.....................	Project NatureConnect Organic Psychology and Natureness  Practical Pristine Truth distance learning to increase person/planet well being   360-378-6313 <email> www.ecopsych.com THE WEBSTRING NATURAL ATTRACTION MODEL How to Grow With the Grace, Balance and Restorative Powers of Web-of-Life Natureness The Natural System Thinking Process Pristine Truth Blueprint That We Forget To Remember Michael J. Cohen ©2021 VALIDATION The information in this article is edited from the author's reviewed and published TJSSSR 2022 article  The Remedy for Abuse That we Learn to Ignore: Nature’s Essence is its Wordless Love to Begin Life.  It confirms and actualizes the organic Pristine Truth facts in these articles - The reviewed and published 2008 article The Scientific Core of all Known Relationships: Attraction is Conscious of What it is Attracted to in the International Journal of Physical and Social Science, Vol. 7 Issue 6, June 2017 - reviewed and published 2008 Educating, Counseling and Healing with Nature doctoral dissertation at Akamai University, Hawaii - reviewed and published article "Nature Connected Psychology: Creating Moments that Let Earth Teach" in the GREENWICH JOURNAL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Voi 1 No 1, JUNE 2000 - reviewed and published article "Counseling and Nature: a Greening of Psychotherapy" in INTERPSYCH: THE MENTAL HEALTH NEWSLETTER VOL 2, ISSUE 4, MARCH, 1995 - reviewed and published article "Leave it to Beavers" in THE TRUMPETER, Vol 7, No 4, 1990. - reviewed and published article "Integrated Ecology: The Process of Counseling With Nature" THE HUMANISTIC PSYCHOLOGIST. Vol. 21. No 3. 1994, American Psychological Association. - reviewed and accredited methods and materials of "Psychological Elements of Global Citizenship" and "Educating and Counseling with Nature" at PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY - reviewed and published article "Integrating Nature's Balance." THE JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION, v.22 #4, Washington, DC. 1991. - reviewed and published article "Earth Kinship: The Fabric of Personal and Global Balance." JOURNAL OF EXPERIENTIAL EDUCATION Volume 12, Number 1. Spring, 1989 - reviewed and published article "Counseling With Nature: Catalyzing Sensory Moments that Let Earth Nurture." COUNSELING PSYCHOLOGY QUARTERLY, Vol. 6, No. 1, Carfax Publishing, Abingdon Oxfordshire, England:1993 - reviewed and published article "The Secrets of Nature Trail and Game": THE TRUMPETER, BC Canada, 1995 - Fifty-six additional reviewed and published articles. * * * "There are some truths, even fundamental ones, that are apt to elude us. The most basic truth regarding our Earth-home is that all living things, in some manner, are related to each other. This fact carries implications even of a spiritual nature." - Fairfield Osborne, 1953 A.D. (10) SYNOPSIS The organic science of Natureness, (Nature's self-correcting essence), recognizes that humanity is part of nature, the balanced, ancient, pre-human web-of-life on Earth that communicates and bonds within itself through wordless attractions. That is how our space-time Universe works. Due to our culture's insane prejudice against nature, our excessively nature separated society's words socialize us to live, on average, less than .000022% of our lives in conscious sensory contact with nature's dance of streaming natural attraction filaments (webstrings or webloves) that support, nurture and hold the web-of-life together, globally and universally. It is reasonable to recognize that we seldom improve personal or global peace and well being because our prejudice secretly conditions us to fight an undeclared war against nature and its webstrings within and about us. Webstrings dance and rewardingly register in our consciousness as 54 natural motivating attraction senses. These include our well known five senses plus 49 additional senses including the senses of thirst, place and color, trust community and reason, pain, motion, consciousness, gravity and temperature. The excessive separation of our psyche from nature tears it from its nurturing origins in the web-of-life. This hurtfully wounds our webstring attractions. Like any broken love it stops their nurturing sensory flow through our awareness. To relieve the pain, our psyche removes from our awareness our hurt, inherent 54 natural sense webstring way of knowing by making it subconscious so we lose awareness of its contact with global life's balanced guidelines and rewards. However, we suffer them again when our pushed buttons bring their pain back into consciousness. To reduce the sensory void, hurt and sadness that our webstring injury and