Tour Station 4
Learning From Our Origins
THE BASIC ELEMENT
In the farmers/rats incident in Station 3 the farmers discovered that rats had natural attractions to each other that produced responsible behavior. This attracted the farmers to spare the rats' lives.
The incident is but one of many that demonstrate in nature, including human nature, natural attractions support life, balance and unity.
This web site offers a process that helps you tap.into the power of natural attractions.
You may learn how to improve the wellness of your relationships with yourself, others and Earth, and teach this process to others, too.
"The more I learn, the stronger the feeling that all life is one becomes a tangible reality.......Much of the pain in our culture is the result of acting as if we, as a species, are independent and all important."
Gert B.
RELATIONSHIPS WITH NATURE
Are you still part of nature? Our society teaches us to be separate from the natural environment. On average, we learn to spend less than 12 of our 540,000 hours per lifetime in unmediated, conscious connection to nature. We spend our remaining hours in mental disconnection from nature's wisdom, balance and beauty.
That is unnatural.
Our estrangement from nature deprives us of nature's normal nurturance of our inner nature and spirit, that the farmers enjoyed. This helps explain why nature connected people(s) do not display our runaway garbage, stress, and abuse of substances, people and the environment. Like the farmers and rats, their thinking and relationships are nurtured by nature's balances.
We grow up having little conscious contact with the powerful natural energies for support, unity and balance that the farmers and the rats enjoyed. Without being conscious of these energies, we can not think or act with their balanced wisdom.
"I have changed from a victim to, not only a survivor, but to fullness. I don't know how to put this exactly. This fullness is a feeling of connectedness with all, which brings contentment."
Judi M.
OUR NATURAL ATTRIBUTES:
Does your love for nature have unifying powers?
Do you remember, in 1989, when two whales, caught in the ice in Alaska, broke through the Iron Curtain? To save the whales, opposing nations united. So did labor and industry, corporations and environmentalists, spiritualists and scientists. Close to a billion dollars was spent to save two whales.
Does your love for nature have personal healing powers?
Consider again what people experienced through conscious sensory contact with nature as expressed in Station 3 and in surveys and their journals They show that sensory connection with nature nurtured wellness at every level. It made them better human beings.
"The process is unique in that it addresses human psychology as a part of nature that needs mending. It has helped me release stress and I find that it teaches me much that helps me in my dealings with other people and understanding aspects of myself."
Mira F.
WHAT BASIC ELEMENT ARE WE MISSING?
Our society teaches us to conquer nature within and around us. We learn to ignore the basic element of relating to the natural environment and each other. It is this:
Thoughtful, shared, sensory connections with attractions in nature improve our thinking, relationships and spirit.
"Touching the oak outside my house gives me an astonishing feeling of friendship. Being outside in a lovely spot (my back yard) the basic element helped me overcome a long-seated caffeine addiction."
Elisibeth R.
NOTE: All the methods and materials on this site originate from participation in the basic element and are found in the book Reconnecting With Nature: finding wellness thorough restoring your bond with the Earth.
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