The Hidden Voice in Natural Systems
Nurture your felt love for Nature. Never deny it. That love is the eons, the purifying intelligence, beauty and diversity of Nature sustaining us in its perfection. Our disconnection from this love produces our hurt, greed and destructiveness. We must reconnect and restore its peaceful voice in our thoughts, soul and surroundings.
Significantly, in the past decade the often opposing physical (7), biological and social sciences discovered a body of evidence to which they agree.
In addition, this evidence also agrees with findings in ethics(10), philosophy and spirituality (9). During this same period, the fields of education and psychology produced a learning process that enables any individual to access this validated knowledge and use it to build relationships that improve self, society and the environment (3).
The converging evidence authenticates what outdoor researchers like myself sense in natural areas. A fundamental, binding, energy underlies every aspect of the world we know. Be it a form of Love or the Unified Field sought in physics, sub-atomic, human, and global relationships, form, hold together, and "communicate" via a cohesive natural attraction energy (8, 6). Natural attraction connects everything into a system. It makes things supportively belong rather than be isolated.
Natural attraction roots
Nature grows from its roots. The existence of a root natural attraction throughout Nature is consistent with how Nature works. It makes sense. If the world was not held together by natural attraction, it would fall apart, which it doesn't in Nature.
Rather, natural systems are attracted to increase in growth, diversity, resilience and their ability to support life in a balance.
We are attractive
All material or non-material "things" in Nature including people, consist of natural attraction relationships. Thus, as natural attraction produces us it manifests itself as us, as our molecules, body, mind, sensations and feelings. Significantly, our senses are not sterile. Like everything else they, too, are natural attraction expressing itself. For our survival our senses intelligently help us consciously, feelingly, register nature's ways as they seek fulfillment from their attraction to their origins in nature. For example, the sensation of thirst "knows" when to attract us to water.
Effects of disconnection
Biologically, humanity is a seamless continuum of Nature and natural attraction. However, a contemporary person daily lives and thinks over 99% of the time while disconnected from natural attractions in natural areas. This corrupts us to the point that we consider this dismemberment normal. We applaud it even as we suffer its abnormal effects upon our selves and the environment.
The missing attraction rewards in our Nature-disconnected emotionality produces our wants and greed. They arise from our severed and frustrated natural attractions. This stressful void makes contemporary people the only organisms on Earth whose mentality destructively produces garbage, pollution, war, mental illness, loneliness, excessive stress and abusive relationships. These maladies, with rare exception, are absent in Nature or people in tune with Nature.
Scientific shortcomings
The objectivity and science of disconnected contemporary thinking dismisses as subjective most of the natural attraction sensitivities that Nature and people hold in common. For example, sensory attractions to water (thirst), life (survival), appetite for air (to breathe), and belonging (community) are not even included in the five senses that we say we learn and know from. Satisfactions from our natural attraction to pets, friends, family, Nature, peace, justice and community seldom shape our self-esteem, economics, and technology.
In our nature-isolated thinking, we learn to view our natural attraction senses and feelings as unimportant, as non-measurable, childish or unreasonable loves (12). We condition ourselves to become sensuously sterile and oblivious to them. To our loss, we omit them from many equations. This corrupts us. We lose nature's essential, unifying energy, a natural attraction way of knowing and relating that peacefully holds the natural world in a mutually supportive, cooperative, equilibrium. Disconnected, we and Earth are becoming increasingly dysfunctional (4) (11).
Life's hidden purpose
The absence of natural attractions from our thinking leaves us to conclude that life systems, including ourselves, operate by the laws of chance and are without purpose. However, any thoughtful person may observe that, locally or globally, a life system does have a purpose. It is to survive, to follow its natural attraction to grow in support of life. Throughout nature, minerals, plants and animals achieve this purpose and perfection by fulfilling a multiplicity of natural attractions that resonate and beneficially modify each other. Things in Nature thereby intelligently, by "consensus" (many sensitivities together), unite as global citizens to their mutual benefit
As part of Nature, when our senses and feelings are not thwarted by nature conquering stories, artificial substitutes or social pressures, they attract us to responsibly support life. They then reward us with joy to keep us on this path.
