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INTRODUCTION
"This
is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us
resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans
rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands."
- Barack Obama
(Help him use ECHN to accomplish this goal)
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 to the the web of life when we are simply an
equal part of it, and vice versa. Our thinking has learned to be
unreasonably biased
against nature and we seldom
acknowledge this. This trespass underlies most of our disorders, great
or small.
Educating,
counseling and healing with nature helps you remedy this problem.
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On personal and
political levels, our sense of reason demands that we make responsible
changes to
remedy this situation.
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 think and
feel better.
They
momentarily increase our bliss and wellness, our abiity to reason with
greater
clarity. We more fully enjoy our true biological and psychological
self in natural community, as did many Native Americans.
To
our profound loss, our "natural attraction
self" usually lies
buried and
frustrated in us due to our excessive, nature-exploitive, socialization
and disconnection from nature. This
stresses us. We are wanting, competitive and angry, not
compassionate, when our
natural senses are unfulfilled or aggravated.
Educating,
counseling and healing with nature helps you remedy this problem.
BEGIN HERE
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 reduce stress?
- 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. Their direct contact with the web of life
helped them escape their "industrial story-world" for a few moments and
sense and
feel the
true natural being that they were born. They could think with that
truth. 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.
It helped them more completely answer the question "Who am
I ?"
If you have ever had such experiences,
or you would like to have them, you are eligible to enter and benefit
from the program of
Project NatureConnect.
You may want to keep in mind that nature-centered
people and societies seldom display or cause the problems of our
nature-conquering "civilization."
State of consciousness...
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, the life long science of Organic Psychology enables you to
continually reap the rewards
of an
environmentally
supportive form of stress management and ecotherapy.
Too
often we take our 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.
.
"Nature
is doing her best each moment to make us well. Why, Nature is but
another name for health."
"What we call wildness is a
civilization other than our own."
"Heaven is under our feet as
well as over our heads."
-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 self-correcting
grace, balance
and restorative powers of nature and the natural, in and around us.
This
monumental disconnection of our psyche from our nurturing origins is
similar to walking
around with our head in a bucket of sand for all but
ten hours of our entire life, on average.
Consider
the state of the world. The destructive madness and disorders resulting
from how our McBurgered "head in a bucket" makes us think, feel and
relate, speaks
for itself. We have reached a point where those who try to
correct this insanity and its discontents are seen as
"environmentalists" or "nature freaks"
or "fuzzy thinkers" of some kind, rather than individuals whose
thoughts and feelings struggle to remain reasonable and balanced.
We
endure our troubles because most of us learn to accept that the way we
suffer from this disconnection is "real life."
Educating,
counseling and healing with nature helps you remedy this problem.
To
our cost, in our industrial society, we are educated to believe it is
"normal" for our thinking and feeling to be estranged from the benefits
of nature's beauty
and equilibrium.
The
benefits of thinking while in hands-on, conscious, sensory contact with
natural areas
demonstrate that we bear our isolation and disorders because we are
"bucketheads" and because we expertly train and elect "bucketheads."
Our
lives are
missing the powerful essence of whole life reasoning, natural sanity
and peace of mind.
Educating,
counseling and healing with nature helps you remedy this problem.
Organic
Psychology works because it enables those of us who are wise enough to
understand our situation to learn how to genuinely
reconnect our thinking to nature and teach others how to engage in this
healing process. We personally and professionally help all members of
Industrial Society connect to the worldwide purifying and
supportive natural
attraction ways
of the web
of life, backyard or backcountry. This produces beneficial
outcomes that
increase personal, social and environmental
well-being. As seen by their history
since
Josh Lieberman's 1931 Creative
Camping book
and
program, the benefits have long been
verified and improved.
Prejudice
against nature
Unwittingly,
due to a dangerous prejudicial falsehood that it promotes, industrial
society socializes or otherwise indoctrinates us
into
excessive,
nature-exploitive habits and attitudes.
Prej-u-dice
n. an unreasonable pre-judging
attitude
that is, due to bonding,
unusually resistant to rational influence.
We seldom
change our
destructive ways because, by age seven, we
become bonded (McBurgered) to our nature-disconnected artificial
materials and
stories. They usually remain with us through adulthood, even though we
can see
that their side effects are often detrimental and erode well being in
us and
other natural beings.
Educating,
counseling and healing with nature helps you remedy this problem.
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Truly
reasonable individuals thoughtfully recognize that we are McBurgered
and educated to become
prejudiced
against nature as well as not to admit that we are. This secret bias
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 and happiness. Its
life includes our
natural self, the
attraction flow
of natural systems and the happy fulfillment of their expression in and
around
us. We prejudicially demean them and their balancing
wisdom. Is it any wonder that we suffer problems that we
can seldom solve?
As an integral part
of the web of life, is it surprising that we stress ourselves as we
stress the web?
Online, 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 sustainable, balanced,
constructive,
environmentally
sound relationships.
REMINDER.
For best results: whenever you are ready, call 360-378-6313 to learn how you may participate
independently
or through our self-help grant program (if you email us your phone number, we'll call you).
Then, BEGIN
HERE to learn and apply all of
our website information. You will learn it from the best possible
teacher, from first hand experience
that uses the
process to teach the process.
Results from omitting conscious sensory contact
with nature.
Sadly,
we endure our greed, depression and dysfunctions
because the progression of our excessively nature-separated lives
demeans and disconnects our mentality and our loving from the web of
life.
We lose the support of
our inherent biological and spiritual wholeness.
Educating,
counseling and healing with nature helps you remedy this problem.
BEGIN HERE
We
are missing 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.
Educating,
counseling and healing with nature helps you remedy this
problem.
