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Introduction

When I was a child living in New York City, as I returned home from school one day, some bullies in the schoolyard roughed me up saying, "Kike!* You jewboy, you killed Christ." In tears, as I continued home I was drawn to an alternative path through a wooded park by the railroad. Things were peaceful in that little grove and by the time I emerged from it, I felt much better.

Next day, when I asked my teacher why the park made me feel better, she said it was, "Because it took you away from your problems." But, significantly, like most other people I have ever known, my teacher never told me just what it was that little natural area took me to. This is because most of us don't know what or where "to" is. In our nature-separated society that important piece of information has been omitted from our awareness, socialization and education.

What we seldom learn about parks and other natural areas is that visiting them is more than just an escape from reality. Our indoor society leaves us unaware that natural areas also revive us because they survive through a natural life-relationship process that is more inclusive, supportive and unifying than the way we ordinarily learn to think and act.

Since we are part of nature, in an attractive natural setting we connect with and benefit from nurturance from our sensory origins in the regenerative, non-polluting way nature works. Often this happens subconsciously, but the important thing is that it happens. It's the other reason we feel better in a natural area. It's what we go "to."

Nature is a balanced civilization, wisdom and consciousness, a supportive part of our life that our indoor thinking has lost contact with. We miss it. We become better off when we genuinely reconnect with it. That's the rest of the story.

"Nature is doing her best each moment to make us well."

- HenryDavid Thoreau.

The elements of nature make us feel good and revive us in attractive natural areas because nature's air, water, soil, sunlight, species, community, beauty, grace and restorative powers are nurturing energies and essences of our physical, emotional and spiritual self. In nature, the vibrance of these natural systems brings into our mind and heart their recuperative ways and intelligences within and around us. This helps us enjoy and think with the means nature uses to produce its optimums of life, diversity, cooperation, purification and regeneration.

Nature is able to produce these optimums without producing garbage or our insanity because in unadulterated nature everything belongs. Nothing is left out. No 'kikes' there, things are neither labeled nor abandoned. Transformation, not rejection is how nature works. That's a way to describe unconditional love.

That's also how and why nature supports us when we visit attractive natural areas. It makes us more whole while we are there because we connect with the whole of life on Earth, not just people.

We unnecessarily suffer many troubles because our society not only prides itself on its conquest of nature but our socialization/education teaches us this false prejudice: "For survival we must dominate and subdue nature." We learn to exploit rather than cooperate with and embrace nature's ways around and within us. That social prejudice explains why openly enjoying or revering natural systems, including our natural senses often earns us the name of "flaky, tree hugging, hippy environmentalist."

"From the masses to the 'masses,'
The most Revolutionary consciousness is to be found,
Among the most ruthlessly exploited classes:
Animals, trees, water, air, grasses."
- Gary Snyder

 

As I worked my way through elementary school I watched that little woodland park by the railroad disappear. Progress "improved" it by converting it into a shopping center and apartment house. What I didn't see was that my natural way of thinking and feeling was part of nature and that it was being similarly converted during this period. I unknowingly learned to overlook that I was being programmed to a way of thinking that destroyed natural systems because conquering nature is 'normal' and applauded in our civilization. However, our normal way of thinking is not organic. We take measures to reward it to help us overcome our sadness over our loss of nature in our psyche and lives. Nature-disconnected thinking becomes the "in" thing to do to improve ourselves and the world.

"Beware of all enterprises that require
new clothes."
- Henry David Thoreau

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Are you aware that our society teaches us to spend, on average, over 99 percent of our thinking and 95 percent of our time indoors, separated from authentic nature's balanced ways and guiding signals? This closeting from nature results in us losing consciousness of ourselves and the natural world as intercommunicating, seamless natural systems. The separation stressfully rips our thinking from nature's recuperative and aesthetic benefits while we are at home, work and school. We learn, instead, to destructively relate to nature as a 'resource' and many prodding financial and social rewards psychologically addict us to keep doing this. We feel we can't stop, even when we can see detrimental things happening to natural systems within and about us, even when know we should, even when we want to because we know it's stupid not to.

