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Green Accredited Nature-Connecting Holistic Degree Courses On Line: Natural Career Education Personal and Professional Health and Wellness Training Grants, Employment, Jobs and Hope THE HIDDEN ORGANIC REMEDY: NATURE AS HIGHER POWER COURSE SUMMARY AND VALIDATION APPLIED  ECOPSYCHOLOGY AND ECOTHERAPY IN ACTION Thinking, feeling and being as the joy of nature's balance increases personal, social and environmental sanity to help us increase our sensitivity and sensibility Project NatureConnect Institute of Global Education Organic Psychology and Natural Attraction Ecology Special NGO Consultant, United Nations Economic and Social Council Practical alternative distance learning to strengthen person/planet well-being PROGRAM DESCRIPTION: Educating Counseling and Healing With Nature Supportive Degrees, Career Training Courses and Jobs On Line Project NatureConnect offers nature-centered distant learning that enables you to add the benefits of nature-connecting methods and credentials to your degree program and/or your skills, interests and hobbies. We honor your prior training and life experience by providing grants and equivalent education credit for it. You may take accredited or professional CEU coursework and/or obtain a Nature-Connected Degree or Certificate in most disciplines or personal interests. A partial subject list is located at the bottom of this page. Improve your economics and satisfaction through independent, interdisciplinary or integrated study and Ecopsychology. Help people connect their thoughts and feelings with the self-correcting and renewing ways of nature. Increase personal social and environmental health and wellness. Add the self-correcting sunlight beauty and spirit of the natural world to your life and community. Visit our Homepage for complete information  Summary Activity:  The Fundamentals of Educating, Counseling and Healing With Nature as Higher Power This 5-part overview conclusion activity includes Agreement Index indicators, as below, to help you convey where you stand with various aspects of The Hidden Organic Remedy: Nature As Higher Power book and course.  For your convenience a link is provided to further information about the statements: Agreement  Index    10   9   8   7   6   5   4   3   2   1   0     high       medium          low  More Information  INSTRUCTIONS. Each time you select an Agreement Index number, write it down.  When you complete this total form, count up and average your scores and send the average to Mike at nature@interisland.net along with what you consider your grade for the course should be and why. If you do this honestly, you will get a high grade. Background Material that appears on this web site and its links is drawn from the peer reviewed book Educating, Counseling and Healing With Nature  (see M.J. Cohen personal page) as updated in The Miracle of Something from Nothing "Nurture natural attraction, your felt love for nature's ways; never deny it. In our nature-conquering society it is a surviving vestige of our inherent connection with nature's ancient, unifying, essence since the Big Bang beginning of its dance through time and space. Over the eons natural attraction has peacefully organized, preserved and regenerated diverse micro and macro life relationships in balance and purity. Industrial Society addicts us to outdated and misleading nature-disconnected information. The loss of our felt love of nature and the wisdom of its dance in our daily thinking produces much of our destructiveness and imbalance." - Michael J. Cohen Part One: THE STANDARD BIG BANG UNIVERSE/NATURE "If you wish to make an apple pie (or create a technology or belief ) from scratch, you must first invent the universe." - Carl Sagan Universe Attraction to Expand, Cool and Materialize Images of your origins in the Universe "Nothing in all Nature is more certain than the fact that no single thing or event can stand alone. It is attached to all that has gone before it, and it will remain attached to all that will follow it. It was born of some cause, and so it must be followed by some effect in an endless chain." - Julian P. Johnson Since we are part of the Universe and its history, we are each the Big Bang of NNIAAL expressing itself as our personhood, moment by moment. Statements: I recognize that I exist (I am) because I am part of and can sense and feel aspects of the unbroken, natural attraction Dance of the Big Bang Standard Universe that we call Nature. Agreement  Index    10   9   8   7   6   5   4   3   2   1   0      high            medium           low  More Information  Because I, others and all things are part of Nature, my thoughts, feelings and relationships are part of Nature. Agreement  Index    10   9   8   7   6   5   4   3   2   1   0      high            medium           low  More Information  The Standard Universe is an attractive and attraction-based seamless continuum of time and space that started with the "Big Bang." It exists only in the present moment in which it is attracted to produce the time and space of the next moment. Agreement  Index    10   9   8   7   6   5   4   3   2   1   0      high            medium           low  More Information  In the Standard Universe, the thoughts and feelings we all are and experience are one immense web-of-life community, Planet Earth.  We seldom recognize that its totality is disconnected from how our personhood thinks and feels in literate ways. Agreement  Index    10   9   8   7   6   5   4   3   2   1   0      high            medium           low  More Information  As exemplified by the pain from holding our breath and disconnecting from Earth, in our nature-disconnected society almost everyone is destructively addicted to something that relieves their pain from being disconnected from Nature (Earth/Nature, their Other Body). Agreement  Index    10   9   8   7   6   5   4   3   2   1   0      high            medium           low  More Information  Information Review: People who do well on aptitude tests usually get advanced job placement, higher salaries and greater prestige. However, consider this simple intelligence test question regarding mathematical aptitude. "If you count a dog's tail as one of its legs, how many legs does a dog have?" "Five," of course, is the answer. Intelligent people say "five" because it's valid in the truth of mathematical systems and thinking. Economics and social standing reward us for giving this correct answer. However, our sense of reason only recognizes five as correct until we additionally validate what we know from our, or other people's, mindful contact with a real, normal dog. Then, it becomes self-evident that many of our multitude of 54 natural attraction senses often come into play: natural senses of sight, touch, motion, color, texture, language, sound, smell, consciousness, community, trust, shape, contrast and love. Each of these natural senses that we inherit help our sense of reason make more sense and recognize that a tail is different than a leg; a normal dog has four legs, not five. Organic Psychology activities are a 9-leg tool that gives you the opportunity learn more about 9-leg brain functions.  