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INTELLIGENCE
Most knowledgeable people consider Planet
Earth to be an act of genius by the Universe and/or God. Like
a living organism, through natural attraction energies, Earth
organizes itself to edit the light, heat and particle flow from
the sun and cosmos. This makes possible an optimim of life to
flourish in balance while sustaining an optimum of diversity
and cooperation, too. The Earth community intelligently accomplishes
this by recycling and regenerating substances and relationships
without producing garbage or pollution. In Earth's natural systems,
war, abusiveness, and insanity are virtually unknown. Seen from
the moon, Earth is a marvelous, gigantic ball of intelligence,
a glowing orchestra constantly performing a peaceful symphony
of color and silence in motion. Some believe Earth is a wise,
fertilized, egg of the Universe.
UNINTELLIGENCE
Intelligence as most of us practice
it is unintelligent because it is out of synch with the life
giving creation wisdom of our planetary home. The way we think
deteriorates Earth and its ability to support life, including
our lives.
Two people producing 24 grandchildren
is poor mathematics if you don't want to destructively overpopulate
the Planet
Economic growth based on resource depletion
is insane when the resource is your life support system.
Knowledgeably producing harmful chemical
substances that poison the planet life system is stupid.
Our thinking is sick when we use fuels
to the point that they increase the temperature of the living
planet and give it a fever.
It is dumb to damage ecosystems and
erode their habitats.
It is assanine to elect leaders who
refuse to act intelligently with regard to helping Earth sustain
its and our integrity.
See alertiq11 for further examples
The Eco-Sensory IQ test.
An opportunity to discover if you are a maverick genius in
contemporary society and, if so, how to use this to your advantage
while improving the quality of life.
Background:
The way most members of Western Civilization think has resulted
in altering the ability of Planet Earth to sustain life in balance.
In the past 200 years our intelligence has devestated natural
plant, animal and people populations as well as depleted and
polluted the soil, water and air. With respect to the global
life community, we are knowledgeably producing the same holocaust
we inflicted on Native American and extinct biological populations
and we can't stop. As recent elections confirm, we want to increase
our consumption of energy and goods at the expense of the natural
world.
The profound stupidity and inhumanity of our relationship
with Mother Nature so deeply pains our consciousness that we
are psychologically in denial of our madness. To protectively
hide our destructive effects from ourselves, we proudly call
what we do "progress," "economic growth"
and the "American way of life." Most people are intelligent
enough to recognize that it is destructive in the long run, but
lack the level of consciousness needed to stop it.
Nature supports, not destroys, itself in the long run. As
part of nature, people are born with the natural intelligence
to do likewise. Most cultures of the world have done this over
the the millennia. The learnt to think with their natural intelligence
while Western Civilization thinks of wasys to alter it.
Altered Intelligence
In 1974, after two months of being kidnapped and brainwashed
by extremests, the consciousness and thinking of an American
graduate student, Patti Hearst, transformed dramatically. From
being an excellent scholar and constructive campus citizen at
the University of California, Patti became an active, gun slinging
member of a group of militant murderers with a political agenda.
Many times she could easily have escaped from them. She didn't
simply because she had learned, under duress , to consider it
intelligent to join the violence group in story, feelings and
actions .
Ms. Hearst was finally arrested, prosecuted and jailed along
with the gang. She was later forgiven because authorities determined
that she had been brainwashed into doing what she did. She has
not acted that way since.
Brainwashing is a process that contaminates a person's intelligence
and ability to think clearly. Things that define the brainwashing
process include that it:
- Takes an authoritarian and hierarchical stance.
- Imposes a doctrine over person.
- Restricts full awareness on the part of the learner.
- Rewards a person for thinking a certain way and punishes
them when they don't.
- Uses an instructional mode to persuade.
- Controlls a person's time and, if possible, physical environment.
- Creaties a sense of powerlessness, covert fear, and dependency.
- Suppressses much of the person's old behavior and attitudes.
- Instills new behavior and attitudes.