disconnection creates, we crave and psychologically bond to destructive replacement technological or co-dependent gratifications or to tranquilizers to quell or replace their absence. However, in the process we addict to their disturbing side-effects. We feel loss and abandonment. We want beyond reason. We become greedy, excessive, insensitive and abusive, for when we want there is never enough. We feel excessive stress and a lack of support that we incorrectly identify as symptoms of life's madness. Life is not insane, it's the prejudice of the nature-disconnected way we learn to think that is crazy. Through researched sensory nature activities, the Webstring Model natural attraction tool of Organic Psychology helps us thoughtfully, consciously, reconnect our psyche with the web-of-life and pleasantly register its attractive Pristine Truth webstrings. This enables the grace, balance and restorative powers of webstrings to help us transform into love the destructive socialization of our thoughts that creates our nature-disconnected reasoning. We recycle the garbage in our thinking into constructive sensing and feeling. Responsible personal, social and environmental relationships result that increase well being and happiness. "When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find that it is bound fast by invisible cords that cannot be broken to everything else in the universe." - John Muir, 1869 A.D.  Article  "Oh, what a catastrophe, what a maiming of love when it was made personal, merely personal feeling. This is what is the matter with us: we are bleeding at the roots because we are cut off from the earth and sun and stars. Love has become a grinning mockery because, poor blossom, we plucked it from its stem on the Tree of Life and expected it to keep on blooming in our civilized vase on the table." - D. H. Lawrence 1963 A.D. The unbalanced way we learn to think in our excessively nature- conquering society produces personal, social and environmental abusiveness that includes the insanity of war. Although we despise these evils, they don't readily change for, subconsciously, by the age of seven, our socialization bonds or addicts us to ideas and values whose side effects produce our evils. Without appropriately transforming these destructive bonds into love that frees them we and Earth remain dangerously troubled and unbalanced. Biologically and psychologically we are part of nature and vice versa. However, due to our seldom recognized prejudice against nature we learn to live in physical and mental separation from nature and its balanced ways. Our prejudice consists of unreasonable attitudes that are unusually resistant to rational influence. Due to it, on average over 99.9 percent of our time and thinking is disconnected from motivation by nature's grace balance and restorative powers. This stressful severance from the web-of-life's beneficial natural fulfillments produces a void in our psyche. It triggers the discomforts of sensory deprivation and excessive cravings that we must gratify artificially, no matter the ruinous side effects. "By thoughtfully learning how to become conscious of 49 hidden motivating webstring senses, we reattach our ability to love to its renewing roots in nature. This restores love to its fullness and helps us heal our wounds." - Michael J. Cohen Our artificial fulfillments often color or distort our thinking while they provide emotional and monetary rewards that fuel our economy. Unthoughtful development, consumerism and disorders result. Despite excellent reasoning and evidence to the contrary, very few of us think that we can satisfy our cravings by mindfully reconnecting our thinking and feeling to nature. Such denial of a pristine truth or fact is typical of addiction, bigotry or insanity. We have become so bewildered (wilderness separated) that we try to resolve our problems using the same nature disconnected education, stories, thinking and processes that produce them. That's why today's things like "Love, Nature, Gods and Honesty" are runaway destructive and untrustible. The good news is that a new social technology, the Webstring Natural System Thinking process, is a blueprint model of Natureness that enables us to break this habitual vicious circle. It helps us recognize ourselves as part of the life of Planet Earth. Scientifically, we can see it and us act like a single living organism.   "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 1860 A.D. The Webstring Model Blueprint NOTE Visit Project NatureConnect to impliment this model immediately and accredit and fund your loves, life experience or expertise. Based on Vladimir Vernadsky's 1929 identification of the biosphere, Eugene Odum's Fundamentals of Ecology (1951) and John H. Stoer's 1953 ecology classic, The web-of-life, experts in many disciplines have accurately portrayed 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, a tree, etc. A large ball of string then demonstrates the interconnecting attraction 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 represents their evolved interconnecting survival attraction. 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 that interconnects by attraction, all members of the group, including two people who represent humanity. In this webstring model an additional, singular red ribbon connects the two people in the circle. The ribbon represents that in the web-of-life, uniquely, people alone can connect with each other using the written or spoken abstractions of literacy, of our words and stories. The false ones break the strings until we correct them. Every part of the global life community, from sub-atomic particles to weather systems, is part of, and included in, this lifeweb model. Their webstring interconnectedness produces nature's balanced integrity and prevents runaway disorders. Note that in this model the "spider" creating the web is a "red ribbon person" who is also providing the string. However, since  2012 A.D. evidence suggests that the string has been wordlessly attracted to create itself and begin life, moment by moment, since before it "big banged" into being our Universe 14 billion years ago. This means that each of us this moment is the string with words. The rest of everthing in the life of Nature's Universe is the same string without words and communicates instead via webstring attraction energies. These were identified as webloves in 1998 by Theresa Sweeney, Ph.D. In the above-described activity, dramatically, people pull back, sense, and enjoy how the fragile string that they share peacefully unites, supports and interconnects them and all of life. Then one strand of the web is cut signifying the loss of a species, habitat or relationship due to pollution or excessive exploitation. Sadly, the weakening effect on all is noted. Another and another string is cut. Soon the web strings' 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. We have long observed and objected to Earth and its people increasingly suffering from excessive "cut string" disintegration, yet we continue to cut the strings. Natural beings relate while in contact with the whole of the web-of-life through its webstrings. As part of nature, we are conceived with and by this ability. Along with many others (13), 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 shows that Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive, and even spiritual satisfaction. In 1988, I asked some web-of-life activity adult participants if they ever went into a natural area and actually saw strings interconnecting things there. They said no, that would be a crazy hallucination. 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 critical missing component whose absence injures our thinking, perceptions and relationships. Webstrings are the core of survival, space-time attraction energies 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 or motion, water or sight or gravity, light or sound. As part of nature we are born with the natural ability to sense and feel webstrings but we seldom learn to habitually acknowledge or exercise this ability. Without seeing, sensing or respecting the flow of the strings in nature and our inner nature, we break, injure and ignore them (1). Their disappearance produces a sensory void, an uncomfortable emptiness in our psyche and 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 replace our lost webstring fulfillments. We place ourselves, others and Earth at risk for with respect to the supportive, non-polluting genius of the web-of-life and its reycling ways because no substitute for Nature has yet been invented that perfectly replaces the real thing (2). The artificial replacements we invent have detrimental side effects. As aforementioned, with the exception of humanity, as its special red ribbon in the model signifies, no other member of the lifeweb relates, interacts or thinks through the webstring sense of verbal or written literacy and prejudices it may convey. Every word we use is an artifact, a substitute for the real thing since Nature's web is a non-verbal experience consisting of natural system webstring natural attraction sensitivities, of loves, not of words that abstract (meaning pull apart) relationships and reality (4).  