs you to visit a natural area and
thoughtfully learn to sense it and the flow of its systems. You then
try to determine where nature ends and you begin. I was surprised and
greatful because in 20 minutes I discovered a new depth of who I really
am and what has happened to me."
-Project NatureConnect Participant
"This home schooling
activity helped me realize
that even if I'm in a natural area but I'm thinking or talking about
some rock band or the problems that face me in the classroom or with my boss or my
girlfriend, I'm not fully connecting with nature."
-Project NatureConnect
Participant
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Natural systems and their
flow are self-correcting
and purifying. They recycle and renew the natural deterioration of
themselves and every molecule on earth. For this reason, nature rarely
creates abuse. It seldom produces garbage, pollution or the destructive
stress and pain of our aggravated relationships.
Moment by moment, the pulse
of natural systems and
their power flows through all of life. This includes the life of our
mind and spirit, of our thoughts feelings and perceptions.
Natural systems are a prime
commonality and
unifier that we share with all people, places and things, past and
present. This commonality includes spiritual leaders like Moses, Jesus, Mohammad
and Buddha.
Most artifical substitutes
for natural systems
exclude their natural unifying energies and organic healing ways. This
omission leaves our thinking to unknowingly produce our
conflicts, discomforts, moods or deterioration, sooner or later.
Our whole life health and
happiness ultimately
depend upon the streaming pulse of natural systems through us. But
because of the prejudicial
distortion in our leaders'
biosphere-detached thinking, in the name of "progress" "profit" or
"economic growth" our socialization teaches us to excessively separate
ourselves from, exploit and conquer nature and its systems, as if they
are harmful.
What we do to nature, we do
to ourselves as part of nature. We become stressed consumers
instead of responsible and happy life-community citizens.
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REMINDER: To our loss, on
average, throughout our
lives we learn to disconnect 98 percent of our time, thinking and
feeling from conscious sensory contact with nature and its systems.
Our extreme exploitation of
and disconnection from
natural systems stops their beneficial flow through our psyche. The
loss of their vibrance wounds our psyche. It numbs our thinking and
feeling. It erodes our trust and our sense that we naturally belong or
have value.
Our pain and numbing
desensitization results in
the excessive disagreements, violence, abuse, stress, hurt, disorders
wants and addictions that mark our lives.
We are troubled because
something's missing; we
don't know or relate to the ways of nature, in and around us, as
balanced attraction-love
life relationships, as do other natural beings.
We seldom embrace natural
things as relatives,
attractions, loves or spirit kinships. For example, the organism that
we call a "tree," "board-feet" or "potential profit," nature-centered
people(s) might call "treeing," "tree spirit," "friend" or "relation."
Natural folks are
socialized to trust Mother Earth
as a true mother, not as a dead third rock from the sun. We can't
afford to overlook that these folks seldom cause the troubles we produce.
Many of them have no word in their language for pollution,
garbage or waste. Everything belongs.
"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
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Disjointed Origins of
Contemporary Thinking and Feeling
To be part of a system, a
thing must somehow be in
communication with that system, otherwise it unknowingly trespasses it.
We are part of nature and
its systems. Our
excessive disconnection from them prevents them from registering in our
thinking so, to our loss, we trespass them within and around us.
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We may best begin to address
our disconnection
troubles by understanding their origins:
The fossil record
demonstrates that creation, biologically
and culturally, evolved humanity in
the tropical environment of Africa.
In that "Eden like" womb of the biosphere, warmth and food were
consistantly available because seasonal changes were minimal.
Natural
People: As
ancient humanity migrated into areas with dramatically changing
seasons, most cultures socialized themselves with stories that said:
"We must seek, register and respect the attractive and ever changing
sensory signals from this place and our love for it. We must respect
how its signals help us feel and think in a good way. The Great Spirit
of Mother Nature will help us survive by sensuously
communicating her fluctuations to us so that we may act appropriately
and supportively."
Natural survival depended
upon expertly sustaining
emotional sensitivity and gratitude to
life-supportive sensory-emotive communications from the flow of natural
systems. For example: when a certain flower turned blue it attracted a
natural person's sense of color and signaled this was the time the
salmon were running, that food was available or that seeds should be
planted.
Tropicmakers: The
ancient groups that originated contemporary culture socialized
themselves to a different story. It said: "To survive throughout the
seasons, we must create artificial tropic-simulating 'closets.' By
living in these immitations of the tropics, we may protect ourselves
from nature's changes and enjoy a constant warmth and food supply, as
if we were in
a tropical area.
Our survival does not depend upon thinking that includes signals from
our natural senses and feelings while in contact with nature. Rather,
it depends upon our leaders' creativity and intelligence to develop
'tropic-making' techniques/technologies. Our thinking and perceptions
are programmed to be prejudiced
against nature | | |
