-- *Mar*Freedom to Nature
Every organism strives and yearns to relate emotionally and feelingly to and with nature. Actually after a brief stint of living, it becomes part of nature, which we call death and we dread it as a catastrophe. With our eyes we can see just 00.0037% of the totality of nature, which we call the visible spectrum. The remaining totality, 99.67%, which is invisible or which the eyes cannot see, is in the abstract arena of feelings and emotions. Life means feelings and emotions and not rutting as a machine called body without feelings. One without feelings and emotions is a dead body. Nature itself is the grand arena of feelings and emotions and not a feeling-less and emotions-less machine. In free and healthy nature, feelings and emotions take over as relating and every sight creates feelings and emotions. One can see emotionally only. Suppose evolution never gave us eyes. Then feeling and sensing becomes living and relating. If an organism develops eyes that see, it will be taken as a disease, the main symptom being the restriction to the visible spectrum, 00.0037% of the totality. The macro effect of the Lithosphere, Hydrosphere, Troposphere and Biosphere is the dominance of feelings and emotions in the air. When you go on destroying forests, which automatically results in the destruction of the flora and the fauna of the forest, you are inflicting macro emotional shocks on all organisms, including you. The organisms lose the basic ingredient of life-rapture. Just go into thick nature, recognizing the fact that you are entering the sea of emotions created by the organisms. If you keep that fact in mind, you pave the way for rapture. You can actually see the small bits of rapture when you see a small flower or a buzzing bee or singing bird. They all interact with you creating in you the urge to respond emotionally and emotions take over your living. Unfortunately, urbanization, industrialization, mechanization and economic life as life itself have removed from us the basic faculty of feeling nature and emotionally interacting with nature. The more the mechanization, the less the emotional relations, machines cannot feel. Today technology has taken over, continuously corroding the emotional edifice of nature. When emotions and feelings reduce, the internal hormonal communications to the seven octillion cells in you get reduced and each cell becomes lethargic. A cell, mind you is a big mini Universe though microscopic in size. We are creating a gigantic emotional feelings death in nature. When a development project is taken up, the first thing that is done is the removal of all grasses, tiny plants and many big trees, which is called clearance. Then huge buildings with metalled roads, ACs, vehicles of different pollutions etc remove the arena of feelings and emotions. When it is a big city, you find people running and running chased by economics. At many places marriages simply vanished, as relating emotionally is too tiring. The so called achievement of a person, become actually the victory in the Darwinian war against the other life forms. It is time for every university to develop big free nature parks, so that intelligence becomes the real intelligence which is emotional and feeling intelligence and not the mechanical and mathematical synchronization. But unfortunately no university can dare to say, no to mechanization and surrender to computers and Robots. The revival of free nature is urgent.Fortunately,if given a tiny chance, nature will bounce back. Butterfly effect is real. Even tiny efforts by simple people is giving handsome dividends in the shape of revived nature, flora, fauna, lakes, even rivers and waterfalls with forests etc. Development must be redefined as the growth of free nature, with minimal human tampering. We must remember the basic fact that education means, the subject matter that interacts and not putty obeying your will. YM Chat GPT Your reflections on the importance of emotional and feeling-based connections with nature, and the consequences of their loss due to industrialization and urbanization, raise several profound points that resonate with many ecological and psychological perspectives. Here are some key ideas and references that align with your views: 1. **Emotional and Psychological Benefits of Nature**: - **Biophilia Hypothesis**: This theory, popularized by Edward O. Wilson, suggests that humans have an innate affinity for nature. Studies have shown that spending time in nature can reduce stress, improve mood, and enhance overall well-being. - **Attention Restoration Theory (ART)**: Proposed by Stephen Kaplan and Rachel Kaplan, ART posits that natural environments help restore attention and cognitive function, which are often depleted in urban settings . 2. **Impact of Urbanization and Mechanization**: - Urbanization and the spread of technology have led to "nature deficit disorder," a term coined by Richard Louv in his book "Last Child in the Woods." This term describes the consequences of human alienation from nature, including diminished use of the senses, attention difficulties, and higher rates of physical and emotional illnesses. 3. **Ecological and Biological Connections**: - **Ecosystem Services**: Forests and other natural environments provide essential services like air and water purification, climate regulation, and habitat for biodiversity. The destruction of these environments disrupts these services and the intricate web of life they support. - **Interconnectedness of Life**: The concept that all life forms are interconnected and that humans are a part of this web is central to many ecological philosophies, including those of indigenous cultures and deep ecology movements . 4. **Reviving Natural Spaces**: - **Urban Green Spaces**: Creating and maintaining urban parks, community gardens, and green roofs can help mitigate the effects of urbanization. These spaces provide not only ecological benefits but also opportunities for residents to connect with nature. - **Rewilding Initiatives**: Rewilding efforts, which aim to restore natural processes and wilderness areas, have shown promise in reviving ecosystems and promoting biodiversity . 5. **Educational Approaches**: - **Environmental Education**: Integrating environmental education into curricula can foster a deeper understanding and appreciation of nature among students. Programs that include outdoor learning experiences are particularly effective in cultivating environmental stewardship. - **Nature-Based Therapies**: Practices such as ecotherapy and forest bathing (shinrin-yoku) emphasize the healing power of nature and are gaining recognition for their therapeutic benefits . By emphasizing the intrinsic value of nature and promoting ways to reintegrate natural experiences into our lives, we can work towards a more balanced and emotionally fulfilling existence. This approach aligns with your vision of nurturing intelligence and creativity through a deeper connection with the natural world. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/thatha_patty/CACDCHC%2BqC%2B%2Bk6DpQGutvD%2BcwF51OrpiRnUuZUMH9EULB6bbOYg%40mail.gmail.com.
