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...Friends of Natural Systems: a unifying, natural relationship cooperative community network
...dedicated to leadership that helps remedy Natural System Dysfunction (NSD)
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INSTITUTE OF GLOBAL EDUCATION Project NatureConnect
Special NGO Consultant, United Nations Economic and Social Council (UNESCO)
Friends of Natural Systems
A cooperative community network online that helps improve personal and professional relationships and our blind leadership at home, work or school.................................
A farmer could not distinguish between two horses, Zeke and Zack so he spent a week measuring and comparing every part of each horse. Finally, he discovered that. due to an accidental chip, the back molar of the gray horse was a millimeter smaller than the same molar of the chestnut horse.
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The Myth of Gulliver's Troubles Like the limiting effects of color blindness in the farmer's story, above, our excessively indoor society numbs our senses, thinking and feeling with regard to natural systems within and about us. In this way, contemporary people are no different than the fabled Leadership and Wisdom Council of an island society that consisted entirely of non-sighted people, including the council members who were appointed for life. Citizens on that island were part of a cooperative community network, content and adequate in their uniquely adapted ways, even though a disease optically numbed each of them into blindness during the first year of their life. One day, Gulliver, a shipwrecked castaway, half-dead, washed up on the island. Compassionately, many community members of the blind society nurtured him to full recovery. Then he became the aggravating bane of their existence. He constantly nagged for things that were reasonable to him but unknown to the islanders in their blindness: windows, lights, books, television, painted colors and sunglasses. Upon due consideration, the Leadership and Wisdom Council discovered Gulliver's trouble. Gulliver had eyes that could see. During their profound considerations, the Council solved the problem; they removed Gulliver's sight. They surgically numbed his optical nerves so his life became similar to their own. To the delight of the island's cooperative community network, Gulliver became less of a problem and a better citizen. With sadness, Gulliver adjusted to his loss of sight and the emotional hurt he suffered when he thought about the delights of sight and their removal from his life. One day Gulliver accidently noticed that when he visited natural areas a few of his senses and sensitivities became stronger; they more energetically registered in his awareness. He seemed to be able to hear better, feel more relaxed, joyfully smell color and touch beauty. This was similar to the renewal a troubled person often experiences from a refreshing walk in the park or along a beach. Gulliver's discovery invigorated him; it sharpened his thinking for as he became more sensitive he could make more sense. Over time, Gulliver scientifically developed a nature-connecting art. It consisted of a series of safe, sensory activities that created contact moments in which he could let natural systems reach into his mind and heart and strengthen his wholeness as part of the systems strengthening themselves. Otherwise, when he didn't do the activities, his thinking often drifted to social issues and day dreams while he was in a natural area. Although physically there, he was not in tune with nature. As he improved his activity process, he increased his contact with the grace, balance and restorative mental health powers of nature within and around him. Slowly, to his delight, his eyesight un-numbed and returned. Gulliver told his blind friends about his new connections with nature, he shared with them his joy in boosting his sensitivity and general well-being. However, when they and the Leadership and Wisdom Council learned that this connection was bringing back his sight, they became angry and alarmed. He had gone against their thinking, their authority, will and law; he might again become a nuisance. It was as if Gulliver had committed a illicit act or become a dangerous offender. He was fined and served jail time, all to no avail, for he continued his nature-contact explorations, as was his right under island cooperative community network law. Cautiously, some islanders learned and used Gulliver's nature-connecting activity process. They noticed that having sight did not make them a nuiscance, rather they thrilled to its benefits and they taught others how to gain them. As additional members of the island community increased their sightedness and health, they felt and acted in thankful ways that further supported nature and its systems. In time activities were developed for use with the newborn and this often reduced or prevented "normal" blindness. With gratitude and thoughtful passion the islanders became enamoured with and protective of natural systems and areas. Consciously, unashamedly they expressed their love for nature within and around them and they celebrated being part of it.