We suffer from our loss of  the real thing because there is no substitute for its space-time eons. A bird's attraction/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 consists of, expresses and relates through webstring attractions as does every kind of material or thing. All of nature, including us, consists of these attractions (14). They are webstrings, basic natural loves, the space-time essence we hold in common with the natural environment and each other. We inherently experience the webstrings we need for our survival, such as thirst, temperature and belonging. They register in us as 53 or more natural motivating senses. As we learn to ignore or subdue them, they end up hurt and frustrated in our subconscious mind. Stored there, we don't feel their pain until something triggers it into our awareness. We often guide and limit our lives around our fear of being "hurtfully triggered" or hooked (11). We seldom learn that webstrings of fear, pain or discomfort are also natural attraction senses. They attract and motivate us to seek, benefit from and enjoy our other, stronger natural sense attractions and they help us think and feel more sensibly, to enjoy our attraction to "surviving" Similar to a spider web, each webstring is connected to the whole of the web and is attracted and sensitive to it. And, as with the spider and its web, when you touch one string, all the strings become aware of your touch and lend support to the touched string, giving it resilience. The spider also registers an awareness that the web has been touched for its sensitivities and consciousness are also webstring connections that support the web and vice versa. Today, newly researched nature-reconnecting activities (Natureness) enable us to safely and beautifully bring webstrings back into our lives and thinking through the web-of-life model (3). The presence of their self-correcting ways helps reinstate the organics of naturally balanced personal and environmental relationships (10). Genuine webstring contacts in natural areas enable us to sentiently and consciously reattach the webstrings within us to their nurturing origins, their continuum in the web-of-life (6). We feel, enjoy and trust this thoughtful connection and its wisdom. It is rewarding. Webstring connection activities also help people translate webstring attraction feelings into verbal language and share them (through the red ribbon) (9). In this unifying way, our sensory connections with the web feelingly express and validate themselves in conscious thoughts and words that strengthen our human reasoning and relationships (12). These communications enable us to think in unity, like nature works. We enjoy nature's grace, balance and restorative wisdom as it continually flows through our mind and relationships. It recycles the contamination of our thinking and feeling into supportive attractions and relationships, like nature works. As the power of Webstring support, unity and nurturing replaces destructive exploitation, competition and greed, recovery occurs (7). The natural world, backyard or backcountry, becomes a remarkable classroom, library and therapist that we treasure (8). It helps us peacefully co-create a future in unity with ourselves, each other and the global life community (12). "Most of our troubles result from deadened webstrings in our psyche. Project NatureConnect activities help us help webstrings restore themselves and us. (15)" - Course Participant CONCLUSION Our thinking is our destiny. We unnecessarily suffer many problems because our nature-prejudiced and nature-separated motivations and socialization prevents our thinking from acknowledging the following: A. Our body and 99 percent of our mentality are of by and from the perfection of nature's webstring eons. B. Ten percent of our mentality knows and manages the web-of-life through words and stories. Through the nature-conquering bias of contemporary society the latter are excessively disconnected from and exploitive of the grace, balance and restorative ways of webstrings, nature and the natural. C. Learning how to make conscious sensory contact with webstrings in a natural area, backyard or backcountry, enables us to help the strings reestablish their regenerative dance through our psyche.  