Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come into being. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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All of the testimonials below were offered in student journals, course-end reflections, and academic papers.

“This chapter of my life is of great value to me and the continuance to learn more is foremost important to me.  I feel better. I get good feelings from what some may call the simple things of life but to me these things are life and are more important than the most complex of things. I have said thanks to nature for this learning and sharing, I say thanks to you for this learning and sharing.”

“These activities identify the ancient form of Nature within me. Thanks for sharing your insights with us.  I just can’t express my gratitude in words.  This is a wonderful service to humanity.”

“I am sleeping much more soundly each night because of my nature connection.  It offers so much to me and I consistently offer it a return of good energy.  Thank you Dr. Cohen for all that you have done to create this reminder for me to give thanks for my nature.

“My 5 year old went to school and told her kindergarten teacher that there were more than 5 senses.  When the teacher asked how she knew that, she said ‘Because I sense it.’ “

“I experienced an avenue to the eternal moments in life and how we connect with nature in order to get there.  It has so much potential beyond our own personal experiences; it reaches to all who are in need of a conscious shift towards total wellness.  If person by person this shift happens the colossal shift that is needed to change our destructive course with the Earth will happen. This is what I wanted to take away from this class: an amazing tool that will help shift unconscious minds internally so that externally the world is healed.”

“These activities are actually changing me, and they are changing the way I manage stress and anger. My self worth is directly affected by this because I feel I am not only a part of nature, I am nature, I am part of its natural attraction essence that has brought so much healing.”

“I am so very grateful for Project Nature Connect because it has helped me to realize my deep connection with nature. It has helped me to connect with other people who think the way nature works. It has helped me to find the words to explain my non-verbal way of being, and has guided me to a deeper understanding of how to stay healthy and happy, and how to be a better parent.”

“Everyone has commented on how this course found us, when we opened to awareness of the need for it in our lives. I didn’t know at all what to expect on so many levels, and continue to be so impressed by what it does to those participating.”

“I think I never fully knew what was missing in my life, I never fully realized the void until I was introduced and given a new screen of consciousness.  A new screen that is placed there by nature, through nature, and with nature.  All of a sudden, one is conscious of the void and conscious that before a deep understanding of one’s connection with nature is expressed; life seems a lot duller and less fulfilling.  For me it was like I new that I wanted to get from point A (my lack of presence, fulfillment, and completeness) to point B (a state of peace, joy, love, and total presence with the eternal now).  Reading books, having conversations, journaling, watching specific movies all inspired me but nothing gave me a specific avenue, a gateway to link these two points until my moments with nature in this course.  It was as if a link that was severed is being repaired. That link was my lifeline to me, and to a more holistic understanding of the world around me.  Like a spider web that was torn and is being put back together link by link, slowly awakening me to parts of myself I never fully tapped.”

“These courses and people like you are the great experiences of a lifetime and my life. No need for meds, just healing along the way with nature connecting buddies.”

“I can’t believe all that has happened in a few weeks of time. My broken bones have healed and my heart has become more full and whole along with the mending of the bones, because of global connections to nature that have been made through the great gift of this course. We have touched each other’s natural spirits and we will never be the same. Thank you everyone! Peace and joy as we continue the journey.”

“This course is intended to make us whole again in a world that is divided. Being given the chance to let my heart speak and let go of old thinking patterns makes me thankful. Self-examination while doing the course was an important part for me. I noticed that there were parts of me who didn’t trust this whole concept and wanted to make me believe that I already know what I need to know. However, to really connect with the web of life, we have to let nature help us let go of our preconceived opinions and convictions first. Thus we are fully open to the lessons nature wants to teach us.”

“This course has been enlightening and life changing since day one. The attractive value for myself and others was how in a very easy, simple, yet powerful and deep way, it helped me reconnect with my true self, reminding me of who I really was, no matter what others said who I should be. I happened as I gained a sense of increased self worth, acceptance, love and belonging. It definitely enriched my personal life by helping me feel the love and energy for life. It enriched my relationships because I am no longer looking for something or someone outside of me to fulfill needs. In my work, I can reflect all of the attributes of unconditional love, belonging and perfection to my students and coaching clients. It helps them also shine their beauty and  true inner light. If I could sum it up in a sentence, I would say, “It helped me and others find the way back home.”

“This course supports my confidence in myself, that I have a connection that is important. It offers me access to others who think like me. And that is something I much appreciate.”

