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A Secret Remedy for Ecozombies Discovered
Michael Cohen
Environmental Psychologists Discover a Secret
Remedy for Ecozombies:
An antidote found in nature reverses destructive
relationships by enabling people and the
environment to restore each other.
Michael J. Cohen, Ed.D
Director, Project NatureConnect
Institute of Global Education
"What the heck are Ecozombies?" was Dr. Dawn Miller's
reaction to an article that mentioned them. It said: "In
regard to dealing with Ecozombies, James Rowe, Director of
the Outward Bound School in Costa Rica, notes, 'We
dramatically increased our program's effectiveness by
adding a natural systems thinking process to it. It
enables our participants to reconnect with their sensory
origins in nature and use that peaceful power to improve
their relationships with self, society and the
environment.' " Outward Bound is a noted leader in
personal growth programs.
The paragraph brought Dawn back to her childhood
memories of a lovely night on a starlit beach. Her love for
animals at that age came to mind, too. "Where are those
joys and values now?" she wondered.
Then the article alarmed Dawn. It made her aware that over
the years she had unknowingly become an ecozombie. She
recognized the symptoms. When she visited a natural area
she spent most of her time there habitually consumed with
other things, her personal problems, money, and unfulfilled
desires.
Dawn realized the impact of her family and profession had
conditioned her thinking. She habitually related to people and
places through glasses that distorted their true nature. For
this reason, most of her relationships became
problems that demanded her attention.
The article said that ecozombies are desensitized,
environmental deadheads. They have lost their ability to
register Nature because that ability has been captured and
focused elsewhere. They suffer from the loss of nature's
peace, intelligence and spirit while nature suffers from the
loss of their respect. "That's me all right," said Dawn, sadly.
Dawn discovered that in contemporary society being an
ecozombie is "normal." We become ecozombies because, on
average, over 95% of our time and 99.9% of our thinking is
disconnected from nature. This staggering separation of
our soul from the environment is like a hurtful
psychological abortion from the womb of Mother Earth.
Traumatically, it denies us the supportive energies of our
sensory loves and origins in nature and their ability to
produce balanced relationships. Like orphans, we are left
with a wanting void inside us that we can't explain. That
hurt underlies our greatest personal, social and
environmental disorders, including war. It constantly,
often destructively, seeks replacements for the
satisfying purity, perfection and beauty of nature.
Most key leaders and professional people are entrenched
ecozombies. Their ecological insensitivity is an unstated
requirement for being prominent in our nature conquering
society. As the state of the world shows, our leaders
often lead us further astray.
Dawn discovered there is an easily available antidote for
ecozombies. She could use and teach a new, psychological,
nature reconnecting science, a sensory process developed by
ecopsychologists. Uniquely, the process enables people and
the environment to connect and restore each other.
Backyard or backcountry, it helps people experience nature
with not just five, but at least 53 senses that we inherit
from and share with the natural world.
Historically, leadership, education or counseling has always
been more successful when it includes multisensory contact
with nature.
Dawn joined with guided groups of people on the internet
who use the nature reconnecting process to improve their
lives. In thanks, she wrote:
"I was never taught to ask permission to relate to people
or the environment. I just take that for granted, as we all
do. However, this activity required my senses to learn how
to ask an attractive tree-covered area in the park for its
consent for me to walk through it. The area continued to
feel attractive, but something changed. It was the first
time in my life that I totally felt safe. It felt like
Earth's energies were in charge of my life, not me. It gave
me a wonderful feeling of having more power to be myself. I
felt in balance with nature and the people here because I
could distinctly feel their natural energies consenting to
support me. I never experienced nature and people that way
before. It was like a powerful law protected not only my
life, but all of life. I felt very secure and nurtured as I
walked under those trees. I learned that when I seek
permission from the environment and people I gain energy
and unity. I belong."
The University group that Dawn joined has proclaimed the
year 2001 to be Ecozombie Rehabilitation Year. They invite
anybody to help humanity and Earth recover from our
trespasses by using and teaching the nature reconnecting
process. Like Dawn, those who have accepted this
invitation are meeting their deeper desires for belonging,
peace and sanity. As they help themselves and others
they increase their effectiveness, marketability, and
expertise. For them, it is as Thoreau, and those like him,
explained to ecozombies 150 years ago:
"I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my
senses put in order." --John Burroughs |
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