The destructive disconnection of our mind from nature's balanced ways underlies many disorders and discontents yet we are conditioned to crave, rather than correct, this separation. As we purchase things that help us overcome the discomfort produced by our disconnection from nature, we fuel our economy and we obtain the shallow happiness of status, false security and new technologies. To our loss, a vast majority of us do not recognize that our nature-disconnection is the source of our dilemmas so, shortcircuited, we remain disconnected, we think those who do connect are eccentric, and the world increasingly goes around in crazy untrustable circles.

"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. "
- Benjamin Franklin

 

Accompanied by others at Project NatureConnect, and earlier the National Audubon Society Expedition Institute, since 1952, I have focused a major part of my life researching and developing an organic sensory science, a Natural Systems Thinking Process (NSTP) that enables us to genuinely reconnect our mind with how nature works in natural areas as well as in people.

NSTP helps us tap our thinking into authentic nature and its natural systems. We thereby tenfold strengthen nature's balance and healing powers in ourselves, others and the environment.

The Organic Psychology of NSTP enables us to let nature's restorative energies help us deal with our addictive dysfunctions and our emotionally satisfying bonds to detrimental ways of thinking and acting.

Today, funds developed by NSTP economics make it possible for anybody who appreciates nature to learn and teach NSTP and enjoy its organic benefits to themselves, to others and the to environment. And today, the value of teaching this science is increasingly recognized through many universities, most recently West Coast University in the Republic of Panama, accredited by ICDE, the global accrediting agency recognized by UNESCO & UNO.

Maybe there is hope. After all, anyone who has enjoyed a good experience with nature -backcountry, backyard or with their pet, or with the wind, sea or stars- knows nature's potential for increasing our peace of mind and our reverence for all of life.

All we need to do is trust our good experiences in nature and learn to use a NSTP tool that helps us strengthen them.

Isn't now the time to produce and enjoy the organic rewards of greater personal, professional and environmental sanity rather than continue to suffer our dysfunctions and discontents?

- Michael J. Cohen, Ed.D.
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*Leo Rosten says, "The word kike was born on Ellis Island, when Jewish immigrants who were illiterate (or could not use Roman-English letters), when asked to sign the entry-forms with the customary 'X,' refused -- and instead made a circle. For the Jewish immigrants, an 'X' was an evil sign, representing both the horrors of crucifixion and the sign of their (Christian) oppressors. The Yiddish word for 'circle' is kikel (pronounced KY - kel), and for 'little circle,' kikeleh. Before long the immigration inspectors were calling anyone who signed with an 'O' instead of an 'X' a kikel or kikeleh or kikee or, finally and succinctly, kike."

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In a timely and passionate alternative learning article entitled How You Can Come to Your Senses: What They Don't Teach You at Harvard or Yale (1), Ecological Psychologist Michael J. Cohen, Ed.D, (2), describes holistic graduate and college scholarship grants now available for restoring personal and global balance. The program funds the application of a personal and environmentally rewarding nature-connecting Organic Psychology tool called the Natural Systems Thinking Process (NSTP).

NSTP is an easily learned, on-line organic psychology (6) that is guaranteed to help us overcome troubles and dysfunctions by revitalizing more than fifty natural senses that our indoor lives ordinarily subdue (3). It teaches us how to save our sanity and health and reduce budgets by genuinely tapping our senses and thinking into the balance, grace and regenerative powers of authentic nature.

Individual training scholarship grants help NSTP takes us on extraordinary treks through the nature of our mind and of Earth, offering astonishing revelations about how to overcome the estrangement of our mentality from nature's balancing recuperative influence. The cutting edge nature-connecting tool Cohen describes enables us to think and relate like nature's peace, cooperation and renewal energies work (4). The tool and financial aid program (5) help us increase our security by binding our mind with the way nature provides love, joy and well being for people and ecosystems.

Recipient of the 1994 Distinguished World Citizen Award, Ecological Psychologist Michael J. Cohen, Ed.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, West Coast and Akamai Universities and coordinates the alternative scholarship grants program

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Recipient of the 1994 Distinguished World Citizen Award, Ecological Psychologist Michael J. Cohen, Ed.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 programs independently and for the National Audubon Society and Lesley University (AEI), conceived the National Audubon Conference "Is the Earth a Living Organism," and is the award winning author of the Web of Life Imperative, Reconnecting With Nature and Einstein's World. He is an accomplished folk song artist and contra dancer who presents traditional music and ecology programs for the U.S. National Park Service and Elderhostel on San Juan Island, Washington.