Visit this 9-leg link if you want to become more skilled in whole earth thinking. The sensory contributions of our mentality seldom register in our consciousness because society seldom trains us to respect or value their feelingful "4-leg" communications to us. Society often demeans these sensory communications as flaky or fuzzy thinking, as subjective rather than scientific or objective. This degrading weakens or injures our natural senses. They lose the energy, desire or resilience necessary to register in our consciousness. Our devaluing of them teaches our consciousness not to appreciate or validate them when they do appear. Unwanted, rejected or abandoned, they hide, frustrated and hurt. To avoid feeling this discomfort, they and our awareness of them become subconscious. We learn to ignore our omission of them as we learn that we think and know through only five natural senses, rather than at least 54 of them (For example, none of the five is thirst or gravity). However, we feel their anquish and pain whenever a negative story or incident energizes them into our consciousness. Bewildered (separated from the values of wildness,) we have often learned to think there is something wrong with us when this occurs so we don't seek or correct the nature-disconnecting source of our troubles. Part Two: NATURAL ATTRACTION When we think with our multitude of natural attraction senses we increase our sensibility, sensitivity and intelligence. Agreement  Index    10   9   8   7   6   5   4   3   2   1   0      high            medium           low  More Information  Most scientists recognize that just as our arm is attracted or "loves" to be attached to our body, all people are biologically, psychologically and spiritually born of, part of, and seamlessly attached to nature. We each instinctively hold a basic natural attraction love of, and dance with, nature's "resources," -sunshine, food, water, soil, air, energy- in common with each other and all of nature. Agreement  Index    10   9   8   7   6   5   4   3   2   1   0      high            medium           low  More Information  As demonstrated by a refreshing walk in a park, or other good experiences in natural areas, our many natural attraction senses instinctively help us benefit from our personal dance in contact with nature's dance.  Agreement  Index    10   9   8   7   6   5   4   3   2   1   0      high            medium           low  More Information  Like everything else on Planet Earth, our natural senses are parts of natural systems and their cycles, in the same way that our sensation of thirst is part of the water cycle.    Agreement  Index    10   9   8   7   6   5   4   3   2   1   0      high            medium           low  More Information  As exemplified by how the global water cycle cleanses itself, it is well established that nature and its systems are self-correcting and have healing, purifying and regenerative powers. When we use sensory tools that genuinely interlace the dance of our thinking and feeling with these attraction powers, our body, mind and spirit benefits from them. Agreement  Index    10   9   8   7   6   5   4   3   2   1   0      high            medium           low  More Information  Part Three: SEPARATION AND DUALITY We live excessively Nature-disconnected lives. Over 95% of our time is spent indoors closeted from nature. Over 99% of our thinking is separated from and often out of tune with nature. In addition, all our speech and writing in words is disconnected from nature because nature and its systems don't use words. Nature is a non-literate way of communicating, knowing and unifying. - Nature's Dance is being, not just describing. - It is sensing and relating, not just abstracting about relationships. - It is acts, not stories or written facts. - It is empirical, self-evident knowledge, not just "as-if" thoughts. - It is the whole of life, not just the way we experience it in our closet. - Nature is global or universal intelligence in action. Agreement  Index    10   9   8   7   6   5   4   3   2   1   0      high            medium           low  More Information  A house built on a faulty foundation produces crooked leanings. We constantly endure the warp of our nature-disconnected, natural-sense deprived, "as if" closeted story world. It often conditions us to think and live the "as-if" lie that a tail is a leg and we suffer accordingly. Agreement  Index    10   9   8   7   6   5   4   3   2   1   0      high            medium           low  More Information  Our thinking has very little genuine 4-leg contact with authentic nature. We are rewarded to mostly learn to think as if a dog has 5-legs. In this limited process we habitually omit critical information. We desperately need to ground our senses, thoughts and feelings in a foundation that authentically roots itself with the integrity of our planet and its natural systems. Agreement  Index    10   9   8   7   6   5   4   3   2   1   0      high            medium           low  More Information  Grounding ourselves is easily accomplished. We simply learn and teach each other how to add nature-connecting Organic Psychology activities to our daily life and meditations. This helps us sensibly unify 4-leg and 5-leg knowledge and our literate and non-literate bodies or being. Validating this reasonable contact enables us to benefit from the grace, balance and restorative powers of 9-leg thinking and relationships. Agreement  Index    10   9   8   7   6   5   4   3   2   1   0      high            medium           low  More Information  We feel better and improve our lives by co-creating with nature's perfection. Agreement  Index    10   9   8   7   6   5   4   3   2   1   0      high            medium           low  More Information    Although we are part of nature's dance, nature does not suffer our disorders. We don't find uncontrolled garbage, war, loneliness, pollution, crime, abusiveness, stress and mental illness in intact natural areas or natural people. Agreement  Index    10   9   8   7   6   5   4   3   2   1   0      high            medium           low  More Information  As contemporary people, our thinking and feeling have bonded to the prejudice against nature that produces industrial society's excessive, nature-disconnected, destructive way of life. However, we are still part of nature. This disconnection from the self-correcting dance of natural attraction energy through ourselves, through our life community and from our origins, creates stress and disorders, within and around us. Agreement  Index    10   9   8   7   6   5   4   3   2   1   0      high            medium           low  More Information  Part Four: VALIDATE THE "TAKE A FEW DEEP BREATHS" THAT STARTS THE VALIDATION PROCESS As you read these words it is undeniably self-evident that you register them through your senses of sight, color and form. This registration is "empirical," meaning "firsthand." It is the strongest form of fact or evidence for it registers directly on our inherent natural senses, our information receptors.  