BEGIN HERE
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 psyche. It breaks their vital circuit. The removal of their
nurturance and vigor weakens our natural intelligence. 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 ("wilderness
separated"). We seldom recognize that "wild," "natural
life"
and "god" are related and may be synonymous.
"I believe in God but I spell
it Nature."
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Solutions
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 our thoughts and
feelings with nature itself, the
fountainhead
of authority with respect to living in peaceful balance
and purity on Earth.
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 or turning 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, personal 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.
"Through
these PNC courses I am beginning to sense many of the intelligences,
truths and conscious knowings demonstrated by and through
nature. PNC is guiding me into registering a deeper
connection and understanding of the natural attractions within our
living planet and the depth and breathe of how truly
interconnected and interdependent these attractions are, in and around me."
-Project NatureConnect Participant
Benefit from a powerful
humanitarian tool....
Engage
in extraordinary
online
friendships, exciting training and sensible, whole life Organic
Psychology degree programs that our society usually omits. Based on
trust, these community-based programs help you improve your personal
and professional
life via an economical and accredited sensory
distance learning process in organized or
homeschooling and counseling situations.
"Focusing
your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition.
It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your
wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true
potential."
- Barack Obama
(Help him use ECHN to help us accomplish this goal)
Project
NatureConnect's visionary funding program
financially assists deserving individuals who are conscious of the history of
our society's great
discord and
want to master the organic remedy for it that
this web site offers. You simply add our Organic Psychology process to
your present and prior life-experiences and/or training. It is a
nature-connected application of ecopsychology.
Our
program is subsidized because the unique art and science it offers is
essential for increasing the well-being of individual and planet. After
completing our online Orientation
Course, you
pay for your courses and/or degree only
what you can afford on a time table that fits your needs. A
special $1000 training grant is available to appropriate professionals
for completing this
short online course so that they may
help increase the well being of their
clientele and the environment. Call 360-378-6313.
Learn
our quantum nature-connected education and counseling techniques that
help you increase personal, social and environmental health.
Please
inquire as to how we can help your personal
and professional life strengthen well-being within and about you.
360-378-6313 email
For
Peace,
Michael J. Cohen, Ph.D.
Email
"Project
NatureConnect presents an accessible, simple, enjoyable and extremely
powerful way that love for all life may heal the deep wounds that we
suffer."
- Elisabeth Ryland, San Bernadino
REMINDER.
For best results: whenever you are ready, call 360-378-6313 to learn how you may participate
independently
or through our self-help grant program (if you email us your phone number, we'll call you).
Then, BEGIN
HERE to learn and apply all of
our website information. You will learn it from the best possible
teacher, from first hand experience
that uses the
process
to teach the process.
SPECIAL
NOTE: Explore the best sequence of steps to
obtain online training, a certificate or a degree.
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APPLICATION OF THE
PROGRAM:
The Advantages of
Alternative, Holistic and Sustainable
Educating, Counseling and Healing With Nature
Applied Ecopsychology
Environmental Jobs, Careers
and Degree Programs in Action
Organic Psychology and the Natural
Systems Thinking Process
Online
antidotes for Natural
System Dysfunction.
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- Empower yourself by engaging in the gentle
interactive art and science of pollution free,
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Psychology.
Learn online
through
inspirational,
hands-on, environmental human service tools, books and creative writing
activities for health, meditation and wellness.
Benefit from
sustainable, holistic, nature-connected jobs and careers. Master
warmhearted, accredited, personal balance
courses for CEU or clock hours and/or academic credit.
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all or part of our funded Ph.D., M.S. and B.S. degree, certificate and
career program grants and scholarships. They incorporate and build on
your prior training and life experiences. Start
here or take our Orientation
Course online for credit.
Promote peace within and around
you: help
yourself and others volunteer to use our practical nature-connected
coaching and conflict resolution process. It enables you to be at ease
with, as well as remedy, the stressful and abusive estrangement of our
thinking from the wonderful health and wellness powers of natural
systems within and around us.
- Request participation
instructions
. - Historical Note: our career development
participants
have successfully applied nature-connected
education and healing to:
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Professional Benefits. Improved Conferences,
Progressive Human Services, Independent Contracting and Child Care,
Global Warming, Retreats.
- Self-help, Stress Management, Personal Growth,
Motivational Neuro-Linguist Programming, Creative Writing, Home
Schooling, Hypnotherapy, Aromatherapy, Reiki. Energy Medicine and Art
Therapy.
- Life, Personal, Success and Relationship Coaching,
Leadership Skills, Consulting, Memory Training, Nutrition. Men's and
Women's Issues and Action Assertiveness.
- Teaching, Mentoring and Facilitating Disorder and
Prevention Remedies: Eating, Sleep, Anxiety, Post Traumatic Stress,
Attention Deficit, Addiction, Dependency, Burnout, Autism,
Self-Confidence, Mid
Life Crisis and other Self-Worth or Creative Writing dysfunctions.
- Counseling: Pastoral, Therapy, Recovery, Family,
Marriage and Spiritual Counseling, Massage Therapy and
Biofeedback.
- Shamanism, New Age Spirituality Retreat Centers,
Self-Esteem, Yoga, Religion and Civil Rights, Therapist, Retreat Center
Training.
Great Turning Hope
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Work, Conservation Strategies Outdoor Leadership, Sociology,
Environmental Education, Mental Health, Interning and Rich Brain
Enhancement.
- Meditation, Complimentary and Alternative
Naturopathic Medicine, Parenting, Relaxation, Intimacy and Higher Power.
- Founding or Directing Stress and Healing Programs,
or Creative Writing Courses for Training or Degree Programs. Additional
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"Now,
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."