- Usies mystical manipulation.
- Puts forth a closed system of logic
- Allows no real input or criticism.
The case has been made that with respect to intelligently
living in balance with nature and Earth, people in contemporary
society have been destructively brainwashed to fear, conquer
and destroy nature against their better judgement. Like Ms. Hearst,
we find ourselves unable to change without a radical form of
assistance. Most of our destructive technologies, lifestyles
and relationships reflect our anti-nature cultural training.
During our 18 formative childhood years, our innate ability
to think clearly with respect to living constructively with nature
and people is far more brainwashed than was Patti Hearst during
her two month capture. Throughout childhood and most of our lives
we are victims of:
- Education that takes place indoors; it is required for twelve
formative childhood years and strongly encouraged for an additional
4-6 years of higher education.
- The doctrine of most science and religion: to survive we
must conquer and subdue nature.
- To spend over 95% of our lives indoors.
- Over 99.9% of our thinking being disconnected from sensory
contact with the non-verbal process by which nature produces
its balance and peace. We are "in tune" with nature
less than 12 hours/lifetime, on average.
- Worshiping a God that lives in Heaven, not on Earth. We become
spiritually detached from the environment and believe humanity
is devinely superior to all other forms of life.
- Rewards from high grades, approval and money for being good
citizens of a society that is separated from nature. We delude
ourselves into believing that we can intelligently manage the
world, grind nature into cultural resources, improve the land,
and impose artificial systems on the natural.
- Disapproval for truancy, low grades, and low-technology relationships.
Exceptions to the rule:
Throughout the history of our civilization, some individuals
have not completely fallen prey to our cultural brainwashing.
Some, have somewhat survived it or, like Ms Hearst, recovered
from it. If you have read this far, chances are you may unknowingly
be one of them. These individuals display an exceptionally high
ecological intelligence (IQ) and are sometimes acknowledged as
"maverick" geniuses. The quality of their thinking
is often admired but it is seldom integrated by popular culture
in its quest to overcome nature.
NOTE: From books of quotations and the internet, in an eight
hour period we collected the statements that appear on the IQ
test. There are a great many other statements that are similar;
all are and have been accessable since their original publication.
You can be sure that some of the teachers and administrators
of our education system were exposed to these statements during
their education. That they may not have included these statements
in most people's education further reflect's our brainwashing
against nature.
INTRODUCTION:
Many people who are attracted to this webpage visit here because
they have a hidden but high ecological IQ. Often they neither
know how to validate this intelligence nor how to fully put it
to work for themselves and society. Many have been slighted for
displaying it. Deep inside they sometimes consider themselves
different or strange because of how they intuitively think and
feel. The preface to this IQ test
explores this phenomenon. If it is of interest to you, visit
the preface now then return here.
To discover how much of your ecological intelligence is intact,
take the Eco-Sensory IQ Test. It consists of 70 questions but
you can optionally get a general reading after the first 20 questions.
The Test will help you support and put your natural genius
to work for the benefit of yourself and the global life community.
A special feature of this IQ test is that as you take it you
will automatically increase your intelligence.
This IQ Test results from the observation that the anti-nature
programming and prejudice we receive from our nature disconnected
society produces our greatest troubles.
The heart of our unsolvable problems is psychological.
We are in denial.
We deny that we are addicted to
living out a destructive story.
We seldom understand that our education secretly teaches: "To
survive we must conquer, exploit and subdue nature within and
around us"
"It is difficult to get people to understand something
when their salary depends upon
them not understanding it."
- Upton Sinclair
A SUMMARY STATEMENT OF THE PREFACE
MATERIAL
Nature is intelligent. People are part of nature and vice
versa. We inherit nature's intelligence. Our civilization conditions
us to abusively conquer nature in the environment and people.
However, throughout history, in some people our inborn natural
intelligence has survived this and expressed itself.
Question: What number represents your agreement
with the Summary statement ?