At this moment, however, you probably neither notice nor register the air that sits between you and the words on this page, until right now!  Right now these words bring the air to your attention. Too often, the air and its value lies hidden from our immediate consciousness. We learn to overlook the Big Bang eons of natural attraction relationships that built the air, the plants that make its oxygen and our Other Body, Earth and its web of life including us.  Often when we stop and think of this monumental history as being our Other Body, our breathing automatically becomes deeper and slower.   Agreement  Index    10   9   8   7   6   5   4   3   2   1   0      high            medium           low  More Information  All things in nature are connected and we are part of nature. Air must have a "language" that connects/speaks/registers in our senses, and in all of Nature, too. Agreement  Index    10   9   8   7   6   5   4   3   2   1   0      high            medium           low  More Information  Historically, the quality of the science and knowledge we learn about air has increased while the natural, pure quality of air has decreased. This trail helps you scientifically discover a language that enables us, in 9-leg ways, to learn from air about our important relationship with it and with all of the dance of nature as well. ,,,...Follow this Trail Marker  ....................................................... Sensibility Quest A Mimbres culture design, circa 900 A.D., New Mexico, US . . Station 1: A gift to you from nature. .................................................................... In unspoiled nature, clean, fresh air prevails. It is a global phenomenon, a product of, by and from nature's pulsating eons of self-organizing, self-correcting, mutually supportive attraction relationships in natural systems that connect and hold them together (our Other Body). For example, billions of years ago, the element, Carbon, a basic of organic matter, other elements, and of life, came into being through ancient, miniscule freak diversity attraction resonances of hydrogen, berrilium and helium being present simultaneously.  Carbon was attracted to become Nitrogen which became Oxygen and, along with Hydrogen, the dance of these four elements became air.  Inhaling and exhaling air is also an example of this same pulsating dance. The homeostatic (self-regulating) dance of natural attraction relationships is an essence of atomic particles, sunshine, rain and millions of different plant and animal species in the soil, water and atmosphere. You and I are members of humanity, one of those species. Take a deep breath or two, as in some forms of meditation.  Too often we forget that when we inhale fresh air, we receive a vital natural attraction gift to our lives from the Standard Universe and our Other Body as part of it. Air is a nurturing and unifying gift from nature's global community, a supportive essence of our ability to live. Let's not overlook that any more. Agreement  Index    10   9   8   7   6   5   4   3   2   1   0      high            medium           low  More Information    . Station 2:  Your gift to nature. ............................................................. Do you recognize that when you exhale your breath, Earth breathes you? You breathe out carbon dioxide and water vapor into the air. They are food and water that nurture the plant, animal and mineral world and are attractive to them. They are nature's act that says "thank you." Your breath attractively helps to sustain all other forms of life. It is one of your gifts to them. That is attractive, let's not overlook it. The living, homeostatic, pulse of natural attraction to inhale-exhale, is an example of the ever changing tension-relaxation dance found throughout nature: night-day, closer-further, stronger-weaker, brighter-darker, faster-slower, higher-lower etc.  Notice how you feel right now as you breathe air normally. Is the air you are breathing stale? Wouldn't you feel better if you were breathing pure, sunshine-clean, rain-washed, fresh air in an unspoiled natural area?  Agreement  Index    10   9   8   7   6   5   4   3   2   1   0      high            medium           low  More Information  . .Station 3:  The gift of life. ................................................................ In earlier times, the word for air was "psyche." Psyche also means spirit and mind. Psychological can mean "logic or study of the spirit." Breathing air is called respiration, originally meaning "re-spiriting." The word inspiration means "bringing air/spirit in." The word expiration means "letting air/spirit leave." When we fully expire, we culturally "die" and at the same time biologically transform into other pulsating organic attractions. Life-death is another attraction dance of nature: human life-other life. Does it surprise you that "atmosphere" comes from the ancient word for soul? The "breathing awareness" in meditations or prayers that we do seldom includes the secret that it is Earth's/nature's attraction powers that makes the meditations work.  Agreement  Index    10   9   8   7   6   5   4   3   2   1   0      high            medium           low  More Information    .. Station 4: Disconnect from nature: ...................................................................... For educational and demonstration purposes here, please exhale and then hold your breath for a few moments. Do this now. It is part of a 4-leg contact activity. While holding your breath, read on: You have stopped breathing and have now disconnected your attraction to the natural system of air and nature in this regard. Notice how a sensation is developing in you, a natural feeling attraction, a consciousness of air, a connective "webstring," a natural attraction strand of the web of life to and from air. This webstring is increasingly communicating with a sensory 4-leg message that increasingly attracts you to breathe again (Cohen, 2000). The desire/attraction for things to connect with atmospheric air has been part of nature for at least 400 million years. That's when scientists find that plants introduced oxygen in air. In addition, the natural attraction for oxygen in water and minerals has been around for over three billion years.  For example, rust is the attraction between iron and oxygen.  