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by Michael J. Cohen Ph. D. (Author)
There is no doubt. It is self-evident to you that you are reading these words right now and that fact will help you believe what would otherwise seem unbelievable in this book. Its chapters offer unique, critically important self-evidence that include you in the process of experiencing, collecting and evaluating it. Be amazed. Here is a reasonable and reliable instrument, one that enables you to repair the point source of what ails us personally and globally. From Project NatureConnect research, its pages provide hope for they go far beyond what has not worked, beyond our leaders informing us about our devastating problems but not giving us a tool that helps us solve them. Each chapter's hands-on science empowers your inherent natural genius to correct the disastrous errors in the way that we are socialized to think, feel and act. This same ability has allowed nature-centered societies to live in self-correcting balance for thousands of years without producing or suffering our troubles. Participate in this book's art of validating Planet Earth as your "other body." Reap the rewards from reversing the effects of the corrupt way we have been addicted to know and relate to the world. Apply this skill to your personal life and livelihood. You can optionally obtain free course credit, a certification, a job or a degree for mastering its educating, counseling and healing with nature Ecopsychology.
Author Biography
Recipient of the 1994 Distinguished World Citizen Award, Applied Ecopsychologist Michael J. Cohen, Ph.D., is a Program Director of the Institute of Global Education where he coordinates its Integrated Ecology Department and Project NatureConnect. He also serves on the faculty of Portland State University and the Akamai University Institute of Applied Ecopsychology whose program he initiated and has directed since 1990. In 1965, Dr. Cohen discovered that Planet Earth acted like a living organism and based on this he founded sensory, Gaia based, degree granting Environmental and Expedition Education outdoor programs independently and for the National Audubon Society and Lesley University. He conceived the 1985 National Audubon International Symposium "Is the Earth a Living Organism," at the University of Massachusetts and established the science of Organic Psychology in 2005 and Natural Attraction Ecology in 2008. He is the Editor of the Journal of Organic Psychology and Natural Attraction Ecology and an award winning author of ten books dealing with Applied Ecopsychology including "Educating, Counseling and Healing With Nature," "The Web Of Life Imperative," "Reconnecting With Nature" and, new, "The Hidden Organic Remedy: Nature as Higher Power." Dr. Cohen is also an accomplished folk song artist and contra dancer who presents traditional music programs using guitar, banjo and accordion for the U.S. National Park Service and Skagit Valley College Road Scholars on San Juan Island, Washington.