- Project
NatureConnect Participant
Does the observation, above,
make sense to you?
Is it
attractive? ..
Act Now
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Rationale:
The
How and Why of Nature-Connected Education Counseling and Healing.
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Then, BEGIN
HERE to learn and apply all of
our website information. You will learn it from the best possible
teacher, from first hand experience
that
uses the process to teach the process.
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TOPICS IN THE LINKS BELOW
- 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-reducing 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 life 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
Do the observations, above,
make sense to you? Are they attractive? Call
360-378-6313. BEGIN HERE
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
Do the observations, above,
make sense to you? Are they attractive? Call
360-378-6313. BEGIN HERE
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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 excessive stress. In
addition, stress erodes our personal and environmental relationships.
This reduces our hope and self-worth."
- The
Web of Life Imperative
Do the observations, above,
make sense to you?
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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 and healing 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
comes to our mind is the McBurgered, conditioned,
nature-disconnected, "exploit and profit"
warp we have learned that shapes our thinking. We learn to 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 much stress and conflict. Their
falsehood says that we live on
the surface of Planet Earth while, from
direct sensory experience, the wisdom of our deeper sensory selves
instinctively knows full well that we don't.
Troubles
arise when we learn to discount the truth and value of our personal
senses and experience. In this case, our natural senses of color,
motion,
distance,
consciousness, gravity, light, direction, texture and reason register
that we
live in the Earth, 300
miles below its atmosphere,
beneath its air, clouds, rain, snow, tree tops and flying creatures
above our
head. 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. We learn to
deny the truth we experience from direct, sensory contact with our
nurturing origins in the grace
and balance of the web of life and its renewing powers.
Educating,
counseling and healing with nature helps you remedy this problem. BEGIN HERE
How can we
truly know who we are in our natural
relationship with life if the McBurgering bias
of our story of who
we are
gently, but powerfully,
misleads and exploits us?
Our
industrial lives are dancing to the tune of a malicious fiddler. We can
see and feel how the dance hurts Earth and us. Our thinking has been
unable to change this situation because our mentality and psyche remain
bonded to misguided information.
"Well-being
always increases when our stories tell us the whole truth."
- Anonymous
Do the observations, above,
make sense to you? Are they attractive? Call
360-378-6313. BEGIN HERE
When
we learn to prejudicially think stories about life that undermine
the attractive reality that we register when we experience nature's
balance and beauty,
our
psyche becomes conflicted and misled. This conflict excessively
stresses and harms us. We become
disturbed. Worst of all, we may learn to think that this disturbance is
a normal
part
of life, something like "God places us in our conflicts so that we can
learn from
the
experience."
Educating,
counseling and healing with nature helps you remedy this problem.
The
momentous question that rocks us is this: do we simply
live on
the
Earth, or is our mind, body and spirit in and part of Earth's web
of life community?
This
is monumental.
Earth
is the biological origin and nurturing source of life as we
know it here. Our
Planet's nature is an
essential
unifying root of our thoughts, feelings and survival.
We
become
troubled and we create trouble when, from birth on, we are conflicted
or misled about this
relationship:
It makes our thoughts and
feelings lose contact with who
we really are and what and where we really are.
It makes us dependent upon the nature-disconnected
and
exploitive "McBurger" 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. In Industrial Society, most of these senses may only express
themselves
in the safety of social work,
counseling or therapy.
Our
stressed natural senses
undermine the delight and joy of our intact mind body and spirit.
Stress erodes 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.
Educating,
counseling and healing with nature helps you remedy this problem. BEGIN HERE
The
person-planet clash in our thinking is secretly destructive. It
troubles our natural senses and they deteriorate. Confused
and disoriented, we take
this discord for granted because we see it all around us most of the
time.
To
reverse our troubles, from our place in the cosmos we need familiarity,
strength and support, not
stress.
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, we deny that 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 embedded 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 as great a contribution
for good as did the 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.
.
"Life
prepares its own environment"
- John Storer,
The Web of Life (1953)
.
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 attraction
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.
It
is natural attraction, the
love of life, that energizes and organizes how nature works.
The
essence of the biosphere and Earth is the pulsating flow of
natural systems. They are driven by natural
attractions to support life.
Wherever
or whenever that flow of ecology is stopped, life as we know it
deteriorates or dies.
Many
folks generalize the biosphere as being "star energies" or the
"Universe." This "answer" can remove their thinking from the benefits
and
destiny they might otherwise enjoy by making conscious sensory contact
with natural life and its web of life natural
attractions,
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 natural attraction flow of its
systems. You then
try to determine where nature ends and you begin. I was surprised and
grateful 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 my natural attractions and
nature."
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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 natural attraction power flows through all of life. This includes
the life of our
mind and spirit, of our thoughts feelings and perceptions.
Natural attractions are a
prime
commonality and
unifier that we share with all people, places and things, past and
present. This commonality includes what we hold in common with
spiritual leaders like Moses, Jesus,
Mohammad
and Buddha.
Most artificial substitutes
for natural systems
exclude the natural unifying energies and organic healing ways of
natural attractions. 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 attractions, 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 attraction 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 natural attraction vibrancy 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 validate their innate attractions to Earth, 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 natural attraction disconnection
troubles by understanding their origins:
The fossil record
demonstrates that creation, biologically, culturally and
spiritually evolved humanity in
the tropical environment of Africa.
In that naturally attractive "Eden like" womb of the biosphere, warmth
and food were
consistently 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 natural
attraction and 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 imitations 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 attraction
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 society programs our natural
attractions, thinking and perceptions
to be prejudiced
against
nature and, to be attracted to
artificial tropic-like substitutes.