Water is the attraction between two hydrogen atoms and oxygen (H20). Like air itself, our natural attraction, for air is of, by and from nature. Scientists did not invent that felt sense attraction, nor did any religious or spiritual leaders. It is a form of communication that could be considered nature's intelligent attraction language that we inherit and register in our consciousness. That natural sense of "suffocation" is nature feelingly urging you, "attracting you," to reconnect with the atmosphere and the natural world (Cohen, 1995). It is natural attraction sense #21 an appetite for air.  Do you trust the good intent and sense of this natural attraction feeling and what it is calling you to do? It is acting intelligently. Continue to hold your breath, Don't breathe until you absolutely have to. Agreement  Index    10   9   8   7   6   5   4   3   2   1   0      high            medium           low  More Information    Station 5: Nature's dance wants you alive and dancing with it. ...................................................................... Here is a secret of nature: Your sensory desire to breathe is a fundamental natural attraction "love" to be in connection with nature. Your love of air, and it of you, insists that you breathe, even if you choose not to. The 4-leg attraction feeling says "Participate in the natural community that sustains you. Give, share, take and enjoy its physical and sensory gifts (Adler, 1995)." Even if you faint from lack of air, your natural attraction to air will revive and rejuvenate you by making you breathe again. That is its "choice," nature's loving 4-leg, unifying intelligence and voice, Natural Attraction, in action. That attraction-desire to breathe is a way nature works and communicates. Nature needs and wants you to help sustain the global community so, intelligently, it reconnects you to it, and makes the connection feel attractive to you. It is emotionally rewarding. Nature also does the same thing in different ways for every other member of the web of life. We and the universe consist of atoms and atoms consist almost entirely of space filled with natural attraction energies. Through natural attraction senses, sensitivities, and sensations, nature feelingly speaks. It communicates its attraction for you to participate in life. You belong. Another Secret: another very obvious and attractive attribute of air that we usually learn to overlook is that it is through the air that we register color, light, forms, scents, sounds, speech, temperature, sunlight, chemicals, clouds, motion, wind and rain. Air is part of our ability to register all these attractions. Is it any wonder that natural people(s) considered air to be part of spirit and soul? Your life would be impossible if air was black and it did not carry sound or scent. Agreement  Index    10   9   8   7   6   5   4   3   2   1   0      high            medium           low  More Information    . Station 6: Connecting with natural life feels good. .............................................................................. Begin to breathe normally again if you have not already done so. Note that when you reconnect with air by breathing, nature rewards you. It gives you an attractive, satisfying, enjoyable "4-leg," good feeling, natural sensation. Nature "invented" that attractive, fulfilling sensation (via dopomine, endorphins et al). Sensation is a form and part of natural communication. Do you think you trust that your good-feeling sensation from inhaling is real and is valid, that it's existence is a fact, just like the existence of air is also a fact? Through this natural sensation reward, nature expresses its appreciation for your supportive participation. Without using words, the sensation thanks you for reconnecting. It thanks you for your natural gifts of carbon dioxide and water vapor you give to the global community. They could not survive without this gift from you and others. And you could not survive without their gifts to you. Such attractive, mutually beneficial, cooperative support on is an essence of how nature works, from sub-atomics to solar systems, from the Einstein/Higgs grand unification field of the Big Bang to this moment. Do you trust or celebrate this attractive and rewarding feeling of thanks from nature and the ancient life relationship it brings to mind? It is a "4-leg dog" communication and connection with all of life. It is with you and part of you all of your life, your "Other Body." It is real, an empirical fact. Do you think it deserves your respect, your attention, your trust, your gratitude? It is 4-leg plus 5-leg (9-leg) reasonable for us and the environment to breathe together, to communicate, to cooperatively connect. The rewarding and safe sensations of that attractive, mutually beneficial "love" relationship helps reduce our "unchangeable addictions," as well as support and sustain our life and all of life. Although we can't see it, we can sense that it is intelligent, right and feels good. It helps explain why air has been called "spirit." Nature biologically and psychologically created good attractive feelings to contact, connect with, and reward sensuous forms of life for heeding and fulfilling their natural attraction senses (webstrings). Agreement  Index    10   9   8   7   6   5   4   3   2   1   0      high            medium           low  More Information  Station 7: Words are your destiny. ................................................................ The 5-leg words in Section 4, above, on this nature trail asked you to stop breathing. Their literate story message had the power to disconnect you from your natural attraction to nature. When you sentiently ignored your connection to nature and disconnected, that is, you stopped breathing, you became uncomfortable. Then Nature sensuously 4-leg signaled you that some vital connection was missing. It told you to follow that attraction and fulfill it by finding another attraction, by connecting to air, by breathing. Isn't that a form of intelligence? Doesn't it sensibly make sense (sic). You may have been frightened or hurt, or you were thankful for that sense and its reasonable attraction message. Agreement  Index    10   9   8   7   6   5   4   3   2   1   0      high            medium           low  More Information    Station 8: Natural sensations and feelings guide you. ................................................................... By Station 6 it was not this trail's 5-leg words and story that led you to reconnect by breathing. It was a 4-leg natural attraction, your feelingful attraction to breathe that did this. Nature itself, your Other Body, intelligently, feelingly, contacted and guided you in a good way, without using words. It helped you connect to the whole of nature through your breath. When you sentiently listened to nature's attraction "voice" and reconnected, you felt more satisfied, comfortable, supported and safe. Naturally and safely feeling good can come from being directly connected to nature through natural attractions (Logan, 1995). The connection is attractive. It is very 9-leg important to keep this in mind. It is a secret of how nature produces its perfection through its non-verbal Natural Attraction "language." Everything is unified in attraction based "communication." Nothing is left out. This explains how nature produces no garbage. Thinking with 9-legs, in story and sensibility, tells us that connective attraction sensations and feelings are nature's way.  