“I am seeing a cumulative effect of the work after facilitating the courses several times. There is an evening, an embrace of nature and thus self and life that occurs over time. This is something to be grateful for and I believe it rests in the harmony of new brain reasonable perception and old brain tangible sense of belonging where I am.”

“I have to say before my eyes refuse to stay open any longer that this is the best class I have ever taken; I think one of the main reasons is its participants. You all give so much to the course work and truly have your hearts in it and it shows. Your individual passions and commitment make it an honor to be a part of this group. Thank you.”

“This ECHN course was an absolutely powerful and amazing experience for me.  I can’t fully express or thank you for the gift it has been and how it has helped open my eyes to a whole new world.”

“I want to use this opportunity to tell you that I am really happy and thankful for the work and commitment of you all. It has really made a very important and deep impact in my life! I have been in the personal development path since I am 14 (now I am 33) however this is the first time I find a discipline, that is not cognitive or run by gurus, and has outlasting deep results in my inner state, way of life and thinking process and brings the power back to myself. Thank you again for your commitment and work!”
“Through my course work using the NSTP model and connecting to nature’s attraction essence over and over again, I realized I had connected to the soul energy of Earth. Through these deeply loving and respectful interactions, my soul began to heal, and was welcomed to truth, love and unity with all my relations. I have been involved with Project NatureConnect for 3+ years and they have been the most powerful and insightful and fruitful healing times in my life.   The awakening to the other side of my past sadness is my enlivened soul that now greets each day in joy, excitement, connection to all and playfulness.  My imagination has been fueled and my creativity ignited.”

“This past weekend I was at a gathering of native and non-native woman in ceremony for healing water. It was an incredibly powerful experience to experience a tradition where “human” and “nature” are one. I found myself practicing asking permission of rocks, land, people, ancestors, and more as I went about my time there. I was so grateful to have learned the practice of asking permission. It has really afforded me a tangible sense of relationship and granted the experience of being able to use my intuition concerning nature. I really felt the sense of birds talking to me, trees making their desires known, rocks asking for attention. Beautiful. The teaching of asking permission is powerful! And it’s so simple and accessible for all of us who have not grown up taught to behave that way. Thanks, Mike et al., for this teaching!”

“This is the second class that I have undertaken in my quest to become proficient in the nature connection process. The more that I meditate upon the concepts of Natural-Attraction Ecology, the more perfect sense it makes. In fact, nothing I have ever learned in my life has ever made more sense; my entire life has been enriched by this material.”

“I cannot fully express in words how enjoyable the PNC experience has become in words. I can say with certainty that thinking reasonably about the statements. Even in this short interval, PNC has helped me improve my relationship with the environment and I agree that significant positive change would occur if a large segment of the population became involved in this process. Getting to know myself in a fresh way has not only created the opportunities for wellness and inner growth, but has helped me bring a measure of relief to the physical and mental suffering of the people I interact with (that have chronic emotional and physical pain). “

“The value of the course for me is that it supports my attraction to use my fifty-three senses to know and feel webstring sensory connections to my ecosytem.  It is very attractive to me because it allows me to communicate with other people about our shared webstring sensory understandings and feelings experienced in our unique bioregions.  I feel more alive and I am supported in making choices about bringing my daily life into more sustainable personal and planetary choices.

The value of the course for others seems consistently to include a greater sense of belonging on their home planet, a sense that they are not alone in needing to be more deeply connected to nature and a sense that it is possible to create positive human community.”

“I am from the Yoruba speaking part ofWestern Nigeria, in Africa. I am 35 years old, married with two lovely, adorable and beautiful daughters. I work as a special assistant to the governor of Ekiti state government and I am also a politician hoping to champion the cause of nature in my country in due course.  Through this nature-guided course, I have hugely been enriched. My sense of self-worth has been restored to its origin in nature after taking a previous NSTP organized course. Project Nature-Connect is indeed a vehicle to living a nature-centered life and achieving a reasonable lasting relationship between man and nature. I hope to impart the knowledge I gained from this course to others and the society in general. I shall strive to ensure that humankind is reconnected with nature within and about the environment. It is my sincere joy to be part of this richly blended set of people.”

“The activities continue to daily enhance my practice of meditation and my trust of Nature and myself (as an integral part of Nature), and this, simultaneously, increases my sense of self-worth.  I find that the information that I am learning during this course is the most natural, beautiful, harmonious information that I could possibly be learning. It adds the critical dimension that is missing from our relationships and fits in so amazingly perfectly with my other studies and interests, with my whole life, really, that I am almost constantly astounded. I am, indeed, constantly grateful for the webstring attractions that led me to Project NatureConnect.”