We learn to use natural
sensitivities and systems in people and places as resources. We learn
to love and
support our leaders and their ability to produce imitations of tropical
life. They can artificially and creatively replace the tropic's natural
warmth, food supply, medicine,
food storage, entertainment, recreation and transportation that we need
for
our survival and happiness."
Today, we are increasingly
disconnected from the
beneficial sensory pulse and resonations of natural systems. The
tropicmaking thinking of contemporary people has fixated or addicted us
to excessive sensory rewards from nature-exploitive stories,
technologies, profit, power and prestige that often act as a form of
terrorism against natural systems.
Tropicmaking also addicts us
to
tranquilizing the emotionally-abusive discomfort created by these
nature-disconnected substitutes and their adverse side-effects on us,
as
well as on the environment.
It is reasonable to
recognize that we seldom
improve personal or global peace and well being because we are secretly
socialized to fight an undeclared war against nature within and about
us. To destroy our own life-support system is a form of insanity.
It underlies the stress and madness of contemporary life.
Insight from our 53 natural attraction senses and
feelings have
little value in our tropical-imitation indoor world. We learn to
train, subdue or conquer them rather than support them. Too often, to
produce a profit, we learn to think and feel like we are cultural
objects rather than as contributing sensitive members of Earth's life
community.
As tropicmakers, constant
blessings from imaginative
distant-God stories and/or technologies often replace the joy and other
supportive rewards we would ordinarily receive from the recuperative
flow of natural systems in our immediate environment. We also lose the
value of expressing our inborn, community-building gratitude to nature
and our natural attraction love
for the natural
life-spirit that we find in people,
places and things.
Tropicmakers often
experience the natural to be
"flaky, fuzzy, environmentalism, fearful, emotional, unscientific or
taboo."
The key to contemporary
survival has become
nature-disconnected thinking and its controlling stories that often
stress our senses and loves. That process deteriorates well-being.
Unfortunately, as our
fixation to these stories supports excessive
technologies, profits and industrial growth, they increase our
disorders. This occurs because disconnected stories further deteriorate
our natural systems and the common natural
attraction sense they give us.
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Delusion:
During the first six years of childhood we socialize (McBurger)
youngsters to
change from their birth as natural beings into fledgling tropicmakers.
Our tropicmaking socialization leads us to believe that the
disconnection of our thinking and feeling from its attraction to
nature's grace and
restorative powers is progress, that it is benign and that it does not
underlie the discomforting falsehoods, emotional imbalance, psychic wounds and
isolated lifestyles that stress us.
It is not possible to
amputate away the loves or
ecstasy of an organism and not have that organism suffer and want. The
organism senses that something valuable about it is missing. It never
has enough. Without the tranquilization of its discomfort, it always
wants more, if nothing else, more tranquilizers.
This is especially
true when the organism we amputate is us and what we amputate away is
our
inherent natural love of life and our planet.
Our tropicmaking mentality
today is like a
computer that has foolishly unplugged itself from its energy sources.
Without its sources, the computer is stupid. It is unable to discover
what's wrong or compute how to re-plug itself. Our excessive
disconnection of our thinking from nature's balanced natural
attraction ways is doing the
same thing to our psyche.
Educating,
counseling and healing with nature helps you remedy this problem.
Restoration: Once
we recognize the tropicmaking source of our dysfunctions, the story of
how to remedy them becomes apparent: "Learn to use a tool that helps
you replace what's missing. The tool helps you genuinely plug your
thinking and feeling into the natural attraction vibrancy
and wisdom of natural systems.
Restore their attractive flow in and through your body mind and spirit.
Enjoy the safe, lasting satisfaction and renewal this provides. If you
don't do this, your psyche will more severely express its hurt and
wanting sooner or later, for it builds up."
"We are dysfunctional
socially and environmentally because we are cut off and isolated from
the world of nature and the natural."
-Albert Gore (edited)
Vice President, USA
Author, Earth in the Balance
The positive process
along with the specific outcomes and general
outcomes of genuinely reconnecting
our thinking with natural systems speak
for themselves. Some people consider the
process and its results to
be a contemporary form of Shamanism or Pantheism.
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How Organics Help Things
Change
We seldom have the ability
to change our
socialization by industrial society for it is an accepted form of
addiction or brainwashing. We can, however,
sensibly choose to bypass
its limits and trespasses and increase well being by using tools that
connect our thinking with the transformative and recycling powers
of natural attractions and
systems. Over time, this new habit we develop helps how we
think and feel change for the better.
The Natural System Thinking
Process in Organic
Psychology says:
"Make sense by learning how
to respect and
resonate with the flow of nature's natural
attraction pulse rather than by excessively
controlling it or fortressing yourself from it.
Delight in the rewards that
come from direct
sensory connections with the energetic spirit and love of life in
natural systems and areas, rather than from stagnant indoor substitutes
for it
that have harmful side effects.
As part of family, dating or
singles life, learn
to connect directly with nature's life-spirit in natural areas,
backyard or backcountry. It sustainably helps you convert the stress
that erodes your well-being, into good feelings. This results because
sensory connections to nature trigger the release of Dopamine and
Serotonin as well
as help you develop supportive personal and environmental
relationships you trust and enjoy. You sense and feel that you and
others belong
to something worthwhile because
you do.
Recognize that tropicmaking
science limits our
thinking by omitting the validity of natural sensory knowing. For
example, tropicmaking does not include the natural attraction sense of thirst
as a fact that is as real as water or as part of the global water
system, of the water cycle, or as one of the "five senses." Omissions
like this disconnect our thinking about thirst from
the purifying water cycle, from nature's sensory grace, balance and
recuperative ways.
