Intuitive Naturalism
Spending time with nature is one of the best things you can ever do. I can attest to this personally. The unbelievable beauty contained within this world is only seen through a certain lens, and if you are now carrying that lens, I encourage you to go out into nature and get a look at everything you are missing by spending hours a day inside, working at a job, or just spending time inside. One of my favorite things to do is to take an undetermined amount of time and spend it out in the wilderness. Where I am from, there is not much wilderness, so I guess a golf course will have to do. Even so, watching the animals get their food for the upcoming winter, the birds flying about, chirping incessantly, or the wind blowing the trees back and forth, back and forth, until you feel like this is where you are supposed to be, where we were meant to be.
I am a strong believer in coming back to our natural state of being, and I definitely feel that nature has a strong part to play in all of this. It is there from whence we came, and we shall return back to this natural lifestyle with epic proportion, soon enough, as so I hope. I feel that the more time I spend in that sort of area, the more centered I become, the less worried I feel, the more peace I can invite into my life. I feel that humanity, in a sense, has lost touch with our natural roots and are so concerned with technology and deadlines, not to mention fear of nature, that we completely neglect what is out there and focus primarily on what we have created rather than what has always been. To watch a tree, to know that it has grown for twenty, thirty years to get to where it is today, that there are whole networks of animals and insects, and whatever else could be contained inside that tree, living there, instinctively, intuitively, as if it came natural, without any rhyme or reason, except it is the only way for them to survive effectively. There is no logic behind this, it is all instinctive.
This is the concept I am talking about here, our instinct, our intuition, our sense of knowing without having to justify it. Things that just feel right. For the most part, humanity no longer relies on its intuition, except in some very rare circumstances. We have lost trust in our inuitive senses, spending so much time away from nature, and it has denied us a very powerful tool. I find that the more I get in tune with nature, the more I feel trustworthy of my intuition. I think what scares most people about nature is it is not logical in any sense. There is no math equation that can describe nature. And if there is, I don’t want to know what it is.
I know that the way we are currently living, with the destruction of nature, our original home, our overconsumption of resources, our complete disregard for animal rights, and our high stress environment workplaces. That is not a utopia. There is nothing there that even resembles a paradise. We need to get back in touch with our roots, people, and I sure hope that it starts happening fast. We have turned our backs on our place of origin in the pursuit of “progress,” whatever that means, taking more and more natural resources out of the Earth and further depleting the very clean air and water we need to survive. And when you spend time in nature, you will wonder why we allow this outright destruction of such a beautiful thing. It is only because we have lost touch and now this nature has become the enemy. We fear what we do not understand, and until we once again understand nature, we will fear it, and be ready to destroy it. That is all I have to say about that. Good day.
March 19th, 2007 at 3:39 am
[…] Intuitive Naturalism Spending time with nature is one of the best things you can ever do. I can attest to this personally. The unbelievable beauty contained within this world is only seen through a certain lens, and if you are now carrying that lens, I encourage you to go out into nature and get a look at everything you are missing by spending hours a day inside, working at a job, or just spending time inside. One of my favorite things to do is to take an undetermined amount of time and spend it out in the wilderness. Where I am from, there is not much wilderness, so I guess a golf course will have to do. Even so, watching the animals get their food for the upcoming winter, the birds flying about, chirping incessantly, or the wind blowing the trees back and forth, back and forth, until you feel like this is where you are supposed to be, where we were meant to be. I am a strong believer in coming back to our natural state of being, and I definitely feel that nature has a strong part to play in all of this. It is there from whence we came, and we shall return back to this natural lifestyle with epic proportion, soon enough, as so I hope. I feel that the more time I spend in that sort of area, the more centered I become, the less worried I feel, the more peace I can invite into my life. I feel that humanity, in a sense, has lost touch with our natural roots and are so concerned with technology and deadlines, not to mention fear of nature, that we completely neglect what is out there and focus primarily on what we have created rather than what has always been. To watch a tree, to know that it has grown for twenty, thirty years to get to where it is today, that there are whole networks of animals and insects, and whatever else could be contained inside that tree, living there, instinctively, intuitively, as if it came natural, without any rhyme or reason, except it is the only way for them to survive effectively. There is no logic behind this, it is all instinctive. This is the concept I am talking about here, our instinct, our intuition, our sense of knowing without having to justify it. Things that just feel right. For the most part, humanity no longer relies on its intuition, except in some very rare circumstances. We have lost trust in our inuitive senses, spending so much time away from nature, and it has denied us a very powerful tool. I find that the more I get in tune with nature, the more I feel trustworthy of my intuition. I think what scares most people about nature is it is not logical in any sense. There is no math equation that can describe nature. And if there is, I don t want to know what it is. I know that the way we are currently living, with the destruction of nature, our original home, our overconsumption of resources, our complete disregard for animal rights, and our high stress environment workplaces. That is not a utopia. There is nothing there that even resembles a paradise. We need to get back in touch with our roots, people, and I sure hope that it starts happening fast. We have turned our backs on our place of origin in the pursuit of progress, whatever that means, taking more and more natural resources out of the Earth and further depleting the very clean air and water we need to survive. And when you spend time in nature, you will wonder why we allow this outright destruction of such a beautiful thing. It is only because we have lost touch and now this nature has become the enemy. We fear what we do not understand, and until we once again understand nature, we will fear it, and be ready to destroy it. That is all I have to say about that. Good day. […]
March 21st, 2007 at 10:12 am
You are absolutely right Andrew… We do not realize what we have been blessed with. We tend to take a lot of things for granted, so much so that we don’t take that few minutes out of our “busy” lives to appreciate it. Forget about appreciation, we believe that it is our birth right to take whatever is there in nature without thinking twice or without giving something back to it.
I have never felt more alive than when I am in complete appreciation of nature, wherever that might be. We don’t have to be on vacation to appreciate nature… we can find that in our own backyard, if only we take the time to, much as we can find the answers inside us without having to look outside.
March 21st, 2007 at 3:09 pm
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March 22nd, 2007 at 12:59 pm
Your posting really makes some strong points. People lose touch wiht people in a similar way to how they become disconnected with the world around them. It would help us each as individuals if we learned to relate and connect to al living things. To forget interdependence could otherwise be the downfall of many civilizations, species, ideas and ecoystems.Its reassuring that we still have time to change the way we view ourselves and everything around us. The key is love.
March 22nd, 2007 at 3:43 pm
I agree that spending time with nature is key to one’s personal well-being. You seem like a pretty interesting person, spending time in the wilderness and having a sense of freedom. I’ll bet when you left home, you felt liberated to finally be out on your own, away from the folks. Can I sniff your finger? All kidding aside, I really enjoyed the comedy section of your website. When I read the one about you wondering aimlessly and ending up in Montana, I laughed so hard that I fell off my chair, crying. You are truely gifted at the art of comedy, and I anxiousely await your new material. Stephen Wright has nothing on you!!