Curriculum: The Voice of Nature

Discusses a subconscious anti-nature mentality in Americans that divides the planet and people's wholeness, laying the foundation for the unwholesome environmental, spiritual, and personal problems that confront the US. To reunite this division, students in an environmental education class were trained to use the globally congruent meanings of "nature," "culture," and "self-preservation," to perceive themselves to be identical with, and as exploited as, the living planet. This approach strengthened the wholeness and self-preservation feelings of students by reducing their internal stress and improving their harmony with the environment. (13 ref)