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Journal of
Organic
Psychology
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Volume 2005Institute of Global Education P. O. Box 1605 Friday Harbor, WA 98250 360-378-6313 ....
Enabling Articles and Links that Support the Well-Being of Self, Society and Nature
Or-gan-ic .Psy-chol-o-gy :
1. A nature-connected, relationship-building thinking process that taps into and strengthens natural systems in people and the environment.
2. An interaction tool that enables people to add the restorative intelligence and love in Organic Consciousness Moments (OCM) to disciplines, professions and relationships.
3. A peaceful art and science that can be added to any endeavor as a unifying process that helps people enjoy more responsible relationships by thinking, feeling and interacting while in conscious, sensory contact with the attraction energies of natural systems and their regenerative benefits.
Table of Contents (below)
Journal of Organic Psychology Overview
Journal Introduction
Purpose, Definition and Submission Guidelines
Summarized from How You Can Come to Your Senses by Michael J. Cohen
"Organic Psychology is a science that enables your thinking to genuinely interlace with nature so that you can compost into fertile thoughts the garbage that has been dumped into your mind by destructive aspects of society.
It helps you to recycle how you think and feel; your renewed psyche and resilience more effectively repair the damage inflicted on yourself, society and nature.
It gives you the power to make sensible changes and refute detrimental relationships.
Our destiny depends upon us using Organic Psychology as tool to expand our consciousness and strengthen our love for the whole of life."
- Michael J. Cohen
The regenerative grace, balance and beauty of nature give it, or make it, a wise intelligent perfection of its own for which no match has yet been found. To date, the artificial substitutes or improvements that we invent to replace nature usually generate waste products, excesses or other destructiveness. This results in our troubles, troubles that are foreign to nature and detrimental to our happiness and nature's perfect ways.
The problems generated by our substitutes for nature suggest that with regard to nature there is no substitute for the real thing. To our benefit, organic products and processes enable us to benefit on this realization. Rather than overcome or supplant nature, organics work with nature's profound ways and wisdom to help us meet our survival goals. (1)
Nature plays a key role in organics and, in turn, organics neither produce nor suffer the problems generated by our surrogates for nature.
Usually the psychologies and learning processes of our nature-separated thinking are prejudicially designed and rewarded for conquering or exploiting nature rather than nurturing, embracing and revering the natural world. In this way, contemporary processes often help produce and continue the problems they are designed to solve. (2)
Most contemporary processes are not organic in nature. Rather, they are products of our isolated way of thinking, a limited form of consciousness that arrogantly declares that it is the greatest intelligence on Earth. It teaches us that, for our survival, it is our duty to relate to nature as a resource for implementing how and what we think. We learn to relate to nature as a commodity rather than respect it as our community.
An essence of our wayward, but normal, thinking process is to provide mechanisms and rewards that habituate us to destructive non-organic ways of thinking and relating that create our problems. This conditioning of our mentality this way describes insanity; it helps to explain our society's madness.
"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. "
..........- Benjamin Franklin"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."
...........- Albert Einstein
Organic Psychology recognizes that we are part of nature and that, like the rest of nature, our psyche and ability to think contain nature's perfection.
Today's challenge is that our psyche has become painfully disconnected from nature and thereby polluted by hurtful, non-organic aspects of our culture and socialization. This occurs because we separate nature's perfection within us from its continually nurturing origins in the natural world. Like pulling a plant out of the soil, we have lost our grounding.
Parts of our society have long recognized and reported this detrimental disconnection. But our social rewards for exploiting nature for profit have prejudicially addicted our thinking to ignore this problem so, to our loss, we remain disconnected.
The excessively stressed, abusive and polluted state of the world produced by the genius of contemporary thinking clearly shows that our mentality has become dysfunctional. It is also clear that nature's restorative powers are not healing this dysfunction as they would normally in nature. This is simply because we live extremely nature-separated lives.
On average, over 99 percent of our thinking is not in tune with nature; over 95 percent of our time is spent indoors.
How can nature even begin to help us heal our disorders when we are disconnected from its healing ways and receive socioeconomic rewards to applaud this disconnection as progress?