“I have a client I’ve been working with for two years. She is diagnosed with a debilitating personality disorder and psychotic episodes. She is a remarkable woman. Despite having suffered profound, unbelievable and repeated trauma as a child, she remains kind, wise and powerfully committed to living a healthy life. And this is on a social security stipend that is cut every ten minutes. She needs to decide in any given month whether she gets eggs, or gas for the car to go to healing treatments. PNC and fifty-three senses and NIAL through nature connect have eased her in a way nothing else did (I worked with her for two years as a therapist supplementary to her main psych doc before we switched over to an educational interaction).  She is having coherent thought processes, able to do daily functions and able to grow meaningful relationships with me, nature, and a few people in her community. Nature is healing this woman and your wisdom about connecting in nature is her main self-empowerment in this healing. I know it is important to make a strong, big social impact – that is so true. And I count each alleviation of a personal suffering for someone as about as big as any three social movements. This woman is suffering less and I feel very attracted to that for her. Thanks for your brilliance and growth of this work.”

I connect to Dr. Mike’s central tenets about the nature separation trauma and our willingness as a species to go on trashing our living membrane of life.  It makes me a fierce advocate to protect and nurture this PNC program. It is one of the few places on Earth where there is enough of the natural practice of Earth-based kindness, that anyone who is healing could get a reflection of healthy nurturance by both nature and humans in nature. I know this not only from my long-term therapeutic practice in many mainstream and alternative practices, but also from my Elders’ gift to me of the capacity to walk the globe in the dream time and perceive life in many places. An experience without which we simply cannot heal our nature separation trauma.”

“Mind you- I grew up using this, not having any particular name for it other than intuition, but being able to be part of a community developing and validating this, validating Nature in each other, that was what had been missing in much of my life. This course has given me that.”

“Crossing paths with Dr. Cohen’s work and the Natural Systems Thinking Process has been a great blessing in my life. This course came into my awareness at a time when I was feeling disconnected from my environment, the Earth, and ultimately my own being. Granted it was winter in the Pacific Northwest, which many people claim to be the soul source of their depression, but it was clear to me that the disconnect I felt was based in a broader sense of separation regarding myself and Life as a whole. Engaging in the NTSP activities has been such a practical, enlightening, and enjoyable way to get back in touch with the web of Life and I can only see this relationship deepening over time. In the process of letting the Earth teach I felt that I was visiting natural spaces for the very first time that I had been to many times before.”

“I find a lot of value in making space in my life for enjoying sensory connections directly from and in natural areas. Just yesterday, as I walked through the woods, I saw a buzzard flying over me. I stopped to look at it, and feeling the sensory connections made me feel at peace. Just the fact that now I become more aware of this as I go through the course book and learn more about the webstrings and sensory connections, makes it all more worthwhile. The buzzard is still the same bird as before, I see it almost every day, but knowing about the sensory connections makes me feel different, I look at things differently, I’m more aware of what is going on around me when I walk through the woods.”

“I love hearing how we were all drawn to this course and the meaning we are finding in it – For me it is an intellectual and spiritual and purely natural adventure – a neat package that is, in other words, very holistic. I am so very appreciative of it all!”

“Connecting with nature has made a great difference in my life. And the best part for me is that I didn’t think of it, it just naturally flowed in my daily life. It appeared as needs to change things. I produce less garbage as now I use a lot of my wastes to create compost for my plants. I spend more time outdoor with my pet, friends, and garden. I became less needy of material things, and less attached to my possessions. My world became a world of possibilities and abundance. I spend a lot less money as a result of finding the right things to connect in natural ways.”

“The course as a whole is nearly impossible to summarize in words. I just hope that my articulation of it can convey my sensory experiences so they shine through with the passion, love, and gratitude I have for the opportunity to share the course with such an amazing group of people. Because of this course, I feel blessed and more connected with nature then ever.”