 

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The Nature Of Nine Leg Knowing. How Do We Belong and Heal?

 

"Ishi, (the last hunter-gather Native American) was sure he knew the cause of our discontent. It stemmed from an excessive amount of indoor time. 'It is not a man's nature to be too much indoors.'"

- Theodora Kroeber

"It is quite clear to me after several years in the environmental movement that all physical problems of man's impact on the environment - pollution of the air and waters, the desecration of the land, the contamination of the food chain - all start within the environment of man's mind."

- Maurice Strong,
Founder or the United Nations Environment Program,
Co--chair of the Commission on Global Governance,

Because we live in a nature-separated society, we seldom learn that it is the personal and collective relationship of our mind with nature that determines our sanity, our future and the future of the earth. Much has been written about how we need to help the planet regenerate itself. Too often we overlook that restoring it is the lasting means to improve the environment of our mind, our wellness and our destiny.

How conscious are we about the interactions of our mentality with the natural world? How do we passionately incorporate nature's intrinsic health and recuperative powers into our sense of self, other and livelihood? Do we acknowledge this deep and penetrating partnership in a renewable path to sustainability that serves people, the environment and peace?

These are compelling questions for us as our society is in denial of our mentality's relationship with nature and we face a most precarious future.

We Lose What We Most Love
As nature's resources are diminished so is the quality of our lives as part of nature. As the quality of our lives diminish, we become desensitized and fearful. We further lose touch with our natural ability to connect to the web of life within which we are so intricately bound. It becomes a cycle of loss. The nurturing link between our human lives and our earthly home gets broken. We are driven to seek more and more satisfaction in the material world, which means we consume more and more of the resources we need to sustain natural world and our inborn love of it. We get further and further away from our innate sense of meaning and being. We lose what we most love-about ourselves, the world to which we belong and our sense of the sacred in everyday life.

Nature's Saving Grace
In these difficult times, we are virtually on the edge of losing our ability to save both ourselves-and our earthly home. Yet the saving grace is simple: We will save what we love. And when we learn how to stop long enough to genuinely reconnect to the nurturing sustenance of nature, we emotionally reconnect to what is most deeply satisfying in our human experience-belonging. We re-learn to love the very essence of who we are as living breathing perfect beings on a living breathing perfect planet. It is a generative partnership that happens when we reawaken and enliven all our senses with the awareness of nature's grace, intelligence and sustenance. We find and feel that we, too, are part of the very grace and intelligence we celebrate in nature. We belong. Because this reconnecting process is often foreign to contemporary life, an enabling tool has been devised to help us engage in the process.

Restoring Our Sensory Connections To Nature's Renewing Powers.
Project NatureConnect, a pioneering process in environmental psychology and education, has developed an ecopsychology program that is first of all committed to helping us-as individuals-restore our connection to our place in nature's transcending grace. Then, through its sensory nature-connecting, ecotherapy activities, we learn how to genuinely unite our thinking to the web of life that is always around us, always nurturing us, always waiting to help us wake up. We help ourselves bond to living in awareness and equilibrium with nature, in hope and in love. Living in that organic awareness we create a lasting future for our loved ones and for our extended human and ecological family.

The Organic Science of Nature's Regenerative Ways.
Backyard or back country, the idea and goal of Project NatureConnect is special because it is doable by choice. It offers a web of possibilities-for everything from personal growth, stress management and depression recovery to professional gain. It is based on the NatureConnect work developed by Michael J. Cohen over a span of 50 years of studying, teaching, writing about and experiencing the regenerative power of our natural experience in the natural world. His work is a science and an art, the result of decades of practice working with communities of people in natural areas, all culminating in a process that helps us recover what it is we have forgotten, what it is we love, what it is we can save. (www.ecopsych.com)

Healing Our Relationships
It is time for us to come out from behind the addictive socializing and economic forces that keep theenvironment of our mind disconnected from the Earth and each other. It is time to re-learn how to let the wisdom and renewing energies of nature transform our destructive patterns into balanced and loving relationships that can help restore both personal worth and global harmony.