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disagree..........................so
partially agree.........................fully agree
If you find yourself in agreement with
the statement, you are an excellent candidate for successfully
completing the ECO IQ TEST and increasing your intelligence,
too. Please continue
NOTE: Statements whose source is identified as "Project
NatureConnect come from the materials in the Project NatureConnect
online Orientation
Course Psychological Elements of Global Citizenship and
the book
Reconnecting With Nature by Michael J. Cohen
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ECO-SENSORY PERCEPTION
The ECO-SENSORY INTELLIGENCE
TEST
Purpose: Discover how much of your natural intelligence has
survived the deadening impact of Western Culture's conquest of
nature.
Object: Learn if you are intelligent enough to recognize the
ancient psychological and spiritual importance of emotionality,
passion, and sensitivity in sustaining responsible personal and
environmental relationships.
This test is offered solely as an educational tool. The word
ed-u-ca-tion comes from educare meaning "to
draw out from within.'
INSTRUCTIONS
1. Prepare an answer sheet of paper with the numbers 0-10,
11-20, 21-30 etc. written on it in 7 columns, 10 numbers/column.
2. Read, in order, the 70 quotes and statements on this and
the following linked pages.
3. Note the length of time some statement's message has been
known to our society.
4. Recognize that the message of each statement that you understand
exists somewhere within your cultural or natural heritage, otherwise
you would not be able to understand it.
5, Signify on the indicator that accompanies each statement,
the extent of agreement you think/feel/have for the statement.
Place this number next to the question number on your answer
sheet.
Here is a sample question and responder:
It is a fact of life that our senses, feelings and emotions
are facts of life. They are as much a part of nature and our
nature as is the land, sea and air. For example: the sensation
of thirst is as real and true as water itself.
...........-Project
NatureConnect
What number represents your agreement
with this statement?
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disagree..........................so
partially agree...........................fffully agree
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ECO-SENSORY IQ
LEVEL ONE
0. "Man is not himself only... He is all the he sees;
all that flows to him from a thousand sources...He is the land,
the lift of its mountain lines, the reach of its valleys."
............- Mary Austin
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disagree..........................so
partially agree...........................fffully agree
Write down your score to this question and all questions
on your answer sheet, for use later on.
1. "There is one common flow, one common breathing, all
things are in sympathy."
............- Hippocrates circa 450 B.C.
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2. "When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds
it attached to the rest of the world."
...........-John
Muir
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disagree..........................so
partially agree...........................fffully agree
3. "This earth which is spread out like a map around
is but the lining of my inmost soul exposed."
............- Henry David
Thoreau circa 1850.
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disagree..........................so
partially agree...........................fffully agree
4. "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.
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disagree..........................so
partially agree...........................fffully agree
5. "Wherever you may go, the least plant may bring you
clear remembrance of the Creator."
...........- St. Basil
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disagree..........................so
partially agree...........................fffully agree
6. As I get older, I burrow more and more into the hills.
The Great Spirit made them for us, for me. I want to blend with
them, shrink into them, and finally disappear in them. ...All
of nature is in us, all of us is in nature. That is as it should
be."
...........- Pete Catches, Sioux
medicine man
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disagree..........................so
partially agree...........................fffully agree
7. "Nature is the unseen intelligence that loved us into
being."
............- Elbert Hubbard
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disagree..........................so
partially agree...........................fffully agree
8. "Look at those cows and remember
that the greatest scientists in the world have never discovered
how to make grass into milk."
...........-Michael
Pupin
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disagree..........................so
partially agree...........................fffully agree
9. "For what else is Nature but God and the Divine Reason
that pervades the whole universe
and all its parts."
............- Seneca the Younger
circa 25 A.D..
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disagree..........................so
partially agree...........................fffully agree
SECTION INSTRUCTIONS
Total your scores for this section and divide by 10.
Save this Section Total figure.
CONTINUE ON TO LEVEL
1-A
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ECO-SENSORY IQ
LEVEL 1-A
1A-10. "Always think of the universe as one living organism,
with a single substance, and a single soul."
