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Journaled Sharing and Healing Reports from Project NatureConnect Course Participants: I went down to Muskrat Creek park, one of my favorite places to do my nature connection activities. I did this over a week ago, and again, it has been very difficult for me to get myself to complete the posting, because the feelings I get about conventional culture are so unattractive that I instinctively create distance from them. I feel the ugliness of our culture within me, and so in effect, I have been doing something like what happened to my friend and cat Marsha after the screen door slammed shut on her tail, breaking it. She screamed and ran off, and ran and ran from the pain. I found her under a bush, shaking and frozen in pain, and brought her inside. Whenever her tail moved, she would jump up and run, causing more pain. So, I've been in pain and running from it for a week now, and not handling things very calmly. As I finally sit to write the post, I feel a sense of coming home, with the deep grief and frustration welling up inside me about the ugliness that I can't seem to disentangle from inside me. Now that I sit and write, though, I can see that all I need to do is to take my grief back out to nature and let it heal me. The truth is that the reason I even feel the pain is because such a big part of me is not tangled up in the cultural illness, and feels the disparity between what our culture does about governance and what nature does about governance. So, the truth is that since it's my healthy part that feels the pain, I must not be as sick as it seems. That is a big comfort and reminds me why the writing of the post is part of the Natural Systems Thinking Process which heals us. So, onward into the description of the activity which I've spent so much time avoiding (next time this happens, I'll make myself sit down right away to keep this healing process moving)! I walked up a hillside trail with my dog Arty, who was ecstatic to be joining me for the walk. I came to a crook in the path which wound around and went across a foot bridge over a ravine. The hillside directly in front of that little bridge called out to me to participate int he activity. I stood and took in the sight and feel of the hillside, which was so massive, solid, and powerful that it felt like a fitting participant in an activity around the issue of governance. I sat down and thought about an impressive building from my past. I remembered a building called The Jewel Cube, which is a large greenhouse in Woodland Park in St. Louis where I grew up. It was ironic (and appropriate) that I thought of a building in which plants were grown and displayed in arrangements "prettier than nature could offer". I had come without my purse, so I didn't have a dollar bill to wave, but I did my best to imagine this. I closed my eyes and waved my magic dollar bill, imagining that this talisman had the metaphysical power to create the Jewel Box before me on the hill. Even as I did so, I felt nauseous at the thought of tearing up that hillside with a bulldozer to create some other pretty (indoor) place by destroying the physical integrity, the strength, the power and the beauty of the hill. I opened my eyes and was relieved to see the hillside as it was, intact. I felt relieved. Some change had occurred, though, indeed. I felt an emotional barrier between the hill and I. I was no longer connected with it emotionally; it was as if the hill had simply turned away. I felt really sad and disgusted with myself. I wished I had not been wrangled into doing something (even something symbolic, for educational purposes) that I felt was inherently wrong. I felt upset again and wished this series of lessons on the ugliness of my inner culture would come to an end. I yearned for the NatureConnect activities which show me the path to that feeling of amazing unity and healing. But because I was sort of stricken with disgust over participating in imagining the destruction of my hillside friend, I turned away myself. It was hard for me to finish the meditation and reflection questions; here is my best attempt: I recognized that I could not change the area, but that I could if I had enough dollar bills. Similarities between natural attraction relationships and economics: they both grow things; they both hold power. One big difference I see is that as NNIAL increases, so does health and wellbeing for all. As money increases, health and wellbeing increases for some at the expense of others, such that it's not real health and wellbeing. Ultimately, money can't buy safety or happiness. Only NNIAL can provide that. NNIAL obtains permission to act via the mutual consent of living beings. Money obtains permission to act via the mutual consent of humans. How could they cooperatively benefit from and support each other? If nature were consulted before a purchase were made, would that result in mutually supportive choices about development? If we felt into an option with many senses, would that increase the wisdom of our purchases? I discovered that I need to stay with nature for quanturm healing and resolution of wranglers that are revealed in the course of an activity rather than running from the pain for days on end for natural attractions produce balanced growth which supports and benefits all. Money will not do that until it becomes an agent of the natural attraction process. However, I might consider following the process even when it tells me to stray from the directions of a NatureConnect activity, just to see what I might learn. I realize that I am a person who gets good feelings from appreciating nature rather than developing it and from my beautiful wooded hillside while I'm walking with my dog. I would feel fantastic if my ability to experience these good feelings increased day by day. It increases my attraction to nature for quantum healing Hi Sarah, I feel your pain in this exercise... and loved your example of being attracted to run from pain that you can't get otherwise avoid. I like that you "Can't imagine trading this magnificent hillside for a building in which plants were grown and displayed in arrangements "prettier than nature could offer". Further, the deeper I delve into nature connection, the less I see the beauty in "arranged" flowers, pruned plants, and symetrical trees in the midst of manicured grass." (Sorry you didn't have a dollar with you...you may just want to hold a bill up between your eyes and the hillside...just to see how wrong it and its metaphysical symbols look! This was a most profound part of the exercise for me.) In the past 2 weeks I have paid alot of attention to money...how it motivates, demotivates, angers, manipulates, brings joy, then sadness and despair... even the fabulously rich, who can't being to understand why they are not happy. I have had significant circumstances where the only value placed on something was monetary. How could something be more beautiful if it cost more... or had a designer label... Hi Dorothy, Thanks for responding. I know, it was an ironically perfect kind of building to use as an example for this exercise! And yes, I am experiencing the same increased appreciation for wild places' beauty, more than man-made arrangements. When I feel into the graceful, beautiful, ingenious complexity of my natural attraction senses in a natural place, anything man-made just feels tacky in comparison. How grateful I am for you and for our values and priorities in this program. It's as rare as the rest of nature! 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