“I have been training a coaching class. It is 8 days class, divided in two modules of 4 days each with 2 days off in between. I usually don’t work with big groups and this group was a group of 16 people from different places in Argentina and Latin America. You all know my personal changes in the way I feel and how my state has been really stable, centered, and happy since doing these activities, and when I felt off I would go back to nature to reconnect. It is hard to put this into words… but working with this group and being myself in a different way of thinking, and connecting with the beauty, potential and connecting with them from a complete different place, maybe it was a literate transaction but I felt this same feeling I get when I connect with nature, and they did too. I had CEO’s, managers, consultants, lawyers, etc, who started the training stiff and they told me by the end they were other people… that I had helped them reconnect with their true nature, their passion for life and with the beautiful things in life. The material was the same, but I was different. And thinking of it, they had the same feeling I had while connecting with earth. They felt respected in their own individuality and contribution, and we all really connected to each other in this way, we awakened the healthy webstrings that connected us as people, it has been the best group and experience I have ever had as a trainer in the last 15 years. They all took care of each other’s well-being and it was beautiful to see them blooming, kind of shining and finding their way back home to who they really are and want, forgetting about their pre-conceived stories and we all celebrated this sacred space! It is so hard to put into words this experience (it is very emotional for me and my smile is soooo big!) but if I had to put some words of what we lived was connection, love, beauty, respect and real LIFE! Now I realize how this training not only has helped me reconnect, but also how it enriches and makes my relationships healthier and much more better transcending me.”

“By learning the process of appreciation, permission, relation, and acceptance, I have been able to create moments that lets Earth teach. After a long frustrating and emotional day in today’s society, I struggle to make sense out of things we are “supposed” to understand.  Immediately I go to nature to clear my mind. There I ask Earth to help me with my confusions and by the end of this activity, I am content and balanced.”

“I have found that this course has significantly helped me, especially in communicating with the nature. I had almost lost touch with that side of me and became restless and stressful due to my work. But thanks to the short activities provided by Dr. Cohen and PNC, I could make enough time for connecting with nature. Previously, I was known for my sudden short temper but now I hardly find myself getting irritated or losing temper at others. My family and friends have noticed this change in me and they are a lot happier by the change that this course has brought about. In addition, it has raised my confidence and self worth, making me more reliable than before.”

“It gives me hope that healing can occur. The connections, I feel when being in nature and around others make me feel stronger, more content and more loving. I have begun to trust my sensory attraction feelings and would like to share these feelings with others I see suffering. I can see myself using these methods professionally both in my work as a school teacher and yoga teacher.”

“The teaching from each member in the community, and nature itself, has been the highlight of this program for me. When I read the responses of my classmates in ECO 501, I feel sensory receptors awaken along my skin, in my eyes, in my solar plexus. Similar to the experience of being outside in nature. Their contributions are that heartfelt and open, that even though we are not physically present to each other, we are somehow creating a network that includes some kind of sensing – that actually does create a physiological response.”

“I am 61 years young and growing younger and stronger each day. When I was in high school, I decided that I would become an educator and challenge the way education too often hurt and broke society instead of supporting and reaching the heart of society. It has been a long, long process. PNC has come at a wonderful time and has pulled many of the pieces together. I discovered PNC a year ago and it has taken hold on my heart and life style. As a Project NatureConnect partner said, the soul of the program is in teaching experientially … for students to experience nature and its wisdom in a fuller way. From now on, wherever I am I will be able to have a support group of empathic and wise helpers that guide me as I regain lost understandings and past sensory learnings. I also continue to bring the webstrings of PNC into the school setting, making education a safer and more holistic environment.”

“We don’t exclusively own our natural attraction webstring senses and sensitivities.  Rather, they are a voice we share with every species and mineral. They attract the natural community, the web of life, to beneficially flow through us and us through it, atom by atom, moment by moment.  That makes earth like our other body, our second mother.”

“This is absolutely one of my favorite aspects of this course. It comes closest to expressing for me the sheer reverence in being alive. How is this possible? We are so separate and yet simultaneously irrevocably of and within our environments!  Sheer genius. And I appreciate Dr. Mike’s ability to see this and express it in terms that help me understand it. All my life I have been able to slip easily into feeling one with life, with the nameless, natural attraction, essence of nature, what many perceive as God. And to be able to share this knowledge through these words is such a gift. This is what those moments of unity and peace feel like, that my molecules are in exchange with all of life and at one with all of life and that is natural and eternal. This moment is great natural and eternal, I have to think in this way forever if I want to make nature appreciate how I care about it.”

“It was like a dream when I received a message that I was to start the orientation course. I didn’t know what the course would teach me by the end; I found it is the best course I have ever attended. I am far more myself when with nature. It has opened my eyes; I can talk nature-friendly language. I have found joy in myself and peace as an outcome.”

