Wow, sounds like you grew up in a great household to give you a good start on your spiritual journey! I didn't know you did earth sciences - what a great thing to study!
Eco anxiety is definitely real - and I so appreciate people like you who are so passionate about informing people through your writing.
It's kinda a common path, isn't it - to have a love of nature, learn about environmental systems and spirituality, and then realise it's all the same thing!
We are, as Graham Hancock would say, “a species with amnesia”, because although we are the only species on Earth that has the ability of cognitive recollection (memory), more often than not in the present era does natural medicine consist of the more niche and less important counterpart to contemporary medicine. Not only this, but there is a vast wealth of knowledge that has been lost, to the broken telephone line that is corrupted by bias and dogma, that has so often seeked to mute any and all adversaries that oppose its cause.
We live in strange and indeed amnesiac times! But it's so heartening being amongst like minded people on HIVE and hopefull there are may more like us in the world. It's funny that we are so connected online, but so disconnected in life - it's a tension I think many of us 'natural medicine' folk try to reconcile. Certainly stepping away from our screens and into nature has it's benefits, but still, so much knowledge and connection happens through technology too. I too hope we can reconcile these two seemingly opposing forces.
Really loved this intelligent and clearly passionate response - thankyou so much!
Thank you so much Riverflows. I do also feel that it is a common path nowadays. Falling in love with nature has become a side-effect of eco-anxiety that is so widespread today. I do beleive this will be in the longterm a positive transfomational force. Perhaps some of those who succumbed to anxiety will find it in themselves to create and transform their lives into a positive force for the good of the planet and humanity. Indeed, there is much being done towards healing the planet that cannot be ignored, i wish only that there could be some level of higher level synchronisity between cultures and socio-economic groups. All the best :)