MZD - Episode 41 A Nature Awakening

Mountain Zen Den Podcast

From time out of mind, we as human beings were a part of the natural world, living off the land, connecting with nature on a day-to-day basis, sometimes fighting against it for survival, but always depending on it for sustenance. Without it we wouldn’t have been able to survive.

And neither can we now. We just don’t realize it. That’s because we have fallen asleep.

Over the past few hundred years or so, as the Industrial Revolution rolled in, we slowly migrated farther and farther away from our beloved Mother Earth, and began relying more and more on technology for making a living and making a life.

We lost the art of reading the land, listening to the rhythms of nature and basking in the beauty and benefits of the natural world.

We forfeited the native wisdom that comes from being an indigenous people, and have begun relying solely on technology instead of terra firma. Falling asleep to the hum of radios, ringtones, and robots, we’ve cast away the beautiful whir of the wild and our true inner being.

As a result, we’ve become numb and dull to the moment. We are easily distracted and find it hard to stay focused for any given length of time. We check our phones and Facebook and emails like a hunter checks his traps, waiting for the next big catch.

The end result? In a word, we have become mindless.

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