  "The indescribable innocence and beneficence of Nature-of sun and wind and rain, of summer and winter-such health, such cheer, they afford forever!"
-Henry David Thoreau, Walden

- from Janet Thomas Author, The Battle in Seattle

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Mood Disorders: Are You Suffering from Denial of Your Separation from Nature?

  Excessive separation from nature produces the discomforts of fatigue, apathy, stress, anxiety, depression, hopelessness, anger, mood swings, mistrust, loneliness, broken relationships, destructive dependencies and sleep, eating, learning and attention disorders
1. Contemporary society and its citizens are in denial. We are aware that we are part of nature and that although we are disconnected from nature, we deny that this separation bears ill effects upon our physical or mental health and inner peace. We are also in denial if we know our separation from nature is producing destructive personal, social and environmental disorders but we don't use readily available nature-reconnecting tools to help us treat these disorders.

2. Because we are members of a nature-disconnected society in denial, we are psychologically bonded to our society's ways and we each suffer from and perpetuate the dysfunctions, insanity and discontents of our society.

3. Many people display mood disorder symptoms or other discontents that are not normally found in nature-connected people. These individuals are usually in denial that they suffer because they are, or have been, excessively separated from nature and its regenerative healing and restorative powers. The symptoms these individuals endure include the discomforts of fatigue, apathy, stress, anxiety, depression, hopelessness, anger, mood swings, mistrust, loneliness, broken relationships, destructive dependencies and sleep, eating, learning and attention disorders.

4. Contemporary society consciously and subconsciously socializes us to believe that nature is an enemy to overcome, conquer or develop.

  - We are in denial that we mistakenly consider it progress and economically sound to subdue natural systems within and around us and thereby lose the resilience and immunity provided by the recuperative powers of these systems.

- We deny that if disconnection from nature produces discontents, that authentic reconnecting with nature enables nature's renewing powers to help us transform our discontents into happier, more reasonable, ways of being and relating.

- We deny that nature-reconnecting tools are readily available to us and that we that can use them to help ourselves reverse our disorders.

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5. An individual that only addresses their personal dysfunctions without addressing the nature-disconnected roots of these dysfunctions too often furthers their and our problems as time passes.

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Nature's Grace: A Nine-Leg Equation Provides an Answer to Hopes, Prayers and Dreams.

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The lack of finding inner peace, sustainable economics, trust, social justice and personal and environmental wellness had alarmed me. I sought and finally found a tool that transformed my depressing stress and anxiety into responsible stability. I thought I was stressed because the more I became aware of the destructive things happening to Earth and to people and places I loved, including myself, the greater became my lack of hope and feeling either mad, sad or depression. This divorced me from both my spirit and partner. I felt anger with God and beauty, a fear and disrespect of God for letting so much war, suffering and environmental deterioration occur that I was powerless to change. In time, I became aware that I was in denial. I denied that I, like many others, had an addiction to immediate rewards from my dysfunctions. They robbed me of the resilience to tolerate what I could not change. In fear, I came upon the description, on this page, of an amazing equation that combines the genius of Albert Einstein and Henry David Thoreau. Lost in depression, I only paid attention to it because it received super positive reviews from many conferences, spiritualities and publications that I respected, especially Psychology Today, Humanistic Psychology and the Journal of Environmental Education. In retrospect, it was a love answer from nature's grace and beauty to my hopes, prayers and dreams.

Mr. Editor, Does writing about this make sense to you? Isn't it something your readers can benefit from?

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.The Equation for Personal Growth and Self-Improvement

A Sensory Education and Counseling Tool Strengthens Holistic Health, Inner Peace and Sustainability

Although we are part of nature, we are normally educated to spend, on average, over 95 percent of our time and 99 percent of our lives thinking and feeling while separated from nature's grace, beauty, and restorative powers. Our mentality's profound loss of nature divorces us into apathy through denial. We deny that we are rewarded for fearing and exploiting, rather than embracing, the supportive ways of our planetary mother and her kingdoms. We deny that we are psychologically addicted to nature-disconnected thinking that creates our personal, social and environmental dysfunctions.

