Environment Preservation

Learning to live in unity with one's environment is an essential part of achieving continued personal growth and improved interpersonal relationships with others. Working towards environment preservation is not only good for the planet, becoming a better environmentalist is good for one's personal growth and personal fulfillment. Respecting God's creation requires perfecting human nature. Environmental organizing as described in the Heartwood Path not only is a benefit to the planet, it also benefits those who actively work to change the world. Following the Heartwood Path leads to personal growth, improved relationships, and the development of people capable of working effectively to remake the world.

The Heartwood Path brings forth these benefits by helping reader/participants shift their perspectives to place themselves in synchronicity with their inner-world lives, other people, and nature. This synchronicity is achieved, in part, by a six-fold process of:

• Learning to Attend
• Perceiving Relations
• Understanding the Context and Processes of One's Perceptions of Material Objects
• Marinating Flexibility of Perception
• Perceiving Depth
• Applying Imagination

With the help of Don Pierce and the Heartwood Path, you can find renewal for your spirit and soul while you seek renewal of our natural environment.

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Environmental Organizing

An often-overlooked aspect of environmental organizing is the job of perfecting the environmentalist. Without the anchoring of the individual self, as described in "Egos, "Book Two of the Heartwood Path series, too many environmentalists fail in their mission to protect nature because they do not know the ways to avoid "spending themselves for the cause." From anchoring one's individuality and thereby being capable of sharing one's unique gifts with the world, the Heartwood Path moves on in Book Three, entitled "Ecos," to describing ways to evoke one's universal nature through integration with nature. Understanding your role in the complex system of the universe while also retaining your own separate and distinct identity is the essence of effective and lasting environment preservation.

Some of the topics covered in Ecos, and in Don's seminars and retreats on environmentalism include:

• Finding Unity in Nature
• Using Teams to Improve Self and Environment
• The Cosmic Christ
• Developing an Eco-Political Identity
• Eco-Feminism
• Controlling Human Population Levels