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A natural systems model developed in conjunction with the work of John Storer, Lesley University and Project NatureConnect. Reviewed and published in the Proceedings of the 1997 Annual Conference of the North American Association for Environmental Education, and in the Greenwich University Journal of Science and Technology. Vol 1 No. 1..
"We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers our actions run as causes and return to us as results."_
- Herman Melville
The unbalanced, but rewarded and habitual, nature-separated way we learn to think in our nature conquering culture produces personal, social and environmental abusiveness including war. Although we despise these evils, we can't readily correct them. Subconsciously, we have psychologically bonded to the ideas and values that produce them. Without appropriately addressing our destructive psychological bonds our thinking and natural systems within and around us remain dangerously unbalanced.
Biologically and psychologically we are part of nature and vice versa. However, we learn to live in physical and mental disconnection from nature and its balanced ways. Over 95 percent of our time and thinking, on average, is spent indoors, disconnected from nature. This severance from fulfillments in nature produces a void in our psyche. It triggers cravings that we must gratify artificially, no matter their ruinous effects.
Artificial nature-separated fulfillments we invent often color and distort our thinking yet they also provide us with rewards and fuel our economy; detrimental development, consumerism and disorders result. In contemporary society, despite excellent evidence to the contrary, very few of us think that we can responsibly satisfy many of our wants by thoughtfully reconnecting to nature. Such denial is typical of addiction.
We have become so bewildered (wilderness separated) that we try to resolve our problems using the same nature disconnected thinking and educational process that produces them. The good news is that the web-of-life model has been developed that breaks this vicious circle in our psyche.
In the web-of-life model, guides scientifically portray nature and the web of life by gathering a group of people in a circle. Each person is asked to represent some part of nature, a bird, soil, water, etc. A large ball of string then demonstrates the interconnecting relationships between things in nature. For example the bird eats insects so the string is passed from the "bird person" to the "insect person." That is their connection. The insect lives in a flower, so the string is further unrolled across the circle to the "flower person." Soon a web of string is formed interconnecting all members of the group, including two individuals representing people.
Every part of the global life community, from sub-atomic particles to weather systems, is part of this lifeweb. Their natural webstring interconnectedness produces nature's balanced integrity and prevents runaway disorders.
Dramatically, in this activity people pull back, sense, and enjoy how a frail string peacefully unites, supports and interconnects them and all of life. Then one string-strand of the web is cut signifying the loss of a species, habitat or relationship. Sadly, the weakening effect on all is noted. Another and another string is cut. Soon the web's integrity, support and power disintegrates along with its spirit. Because this reflects the reality of our lives, it triggers feelings of hurt, despair and sadness in many activity participants. They realize that that Earth and its people increasingly suffer from "cut string" disintegration, yet we continue to cut the strings.
Natural beings relate while in contact with the whole of the web through webstrings of the web. As part of nature, we are born with this ability. Pulitzer-Prize winning sociobiologist Dr. Edward O. Wilson, of Harvard, affirms that people have an inherent biological need to be in contact with nature. He says, as modeled, Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive, and even spiritual satisfaction.
Recently, I asked some web of life activity participants if they ever went into a natural area and actually saw strings interconnecting things there. They said no, that would be crazy. I responded, "If there are no strings there, what then are the actual strands that hold the natural community together in balance and diversity?" _It became very, very quiet. _Too quiet. _Are you quiet, too? _Pay close attention to this silence. It flags a vital missing link in our troubled thinking, and relationships. The web strings are a 4-leg part of survival, just as real and important as the plants, animals and minerals that they interconnect, including ourselves. The strings are as true as 2 + 2 = 4, facts as genuine as thirst.
As part of nature we are born with the natural ability to know webstrings but we learn to neither recognize nor exercise this ability. Without seeing, sensing or respecting the strings in nature and our inner nature, we break, injure and ignore them. Their disappearance produces a void, an uncomfortable sensory-emotional emptiness in our lives that we constantly try to fill. We want, and when we want there is never enough. We become greedy, stressed and reckless while trying to artificially regain webstring fulfillment. We place ourselves, others and Earth at risk for with respect to the web of life there is no substitute for the real thing. Substitutes have adverse side effects unless they are organic and in-balance.
With the exception of humanity, no member of the lifeweb relates, interacts or thinks through the webstring sense of verbal language. Nature's web is a non-verbal, preliterate experience consisting of webstring loves, not 5-leg "as if" words that abstract, meaning pull apart. A bird's love for food (hunger) is a webstring. So is the tree's attraction to grow away from gravity and its root's attraction toward it. The fawn's desire for its mother and vice-versa are webstrings. Every atom and its nucleus consist of, expresses and relates through webstring attractions. All of nature, including us, consists of these attractions. People inherently experience those natural attractions needed for our survival as 53 or more natural senses. As we learn to ignore them in favor of 5-leg knowledge, our contact with the whole of life, our webstrings, end up hurt and frustrated in our subconscious mind. This protects our daily consciousness from feeling the pain of unfulfilled webstrings.
Today, as presented in Reconnecting With Nature, newly researched nature reconnecting activities enable people to sensuously bring webstrings back into our lives. Their presence helps reinstate balanced personal and environmental relationships. Genuine webstring contacts in natural areas help us sentiently reattach the strings within us to their nurturing origins, the strings in the web of life. We feel, enjoy and trust this thoughtful 9-leg connection.
Webstring connection activities also help people translate webstring attraction feelings into verbal language and share them as such. In this way, our sensory connections with the web feelingly express and validate themselves in conscious thoughts and words that help us enjoy natural attractions in each other as well as guide our reasoning and relationships. We usually think in words. Webstring words enable us to think like nature works. We enjoy nature's balanced wisdom as it enters our mind and relationships.
Webstring support replaces destructive exploitation, competition and greed, so recovery of our natural integrity occurs. The natural world, backyard or backcountry, becomes a remarkable classroom, library and therapist that we treasure. It helps us peacefully co-create a future in balance with each other, the global life community, and ourselves. Our innate love for it comes alive in our consciousness. We best protect what we love.
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"Human behavior is rooted most deeply in nature's intentions and desire. The rhythms of nature underlie all of human interaction: religious traditions, economic systems, cultural and political organization. When these human forms betray the natural psychic pulse, people and societies get sick, nature is exploited and entire species are threatened."
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In industrial society our excessively nature-separated lives mold us to betray the natural psychic pulse. We learn to block from our thinking over 95 percent of the wise sensory callings and fulfillments we normally receive from natural systems and their eons. Our hurt and frustration from the severed disconnection of these senses underlies our greatest troubles.-Michael J. Cohen
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