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VOLUME 3,  NUMBER 2018-2020                                                      Dr.  Michael J. Cohen, Editor




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THE REVOLUTIONARY WISDOM OF ECO-ART THERAPIES: A
PRACTICAL SKILL AND TRUTH

The Source and Teacher: natural area expedition education experiences that taught me what you want to know.

      Michael J. Cohen, Ed.D., Ph.D. Founder, President



Pristine Truth is the fact that since before forever, as this instant, Nature is wordlessly attracted to begin life and justifiably love its dance into being including us


Through the
Pristine Truth Solution of Natureness in Action  any attraction in nature, backyard or back country, that we become conscious of, helps us bring Nature's revolutionary wisdom into our lives. A weed growing through the pavement can do it. A park or a potted plant can do it.

For example, I participated in a hurried, almost stressful training program for people whose differences kept them arguing and in conflict amongst themselves. They had little interest or time to hear an explanation from me of the unifying and healing benefits of the pristine truth reconnecting with nature process so they omitted it from their agenda.

In the midst of this hubbub, a young bird flew into the meeting room through the door. It could not find its way out. Without a word, the behind-schedule, quibbling 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  through the entry door.


Obviously, neither a teacher, preacher or politician was present to educate these leaders about the value of the bird's life and supporting it. Although it said not a word, the bird, nature itself, was that educator. RW non-verbal sensory attraction factors within the integrity of its life touched these same factors in the lives of the leaders. That contact sparked into their consciousness their inherent natural feelings of love in the form of nurturing, empathy, community, friendship, power, humility, reasoning, place, time and many more of our inherent 54 natural senses.

That reconnecting moment with nature engaged and nourished a battery of their natural sensitivites and sensibilities. These inborn natural intelligences led a contentious group to support rather than deny the life of a bird, and to bring new joy to their personal and collective lives for a short period
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Yet when they accomplished this feat, they cheered their role, not the role of the bird. They felt like hero's for the moment for setting it free and congratulated their humanity for its wisdom and compassion in this effort. In their story of the incident, the role and impact of the bird went unnoticed. They returned to the hubbub of the meeting as if nothing special had happened. They completely overlooked that the bird had united them while it was there, something they continued not to do without its presence.

I wanted to say something about the effect of the bird but I didn't. People would have scoffed. They would have said that what happened was not important or useful for it was uncommon to have a wild bird interrupt their lives. It was their "human spirit" stories that they applauded, not its origin and existence in nature even though several Native American groups were part of the training program.

Most people can see that reconnecting with nature during that incident brought a special joy and integrity to their lives. The individual and collective benefits were evident. It is the continual lack of such natural attraction contacts that creates our disorders. People feel distraught, yet helpless, about Earth's life and their lives being at risk, like the bird. Yet, if you use Natureness, the self-correction essence of Nature, even an aquarium or pet can produce the same benefits. I've seen it unify couples, families and individuals in conflict with themselves or others. It is an organic, unifying tool.

We produce and suffer Earth misery because we excessively attach ourselves to exploiting nature so we lose  its benefits. Pristine truth helps you learn how to reunite with nature to regain them. That is the heart of the matter that Natureness addresses. Using it for the meeting would have been appropriate because it utilizes tangible contact with nature, in backyards, parks, even with potted plants, a bird and wilderness, too.

There was a park near the meeting site where we could do, own and teach simple nature-reconnecting activities. They could have shared their conscious sensory contacts with attractions in authentic nature to elicit an essence of cooperative life relationships. This would have enhanced the meeting's goals for unification.


Like playing hide and seek, the Natureness activities are fun and interesting. They provide, at will, the nature-reconnected moments missing from our lives. People can make them happen anytime because they know the "rules" of each activity. The process is uplifting and responsible. It helps us nurture as many as 54 natural senses we genetically inherit and share to bring about homeostatic consensus within and around us.


An Expedition Process Summary

Pristine Truth continues a successful, moment-by-moment, learn by doing exploration process that was established in 1965 and that is described here. As it is doing right now the book and path makes you aware of itself. At this point it says that

  • It is 54-sense self-evident that globally and personally we are suffering today's earth misery on many fronts due to our society's excessive disconnection from the life of earth's eons of loving natural relationships and their self-correcting ways in and around us.

  • The core of most problems personal, international or global is our 54-sense emotional attachments to stories that  conflict with each other.  We may be alble understand what a conflicting story says but if we are emotionally attached to a conflicting story, it does not change and the new story can push our buttons when we hear it or it is applied to us.

  • This situation does not change until a unifying factor comes into play or one side of the conflict is conquered/removed.

  • Reasonable and caring people need to use the art of Natureness pristine truth as a unifying tool to help them stop this catastrophe because it is caused by the tool's omission.

Question yourself. Is it self-evident to you that you are a caring individual and that you want to continue on this learning-by-doing expedition path? If so, we encourage you to proceed and call us if you need further information. 360-378-6313



Multi-Sensory Expedition Education Outcomes

The  Source and History of RW Organic Psychology and Pristine Truth relationships.


