Laurie Gardner's Blog – June 2009 Archive (3)

Green Psychology by Metzner is another book that speaks about our relationship with the earth and how that affects how we treat the earth. He makes very good points on how even one who is fairly connected to the natural environment can improve their relationship. Its another I recommend. I've just read so many lately its difficult to keep which information came from where straight so please excuse the poor review.

I just finished the book Microcosmos by Margulis and Sagan. It was required for a class I was taking and I was initially very intimidated with the material as some of the scientific concepts arebeyond what I know about. However, our assignment with the book was to read it from a spiritual perspective and give our thoughts on it. It is an amazing book. It is very humbling to us as human's. Life will survive with or without us. It gives much to contemplate as we are humbled. I highly recommend… Continue

Below is all about the nothing survival course I took- at least the parts that are grabbing me to share. Feel free to ask me questions. I'll answer what I can.



There was 6 of us in the class and Cody (our guide/trainer). First of all the 6 of us composed a tribe for the weekend. We needed to work together and come to a consensus on the decisions made. (We actually all worked very well together and even when we didn't initially agree on what needed to be done, a consensus was reached… Continue