They are an intelligent essence of how nature reaches our consciousness and nurtures our thinking.  We seldom seek and trust conscious, attractive and fulfilling sensory experiences in nature. Our closet-indoctrinated lives, thougts and feelings are extremely disconnected from them. Agreement  Index    10   9   8   7   6   5   4   3   2   1   0      high            medium           low  More Information  Station 9: Nature has no words. .......................................................................... Here's a 5-leg story that we often overlook: The natural world is a non-verbal, non-articulate community. It does not use words to communicate. It does not know itself or its members by a name or label, spelled correctly or not. It is non-literate. Nature almost entirely knows and relates to itself in 4-leg attraction ways. Ask yourself, have you ever seen, or experienced, or even heard of a member of the "more than human natural community" reading, writing or talking in a sensibly literate/articulate way?  Like all of Nature, the desire to breathe has no inherent 4-leg name, However, we sense that air exists and we feel our attraction to breathe, even though both naturally have no word labels. That's how infants know to breathe when disconnected. That's how natural systems in you, your "inner child" or "inner nature" knows how to breathe, too (Cohen, 1995). It is naturally attracted to do it. When you fulfill your natural attraction for air by breathing, nature, within and about you, without using words, rewards you by giving you good feelings. Isn't that intelligent? Isn't it attractive? Air communicates and make sense by creating a reasonable and wise "air-hunger" or  "suffication" sensation.  We can trust that this is nature's way, nature's unifying intelligence. You can trust thoughtful sensory connections with nature to intelligently help you guide and support your daily life in many ways, for you are part of nature and its supportive gifts to life. Agreement  Index    10   9   8   7   6   5   4   3   2   1   0      high            medium           low  More Information    Station 10: Nature is multisensory. ...................................................................... Here is another vital secret of nature that is seldom taught in our society, but it is obvious. As mentioned earlier, from atoms to the solar system and beyond, nature's 4-leg world is held together by attractions, moment by moment, since the beginning of time. If it wasn't, it and its members would fall apart, and they don't. Instead they are attracted to supportively hold to and flow through each other to help support and grow life in balance. Immediate attractions of and between gravity, color, motion, rocks, temperature, pressure, plants, sub-atomic particles and atmosphere and hundreds more are each strings of the web of life that bind natural systems together into nature's diverse and balanced, homeostatic unity, the former being the roots of the latter. To help us be conscious of and survive in the web of life, at least 54 of these natural webstring attractions register as distinct senses and feelings in us in moments when we are in their natural area "paradise" and in conscious contact with them.  When our words  say in these moments what we are thinking and feeling, they are a nine leg expression of how nature is working.    Nature gives us the inborn ability to sense its beauties, purity and ways. No surprise that they register in our consciousness as attractions, for that's exactly what they are, attractive (Cohen, 2000). Our society recognizes this when its says that our national parks contain natural attractions and then protect and preserve our attractive national heritage. In addition to the sense of breathing, of our attraction to air, nature has similarly created and contains at least 53 other distinct, intelligent, natural attraction 4-leg sensitivities (Cohen, 1997b). In the moment, the "Now of life" each of them is like a sensory voice of Nature, a strand of the web of life found in some form throughout the global community (Cohen, 2000). Because the life wisdom in each strand of the web of life is attractive, it produces good feelings in us when we sense the strand and are literate about the experience.  (Cohen, 2003) As with your desire to breathe, in the Now and in conjunction with natural areas, each of our other natural attractions also feelingly, responsibly communicate with you and guide your relationship with the environment (Bower, 1999). Nature also does this on some natural attraction level with every other member of the web of life including minerals. Natural Attractions are nature's ongoing language and essence. In sentient, non-verbal 4-leg ways, in any instant, you may learn to hear nature's sensuous voice, reconnect with nature, enjoy its balancing and healing powers, The 53 natural senses that help you accomplish this include senses of sight, sound and smell; gravity, reason and temperature; nurturing, community and trust; empathy, belonging and place, thirst, hunger and motion; compassion, touch and taste (Cohen, 1995A). In each moment, each of these senses offers you enjoyable, trustable feeling signals that blend into a common sense when you connect with nature through them. This includes your connections with human nature, the natural systems in people, too, for we are each part of the whole of nature. Agreement  Index    10   9   8   7   6   5   4   3   2   1   0      high            medium           low  More Information    Station 11: The wisdom of natural attraction sensations. ............................................................................. We don't exclusively own our natural attraction webstring senses and sensitivities. Rather, they are a "voice" that we share with every species mineral and energy. They attract the natural community to beneficially flow and dance through us and us through it. This is another secret of nature: every five-seven years every atom in our body becomes part of the environment and is replaced by a similar atom from the environment. We become it, it becomes us. That makes Earth like our ongoing life-womb or "our other body."   