This helps us improve how we think and feel. D. Injured or broken webstrings are major part of each personal, social or environmental trouble we suffer. To be reasonable and effective in solving problems and increasing well-being, we must engage in nature-reconnecting activities that motivate us to help webstrings restore their flow and renewing ways in and about us. "All things are connected like the blood that unites us all. Man did not weave the web-of-life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself." - Chief Seattle/Ted Perry 1854 A.D. NOTE: A full Ph.D. discourse about the roots of this article is located at http://www.ecopsych.com/ksanity.html  Further information: contact Michael J. Cohen, Ed.D., Ph.D. Telephone 360-378-6313 Read the Ecopsychology Journal interview with Dr. Cohen: <http://www.ecopsych.com/ecopsychologyjournal.html> Email: nature@interisland.net. Website: www.ecopsych.com  Personal page: http://www.ecopsych.com/mjcohen.html NOTE Visit Project NatureConnect to impliment the webstring model immediately and accredit and fund your loves, life experience or expertise. Overview Article<http://www.ecopsych.com/hallucinatearticle.html> Process Synopsis<http://www.ecopsych.com/transformation.html> Fundamentals <http://www.ecopsych.com/mjcohen22.html> Outcomes<http://www.ecopsych.com/survey.html> Interview<http://www.ecopsych.com/janetinterview.html> Research<http://www.ecopsych.com/2004ecoheal.html> Identity<http://www.ecopsych.com/thesisquote6.html> Petition<http://www.ecopsych.com/petition2.html> Articles<http://www.ecopsych.com/2004artnews.html> Course<http://www.ecopsych.com/orient.html> Film<http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1357054/> * * * The most effecient way to learn to use and teach the webstring process is by taking a short, online Orientation Course: The Psychological Elements of Global Citizenship.   Additional references are available at our Natureness homepage References: 1. Cohen, 2000, Nature Connected Psychology: creating moments that let Earth teach http://www.ecopsych.com/natpsych.html 2. Cohen, 1997, Reconnecting With Nature: Finding Wellness through restoring your bond with the Earth, Ecopress, Corvallis, Oregon. http://www.ecopsych.com/newbook2007.html 3. Cohen, 2007, The Webstring Natural Attraction Model http://www.ecopsych.com/ksanity.html 4. Cohen 1995, Counseling and Educating With Nature http://www.ecopsych.com/counseling.html 5. Cohen 1993, Well Mind, Well Earth, Roche Harbor, WA, World Peace University Press http://www.ecopsych.com/books.html 6. Kofalk, 1994 The Distinguished World Citizen Award http://www.ecopsych.com/overview.html 7. Cohen, 1996, Study and Survey of Participants and Outcomes http://www.ecopsych.com/survey.html 8. Logan, 1995 Nature Psychology Courses and Degrees http://www.ecopsych.com/theory.html 9. Cohen, 1996 Psychological Elements of Global Citizenship http://www.ecopsych.com/orient.html 10. Storer, J, 1953 The web-of-life, New York, New American Library 11. Beyond Addicted Thinking: do this activity. http://www.ecopsych.com/trailattract.html 12. Cohen, 1995, The Global Wellness and Unity Activity http://www.ecopsych.com/amental.html 13. The Eco-Sensory Intelligence Test http://www.ecopsych.com/iq.html 14. Cohen, 1998 The Hidden, Unified-Field Voice in Natural Systems http://www.ecopsych.com/attractionlink.html 15. Natural System Dysfunction (NSD): the disorder, its origins and remedy http://www.ecopsych.com/nsd.html   About the Author: Applied Ecopsychologist Michael J. Cohen, Ed.D. founded and coordinates Project NatureConnect and the Natural Systems Thinking Process. They are continuing education workshops, distance learning courses and degree programs of Akamai and West Coast Universities, Portland State University and the Institute of Global Education. Dr. Cohen chairs the Department of Applied Ecopsychology/Integrated Ecology on San Juan Island, Washington and initiated the 1985 National Audubon conference "Is the Earth A Living Organism?" For 33 years, he has founded and directed degree granting environmental outdoor education programs for the Trailside Country School, Lesley College, and the National Audubon Society. His many books and articles include the award winning "Connecting With Nature: Creating Moments that let Earth Teach" which is included in his 1997 self-guiding book "Reconnecting With Nature" (Ecopress) and "Well Mind, Well Earth: 97 Environmentally Sensitive Activities for Stress Management, Spirit and Self-esteem." Dr. Cohen is the recipient of the Distinguished World Citizen Award.   After you obtain information about the Project NatureConnect graduate school and college cooperative education program from the web site by using the homepage, a free, helpful 15-minute discussion by phone with a faculty member is the most efficient way to customize the program to your goals. Act now: grants, loans scholarships ............................................. PROJECT NATURECONNECT Readily available, online, organic psychology tools for the health of person, planet and spirit P.O. Box 1605, Friday Harbor, WA 98250 360-378-6313 <nature@interisland.net> www.ecopsych.com APPLIED 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.	..

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