When I move through that forest and feel good inside, I am not creating something from nothing. I don't hear voices. I don't have visions. My experience is certainly generated by energy exchanges and moving electrons in my brain, but that which triggers the wonder exists in the real external physical world. It is not a delusion. My interaction is simply an awareness of the immediate environment I am situated in which seems to take me to a higher level than any that I have experienced that day.
The key word is "awareness". From awareness evolves transcendence. Then your focus on your desires and your problems can be left behind.
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I will inform my grandchildren that they must find a way to escape the path towards total materialism that technology must, by its essential nature, be forever driving itself. I will inform them that trees and breezes and clouds and changing colours as the sun sets is the true church. I will inform them that to stop to intentionally watch an insect move, to feel the air against the skin, to hear the call of a distant bird that they would not normally have heard and to smell the faint scents of nature that they would not normally have noticed, has to be the true definition of what a prayer is.
And I will advise them to engage with nature wherever it is as much as they can because the only church that was ever entitled to be revered as being sacred is gradually being destroyed by those who serve Mammon.
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