Thirst is an intelligent
sensory attraction. It
informs us when we need water so we bring water into us and benefit.
Our thirst also turns off to signal us that we have enough water.
Similarly, our sense of excretion tells us to
contribute our excessive water as food and water for the welfare of
other members of the global life community. At least 51 additional natural sensory
attraction-loves serve this same supportive
purpose with regard to personal and global well being. This includes
sensations of fear, pain, anxiety, depression, death, dying and grief.
They signal that something important is missing and that we must seek
it.
We excessively suffer
because the way we learn to
think, feel and relate is too often non-sense. We use only 10% of the
natural
sensory wisdom we inherit as part of nature. This leads us to foolishly
applaud our excessive conquest of natural systems, in and around us.
Learning to
genuinely reconnect with nature, the
real thing, helps us reverse this dilemma. For example, it helps us
with dieting and weight loss as we satisfy ourselves with sensory
fulfilling food instead of excessive eating.
"Personal
transformation is best cultivated by partnering with the supreme agent
of change, the Earth. Life is change, and nature is the wizard who
enlivens its magic cycles."
- Philip Sutton Chard
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Overcoming Personal, Social
and Environmental Disorders
As described above, Organic
Psychology helps us
reverse our tropicmaking disorders by giving us the tools to help
natural systems and their fulfilling benefits once again flow through
and register in our psyche. It is a process that enables us to preempt
or bypass the false and destructive aspects of our socialization and
our learned prejudice
against nature. It empowers us to directly
reconnect our disconnected and wounded thoughts and
feelings with the essence of our
origins in natural systems and their healing ways. This re-connection
gives us the ability to:
Override or transform
hurtful nature-disconnecting ways
and childhood distortions that we learn in industrial society.
Become more intelligent as
we benefit from
first-hand contact with the truth and regenerative powers of natural
systems and the eons.
Build relationships based on
immediate trustable
attractions to natural systems in and around us that we hold in common,
rather than to
stories that divide us.
Increase personal and
environmental well-being by
thinking and feeling with nature rather than against it.
The core of our troubles is
that, since Aristotle
and before, our most powerful leaders, thinkers and teachers have been
rewarded while they are/were victims of our culture's nature-conquering ways. As
a result, while we are infants, our leaders prejudicially bond us to
the same
disconnecting half-truth labels and stories that they have been
conditioned to believe. As if brainwashed, we emotionally attach to a
way of thinking and relating that restricts, distorts and demeans
natural systems. It estranges us from them and the flow of their
beneficial pulse.
Out of habit, our ingrained
life science story
rejects the supportive attraction flow of natural systems in our
psyche. Our
biased thinking stops that beneficial
flow.
The deteriorating state of
natural systems
suggests that we learn to fight a prejudiced undeclared war against
them. How else can we explain that at the same time that the biosphere
and its natural systems were discovered 75 years ago, so were Scotch
tape, the jet engine, the EEG, the condom and Monopoly? Why, other than
prejudice, have the latter thrived while the health of natural systems
has dangerously declined.
Don't we suffer because we
conquer and exploit,
rather than think, feel and relate in support of natural attractions
and
their gifts for well-being? Have we not become ecozombies or
"bucket heads" to a
greater or lesser extent?
Organic Psychology gives us
a trustworthy antidote and preventative
for
our nature-disconnection problem. We can use its activities to make
thoughtful sensory contact with the transformative powers of natural
attractions and experience an elation and wisdom that our socialized
thinking ordinarily omits. We can add this process to our personal and
professional lives. Its benefits
speak for themselves.
.
"It's great. Mike Cohen is
right to make the
responsibility for living on good terms with Gaia a personal one."
- Dr. James Lovelock,
Author, Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth
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John Dewey noted, "We only
begin to think when
confronted by a problem." Confront yourself. Confront our leaders. Most
of them have learned to become ecozombies. If they don't correct their
biosphere and natural attraction lies and support nature-connected
learning and healing, refuse
to support them until they do. If you don't confront them, who will
make them think further? We must stop supporting leaders who
don't know what to do about an essence of our problems.
Educating,
counseling and healing with nature helps you remedy this situation.
"Illegitimus non carborundum"
- Joe Stillwell,
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Our
Challenge for Sustainable Well-Being
Consider
the two significant 20th century observations that, among
many others, help us improve our personal and global wellness.
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"Human behavior is rooted
most deeply in nature's
intentions and desire. The rhythms of nature underlie all of human
interaction: religious traditions, economic systems, cultural and
political organization. When these human forms betray the natural
psychic pulse, people and societies get sick, nature is exploited and
entire species are threatened."
-Stephen Aizenstat
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"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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Industrial
society's greatest problem is that its logic often teaches us to betray
the natural psychic pulse, the pulsating natural
attraction
wave and flow of our
life-spirit.
Educating,
counseling and healing with nature helps you remedy this problem.
We
are
born as part of nature's perfection and integrity. But, as previously
mentioned, we learn to spend over 98% of our lives and thinking
separated from nature's ongoing support of our mind, psyche and spirit.
That support is readily available in natural areas, backyard or
backcountry, whenever we use Organic Psychology sensory tools to help
us
access it.
We
suffer our dysfunctions because our immediate material and economic
rewards habituate us to a cultural and spiritual bias against nature
and the natural.
Today
we are additionally stressed by our uncontrolled
stupidity. We exploit and conquer natural systems while fully aware
that they are key to our survival and to our recovery from disorders.