“In the eastern part of the country where I came from, a cat is regarded as a devilish animal, some says it is very poisonous and nobody keeps it as house pet and this creates animosity for cats in my tribe. My mum and I went to harvest  cassava in our farm land, behold! On getting there what I saw was a snared cat and the fore limbs have been fractured I stood akimbo staring at the cat not knowing that my mum have gone to carry a heavy stone to kill the cat based on the industrial stories she is fed with but I rushed and pulled a way the stone from her. And I went and un-tied the cat from the snare and I abandoned my mum and the harvesting tools in the farm for that day and left for veterinary clinic for treatment. After which I brought the cat home and put it in a cage. When my mum came back from the farm and saw the cat, she was asking me if am crazy, didn’t I know that cat is very poisonous, devilish and harmful and I told her to eradicate such thought from her mind that it is just an industrial stories and thinking and for quite some days she is becoming friendly with the cat. She is even helping to feed the cat when I am not around. I then thank nature for proving industrial stories and thinking wrong. I also thank and appreciate nature for eradicating wrangling of all sorts in my mum and I. nature also  appreciates me by providing me with the feelings of friendliness, unity and humility. I deserve to have this gift because I don’t take nature for granted and I obey its principles.”

“I am so very grateful for Project Nature Connect, because it has helped me to realize my deep connection with nature, has helped me to connect with other people who think the way nature works, helped me to find the words to explain my non-verbal way of being, and has guided me to a deeper understanding of how to stay healthy and happy, and how to be a better parent.”

“My conclusion from taking this course is that The Natural Systems Thinking Process is the most effective non-verbal communication link we have with our psychic center and the universal healing power of the planet.”

“How easily and effortlessly all this Natural Systems Thinking Process has seeped into our consciousness and beneficially influenced us. It is almost like a re-awakening of our lost connections with Earth, each other, and ourselves. It just happened because we followed the activity instructions and then shared the results with one another. Wow! It was amazingly profound and in many ways never ending in terms of the discoveries available for us. We can simply go deeper and there is always more. The same goes for talking about it. We all describe what happens with our own perspective but when we read each other’s descriptions, the shared experiences are so accessible that we are brothers and sisters in the circle of existence and consciousness. Blessings to you and your part of the planet and let us keep this beauty of reconnecting with nature growing in our lives.”

“My expansive energy sometimes gets the best of me along with that tree-chopping pioneering spirit. My vision is firmly fixed on the process made available through Mike’s diligent work over so many years. His courageous articulation and nature-re-connecting methodology validates my own experience and rather than isolating me, offers the best opportunity of reconnecting not only with nature, but with others who feel like I do. It’s ironic that in the process of reintegrating our psychologically dismembered selves with nature, we often have to disavow our distorted egos. This process requires a great deal of humility and even that can be best modeled in nature, for example, the humility of a blade of grass, the tolerance of a tree, both completely devoid of any sense of false prestige!”

“My dream time was good and although it offered a much needed rest and renewal, it did not change my good feelings towards my attraction exercise. I do see a significant change in my sleep patterns with respect to NSTP! Thank goodness! Nature has offered me a physical healing as well. I put this new found acknowledgement of the validity of NTSP into my uncontaminated space in my mind. When the time is right I will offer it as a resource to others.”

“Nature has propelled me into the present, gave me a deeper image of who I truly am, a void filling experience.  Nature is a part of me and I am a part of nature, and my senses are alive in my moment to moment living.”

This class has taught me more about my inner nature than I ever knew before, to become my own teacher, to know the sacredness of nature, and to be attuned always in order to be responsive and communicative in the right ways to others.  Emma, you put it beautifully in one of your posts, “The activity enhanced my sense of me. It taught me more about myself. I have learnt to look to nature, not only to learn by what I see outside of myself, but by learning through looking at who I really am. I am learning from myself.”  The class opened my old brain up to understanding and working in balance with the new brain, becoming full and whole again. “

“When I am aware of my 53 senses it is like a dance between them all.  I become aware of my sense of movement for example and this awareness triggers awareness of another sense and so on.  As the awareness of all my senses increases and expands to include more and more I become more and more in the present as I build up more and more awareness of different sensibilities.”

