Humans as Nature
To understand how far we are into our detachment and separation from Nature, we have to listen to those cultures that have managed to maintain the kind of intimate relationship with Dear Wise Earth that we once all had.
There are approximately 5,000 living indigenous cultures on this planet, they all share a deep respect for social and environmental sustainability, where personal and collective wellbeing is inextricably linked to Ecosystems and planetary dynamics.
For many indigenous and other types of societies, these Nature-based modes of life are approached materially and spiritually. Without separation.
However, as obvious as it may be, such a link between the sacred and life-supporting ecosystems has been greatly lost in the predominant worldview — the one in which most of us are trying to navigate through life.
A progressive Human detachment from Nature has taken place during the last 500 years and more so in the last century, bringing a fascinating and blinding amount of innovation to our societies that turns Nature into a mere artifact, something that can be traded in markets, to eventually be discarded to the earth as ecosystem polluting waste.
Such extractive, unbalanced and self-centered behavior simply does not exist within Nature’s most successful living systems and all previous things that lived with such disregard for Nature-based nodes have certainly become extinct.
Most contemporary decision-making in our different cultures happens within such a paradox, where our dependence on the artifacts that support our non-Natural state of life — human constructs such as economies and financial markets — are driving our very extinction.
History is littered with examples of civilizations that lost touch with the living systems that supported them — to the point where they brought about their own demise. If we don’t fundamentally reevaluate our relationship with Nature, we’re very close to making the same mistake.
This paradox requires us as a species to revisit our place and role in Dear Wise Earth’s delightful dance.
Coming closer again to Nature is a process, a transition and a humbling act of reverence that our species must undertake as civilizational collapse grows increasingly likely.
Carefully re-introducing our worldview into Nature by accepting and embracing our unique role in the wonderfully complex living systems with which we co-create every day. It requires acceptance and recognition of our place in this interdependent world of the responsibility we have in weaving into Nature our technologies — that our new technologies are a new evolution of Nature, all in itself.
We need to ask more questions as we do so. Is it possible to make the right decisions without connecting with those that already have the answers? Have we invited the right people into the conversation? What can we learn from other worldviews?
This is a new paradigm that requires a different approach, one that enables us to unleash Dear Wise Earth’s undisputed Wisdom.
Let us know if you are interested in unleashing regeneration and how are you rediscovering your place on Earth.