The whole life art and science of Organic Psychology has its special sensory source in my life experience and training. It is as if Eleanore Roosevelt, Louis Mumford and Felix Adler purposely loved me to be born in Sunnyside Gardens, a unique planned, garden community, now historic site,  that they built in the New York City Borough of Queens in 1924 because, as Eleanore Roosevelt said, "People lose their humanity when they are too separated from nature".

In Sunnyside Gardens, as well as through my parents and several progressive summer camps, I unknowingly became aware that my left-handedness was part of my nature.

I rudely discovered this when, at age six, I felt my elementary school unreasonably manipulating what I sensed as me when they demanded that I write right-handed. It disturbed me. It felt abusive to my natural integrity and it took four years of discomfort and arguments to finally have the school consent to let me write with my left hand using a, then taboo, fountain pen. That nature-supportive use of a technology changed and guided my life. 

As part of my left-handed challenge I learned from Nature in and around me that our society's established ways were prejudiced against my Nature as I discovered that left-handedness was sinister or evil and I could be treated accordingly. 

I also found that this prejudice could be changed through extended contact with and education about Nature's value and integrity. However, I learned this by being the Guinea Pig in making this change happen at the school and that experience has made it remain a central focus of my life. For this reason, as new evidence-based information and technology is discovered that improves our relationship with the life of our planet, I incorporate it in my personal and professional activities, sometimes to the inconvenience of my friends and myself.


The Pristine Truth Expedition Process: Earth Alive

In 1965 an unusual thunderstorm in the Grand Canyon convinced my long sensory contact with natural areas that the life of Planet Earth had to be an immense organism because there was nothing I did that it didn't do and vice-versa, except talk.  It was like I and other people lived in it and as part of it as cells that had the unique ability to speak and relate through stories rather than simply live out the attractive wisdom of Earth's life. That wisdom might let the value of my left-handedness speak for itself as well as for others whose lefty or other trespasses had been admonished by our society's established ways. It felt like I had found another, more loving society and I developed a fiduciary relationship with it.

Following its expedition-education 7-year pilot project, in its 1968 catalog my PNC travelling School program concluded "We believe the human race has lost its way. The road up­ward from the savage does not necessarily lead to the cluttered, materialistic and, at times, desperate life that we presently live. To find the right road the school must return its participants and itself in reality as well as in imagination to the origins. From them one might go forward again in a truly civilized, not a merely artificial, way of life."

For this reason I designed and established a learning community of twenty folks, the Trailside Country School. It made space for individuals who would dedicate themselves to together camp out on a nature-connecting expedition across the USA for a year. The purpose of their exploration was to discover if they could produce a fiduciary, consensual interaction, learn-by-doing process that was in balance with the natural world. Each year each new group would reinvent the expedition process so, as it succeeded, each participant might know how to best live harmoniously their life with the life of Nature in the environment, each other and themselves.

 Guided by my living earth perceptions, commencing in 1968, for 16 years every September my yellow school bus and its occupants embarked on a ten month living and learning expedition into natural areas from Newfoundland to California.  Outfitted only with camping gear and a small library, it carried twenty students, my staff and myself into a personal and academic growth utopia. It began my sleeping out under storms and bright stars year round; camping exploring and learning while enveloped in America's spectacular natural areas.

This all-season, consensus-governed, outdoor-living program that I founded in 1959 immersed its intimate school community in rich organic critical thinking, interpersonal experiences and natural wonders.
Participants thrived from all-season camping out in eighty-three different natural habitats, and from keeping their commitments to open, honest relationships with the environment, each other and with indigenous people(s), researchers, ecologists, the Amish, farmers, anthropologists, folk musicians, naturalists, shamans, administrators, historians, counselors, teachers and many others. The experience deeply connected our inner nature to the whole of nature.

As a result of our romance with educating ourselves this way, in the school community:

Chemical dependencies, including alcohol and tobacco, disappeared as did destructive interpersonal and social relationships.

Personality and eating disorders subsided.

Violence, crime and prejudice were unknown in the group.

Academics improved because they were applicable, hands-on, and fun.

Loneliness, hostility and depression subsided.

Group interactions allowed for stress release and management; each day was fulfilling and relatively peaceful. 

Senses that had been injured in childhood were recognized as being vulnerable to individuals who, due to similar childhood injuries, were less sensitive to the vulnerability of these senses. Connections with natural areas replaced these vulnerabilities in both parties and increased unity.

Students using meditation found they no longer needed to use it to feel whole.

Participants knew each other better than they knew their families or best friends. They risked expressing and acting from their deeper thoughts and feelings; a profound, fiduciary sense of social and environmental responsibility guided their decisions.

When vacation periods arrived, only a few wanted to go home. Each person enjoyably worked to build this supportive, balanced living and learning utopia. They were home.

