TINA AMOROK To be consciously immersed in our ecological and cosmological identity and relationships imparts a feeling of profound intimacy. We can feel this interconnected sanctity of life through silent immersion, receptivity,and heartfelt presence.This is the realm of eco-Being. When we become attuned to the many voices of the natural world, we realize not only that we are in the presence of timeless interspecies stories of symbiosis and evolution but also that we exist because of this ecological and cosmological intimacy. This communion instills a transformative reverence for life. The perception, identity, and relationships that are revealed and forged within the realm of eco-Being inspire cosmologies, worldviews, creative works, and lives that hold a vision for a peaceful and ecologically sustainable existence for all beings. This felt knowing and vision become our central reference, our sacred guide into the future. The experience of interconnectedness contains paradox, for we sense not just the profound beauty of life but also the pandemic of human violence and the existential anxiety that it causes. The destructive presence of nuclear and chemical weapons, for example, exists both in the military arsenals of governments and in the realm of interconnectedness, where our fear of annihilation and the felt sense of the suffering of others—including the Earth itself—are transmitted just as clearly as the joy of Being. We defend ourselves from this fearsome side of interconnectedness through separation ideologies and practices (war, religious fanaticism, racism, and sexism), psychological defense mechanisms (denial, dissociation, psychic numbing), and an array of debilitating behaviors and responses that bear the signature of trauma, ranging from depression, anxiety, and addictive lifestyles to violence toward self, others, and nature. This traumatic loss of intimacy with the Earth and the cosmos creates a deficit in the realm of eco-Being and is a core cause of human-upon-nature and human-upon-human violence. This is the eco-trauma of Being and the cyclic nature of trauma and violence. Healing this deficit through the recovery of eco-Being is an essential process in the transformation of individual and collective human consciousness. Not perceiving the sacred presence of nature and not experiencing oneself as interconnected with life is arguably the greatest threat facing the Earth today. Continue reading >here< TINA AMOROK, PsyD, is a clinical psychologist and research associate at the Institute of Noetic Sciences. This article is adapted from Amorok’s doctoral dissertation research, completed at the California Institute of Integral Studies. Full Article Download 
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