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conservation movement is losing ground and the problem seems to be alienation many modem people feel from nature.”
He explained, “Most of us call it The Environment as if it’s something far away.”
The Earthstory retreat combined education with ritual, and although Mr. Seed said his brand of deep ecology is not an alternative religion, “I would have to say some people do have profoundly religious experiences doing this kind of work.”
The rituals and ceremonies they employ, he said, “can be anything as corny as going to hug a tree for a while, anything that erases the boundaries between self and nature.”
Many in the Earthstory group had just finished a two-day workshop at the Omega Institute in upstate New York when, said Mr. Seed, they realized “a need to go deeper and to get to know each other
See ECOLOGY, p. A-7
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