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in #philosophy6 years ago

My  observation, with my own young is, being heathen emerges so naturally,  no indoctrination is needed. at 4 my son was in the garden with  me...observing bugs and the like, he said, out of the blue "the earth is  my mother"....and i, who did, give birth to this child was for an  instant, offended...but i checked that...realizing , he was having a  personal insight, here. It was his to have, and only a controlling freak  would deny it. Ancient people's had, an advantage over US. They had a  full compliment of archetypes they needed, relative to their  environment. If you take this away from people, there is a psychological  crisis. Their relationship with nature becomes profoundly detached.  This is a vital aspect of personal identity. Values become unstable,  like an ship with no anchor. Mass vulnerability to exploitation.