pimg class=”alignright” title=”One with Nature” src=”http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg158/MDA2008/MDA2010/landscape.jpg” alt=”landscape” width=”319″ height=”211″ /Some weeks ago many of you responded to the meaningful experience Gerry relayed in his a title=”Suicide: One Bite at a Time” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/suicide-one-bite-at-a-time/” target=”_self”success story/a about a transformational day in the forest. Filed with a spontaneous energy and euphoria, he connected with a vitality he hadn’t felt in years. Gerry’s experience resonated with people because so many of us have had similar encounters in the wild. We still reserve a sacred vocabulary for nature with evocations of forest cathedrals and quiet reverence. The concept of the vision quest lingers in our culture. Figures in the major modern religions all faced times of temptation and transformation in the wild. Even in our modern times, being in the wild suggests encountering the raw and elemental./p
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