Contemporary society has taught us to be experts in conquering nature, including the balanced ways of our natural self and its love of nature. The result: because we don't protect what we don't love, nature, our collective sustainability and our personal wellness suffer. To stop this insanity the Einstein-Thoreau Equation makes readily available the means to genuinely connect our thinking and feeling to Mother Nature's recuperative powers, perfection and love of us as her children. Using the Internet as a learning tool, we tap our psyche into nature's beautiful sane and balanced web of life that produces an optimum of diversity and benefits without producing garbage, a web some people call God (www.ecopsych.com).

Through easily learned, nature-connected Organic Psychology methods and materials, the Internet makes it possible for any individual, or 600 million people, to think in ways that invigorate resiliency and spirit and that reduce our addictive trespasses, denial and apathy. By genuinely reconnecting our thinking to natural systems we restore and trust more than forty-five natural senses that have been numbed out of our consciousness by our extreme disconnection from nature. The self-improvement renewal of these senses increases our sensitivity, sensibility and love energies. This ecopsychology helps unbalanced parts of our minds and hearts benefit from nature's ability to rejuvenate and balance itself, including us, for we are part of nature. We reduce our stress, depression and abusiveness. We transform our apathy into constructive participation. Backyard to back country,-we strengthen our life, our organizations and global society.

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An Equation Helps Us Meet Our Great Challenge

"Our body, mind, spirit and ability to love come into the world through nature. They are part of nature's beautiful perfection, wisdom and restorative powers. However, the extreme disconnection of our thinking from nature injures these attributes. Like tearing a leg from a live rabbit, we wound and damage our ability to think clearly. Its dysfunction deteriorates our wellness, our inner peace and the environment.

Our bonding and denial present us with great challenges. To replace our lost gratifications from nature, our socialization rewards our disturbed psyche to attach or addict to contemporary ways along with their destructive side effects. Our greatest challenge is that we learn to deny that the self-improvement means is available to reconnect our thinking with nature's regenerative powers and thereby co-create ourselves and the world in a peaceful balance that eliminates these side effects."

- Michael J. Cohen

"I find that being stupid makes me really feel left out and different all the time. I just can't register all the wonderful things that technology and the media provide for the normal person. For example, I'm so retarded that I couldn't even understand that E.T. was an extraterrestrial like Spielberg and the movie and the stories said. To me, the powers E.T. had were the same as those of Earth, he was just like the plant animal and mineral community. Llike them, he was very vulnerable to technology. But I'm so dumb that I thought then, and I still think today, that E.T. was a terrestrial; he was Planet Earth. He was in no way so special as to become a movie star. After all, doesn't Earth all the time do what he did if we let it? Nine leg thinking lets us do that, too.
- Alfred E. Newman.

 

QUESTION: What is so important about nine-leg thinking?

ANSWER: Nine-leg thinking is a supportive, therapeutic key to creating personal happiness through a rewarding and sustainable future for all people and the planet.

To understand the momentous significance of nine-leg thinking, consider this intelligence test question regarding mathematical aptitude:

"If you count a normal dog's tail as one of its legs, how many legs does a dog have?"

"Five," of course, is the correct answer.

Intelligent people answer "five" because it is valid in mathematical and scientific reasoning. Society applauds and economically rewards us for giving correct mathematical or technological answers. But something is radically wrong with this answer; something is missing. Because, somehow, even a dog knows that a dog has four legs.

Our sense of reason recognizes five as correct only until we are greeted by our friendly family dog, or the mean mutt down the street. Five legs only works in theory. When we experience a real dog, or a wolf, or a centipede, or any other natural being, many of our inherent natural senses come into play: our senses of sight, touch, motion, color, texture, language, sound, smell, fear, consciousness, community, trust, contrast, love, reason and recognition. Are you aware we have 53 natural senses?

No matter how conceptually clever we are with our five-legged thinking, it is our four-legged sensory awareness that grounds our experience in the true nature of reality. That reality knows any normal dog has no more than four legs and no matter how you look at it, a tail is not one of them.

When it comes to supportively relating in balance to nature and its systems around and within us, we rarely think in 9-leg (4-leg plus 5-leg) ways. We can kill or hurtfully stress a dog if we make it run too fast or too far because we think that it has five legs. Isn't that what we are doing to ourselves and the environment?

Nine-leg thinking and relating helps us come back into personal and environmental balance by revitalizing our multitude of natural senses through genuine contact with authentic nature.

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The Essence of the Nine-Leg Equation

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