“It is refreshing and delightful to find others of like mind in this class.  So many of our ordinary daily encounters are dull at best but our sharing here is heartfelt, sensed, and warming.  When I was a child, I was brought up in nature and never lost that connection with my natural life, even though I did pull away for a time. Now I am repairing that I am now revamping back to nature.  I just wanted to say thank you all from my heart, and senses, that we as an online tribe are helping me heal, and healing yourselves, while finding our true Nature within our Mother Earth. We have discovered that we can all find real balance.  We are all part of it.”

“There is a stately dignity and wild exuberance from this outdoor arena and a resolve in my being towards completeness. It is as if in spite of my self the wilderness inside seeks a reflection from the outside. I am in awe and gratitude for the measures these senses sought to confide humility and endurance amongst seasonal splendor. I am love seeking natural attractions to fulfill itself, me and the universe moment by moment.”

“I have noticed over the past few weeks that as I become more comfortable BEING that my relationships with others are shifting in a profound way.  I’ve had wonderful deep conversations with my mum that wouldn’t have been possible before this course. My relationship with my sister has improved, and I find myself coming from that loving place of no language – of realizing that I am OK with who they naturally are and they are OK with who I am and I don’t need to fix anything. This is by far one of the richest epiphanies I’ve had working with these nature activities. It is a life lesson that I cannot really condense or translate here for our written purposes.”

“Before Project NatureConnect, I had a constant struggle to fit in with my surroundings other than nature.  I could never put my true feelings into this weird thing called ‘language.’ This frustrated me and made me feel very insecure in my skin.  But Project NatureConnect found me and helped me realize that I’m natural, I do belong and the way I am is natural, pure, whole, and healthy. I am happy to have this connection without labeling it with words.”

“I soloed on this activity in a favorite area overlooking the beautiful vista of pinons, ponderosa, juniper, yucca plants, hills, and distant mountain peaks. The day was warm and breezy, birds chirping. I closed my eyes and began to explore the area. I felt plants, rocks, trees and tasted a few as well. The scent of vanilla from Ponderosa pines filled my senses. I felt very relaxed and soon lay down on my back, solidly contained and supported by the planet mother. I felt love and beauty, alert and finely attuned to my surroundings. Birds, insects and the wind all sang their distinctive songs. I felt unique spongy textures, textures I would not have even imagined using sight alone. I heard the wind and traveled with it. So many senses intensely came to life: trust, community, place, gravity, compassion. Prior to doing this exercise, I was plagued with all sorts of projects I had lined up for the day. I felt overworked, overwhelmed and somewhat out of control. But I did force myself to move away from these stress related chores and go into nature. Soon my stresses began to shed and I started to relax and felt welcomed- as if coming home to the Self. A Self that feels whole when in contact with Nature.”

“The separation of my twin sister and I is equivalent to the feeling of a plant being removed from its ground, roots out of soil. The love I share with my Fly Trap and Bamboo is really comforting and pulling me through these emotions.  PNC will never leave my side. This is forever my way of life.”

“I did this activity in a natural area with rocks, a stream, and lots of trees. At the first place I asked consent from the area to visit it, I assumed permission would be granted. But when I asked, a cool wind came up, the rocks seemed more forbidding, and the attraction went away. Surprised, I moved on to other areas, and found myself feeling profoundly grateful when I did receive welcoming sensations.  I asked for permission from a rock-hill. First I received nothing; then as I asked its consent to move more deeply into the rock formation, I experienced the sun more warmly, the moss under my feet more gently, and the hill showed me a comfy place to sit. My respect for nature in general was enhanced with the realization that I cannot simply assume permission to visit will be granted – I must do the “obtain consent” activity with my whole heart open to whatever happens. To survive, our environment needs and deserves this kind of respect.”

“The colored leaves gave me a feeling like I was a small child playing with Kaleidoscope. I was completely lost and felt great relief as my childhood memories came back. Nature indeed taught me a great lesson and welcomed me back with open arms. I felt rejuvenated as I started walking back to my class.”

“The activity helped me become aware of my attraction to the crescent moon as it hung over two hills near my home. Soon, its mellow glow, framed by peaks and trees, embraced me in a wordless, ancient primordial scene. Timeless power, peace and unity swept me into awe. I felt in balance with all of reality. I was simply “BEING.” No tension, no pressing goal, just truly belonging to the global community. This natural energy captured my stress laden pulse and seduced it to the rhythms of Earth. The sleeping disorder I have battled all my adult life dissolved in it. For the first time in decades, I gently fell asleep after dark and arose shortly after dawn. I celebrated the breakthrough and I thanked Earth. I thanked the activity, too, for it enables me to reconnect whenever I choose.”