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NATURE AND THE HUMAN EXPERIENCE: Defining and refining the relationship between the human self and nature

NATURE AND THE HUMAN EXPERIENCE: Defining and refining the relationship between the human self and nature

Daniel Harris
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If you are interested in how the relationship between humanity and nature can influence our health and wellbeing, then this is the book for you. In this book agreements from ancient and modern philosophy are drawn together to find a meaningful psychological connection with nature in modern times.
It can seem to reconcile human ideals such as morality or divinity, and the human self with nature. They can seem incompatible. ‘Nature and the Human Experience’ provides a way of developing a meaningful connection between the human self and nature by focusing on general organisational processes experienced in both objective and subjective reality.
The focus on organisation and relationships instead of matter or structure allows similarities between subjective and objective experiences to be made discernible. It allows one to avoid separating phenomena into opposites like mind and body, or material and immaterial. The author concentrates on human experience of this organisation as opposed to the analysis of it, and this requires use of the imagination.
Human experience consists of the experience of object and subject that usually appear to be independent. Experience consists of a subject and an object outside of the self, in nature. However, they cannot be completely independent. Both science and spiritual tradition agree that the object and subject have specific properties in common, even if the object is an inanimate one. By identifying what those properties are, the object and subject can be united in a third concept . ‘Nature and the human experience’ explores how these common properties are identified by science, spiritual tradition and psychology and reveal that they come to similar conclusions.
Both objective and subjective realms have what are perceived as ‘levels’ of organisation. This is because human theories such as those of chemistry, biology and physics are hierarchical, and a problem in one subject at a ‘lower level’, must eventually require an answer from a subject in a ‘higher level’. There can therefore be no self-enclosed complete, objective theory of everything.
This situation can only be transcended through careful consideration of the human self, because only the self can transcend all of the logical theories about nature. The self in this context must also be considered as semi-distinct from the ego, psychologically speaking. To do this requires self-knowledge and a process of meta-cognition similar to ‘self-actualisation’ or ‘individuation’. While those processes involve becoming conscious of the working of the human psyche, the process suggested involves identifying the fundamental level of being that is in tune with nature. This level is not filtered by the higher levels of the conscious mind and is therefore subjective and objective. This is the inner experience of human beings. Human lives consist of a continual cycle of perceptions at different levels that are only transcended by the perception of a shared inner self that is both objective and subjective.
Pages
159
Format
Kindle Edition

NATURE AND THE HUMAN EXPERIENCE: Defining and refining the relationship between the human self and nature

Daniel Harris
0/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
If you are interested in how the relationship between humanity and nature can influence our health and wellbeing, then this is the book for you. In this book agreements from ancient and modern philosophy are drawn together to find a meaningful psychological connection with nature in modern times.
It can seem to reconcile human ideals such as morality or divinity, and the human self with nature. They can seem incompatible. ‘Nature and the Human Experience’ provides a way of developing a meaningful connection between the human self and nature by focusing on general organisational processes experienced in both objective and subjective reality.
The focus on organisation and relationships instead of matter or structure allows similarities between subjective and objective experiences to be made discernible. It allows one to avoid separating phenomena into opposites like mind and body, or material and immaterial. The author concentrates on human experience of this organisation as opposed to the analysis of it, and this requires use of the imagination.
Human experience consists of the experience of object and subject that usually appear to be independent. Experience consists of a subject and an object outside of the self, in nature. However, they cannot be completely independent. Both science and spiritual tradition agree that the object and subject have specific properties in common, even if the object is an inanimate one. By identifying what those properties are, the object and subject can be united in a third concept . ‘Nature and the human experience’ explores how these common properties are identified by science, spiritual tradition and psychology and reveal that they come to similar conclusions.
Both objective and subjective realms have what are perceived as ‘levels’ of organisation. This is because human theories such as those of chemistry, biology and physics are hierarchical, and a problem in one subject at a ‘lower level’, must eventually require an answer from a subject in a ‘higher level’. There can therefore be no self-enclosed complete, objective theory of everything.
This situation can only be transcended through careful consideration of the human self, because only the self can transcend all of the logical theories about nature. The self in this context must also be considered as semi-distinct from the ego, psychologically speaking. To do this requires self-knowledge and a process of meta-cognition similar to ‘self-actualisation’ or ‘individuation’. While those processes involve becoming conscious of the working of the human psyche, the process suggested involves identifying the fundamental level of being that is in tune with nature. This level is not filtered by the higher levels of the conscious mind and is therefore subjective and objective. This is the inner experience of human beings. Human lives consist of a continual cycle of perceptions at different levels that are only transcended by the perception of a shared inner self that is both objective and subjective.
Pages
159
Format
Kindle Edition

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