How can we reconnect to the natural world?

Zsolt Hermann
2 min readDec 21, 2022

Question from the Internet:

“Why is reconnection with the natural world necessary?”

First of all, we are not really disconnected from the “natural world.” After all, we are born from Nature; we still exist in and evolve with Nature.

It is true that we are opposite to Nature in our qualities and actions, and we think we are above or “outside” of Nature and can do whatever we want with the system.

But our behavior — which is still blind, instinctive, and “childish” — resembles little children who run amok and destroy everything they can in their little toy room, believing that they are in control. We are like embryos who, for some reason, want to cause abortion in the womb, thinking that they need to get free from the “prison of the womb” to fulfill our misguided, arbitrary, and artificial desires and aspirations.

We have a unique role and purpose in Nature that evolution predetermined for us. This role requires us to learn and accept how much integrated we are in nature and how we need to serve the system with full awareness and understanding.

This is why we are born with this seemingly misguided and harmful perception of reality and consciousness that make us feel ourselves independent and individualistic not only in relation to Nature but also in relation to each other.

From this misguided state, where we are struggling with a special, purposefully induced “amnesia” about who we are and where we exist, we need to willingly and consciously “reconnect” to each other and to Nature — reconnect in our perception and consciousness since in truth we have never been disconnected — until we consciously and without any doubts feel ourselves as useful, perfectly and mutually complementing cells and cogwheels in the system of humanity that has thus become Nature’s only conscious and benevolent mind and heart.

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Zsolt Hermann

I am a Hungarian-born Orthopedic surgeon presently living in New Zealand, with a profound interest in how mutually integrated living systems work.