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Seed: Presenter gives seminars on relationship with nature
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an emeritus professor of philosophy
from Oslo University, that humans’
ecologically destructive behavior
is the result of an “illusion of
separation” based on the idea
of anthropocentrism — or
human-centeredness.
“We need an ecological identity
to find our way back to‘nature,”
Seed said. The detachment from na
ture that he identified as the cause
of humanity’s current environmen
tal problems could be attributed to
the suppression of celebration for
nature that connects humans as
ecological beings.
Seed recommended attending
one of his seminars, which he calls
Councils of All Beings, to
re-establish the lost connection with
Mother nature. Seed’s online article
about his Council of All Beings
states: “After thousands of years
of conditioning, the modern psyche
is radically alienated from the
air, water and soil which underpin
all of life, and this is reflected in
the rapid shredding of all
natural systems in the name of
economic development.”
In the council, participants per
form a mourning ritual, which al
lows council members to “feel the
pain of the Earth,” the article states.
“We see that the pain of the Earth is
our own pain and the fate of the
Earth is our own fate.”
Seed also recommended a new
story, “because the creation myth is
outdated and tells us that the rap
ture is coming
...so Earth has
no value. We
need poets,
artists and mu
sicians to create
this new story.”
Seed refer
enced Genesis
1:26 of the
Bible, in which
God tells man to
have dominion
over the earth, and argued that na
ture is viewed as having no soul,
that man and not nature was made
in God’s image, and that everything
in nature has become a resource for
humanity’s use.
To illustrate his point, Seed
picked up his guitar and sang the
self-composed lyrics, “You can’t
clear-cut your way to heaven,” and,
“Bulldozing the creation won’t win
God’s admiration.” Many of the at
tendants of the presentation sang
along with Seed.
Rick Ahrens, a nature guide in
Eugene, said after the presentation
that the creation myth can be inter
preted in many ways and that, “God
was into ecological justice.”
"Honor the creator by honoring
His creation,” Ahrens said. He quot
ed Leviticus 25:23, “the land is
mine, you are
just sojourners.”
Kate Hirst,
who works at
the Walama
Restoration Pro
ject, said, ‘‘I
think (Seed’s)
ideas are way
cool ... about
gathering peo
ple to discuss
our relationship
to nature, that we are all this same
essence.” It is important, Hirst said,
to “have something to refer to
as ‘us’ rather than all individuals.
It’s easy to lose sight of what your
culture is when you’re fighting all
the time.”
Jai Daemion, a psychotherapist in
Eugene, first met Seed in 1972.
“What I liked is that he stepped
out of the hippie flare, which is re
ally an important evolution because
he can still touch what’s vital but
reach more people,” Daemion said.
For the past 25 years Seed has
been active in organizing projects to
save rainforests of the world while
simultaneously creating a new iden
tity with nature.
“I was called by the trees — even
though I didn’t believe in things like
that,” he said at the event.
At the end of the presentation,
Seed urged the community to get in
volved in local restoration projects
such as the Cascadia Wildlands Pro
ject, Cascadia Forest Defenders and
the Eugene Permaculture Guild.
“We have the technology to
exceed beyond our wildest dreams,”
Seed said. “All we need is your
good will.”
nicholas @ dailyemerald. com
CONTACT INFORMATION
Cascadia Wildlands Project
www.cascwild.org
P.O. Box 10455 Eugene, OR 97440
Phone: 434.1463
Cascadia Forest Defenders
www.cascadiarising.org
P.O. Box 11122 Eugene, OR 97440
Phone: 684.8977
Email: ForestDefenders@riseup.net
Eugene Permaculture Guild
Send all correspondence to Jenya Lemeshow
Phone: 684.0066
P.O. Box 99, OR 97440 or jlemeshow@yahoo.com
“Because the creation myth
is outdated and tells us that
the rapture is coming... so
Earth has no value. We
need poets, artists and
musicians to create this
new story. ”
John Seed | Environmentalist
Senate: Women's Center's funds redistribution request granted
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several deficit accounts of the
ASUO Executive. These deficits in
clude $2,100 in the printing and du
plicates account, $359 in the adver
tising account, $359 into the
telephone account and $154 in the
cell phones account.
The deficit accounts request form
asked Senate to approve the trans
fer of funds so that all debts would
be paid before the beginning of the
new fiscal year, July 1. All excess
money from the Administrative As
sistant account will roll over into
surplus for next year’s budget. A
total of $11,912 was transferred
from the administrative assistant
payroll account.
An employee of the ASUO
Women’s Center, Lorie Brown, re
quested permission to redistribute
money from the director’s payroll
account into the office supplies ac
count. Vacancies in the director and
assistant director positions left ex
tra money in payroll, $1,400
of which the Women’s Center
requested to be transferred for
the purchase of a new couch, desk
and end tables. The Senate
unanimously voted to redistribute
the funds and leave $500 as an
emergency cushion.
Community activist Zachary Vis
hanoff announced to the Senate that
a public hearing needs to be held re
garding the new basketball arena lo
cation. In light of recent debates, Vis
hanoff asked the Senate to fund three
full-page advertisements in the Reg
ister-Guard inviting community
members to a meeting to disallow
the use of some historical property
surrounding the University. The
Senate took no action regarding Vis
hanoff’s announcement. He has put
in a request to speak at the next
Senate meeting.
The Summer Committee seats
consist of two EMU Board finance
senators, Sara Hamilton and Reinier
Heyden; three academic senators,
Monica Irvin, Tyrel Love and
Jessica Nair; and one Athletic
Department finance senator,
Spencer Crum. Crum did not attend
the meeting.
nicholas @ dailyemerald. com
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