...........- Marcus Aurelius
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disagree..........................so
partially agree...........................fffully agree
1A-11. Through the eons, as today, in building materials,
life, and relationships nature, (with the exception of humanity,)
has not used written or spoken words.
...........-Project
NatureConnect ..
What number represents your
agreement with this statement?
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disagree..........................so
partially agree...........................fffully agree
1A-12. "The name that can be named is not the eternal
name. The Nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth.."
.. -
Lao Tzu circa 600 B.C.
What number represents your
agreement with this statement?
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disagree..........................so
partially agree...........................fffully agree
1A-13. "Nature does nothing uselessly."
...........- Aristotle circa 350 B.C.
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partially agree...........................fffully agree
1A-14. "What we are looking for is what is looking."
...........- St. Francis of Assisi
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disagree..........................so
partially agree...........................fffully agree
1A-15. "Human subtlery. . . will never devise an invention
more beautiful, more simple or more direct that does nature,
because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is
superflous."
...........- Leonardo da Vinci
circa 1470.
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disagree..........................so
partially agree...........................fffully agree
1A-16 "Those things are better which are perfected by
nature than those which are finished by art"
...........- Cicero circa 1500 B.C.
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disagree..........................so
partially agree...........................fffully agree
1A-17 "What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because
what nature creates has eternity in it."
...........- Isaac Bashevis Singer
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disagree..........................so
partially agree...........................fffully agree
1A- 18 "The natural world is the larger sacred community
to which we belong. To be alienated from this community is to
become destitute in all that makes us human. To damage this community
is to diminish our own existence."
...........- Thomas Berry
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disagree..........................so
partially agree...........................fffully agree
1A-19. "I believe in God, only I spell it Nature."
...........- Frank Lloyd Wright
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disagree..........................so
partially agree...........................fffully agree
SECTION INSTRUCTIONS
Total your scores for this section and divide by 10.
Save this Section Total figure.
FOR GREATER RESULTS AND LEARNING,
CONTINUE ON TO LEVEL TWO
OR OPTIONALLY
COMPLETE
THE IQ TEST NOW.
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ECO-SENSORY IQ
LEVEL TWO
20. "The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient
while nature cures the disease."
...........- Voltaire circa 1700
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disagree..........................so
partially agree...........................fffully agree
21. "What greater grief than the loss of one's native
land."
...........- Euripides circa 450 B.C.
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disagree..........................so
partially agree...........................fffully agree
22. "That which fills the universe I regard as my body
and that which directs the universe I see as my own nature"
...........- Chuang-tzu circa 370 B.C.
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disagree..........................so
partially agree...........................fffully agree
23. "Man has created death."
...........- William Butler Yeats
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disagree..........................so
partially agree...........................fffully agree
24. "The purpose of life is to live in agreement with
nature."
...........- Zeno, circa 520 BC
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disagree..........................so
partially agree...........................fffully agree
25. "If you would learn more, ask the cattle, seek information
from the birds of the air, The creeping things of earth will
give you lessons and the fishes of the sea will tell you all.
Speak to the Earth and it will teach thee."
...........- The Bible, Job:
12, 7
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disagree..........................so
partially agree...........................fffully agree
26. "And the true order of going, or being led by another,
to the things of love, is to begin from the beauties of earth.
"
...........- Plato circa 400 B.C.
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27. "Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another."
...........- Jovenel
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disagree..........................so
partially agree...........................fffully agree
28. "The senses, being the explorers of the world, open
the way to knowledge."
...........- Maria Montessori
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disagree..........................so
partially agree...........................fffully agree
29. It is a fact of life that our senses, feelings and emotions
are facts of life. They are as much a part of nature and our
nature as is the land, sea and air. For example: the sensation
of thirst is as real and true as water itself.
...........-Project
NatureConnect
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disagree..........................so
partially agree...........................fffully agree
SECTION INSTRUCTIONS
Total your scores for this section and divide by 10.
Save this Section Total figure.
