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INSENSATE

  • Warren Grossman, PHD.
  • Jun 20, 2016
  • 2 min read

(Warren Grossman's personal healing journey led him to appreciate and know nature more deeply than most of us. His work helping others to heal through nature and his work bringing awareness to our deadly disconnect from Mother Earth is inspiring to say the least. His writing is crystal clear and full of deep wisdom. He is a very wise and loving man. Have a read and ponder.

Take a look at Warren's website http://warrengrossman.com. Read his amazing story of healing through nature. Consider buying a book he has written - this morning I am going to do that myself.

I have been on a journey in nature in a new way since I met him, hugging and leaning on trees and breathing in the deep, sweet smells of nature in the park that backs on my home. Listening to the beautiful bird calls. breathing and feeling it in to help heal an issue I have had this year. Trees are beings that share the earth with us, that bring important functions to us, I know that more and more. I want to know it even more. - I have just begun this journey.

I share this excerpt from his book "Being Healed" with you, as he shared it with me. Cathy)

INSENSATE, by Warren Grossman

We are absurdly blind.

Failure to believe where we are at the moment is our devastating failure.

Each day we unconsciously deny that we can stand only on the earth,

and it would, reasonably, be wise to take care of that surface, or we will be without a place to exist.

As we repeatedly fail to realize that there is no other place to live, other than the surface of the earth, we place ourselves increasingly at risk.

Not accepting the unconditional reality of our physical location, allows us to behave in ways that are contrary to our own best interests and could conceivably lead to our deaths.

Not merely our own deaths but the deaths of all others. Not only the deaths of others,

but the death of life. Each day, we repeatedly threaten our chances of survival by

depleting the life-supporting capabilities of our environment— our only environment.

Each day, Americans emit waste into the air we will breathe, apply toxins to the earth in which our food is grown, and pour sewage into our drinking water.

All the while, we continue to engage in a dreamlike state of not perceiving

not reasoning not knowing.

What a massive failure of intelligence. What bizarre denial

of the moment-to-moment conditions of our lives.

We do not recognize the meeting point of our bodies and the earth.

Instead, we have become lost in the demands of an invented commerce, artificial appetites and denial of death.

Imagine the earth with no plants or animals

no suitable water no people

no life.

Go outdoors. Peer downward for a long moment. See your feet against the earth.

Blink. See them again. See that juncture,

that interface,

that meeting place of you and the ground. Then, feel the sensations of your feet

as you stand on your earth.

 
 
 
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