obvious?
This we know: the Earth does not
belong to man, man belongs to the
Earth. All things are connected like the
blood that unites us all. Man did not
weave the web of life, he is merely
a strand in it. Whatever he does to
the web, he does to himself.
Chief Seattle
that deep self
At the psychic level [of transpersonal development], a person might temporarily dissolve the separate-selfsense (the ego...) and find an identity with the entire gross or sensorimotor world--so-called nature mysticism. You are on a nice nature walk, relaxed and expansive in your awareness, and you look at a beautiful mountain, and wham!--suddenly there is no looker, just the mountain--and you are the mountain. You are not in here looking at the mountain out there. There is just the mountain, and it seems to see itself, or you seem to be seeing it from within. The mountain is closer to you than your own skin. ... You are a "nature mystic." ... [In regard to this higher, transpersonal self] I am a big fan of the [ecopsychologists]. They have an important message for the modern world: to find that deep Self that embraces all of nature, and thus to treat nature with the same reverence you would extend to your own being.
Ken Wilber, Brief History of Everything, p 202
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