Significantly, in the past decade the often opposing physical (7), biological and social sciences discovered a body of evidence to which they agree.
In addition, this evidence also agrees with findings in ethics(10), philosophy and spirituality (9). During this same period, the fields of education and psychology produced a learning process that enables any individual to access this validated knowledge and use it to build relationships that improve self, society and the environment (3).
The converging evidence authenticates what outdoor researchers like myself sense in natural areas. A fundamental, binding, energy underlies every aspect of the world we know. Be it a form of Love or the Unified Field sought in physics, sub-atomic, human, and global relationships, form, hold together, and "communicate" via a cohesive natural attraction energy (8, 6). Natural attraction connects everything into a system. It makes things supportively belong rather than be isolated.
Natural attraction roots
Nature grows from its roots. The existence of a root natural attraction throughout Nature is consistent with how Nature works. It makes sense. If the world was not held together by natural attraction, it would fall apart, which it doesn't in Nature.
Rather, natural systems are attracted to increase in growth, diversity, resilience and their ability to support life in a balance.
We are attractive
All material or non-material "things" in Nature including people, consist of natural attraction relationships. Thus, as natural attraction produces us it manifests itself as us, as our molecules, body, mind, sensations and feelings. Significantly, our senses are not sterile. Like everything else they, too, are natural attraction expressing itself. For our survival our senses intelligently help us consciously, feelingly, register nature's ways as they seek fulfillment from their attraction to their origins in nature. For example, the sensation of thirst "knows" when to attract us to water.
Effects of disconnection
Biologically, humanity is a seamless continuum of Nature and natural attraction. However, a contemporary person daily lives and thinks over 99% of the time while disconnected from natural attractions in natural areas. This corrupts us to the point that we consider this dismemberment normal. We applaud it even as we suffer its abnormal effects upon our selves and the environment.
The missing attraction rewards in our Nature-disconnected emotionality produces our wants and greed. They arise from our severed and frustrated natural attractions. This stressful void makes contemporary people the only organisms on Earth whose mentality destructively produces garbage, pollution, war, mental illness, loneliness, excessive stress and abusive relationships. These maladies, with rare exception, are absent in Nature or people in tune with Nature.
Scientific shortcomings
The objectivity and science of disconnected contemporary thinking dismisses as subjective most of the natural attraction sensitivities that Nature and people hold in common. For example, sensory attractions to water (thirst), life (survival), appetite for air (to breathe), and belonging (community) are not even included in the five senses that we say we learn and know from. Satisfactions from our natural attraction to pets, friends, family, Nature, peace, justice and community seldom shape our self-esteem, economics, and technology.
In our nature-isolated thinking, we learn to view our natural attraction senses and feelings as unimportant, as non-measurable, childish or unreasonable loves (12). We condition ourselves to become sensuously sterile and oblivious to them. To our loss, we omit them from many equations. This corrupts us. We lose nature's essential, unifying energy, a natural attraction way of knowing and relating that peacefully holds the natural world in a mutually supportive, cooperative, equilibrium. Disconnected, we and Earth are becoming increasingly dysfunctional (4) (11).
Life's hidden purpose
The absence of natural attractions from our thinking leaves us to conclude that life systems, including ourselves, operate by the laws of chance and are without purpose. However, any thoughtful person may observe that, locally or globally, a life system does have a purpose. It is to survive, to follow its natural attraction to grow in support of life. Throughout nature, minerals, plants and animals achieve this purpose and perfection by fulfilling a multiplicity of natural attractions that resonate and beneficially modify each other. Things in Nature thereby intelligently, by "consensus" (many sensitivities together), unite as global citizens to their mutual benefit
As part of Nature, when our senses and feelings are not thwarted by nature conquering stories, artificial substitutes or social pressures, they attract us to responsibly support life. They then reward us with joy to keep us on this path.
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