This way of thinking and acting is nonsense. Fortunately, the antidote
for it, Educating
Counseling and Healing With Nature, is readily
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Summary:
The Effects of Psychic Pain
Nature's
absence in our lives leaves a wanting, hurting hole in our psyche, and
when
we want, there is never enough. For example, in our
society, no
matter how rich or poor a person is, it is normal for them to
feel they need about 15 percent more money. To feel good about
themselves they must out-compete, or win, over others, over natural
systems and their flow in and around us..
Our
induced, insatiable wants produce our vulnerability to detrimental
temptations and weakened resilience. This destructively stresses us. It
has become a national epidemic. As mentioned, 75-90 percent of our
primary care medical advice and treatment is related to stress disorders.
We
can't resist society's
unwhole and taxing demands and lures. These include the salary we
receive for excessively doing unhappy jobs directed by leaders who massage us to
exploit natural systems and their flow.
Disconnected
from the natural peace and satisfactions provided by the ways of natural
attractions,
our
thoughts and feelings often lose their inherent life wisdom. Then they
cannot adequately help us address the detrimental expectations placed
on us by others or by
misguided parts of our thinking. As we discover this it often produces
"mid life crisis."
Too often we forget that
nature has the profound
ability to heal itself, be
the injury a bulldozed landscape, a scraped knee or an emotional hurt. However,
nature
seldom helps us correct our dysfunctions or improve our wellness
when we disconnect our time, thinking and feeling from nature's ability
to do this.
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Destructive
Normalcy
Sadly,
in our excessively nature-separated society, we are often taught to
believe that our strong attraction to nature's perfection, its
enchanting peace, nurturing, beauty, cooperation and sanity indicates
that something is wrong with us. We learn to think that we are
escapists, strange or different "hippie," "environmentalist" "earth
muffin" "flakes." This is hurtful and false. Our attractions to nature
are actually intact remains of natural systems within our
consciousness.
Natural attractions that we
experience are often fortuitous fitness residues that have struggled
to
survive our
excessive exploitation of nature.
The
surviving natural parts of ourselves may be stressed, but they are
resilient and trustable. They refuse to be converted, to be further
separated from nature, to be conquered or undermined. They will not
submit to the competitive madness of our society and its detrimental
ways. Instead, at risk, the hurt in these natural
attractions
trys to teach
us to find nature's peace. They emotionally signal our consciousness to
protect, seek and promote contact with the nurturing and restorative
powers of our biological and spiritual origins in natural systems. This
includes the natural powers and integrity that remains alive in our
family, neighbors
and other supportive individuals.
Project
NatureConnect dedicates itself to providing financial and technical
education assistance that helps frustrated natural attractions and
systems in us
reconnect with their nurturing origins. To this end, PNC provides an online activity or two to help you become
more aware of natural attractions and natural systems' flow.
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On
this web site you will find many teachable Organic Psychology self-help
and other tools that assist us to meet our nature-disconnected
challenges in a good way ("good" meaning supportive of the whole). They
have value because Organic Psychology enables generations of us to
personally and professionally benefit through co-creation with natural
systems in any area of
endeavor, rather than through additional exploitation of
these systems.
"This
program helps us plant the last Truffula seed from the Lorax
in the fields of education, psychology and health."
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Natural
Wisdom
Organic
Psychology is for those of us who are naturally wise enough to neither
trust nor depend upon the nature-disconnected processes of industrial
society that cause our problems, to help us remedy these same problems.
For us, it makes sense to confront this detrimental way of thinking and
transform it with recuperative assistance from natural systems. We
enable ourselves to make destructive parts of our personal and
collective lives subside.
Over
85 percent of industrial society seeks help, or uses self-help, for
their natural attraction discontents on some level. However, therapies
and
education we use that are not organic seldom solve our problems.
Instead, they move our problems to another time place and context where
we, our neighbors or our children will face them in even more
destructive forms because we have reinforced them, rather than recycled
them into cooperative relationships and well-being. By using
nature-connected education counseling and healing, any ardent person
can easily break this habit.
"A
solid approach that applies the same consistent attitudes to living
with people as it does to living with nature."
- Environmental Education Report.
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Society
and Individuals in Denial
Our
core challenge for improving our well-being is to recognize that our
thinking is often in denial:
- We
deny that the biosphere-detached way we learn to think produces
personal, social and environmental dysfunctions, including global warming and
prejudice against nature and the natural.
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- We
deny that we psychologically condition or addict to familiar stories,
technologies and relationships. We won't admit that they habitually
separate our mind and spirit from thoughtful connections to nature's
balance, peace and sane
renewing energies.
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- We
deny that beneficial sensory tools are readily
available to help our thinking and psyche more fully tap into
nature's energizing beauty and healing ways.
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- We
deny that connecting
our consciousness with authentic natural attractions and systems helps
us change our
discontents into constructive relationships.
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.
- We
deny that our natural reasoning, senses and feelings, like plants and
animals or
the wind hills and stars, are natural
attractions
in
action.
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- We
deny that the life-sustaining sensitivities of natural
attractions
are all
that we hold in common with each other and the plant, animal and
mineral kingdoms...that the loss of these sensitivities in our thinking
produces our greatest troubles.
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- We
deny that we personally need assistance in dealing with our loss of
nature, that this is all fine and good for "others," but not ourselves,
that
Industrial society did not influence our natural ability to make sense
in a good way.
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"Any
clear-thinking person can profit
from today's most important and rewarding jobs, careers and training.
They can enter or promote
sustainable livelihoods by adding organic psychology education,
counseling or healing with nature activities to them. They help our
polluted thinking get out of the nature-disconnected closet that is
polluting it. This helps us stop global warming, the fever we have
given our living planet.
We
can each make a difference. No surprise, the rewards of most education,
psychologies and therapies in our nature-exploitive society tend to
further exploit nature. In contrast, the rewards of Organic Psychology
increase our well-being and the health of the environment, too. You can
add it to any relationship, therapy or profession."
