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WISDOM & THE METACRISIS: A Discussion w/ Dr. Roger Walsh

The Integral Stage

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The Importance of Nature in the Production of Wisdom

Most of the emergence of human wisdom traditions on this planet is that most of it took place pre-historically. When people go to the park or the lake for recreation, there's a deeply spiritual transformational drive to that. Even in contemporary psychology and biology we have the idea that we are bio-filic, that we are inherently oriented towards natural settings and life. People tend to become calmer, more reflective, they're daily foolishness and the stuff that occupies our minds most of the time tends to drop away.

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