Conceived in natural love-attraction, for each split second of our lives, we are each the unique personification of a flowing river of dancing webstring attractions around, through and in us. In summary: Moment by moment, natural attractions in atomic particles, molecules, materials, gases, land, sea and air, and the solar system hold our world together in balance and beauty. Good scientific evidence from the Higgs Field and Boson along with Gravity waves from the Big Bang suggest and have proved that they have done this since the beginning of time. Our sense of reason recognizes that these natural attractions are real facts of life for if these things were not held together by attractions, they would fall apart and they don't. For this reason, what we call "things" are actually natural attraction relationships manifesting themselves, doing their thing, being and supporting life, in this attractive moment to produce the next attractive moment   Agreement  Index    10   9   8   7   6   5   4   3   2   1   0      high            medium           low  More Information    Station 12: It is your choice. ............................................................. We are given the natural ability to reason --it is one of our natural attraction senses. It is an attractive thing to do. In the "Now," the sense of reason enables us to rationally choose or not choose to feel good responsibly and intelligently by learning how to heed and consider Nature's voice, our natural attraction senses, our 4-leg contact with authentic nature and its natural systems Although this type of "sensory literacy" is rarely taught or applauded in contemporary society and its 5-leg thinking, it is also true that this same "objective" thinking by contemporary society is stupidly polluting and destroying the natural systems that support it and it does not seem able to stop. That is not natural. It is a way to describe a cancer. A cancer insensitively overruns and destroys, rather than cooperatively lives in balance with, its environment. Runaway excessiveness is also a way to describe madness. It is insane to knowledgeably deteriorate or destroy one's own life support system or planetary, lifelong mother. Agreement  Index    10   9   8   7   6   5   4   3   2   1   0      high            medium           low  More Information    Station 13: You belong. ............................................................. On a personal level, in nature, as demonstrated by breathing, or drinking water, we get good feelings by directly giving and gaining support from the global community. In that community, every member, including yourself, knows that "itself" is very important. In some way, every member is naturally attractive, loved, and included. Everything and everyone belongs and is continually transformed into belonging in contributory ways. Organic community attraction is how and why nature does not produce garbage. On a macro level everything in Nature is needed. Nothing natural is thrown away. Again, alive or "dead," each natural being is naturally attractive, wanted, belongs and transforms into other contributory forms of being. That is the reason excessive pollution, abusiveness, violence, loneliness, war, stress and mental illness are virtually unknown in nature. It is why nature has the ability to self-correct, restore and heal. It helps explain why it is reasonable to gain good feelings by becoming fluent in Natural Attraction and thereby consciously reconnect with nature. It is why without effort, our quiet time spent in an attractive natural area often increases our joy, thinking and spirit and has healing and balancing benefits. It is also why some people believe that nature is a good example of unconditional love in action. The word "organic" often conveys that nature leaves nothing out; everything is attractive, belongs, transforms and is wanted. Nothing is garbage.  Organic Psychology simply helps nature help us transform how we think, feel and relate. Reconnecting with Nature by becoming literate in Natural Attraction is a vital, intelligent and responsible way to safely gain fulfillment. By activating multiple natural attraction senses in natural areas into our awareness, the reconnecting process helps our sense of reason rebuild our personal relationships as well as our society, economics, and the environment. It helps our thinking establish a 4-leg communion and partnership with natural systems and their balanced, supportive wisdom around and within us and others. When our thoughts are 9-leg reasonable, we recognize that the nature-connection process is important because how we think and feel is our destiny. Agreement  Index    10   9   8   7   6   5   4   3   2   1   0      high            medium           low  More Information    . Station 14: Nature pulls things together. ........................................................................... As it does with air, our inner nature biologically and emotionally enjoys, encourages and operates from the whole of nature. Our inner self always expects to be loved and supported by natural attractions simply because that is nature's way. That's what it does, how it operates. It is similar to the concept of "nature is paradise" or "Heaven on Earth" Agreement  Index    10   9   8   7   6   5   4   3   2   1   0      high            medium           low  More Information  . Station 15: Effects of disconnecting. ......................................................................... The value of our natural attraction loves and their intelligence is often hidden from our awareness by cultural 5-leg stories that tell us love is not scientific or objective and that we should avoid, disconnect from, or conquer nature, within and around us, (even though we inherently love it via our natural attraction senses). Doing this often gains us money, approval and status but adverse side effects as well.  Agreement  Index    10   9   8   7   6   5   4   3   2   1   0      high            medium           low  More Information  Station 16: You are in charge of how you feel. .......................................................................... Just as when you inhaled air, you always have the option to safely feel comfortable by reconnecting with nature through natural attractions. You can do this even when a story within or around you stresses you by telling you to do otherwise. Do the first part of it again. When you come to Station 4, you now know that the 5-leg story there, for educational purposes, will tell you not to breathe. You also know that heeding that story will disconnect you from nature and produce uncomfortable 4-leg suffocation feelings. This time, consciously decide to think with nature. Choose not to pay attention to that disconnecting story at Station 4 until it makes sense to you. Seek permission from nature, in and around you, to stop breathing. If you don't obtain its consent, i.e., it does not feel attractive to stop, then don't stop breathing. Instead choose to pay attention to what nature's systems tell you, what naturally feels safe, attractive and worthwhile to you as part of the global life community. Be 9-leg responsible by choosing to breathe in connective consent