Organic Psychology in Essence
The science of Organic Psychology addresses our disconnection dilemma in the same way organics have successfully addressed other environmental and social problems. Consider, for example, the great benefits we gain when we compost pollution and other waste materials. Composting works by working with nature, by making space and time for garbage to naturally transform itself into products that support the whole of life. The decomposition process may not glamourous but it supports humanity. It is nature's way of sustaining health and balance, it's free, and it's purifing.
We become what we think. Organic Psychology (OP) gives our thinking the rewards and value of "composting," our mind pollution, the mental garbage in our psyche that creates our stress and troubles. To our benefit, OP enables us to safely orchestrate fusions of our thinking with the intelligence of nature's grace, balance and restorative powers and thereby transform our mental garbage into constructive more holistic thoughts and acts. By joining natural systems and their perfection, our belief systems and activities become more organic.
Our thinking increases our well-being when it has the OP ability to change our disorders into environmentally sound ways of relating on personal and global levels. OP helps us correct the dilemmas caused by our nature-disconnected socialization, education and consciousness.
OP works because it empowers us to create Organic Consciousness Moments (OCM). OCM connect our consciousness, thinking and acts with the intelligence and love in nature's self-organizing perfection (3)
The benefits of OP parallel the great values we already receive from organic food production, organic medicine and organic acts of courage.
Guidelines for Journal Submissions
For the reasons described above, instead of presenting the "theories," "shoulds" or "ain't it awfuls" that pervade the media and academia, the Journal of Organic Psychology links readers to readily available thinking tools that empower us to create Organic Consciousness Moments (OCM).
The Journal's goal is to enable readers to individually and collectively help our thinking heal, balance and grow at any time by adding forms of OM to our every discipline and relationship.
The Journal accomplishes its mission by sharing the who, where, when why and how of what is taking place with OCM. We discover what OCM can beneficially add to various aspects of our lives. (4) This is more practical than the usual procedures for social and environmental improvement.
Ordinarily we learn to first present a good idea to the public and its leaders and get them to accept, fund and then apply that idea. Positive change only occurs if the original idea is accepted, holistic and it is not compromised. For example, we still don't raise and eat organic foods although the possibility of doing so has long been known. Another example, ancient knowledge written from contact by Moses with the burning bush or from Jesus's forty days in the wilderness has yet to reach its potential in our civilization.
What the Journal of Organic Psychology does is seek and present information that helps us, at will, go directly to the burning bush or wilderness, and beneficially connect our thinking with the consciousness and intelligence found there. This is doable and believeable because most of us have already done it. We have enjoyed a good experience with nature, backcountry, backyard or with our pet, or with the wind, sea or stars. On some level we already recognize nature's potential for healing, for increasing our peace of mind and our reverence for all of life.
Therapy and education that includes us learning how to create and enjoy OCM help us further validate and trust what we naturally sense and feel in good nature experiences.
The Journal of Organic Psychology recognizes that we must, in the now of life, deal with the detrimental anti-nature prejudice and addictive conditioning that results from our nature-disconnected socialization. The Journal also recognizes that these destructive emotional forces seldom respond to ideas and information alone. To nurture ourselves and become healthy the Journal helps us add OCM to every aspect of our life. Moment by moment, we can let nature's regenerative "higher power" help us recycle the erosive and prejudicial ways we habitually think and act. This is vital because, at this late date, our thinking is hurtfully nature-defecient. It is also our destiny.
REFERENCES
1. M.J. Cohen How You Can Come to Your Senses
2. M.J. Cohen Got Nature?
3. Project NatureConnect Secrets of Natural Attractions Trail
4. Project NatureConnect Survey of Participants
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTORY ARTICLES
1. Press Release Free Online University Training and Degrees in Ecopsychology
2. A short history and update of nature-connected counseling, education and healing
3. An Introduction to Organic Psychology The Introduction, above, as an article you can publish elsewhere
4. The Basics of Organic Psycholgy An in-depth presentation of findings, quotes and procedures that validate the use and practicality of Organic Psychology
5. Why Organic Psychology? Announcements that describe the process
ARTICLES FROM GLOBAL SOURCES:
Forthcoming: Submit you article or link to the editorial staff for review and publication in this journal using the guidelines in the Introduction, above.
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