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Coming
to Our Senses
This website's
nature-connected thinking tools
strengthen our ability to benefit from, and to protect, the unifying
ways of natural attractions. Here, we discover how to more fully
belong, to
find the sanity of nature's peace within and about us; we enhance our
intelligence and spirit; this contributes to saner living.
"Our religion keeps
reminding us that we aren't
just will and thoughts. We're also sand and wind and thunder and rain
and the seasons. All those things. You learn to respect everything
because you are everything. If you respect yourself, you respect all
things."
- Least Heat Moon
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The flow, swirls and eddies
of a river are part of
and exemplify the streaming of the biosphere. This similarity
challenges
the tropicmaking ways of most science because science gathers its best
evidence under standard laboratory conditions of temperature, pressure,
motion and light. But nature's life-pulse in/of the river constantly
fluctuates. It has no standard conditions, they would stop the river's
natural attraction pulse.
Our addiction to power,
status and money drives us
to pay objective scientists to produce standard conditions and
controls, such as dams and death-producing pollution. They degrade a
river's life-flow. Like a hypnosis that produces global warming, such
science is not objective. It is directed and financed by tropicmaking
goal-setting, greed and values to satisfy our unfulfilled wants. We
must add to it a whole life sensory inquiry
where things like the
biosphere, water and the sensation of thirst are equally regarded as
important natural attraction facts,
facts of life.
How and when will we, with
enthusiasm, come to our
senses, our natural attraction senses, our inherent ability think and
feel with
the flow of natural systems, to co-create with nature? Organic
Psychology offers a trustable art and science to
help us achieve this goal and increase well-being.
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SUMMARY
"Our greatest problems
result from the difference
between the way we think and how nature works"
- Gregory Bateson
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Project NatureConnect:
Confronts
and breaks through our denial that we are addicted to technologies,
relationships and stories that have stress-producing destructive
effects. It offers us innovative organic tools to help us tap our
thinking into nature's restorative ways.
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Guarantees that the nature-connecting
accredited processes it offers are readily available online to help us,
backyard or backcountry, come into a supportive balance with ourselves,
each other and the environment.
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Shows that we uniquely benefit from adding this
website's easily learned Organic Psychology method and nature jobs to
our lives and livelihoods.
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Demonstrates that the heart-desired
science of this site's Natural System Thinking Process enables us to
restore our deteriorated natural consciousness and resilience. This
helps us reduce dysfunctions and disorders in ourselves, others and the
environment. We enjoy the ability to increase peaceful and rewarding
well-being, within and around us.
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Documents that what we need for a
healthy sustainable tomorrow is simply for more of us today to learn
how to use and teach accredited outdoor sensory tools, tools that help
us tap into nature's wellness powers. It is our disconnection from
these natural attraction powers that sustains our
major problems.
"This
is not a reading experience, it's a hologram. It is communicating
through talking leaves, something of what whales communicate to each
other...you are there."
-
Robin E. Lagemann, Indigenous People's activist.
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The
advantage of Project NatureConnect's distance
learning program
Via
the Internet, Project NatureConnect uses the simplicity and convenience
of rewarding, free nature-reconnecting activities in local
natural areas, backyard or backcountry. It helps us learn how
to inexpensively apply practical, accredited, counseling, education and
self-help healing tools, degree programs and conference
agendas.
- Local
learning relieves us of the excessive time, costs, lodging, risk,
unfamiliarity, rip offs, stress and transportation resources (along
with their adverse environmental impact) to travel elsewhere for
training.
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- In
the online Organic Psychology process, local
success, resources, natural attractions, people and experiences
remain familiar, friendly
and easily available to us when we need them again.
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- We
daily help sustain local and immediate natural systems within and
around us and others and they, in turn, help us sustain and increase
our well-being.
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- Via
email, we learn and relate more honestly because we are not limited by
concerns about how others think we look, dress or sound or by being
overwhelmed by bullying personalities or insensitivities of others in
our
group. We learn to build relationships by helping the natural systems
in us interact with our attractions to the natural systems in our
online classmates and the natural areas in their location on the
planet, attractions
that we hold in common.
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- Entering
this astonishing program links us, by email, to the support, work and
experience of all the program's participants, graduates and faculty,
locally and internationally. As an online cooperative, we mentor, guide
and support each other when we, by email or phone, request assistance.
In time, we establish this kind of supportive community where we live,
too.
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"Its
impact lies in the fact that the author has lived its wisdom of these
past twenty years... I have learned first had that its theories prove
themselves in the fruition that its education delivers. It offers the
medicine that disillusioned humanity and the endangered environment
needs."
- Herb AlF, Ed.D. President, Environment
Talent Inquiry and Development
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Sustaining holistic personal and global integrity
"I
recently participated in a hurried, almost stressful health and
wellness training program for people whose differences kept them
arguing amongst themselves. They had little interest or time to hear an
explanation from me about the unifying and healing benefits of our
reconnecting  with nature process
and they therefore decided to omit it from their agenda. "The trees and
rocks are not the problem, they are not dysfunctional, they don't have
abusive chemical or interpersonal dependencies, they don't commit
crimes or have learning disabilities" they said.
In
the midst of this hubbub, a young bird flew into the meeting room
through the door. It could not find its way outdoors.
Without
a word, the behind-schedule, argumentative meeting screeched to a halt.
Deep natural attraction feelings for life and hope filled each person
for the moment. For ten minutes that frightened, desperate little bird
triggered those seventy people to harmoniously, supportively organize
and unify with each other to safely help it find its way back home,
outdoors. Yet when they accomplished this feat, they cheered their
role, not the role of the bird. They felt like heroes for the moment
and
congratulated their humanity for its wisdom and compassion.