FOR GREATER RESULTS AND LEARNING,
CONTINUE ON TO LEVEL THREE
OR OPTIONALLY
COMPLETE
THE IQ TEST NOW.
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LEVEL THREE
30. "You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird
or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the idealogy of a violet."
...........- Hal Borland
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disagree..........................so
partially agree...........................fffully agree
31. No two people - no mere father and mother - as I have
often said, are enough to provide emotional security for a child.
He needs to feel himself one in a world of kinfolk, persons of
variety in age and temperament, and yet allied to himself by
an indissoluble bond which he cannot break if he could, for nature
has welded him into it before he was born."
...........- Pearl S. Buck
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disagree..........................so
partially agree...........................fffully agree
32. Each natural sense is an intelligence.
For example, it is intelligent for the sensation of thirst to
turn on and attract us to water when we need water, or turn off
when we have enough.
...........-Project NatureConnect
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disagree..........................so
partially agree...........................fffully agree
33. "We have repressed far more than our sexuality: our
very organic nature is now unconscious to most of us, most of
the time, and we have become shrunken into two dimensional social
or cultural beings, aware of only five of the hundreds of senses
that link us to the rich biological nature that underlies and
nourishes these more symbolic and recent aspects of ourselves.
"
...........- Norman 0. Brown
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partially agree...........................fffully agree
34. "Every cell in your body is seeking fulfillment through
joy, beauty, love and appreciation."
...........- Deepak Chopra
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disagree..........................so
partially agree...........................fffully agree
35. "Oh, what a catastrophe, what a maiming of love when
it was made personal, merely personal feeling. This is what is
the matter with us: we are bleeding at the roots because we are
cut off from the earth and sun and stars. Love has become a grinning
mockery because, poor blossom, we plucked it from its stem on
the Tree of Life and expected it to keep on blooming in our civilized
vase on the table."
...........- D. H. Lawrence
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disagree..........................so
partially agree...........................fffully agree
36. "A man who is in love declares that I and you are
one and is prepared to behave as if it were a fact."
...........- Sigmund Freud
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disagree..........................so
partially agree...........................fffully agree
37. "If you were to destroy in mankind the belief in
immortality, not only love but every living force maintaining
the life of the world would at once be dried up."
...........- Fyodor Dostoevski
circa 1850.
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38. "We belong to the ground. It
is our power and we must stay close to it or maybe we will get
lost.
......... .-
Aborigine (Jennifer
Isaacs)
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disagree..........................so
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39. "Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
Nature's peace will flow into you as
sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their freshness
into you, and the storms
their energy, while cares will drop off like falling leaves."
...........- John Muir
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disagree..........................so
partially agree...........................fffully agree
SECTION INSTRUCTIONS
Total your scores for this section and divide by 10.
Save this Section Total figure.
FOR GREATER RESULTS AND LEARNING,
CONTINUE ON TO LEVEL FOUR
OR OPTIONALLY
COMPLETE
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LEVEL FOUR
40. "A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity,
stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when
it tends to do otherwise."
...........- Aldo Leopold
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41. "Great things are done when
men and mountains meet."
...........-William Blake
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42. "The world is not to be put in order, the world is
order. It is for use to put ourselves in unison with this order."
...........- Henry Miller
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43. "Wildness can be a way of reassuring ourselves of
our sanity as creatures, a part of the geography of hope."
...........- Wallace Stegner
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44. "A land ethic for tomorrow should be as honest as
Thoreau's Walden, and as comprehensive as the sensitive
science of ecology. It should stress the oneness of our resources
and the live-and-help-live logic of the great chain of life."
...........-Stewart
Udall
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45. "Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them."
...........- Mark Twain
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46. "I would feel more optimistic about a bright future
for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature
and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority."
...........- E.B. White
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47. "This is how a human being can change: there's
a worm addicted to eating grape leaves. Suddenly, he wakes up,
call it grace, whatever, something wakes him, and he's no longer
a worm. He's the entire vineyard, and the orchard too, the fruit,
the trunks, a growing wisdom and joy that doesn't need to devour."
