Friday, April 27, 2007
Jason Parham, Nature is not natural to us.
When one leaves civilization and enters the wilderness they are more or less leaving an artificial life and entering into a natural life. The interesting thing about this is that the artificial life is what is natural to them not nature. We call nature the wilderness because it has no human artifacts nothing for us to connect to it therefore allows us to loose track of all the things we had focused on before hand, and so we can contemplate spirituality. The interesting question is that if a person was raised in nature and that was natural to them would they be able to have the same experience coming into the city, where the rules are flipped, where what he knows no longer applies. Would he begin to have civilization spirituality? I think it is possible, I don’t know if he would have revelations about the same things, but I do think he would have revelations.
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