with the Natural Attraction voice of your body and your planetary mother, Earth. To our loss, this fact is often omitted in the rationale for "breath awareness" in meditation and many healing practices. You can chose to include it. Cooperate with nature by sustaining your natural integrity, good feelings and the Earth community. Help your sense of reason heed the 4-leg natural attraction logic of the psyche. This will help your thinking be conscious of, consider and respect the natural truth that a dog has 4-legs, that its tail is not a leg. SUMMARY: When we ignore or divert and bind (socialize) our natural nature attractions to artificial substitutes, we lose contact with the natural system voice and intelligence in nature that knows how to sustain and restore our thoughts and feelings in balance with nature's dance as responsible citizens of the global life community, within and around us. Agreement  Index    10   9   8   7   6   5   4   3   2   1   0      high            medium           low  More Information  Part Five: Final Summary Statements of the NHP Course and its Warranty: 1. Statement: I hold this truth to be self-evident. I have two bodies: 1) my literate personal body that I feed and that is writing these words and 2) my non-literate body, Planet Earth, that cannot articulate, read or write. Earth and its energy is my living other body. 3) 1 and 2, above, are as true for other individuals as they are for me.  Agreement  Index    10   9   8   7   6   5   4   3   2   1   0      high       medium         low  More Information  2. Statement: Nature, including humanity, is creation's attractive dance of the eons with the power to produce optimums of life, diversity, peace and cooperation as well as sanely organize, purify, correct, heal and balance itself and its participant dancers without producing garbage or pollution or unreasonable abusiveness. Agreement  Index    10   9   8   7   6   5   4   3   2   1   0      high       medium         low  More Information  3. Statement: Because central thinking and feeling in Industrial Society is, on average, over ninety-nine percent disconnected from Nature’s Dance in natural areas and in humanity, the citizens of Industrial Society are unable to solve the personal, social and environmental disorders that result from their excessive separation from, and undeclared war on, Nature Agreement  Index    10   9   8   7   6   5   4   3   2   1   0      high       medium         low  More Information  4. Statement: Far beyond reasonable doubt, the facts and links presented in the Nature As Higher Power course have proven to be real and based on empirical self-evidence Agreement  Index    10   9   8   7   6   5   4   3   2   1   0      high       medium         low  More Information  5. Statement: Sensory ECHN moments in time that we create genuinely align us with Earth's self-correcting ways and teach us unadulterated truths that we need to know Agreement  Index    10   9   8   7   6   5   4   3   2   1   0      high       medium         low  More Information  6. Statement: The ECHN process energizes into our consciousness the socially buried, but inherent, natural love and intelligence that helps us reverse our destructive prejudice against Nature and makes unparalleled contributions to personal, social and environmental well-being Agreement  Index    10   9   8   7   6   5   4   3   2   1   0      high       medium         low  More Information  7. Statement: The organic facts in the NHP course are fundamental, indisputable and of critical importance in helping humanity and nature reverse Industrial Society's ongoing deterioration of personal, social and environmental justice and well-being in the Standard Universe.  Agreement  Index    10   9   8   7   6   5   4   3   2   1   0      high       medium         low  More Information  8. Statement:  It is not credible, but rather it is corrupt, unreasonable and negligent to omit or ignore the NHP self-evident facts and their axioms as is presently common practice for most individuals and institutions in Industrial Society: Agreement  Index    10   9   8   7   6   5   4   3   2   1   0      high       medium         low  More Information  9. Statement: Until proven otherwise, the energy dance of Natural Attraction is the attractive “unifying binding field” Higgs Boson and Gravity Wave essence of every atom, aspect and part of the Standard Universe/Nature since its Big Bang inception. This includes the self-evident thoughts, senses, feelings, intelligence and relationships of our body, mind and spirit as part of our Universe and Einstein's "Unified Field" Agreement  Index    10   9   8   7   6   5   4   3   2   1   0      high       medium         low  More Information  10. Statement: Creation's Natural Attraction Dance of the Standard Universe/Nature (the Dance) only exists in the immediate moment, as is also true of its Dancers. Agreement  Index    10   9   8   7   6   5   4   3   2   1   0      high       medium         low  More Information  11. Statement: The NHP Dancers are all the things in our Universe, including the thoughts, senses, feelings and relationships of our body, mind and spirit. The Dancers include sensations, attractions, ideas and memories of the past, present or future along with our ability to relate to and with them. Agreement  Index    10   9   8   7   6   5   4   3   2   1   0      high       medium         low  More Information  12. Statement: Until fully proven otherwise, with the exception of humanity and the like, neither the Dance nor its Dancers are literate. Being non-literate and immediate, the web of life and its members don’t have the ability to produce misleading stories or produce the destructive effects of stories that do not attractively support the Dance Agreement  Index    10   9   8   7   6   5   4   3   2   1   0      high       medium         low  More Information  13. Statement: Every part of the Dance, including humanity, is in communication with the Dance in order that every individual or thing dances in attractive balance, harmony and support of the whole Dance and its Dancers, and vice versa. Agreement  Index    10   9   8   7   6   5   4   3   2   1   0      high       medium         low  More Information  14. Statement: The Dance does not produce any toxic waste.  