...........- Jedaluddin Rumi
, 1207-1273
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48. "Nature , so far as in her lies , Imitates God ."
...........- Alfred Lord Tennyson
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disagree..........................so
partially agree...........................fffully agree
49. "Wind over the lake: the image of inner truth."
.. -
I Ching circa 1200 B.C.
What number represents your
agreement with this statement?
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disagree..........................so
partially agree...........................fffully agree
SECTION INSTRUCTIONS
Total your scores for this section and divide by 10.
Save this Section Total figure.
FOR GREATER RESULTS AND LEARNING,
CONTINUE ON TO LEVEL FIVE
OR OPTIONALLY
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51. With regard to domestication, "The human relationship
to the natural world was gradually changed from one of respect
for and participation in its elliptical wholeness, to one of
detachment, management, control and finally domination."
- Chellis Glendinning
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disagree..........................so
partially agree...........................fffully agree
52. "Insanity is a perfectly rational adjustment to an
insane world."
...........- R.D. Laing
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disagree..........................so
partially agree...........................fffully agree
53. "Except during the nine months
before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs
as well as a tree does.
...........George
Bernard Shaw
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disagree..........................so
partially agree...........................fffully agree
54. "Most of us have become Ecozombies, desensitized,
environmental deadheads. On average, society conditions us to
spend over 95% of our time and 99.9% of our thinking disconnected
from nature. Nature's extreme absence in our lives leaves us
abandoned and wanting. We feel we never have enough. We greedily,
destructively, consume and, can't stop. Nature's loss in our
psyche produces a hurt, hungering, void within us that bullies
us into our dilemmas."
-Project NatureConnect
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disagree..........................so
partially agree...........................fffully agree
55. "A human being is part of a whole, called by us the
'Universe,' a part limited in time and space. He experiences
himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from
the rest - a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This
delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal
desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task
must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles
of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of
nature in its beauty."
...........- Albert Einstein
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disagree..........................so
partially agree...........................fffully agree
56. "Until mankind can extend the circle of his compassion
to include all living things, he will never, himself, know peace."
- Albert Schweitzer, Nobel Peace Prize,
l950
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disagree..........................so
partially agree...........................fffully agree
57. "There is an ecological unconscious that can be drawn
on to restore people to harmony with the natural world, a bond
between our species and the planet as tenacious as the sexual
instincts Freud found in the psyche."
- Theodore Roszak
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disagree..........................so
partially agree...........................fffully agree
58. "This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun
and the animals..."
- Walt Whitman
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disagree..........................so
partially agree...........................fffully agree
59. "In a democracy, in order to
learn to unashamedly love nature and reach our hopes and ideals,
we need a readily available psychological process that reverses
our anti-nature programing"
...........-Project
NatureConnect
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disagree..........................so
partially agree...........................fffully agree
SECTION INSTRUCTIONS
Total your scores for this section and divide by 10.
Save this Section Total figure.
FOR GREATER RESULTS AND LEARNING,
CONTINUE ON TO LEVEL SIX
OR OPTIONALLY
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60. "In the woods we return to reason and faith. There
I feel that nothing can befall me in life--no disgrace, no calamity
(leaving me my eyes), which nature cannot repair. Standing on
the bare ground, --my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted
into infinite space, --all mean egotism vanishes. I become a
transparent eyeball; I am nothing, I see all; the currents of
the Universal Being circulate through me; I am a part or particle
of God. "
...........- Ralph Waldo Emerson
circa 1860
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disagree..........................so
partially agree...........................fffully agree
61. "One touch of nature makes the whole world kin."
...........- William Shakespeare
circa 1580
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disagree..........................so
partially agree...........................fffully agree
62. "Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons.
It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth."
- Walt Whitman
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disagree..........................so
partially agree...........................fffully agree
63. "Scientific research is based on the idea that everything
that takes place is determined by laws of nature, and therefore
this holds for the action of people."