In
their
story of the incident, the role and impact of the bird went unnoticed
while they cheered the human spirit.
The
group returned to the hubbub and conflicts of the meeting, as if
nothing special had happened. They completely overlooked that the bird
had united them while it was there, something they could not do without
its presence. Similarly, we who learn to consciously invite nature into
our lives and embrace us enjoy the grace of its natural
attractions. They
help us overcome our stress and conflicts by
uniting our mind body and spirit with our balanced and restorative
origins in nature's flowing community within and around us. As a
result, we
increase our
appreciation and love for natural attractions and their healing ways.
This natural system
connection motivates us to further support and protect all of life."
From
Reconnecting
With Nature
by M. J. Cohen
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"The
activity attracted me to lie in the water beneath that sky of reddish
and orange colors, with the sun rising more powerfully than I've ever
seen it before. And there I was, all alone in the pond, but at the same
time feeling totally held by the outdoor moment. I knew this is where I
belonged. I felt a powerful energy being given to me by everything
around me. I had a feeling in my throat that made me feel like crying
and shouting with joy at the same time; and also a sense of peace, like
everything was telling me "It's all right, it's all good."
My
sense of isolation, this sense of loneliness, of being abandoned, of
having the world against us is a common feeling. But how could a person
be lonely when they could feel as part of a pond or see themselves in a
lovely flower, in the trees and animals, and in other people? Think of
all the lonely people who have no idea that we are so connected to
nature.
We
are truly not alone but only disconnected from our natural state. I
used to be so depressed and now when I feel it come on me I think about
how connected I have become to all things. I am less and less depressed
now. Imagine if everyone could experience this outdoor connection. It
would become a different world."
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Harvard University doesn't teach you:
"I
felt the connection the first time that I tried to connect with nature
and it becomes easier each time that I try to reconnect. In 1998, I was
on a humanitarian medical mission to Haiti. I contracted St Louis
Encephalitis during that mission and have suffered from migraine
headaches since that time. Lately after starting my studies, when I get
a headache, I just go outside and connect with nature. I calm down, I
get a feeling of completeness and my headache resolves in minutes."
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"This
program offers an environmentally sound, educational process that
reduces apathy, catalyzes peace and promotes mental health. It fulfills
our personal and economic needs, deeper ideals and spirit; it deserves
the attention of every person who seeks to reverse our troubles."
Dr. Robert Muller
- Assistant
Secretary General Emeritus of the United Nations.
- Recipient of the Albert Schweitzer Peace Prize and UNESCO prize for
peace.
- Chancellor of the University for Peace, United Nations.
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Benefit
from making nature a stronger part of your life
Enjoy
a powerful alternative book or online course that helps your mind walk
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"The
activities work, they move students. I see significant improvement in
their self-esteem and value. They find something outside themselves
that is actually a truth within themselves."
- Mark Walsh, Director of Wilderness
Therapy, Hyde Psychiatric Hospital
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"I
wept as I sensed the unity of nature and myself. Honoring my nature
experiences energizes and restores me. It enables me to more
effectively help others recover. As these unique nature activities make
me more whole (holy), my sense of self becomes more alive and active.
The activities feel safe, they stimulate me. They free me to let go, to
be in the moment. As I co-create with nature's rejuvenating processes,
my life becomes more fun, balanced and joy-filled. These learning
moments
enable anybody to touch nature and enjoy its embrace."
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The
challenge that Project NatureConnect addresses:
"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 is 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
Do
you have or want to have a working knowledge of what "cuts us off" and
how to overcome it?
"Thousands
of tired, nerve shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out
that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a
necessity."
-
John Muir , 1901
A.D.
"The
Web of Life Imperative offers more tools, knowledge and
personal power for good than most therapies and spiritualities. It
enables us to reverse our destructive relationships by empowering us to
make thoughtful sensory connections with genuine nature. This
connection responsibly satisfies the aching, ever-wanting hole in our
psyche that has been produced by our excessive separation from nature,
a hole that leads us astray."
-
Susan Chernak McElroy,
Award winning, N. Y. Times best
selling
author of Animals as Teachers and Healers and Heart
in the Wild.
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Program Founder and Director:
Recipient of the 1994 Distinguished
World Citizen Award, Ecopsychologist Michael J.
Cohen, Ph.D. is a Director of the Institute of Global
Education, where he coordinates its Integrated Ecology Department and
Project NatureConnect. He also serves on the faculty of Portland State
University and Akamai University. Dr. Cohen has
founded sensory environmental
education outdoor programs independently and for the National
Audubon Society and Lesley University (AEI), conceived the 1985
National Audubon Conference "Is the Earth a Living Organism," and is an
award winning author of The Web of Life Imperative,
Reconnecting With Nature, Einstein's
World, How Nature Works and Educating
Counseling and Healing With Nature He is an
accomplished folk song artist and contra dancer who presents
traditional music programs for the U.S. National Park Service and
Elderhostel on San Juan Island, Washington.
CONTACT:
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...
nature@interisland.net
360-378-6313, Pacific Time Zone
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Read Dr. Cohen's latest book
Educating,
Counseling and Healing With Nature This Ph.D.
disseration defines and defends Natural Attraction Ecology.
All programs start with the Orientation Course
contained in the book The
Web of Life Imperative.
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"Mike
Cohen is a crackerjack teacher. What counts is that his words help us
do what we must do to save ourselves and Gaia."
- Pete Seeger
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INDEX ONE
Course Activity Outcome
Reports From Students
See the reports located in
the middle
section of the pages below
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