If you help others, you will be helped

If you help others, you will be helped, perhaps tomorrow, perhaps in one hundred years, but you will be helped. Nature must pay off the debt...It is a mathematical law and all life is mathematics.

- G. I. Gurdjieff

Origins of Civilization

deep forest - magic shroom

Forests promote healthy brain activity

Mother nature is a valuable resource for human health & wellbeing

"I saw this little flower as I was coming back from my class...and it really gave me a strong sense of hope."

Twentieth Century German social psychologist Erich Fromm first advanced the notion that humans hold an inborn connection to nature. Later, it was popularized by biologist E.O. Wilson as "the urge to affiliate with other forms of life." In the ensuing years, support for the positive effects of nature has gained considerable traction, grounded in a growing body of research.

In recent weeks, at least four new studies have emerged adding more validity to what science repeatedly has revealed: being around nature is good for us. The latest research shows that interacting with nature makes the brain stronger and soothes the psyche.

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude

― Aldous Huxley

they ought not to be adjusted?

The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. "Many of them are normal because they are so well adjusted to our mode of existence, because their human voice has been silenced so early in their lives, that they do not even struggle or suffer or develop symptoms as the neurotic does." They are normal not in what may be called the absolute sense of the word; they are normal only in relation to a profoundly abnormal society. Their perfect adjustment to that abnormal society is a measure of their mental sickness. These millions of abnormally normal people, living without fuss in a society to which, if they were fully human beings, they ought not to be adjusted.”

― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Revisited

15,000 scientists deliver catastrophic "warning to humanity" over fate of our natural world

15,000 scientists deliver catastrophic "warning to humanity" over fate of our natural world -- Earth Changes

A new, dire "warning to humanity" about the dangers to all of us has been written by 15,000 scientists from around the world.

The message updates an original warning sent from the Union of Concerned Scientists that was backed by 1,700 signatures 25 years ago. But the experts say the picture is far, far worse than it was in 1992, and that almost all of the problems identified then have simply been exacerbated.

Mankind is still facing the existential threat of runaway consumption of limited resources by a rapidly growing population, they warn. And "scientists, media influencers and lay citizens" aren't doing enough to fight against it, according to the letter.

If the world doesn't act soon, there be catastrophic biodiversity loss and untold amounts of human misery, they warn.

Documentary on Amma, Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi

More than just folk wisdom: Immersing yourself in nature has a healing effect

More than just folk wisdom: Immersing yourself in nature has a healing effect

The longer the trip, the more healing occurs,' says the geologist Peter Winn, who has been leading expeditions down the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon since the 1960s. 'Healing happens for people almost without exception.'

Could it be that human evolution is not just the meaningless process that Darwin identified, but something more purposive and intelligent that we have barely begun to understand?