...........- Albert Einstein
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disagree..........................so
partially agree...........................fffully agree
64. "We must engage in a process of natural systems thinking,
one that scientifically reconnects nature's supportive intelligence
with our contemporary mentality. This enables us to help nature
and ourselves in concert recover from our society's abusiveness.
The process transforms that abusiveness into mutually supportive
relationships."
...........-Project
NatureConnect
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disagree..........................so
partially agree...........................fffully agree
65. " From the masses to the masses'
The most Revolutionary consciousness is to be found
Among the most ruthlessly exploited classes:
Animals, trees, water, air, grasses."
- Gary Snyder
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disagree..........................so
partially agree...........................fffully agree
66. "As we gain satisfaction from artificial substitutes
for nature we forget that there is no known substitute for Nature,
the real thing and its eons of intelligent, life supportive,
experience. Each substitute we create falls short of nature's
balanced perfection, thus producing our pollution, garbage and
relationship conflicts."
...........-Project
NatureConnect
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disagree..........................so
partially agree...........................fffully agree
67. "It is difficult to get people to understand something
when their salary depends upon them not understanding it."
...........- Upton Sinclair
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disagree..........................so
partially agree...........................fffully agree
68. " Given the abundance of nature
forms, it is important to go straight to nature."
...........Leonardo
Da Vinci
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disagree..........................so
partially agree...........................fffully agree
69. "The major problems in the world are the result of
the difference between how nature works and the way people think.."
...........- Gregory Bateson.
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disagree..........................so
partially agree...........................fffully agree
SECTION INSTRUCTIONS
Total your scores for this section and divide by 10.
Save this Section Total figure.
FOR GREATER RESULTS AND LEARNING,
CONTINUE ON TO COMPLETION
COMPLETE THE
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ECO-SENSORY IQ COMPLETION
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Three Key Eco-Sensory Intelligence
Questions
A. "We cannot win this battle to save
species and environments without forging an emotional bond between
ourselves and nature as well - for we will not fight to save
what we do not love."
...........- Stephen Jay Gould
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disagree..........................so
partially agree...........................fffully agree
B. "Apathy is the greatest evil of all,"
...........-
Helen Keller
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disagree..........................so
partially agree...........................fffully agree
C.
"Are you engaged in using
your Eco IQ to its best advantage? Are you forging and helping
others forge a sustainable consciousness of the emotional
bonds with nature that we inherit, attraction bonds that connect
us to each other and the environment? When conscious, these bonds
enable our thinking to safely and intelligently dissolve the
apathy and fear that keep us in denial. The latter prevent us
from acting effectively with respect to our greatest personal
and environmental problems."
...........-
Project NatureConnect
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disengaged.....................so
partially engaged......................fffully engaged
COMPLETION INSTRUCTIONS
1. Total your
section average page scores and divide that total by the number
of pages you completed.
2.
Because it is unintelligent to not use your Eco IQ to
its best advantage, multiply your score in "C" above
with your page score total in 1.
3. Add a percentage
sign to the results in 2. That percentage represents the percentage
of your inherent ecosensory intelligence that you presently use
to think and build relationships. It is your EcoSensory IQ
4. If you want to increase your scores and use
your Eco IQ to help solve the critical problems we face personally
and globally, consider enrolling in the 3-week Natural System
Thinking Process (NSTP) Orientation
Course.
"We have dramatically increased our program's effectiveness
by adding the Natural Systems Thinking Process
to it. It enables our participants to connect with their
sensory origins in nature and use that peaceful power to improve
their relationships with self, society and the environment. "
- James Rowe, Director, Outward Bound School, Costa
Rica
"The results of using Natural Systems
Thinking Process were even happier, more practical and lasting
than those for participants in the "Survivor" TV shows.
We did not compete for a million dollars but what wealth we gained!
Using local natural areas, we learned how to sustainably live
in supportive balance with each other and the environment. We
were all winners, as will be those with whom we share the nature
reconnecting process."
- Carol Biggs, Counselor-Naturalist, Juneau, Alaska
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