All this occurred simply because every community member met their fiduciary commitment to make sense of their lives by establishing relationships that supported the expedition and the natural world within and around them. We hunted, gathered and practiced such relationships; we organized and preserved group living processes that awakened our natural wisdom. We explored how to let moments in Nature help us regenerate responsible relationships when they decayed.

The social microcosm we invented to live in each year parallels the languaged cooperative process used by early forms humanity
whose genetics are part of ours today.
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The secret to our expedition's success was to learn to 54-sense tap into and learn directly from the natural world, the life of earth within and about us. Through our 54 natural attraction sensations and feelings it taught our sense of reason how to trust the life of Nature and how to validate and incorporate its reasonableness. The highlights of this process included:

  • Starting the school year in a classroom that had no individual or authority sitting in the front of the room desk. The staff, unrecognized by some, sat with the students facing the desk and blackboards. In time students and staff started to ask each other what was happening and introduced themselves to each other. As discussion proceeded the group rearranged the desk chairs so the were now in a circle and folks could better relate to each other. That moment was when we started the school year.

  • All aspects of the program except driving the school bus and some administrative duties were self-organized and shared by all. This included governing by consensus.  Anybody could call an all-school meeting at anytime to address challenges or discontents that arose. This process became the core of the curriculum.

  • The daily and all-year itinerary was reasonably developed based on weather conditions, special connections and geographic logistics. It included spontaneous opportunities as they arose and it could be changed by consensus as new ideas and information appeared.

  • By agreement technological assistance and dependence was limited so that the community depended upon nature and each other for information and satisfactions. Technologies were limited to the bus, camping equipment, cameras and a small library, no radios, TVs or tape players.  The only media player allowed was a tape recorder that played back to us interviews, songs, music and reactions to and from our expedition experiences.

  • The group was a justifiable combination of Kurt Lewin T-group encounter processes, Progressive Education and Alexander Wolf group therapy. The latter recognized that group members subconsciously registered a group they were in as their family at home and often felt the joy or hurt of the latter and acted accordingly. In doing so in the nature-connected expedition family, we learned from this experience how to CRL express and guide our relationships with nature's 54-sense wisdom.

  • When expedition members found that some of their senses were injured or weak they discovered that it made sense to temporarily ride on the senses and feelings of others who were healthy in these same areas. This continually made the expedition group a unified whole and helped individuals restore their own balance through habitual RW bonding connections with attractive natural senses of individuals in the group and attractions in natural areas that surrounded us.  An expedition was organized so that in its membership a wide range of injured sense challenges supported and educated it and them.

  • In reality and imagination each member of the community, including its staff, was roped into each others' lives for the year as would be a mountain climbing expedition that reasonably organized and maintained itself to survive by helping its environment survive. This enabled us to sense and feel our true relationship with the life of Earth and its web members because, without today's "ticket to Mars," we are each on an expedition to, in balance, enjoyably support the life we share with our planet home and each other.

  • Our special high motivation survival goal was consistently re-affirmed: this was a one-year expedition that could dissolve if it did not maintain itself appropriately. It was also the long-term goal and livelihood of some group members that went far beyond one year's duration, (For myself it was sixteen years).

Again, it is significant that in a short period of time, globally, within local areas, this same organic, small-group expedition education RW process can be included in local groups that globally learn from each other via the internet.

The National Audubon Society identified the Trailside Country School expedition education program as the most revolutionary form of learning in America and selected it to be the official Audubon alternative education program out of 116 programs that were considered. It became the National Audubon Society Expedition Institute in 1978.


Various Labels

For sixty years I have pioneered and promoted the scientific value of creating moments that let Earth teach us what we need to enjoy the wisdom of nature's garbage-free perfection.  This has had various names assigned to the process as information advanced including

1959 Trailside County School outdoor travel and camping
1977 An Expedition Education learning program via the Regents of University of the State of New York
1965 Organism Earth: the life of Earth having its own, self-correcting homeostasis
1978 National Audubon Society Expedition Institute at Lesley University
1990 Project NatureConnect in cooperation with Portland State University
1990 NSTP: The web-of-life Natural System Thinking Process
1990 Nature-connected 54-sense knowing and relationships,
1986 Organic Psychology at World Peace University
1991 Integrated Natural Attraction Ecology at the Institute of Global Education
2005 Akamai University Institute of Applied Ecopsychology
2005 West Coast University life experience degree program
2013 The Organic Psychology GreenWave-54 Albert Einstein Unified Field process and equation for Eco-Art, Eco-Yoga, Eco-Soma and Organic Therapies via University of the Pacific.

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These years and results testify to my stubborn dedication to Nature's welfare and that I experience it as a my peculiar integrity. I thank my parents and Eleanore Roosevelt for this precious knowledge along with the exceptional individuals who continue to participate in and support Project NatureConnect.

Michael J. Cohen, Ed.D, Ph.D.
President, Founder, Project NatureConnect
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