Its process of transformation into more attractive relationships enables all Dancers to belong and to be wanted; no Dancer is polluted, omitted or discarded Agreement  Index    10   9   8   7   6   5   4   3   2   1   0      high       medium         low  More Information  15. Statement: When in immediate conscious sensory contact with the authentic Dance in and around us, not just stories about it, whatever an individual personally experiences is empirically true for them because, unadulterated, the experience registers directly on, and can blend with, their more than fifty-four inherent natural attraction senses and sensibilities. These fifty-four distinct sensations include the excessively bonded together senses of Reason, Consciousness and Literacy (the CRL Triad). Agreement  Index    10   9   8   7   6   5   4   3   2   1   0      high       medium         low  More Information  16. Statement: When excessive disconnection of our body, mind or spirit from the unadulterated Dance of Nature is a cause of a problem or disorder, the process of genuinely reconnecting ourselves with the Dance is essential as part of the solution. The Dance is the fountainhead of authority in how it works. It is a remedy and preventative for nature-deficit addiction and other disorders of the CRL Triad. Agreement  Index    10   9   8   7   6   5   4   3   2   1   0      high       medium         low  More Information  17. Statement: Individuals (16) who have had a good or beneficial experience while spending quiet time in a natural area, register and are conscious on some level that the Dance, in and around us, is us and that it has attractive renewing, restorative, enchanting, corrective and purifying qualities. Agreement  Index    10   9   8   7   6   5   4   3   2   1   0      high       medium         low  More Information  18. Statement: As demonstrated by the self-evidence of our senses registering birds, air, clouds, rain and insects in the sky above us, we each live in and as the Dance on Planet Earth, not in the distortion that we live on it.  We are but one of its web-of-life Dancers each of whom has a justifiable right to the benefits of unadulterated life in balance Agreement  Index    10   9   8   7   6   5   4   3   2   1   0      high       medium         low  More Information  19. Statement: I know Planet Earth is my alive other body because I feel loss, anguish and despair when I ask myself “Who would I be if somebody, or some thing, took my lifelong Earth body and its commitment to me away from me?” Holding my breath lets the painful self-evidence reality of Earth separation validate itself. Sensing and feeling these reasonable survival sensations urges me to help others use ECHN to validate and enjoy Planet Earth as their other body and through ECHN increase its, their and my well-being. Interestingly, the word for breathing and sharing spirit together is "conspire." Like many other people, do you think we should learn how to conspire to support life and our lives on Earth, rather than dance on the deck of our sinking ship? Agreement  Index    10   9   8   7   6   5   4   3   2   1   0      high       medium         low  More Information  20. Statement: The problems that we can't correct result from the triad of our natural attraction senses of Consciousness, Reason and Literacy being addicted to inaccurate, nature-disconnected information.  Until we deal with and remove this addiction, we can't change for the better by using valid information to help us solve our problems. We suffer because we are addicted to old or incorrect facts: "It's like using a crossbow to stop a high tech army tank from attacking us and/or to change the thinking of those who operate the tank." Agreement  Index    10   9   8   7   6   5   4   3   2   1   0      high       medium         low  More Information  End . An additional 160 activities, like the trail above, are found in the self-guiding stress management, mood enhancement training books The Web of Live Imperative, Einstein's World, Reconnecting With Nature and Well Mind, Well Earth. Optional, on-line email courses accompany each of these books along with optional professional or academic independent study credit and distance learning degree programs. A good introduction to the books and courses is the interview with Dr. Michael J. Cohen. You may safely, anonymously chat and share attractive nature-connecting experiences with others at our workshops and/or by joining our courses. You can request the assistance of a Project NatureConnect guide to share doing the activities with you. OTHER CHOICES: Return to the beginning of this nature trail and do it again. You'll find its just as interesting and worthwhile as the first time. Like the air you may still be overlooking as you read these words, there's lots to learn. The best way to learn, though, is through the Orientation Course. where you learn by doing. It will help you and your course community come into balance by engaging in and enjoying more nine-leg thinking and relating. The complete history and process of natural attraction ecology, as explored in this online nature trail, is available, free, in the book Educating, Counseling and Healing With Nature by Michael J. Cohen at http://.www.ecopsych.com.ksanity.html or from most bookstores.   References Adler, (1995). Providing the data to protect biodiversity. Science News Vol. 148, No. 21 p. 326 Washington DC, Science Service Inc. Bower, B. (1995). Return of the group. Science News, Vol. 148, No. 21 p. 328. Washington DC, Science Service Inc. Bower, B. (1999). Simple Minds, Smart Choices. Science News, Vol. 155, No. 22 p. 348. Washington DC, Science Service Inc. Cohen, M.J.(2003) The Web of Life Imperative: regenerative ecopsychology techniques that help people think in balance with natural systems. Trafford, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Cohen, M.J.(2000) Nature Connected Psychology: The Natural Systems Thinking Process, GREENWICH JOURNAL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY VOL 1 NO 1, JUNE 2000, Norfolk Island, Australia, Greenwich University, http://www.ecopsych.com/natpsych.html Cohen, M.J. (1997) Well Mind, Well Earth: 109 environmentally sensitive activities for stress management, spirit and self-esteem. PO Box 1605, Friday Harbor, WA, Project NatureConnect. Cohen, M.J. (1997b) Reconnecting With Nature: Finding wellness through restoring your bond with the Earth. (P.O. Box 1605, Friday Harbor WA,) Corvallis, Ecopress. Cohen, M.J. (1995) Counseling and Nature: The greening of psychotherapy. Interpsych News. Internet, http://www.ecopsych.com/~nature/counseling.html Langer, W. (1995) Watching a young star eat. Science News, Vol. 148, No. 21 p. 334 Washington DC, Science Service Inc. Logan, Ron (1995) Healing Ourselves and the World Through Applied Ecopsychology Common Future Magazine, Corvallis Oregon http://www.ecopsych.com/theory.html Wald, G. (1985) in Cohen, M. J. Proceedings: Is the Earth a Living Organism? Sharon, CT, National Audubon Society INSTITUTE OF GLOBAL EDUCATION Special NGO consultant United Nations Economic and Social Council PROJECT NATURECONNECT Readily available, online, natural science tools for the health of person, planet and spirit P.O. Box 1605, Friday Harbor, WA 98250 360-378-6313 <email> www.ecopsych.com ORGANIC ADVANCED ECOPSYCHOLOGY IN ACTION The Natural Systems Thinking Process Dr. Michael J. Cohen, Director send email All programs start with the Orientation Course contained in the book The Web of Life Imperative.   . .		.