The Myth and the Parallel Industrial society blinds us from seeing that the birth of our life is a momentous gift from the natural systems of Earth's global community. On our first real birth day, together, the members of nature's plant, animal and mineral kingdoms "love" us so much that they are attracted to physically and spiritually become us. They supportively flow their eons of balancing life attractions, wisdom and experience through us. In time, they birth us out of our human mother and into the more supportive and universal womb of Mother Nature, so that, as part of the natural attraction process, we help support all of life as it helps support us. We are born as contributing planetary citizens with unique attraction contributions. We are also born as equals; every other member of the global life community has the same natural origins. Almost completely separated from nature, our mentality suffers a nature-defecit of great magnitude with respect to the natural systems that flow through and around us. To our loss, the nature-exploitive demands of industrial society require that our consciousness disconnect from the natural systems that help form and nurture our awareness. We no longer think or benefit from the balanced ways and wisdom of nature's perfection, even though we are born with it and as it. We have blinded our consciousness to nature and the natural, like Gulliver's Leadership Council was blind to the value of his sightedness. For example, we are blind to the fact that the love we have for our pets, and they for us, is the normal way their natural community works in the "wild." When we "tame" them, what we really do is teach them to trust us and accept us as one of them. They welcome us into the unifying attraction way they would ordinarily live their natural system lives in the cooperative community network of wilderness. When we are with them, we sense and enjoy our loving natural origins in action. Our nature-disconnected thinking rejects the scenario, above, until we ask ourselves "If nature is so horrible, why are our pets so attracted to it that we must keep them leashed or caged? Why does wildlife seldom want to leave the wild? Is there a greater love out there?" Most nature-connected people(s) say "Yes" and these same people seldom cause or suffer our major problems. Although at one time it was a matter of survival, the reason we exploit natural systems today is to fill the hurt and wants that arise because we have excessively removed nature's deeply satisfying attraction ways from our lives. Our lives suffer from this unnecessary void. Our leadership promotes the void. It conditions of our natural attractions away from satisfactions by natural systems and for artificial satisfactions that replace them. For example, we goad ourselves to gain shallow, competitive satisfactions from owning a Cadillac instead of a Ford. This direction steers us away from the restorative survival powers and grounding of non-polluting, balance and cooperation. It is readily available through our natural atraction fulfillments in natural systems. Our leadership rewards us for learning this destructive disconnection habit. It is civilized, it's progress and it's good economics for us to lose the unity of natural community and become competitors in the communities of business, science, art, education or sports. Because this disconnection makes us wanting, we can usually be sold something. Money replaces the natural attraction love that gives life its harmonic community qualities We grow up absurd, we can't think correctly with regard to natural systems that are us. By placing 99 percent of our thinking out of contact with nature, natural systems and natural senses appear as dangerous foreigners to be feared and conquered, not embraced. This loss weakens us and produces natural system dysfunctions within and around us.
Can you see why so many experts over the centuries say that our dysfunctions result from the loss of nature and the natural in our mind, heart and spirit? Do you see the value of bringing nature back into our thinking, of not trusting leadership whose thinking is nature-disconnected. To reverse our dilemma, we must provide continual support for learning how to enjoy the happiness of co-creating with natural systems. To this end we have formed a holistic self-help online cooperative network community that we call Friends of Natural Systems. Its purpose is to teach our thinking how to consciously support natural systems so they may, in turn, support us. It enables people anywhere to learn how to genuinely reconnect with intact natural systems and accomplish what Gulliver accomplished in his cooperative community network. Natural system thinking, not nature-disconnected stories, lead, teach and mentor its participants.
Participants in Friends of Natural Systems help folks who give a damn. We look forward to playing the role of Gulliver. We educate ourselves and others to beneficially connect with nature and enjoy personal and environmental rewards. We find the answers that have too long been missing because they are natural systems. In reality, they are truly "blowing in the wind." .
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