Mario the lone bookwolf's Reviews > The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative

Seen from this point of view, the knowledge, traditions, and beliefs of indigenous peoples gain a new quality.

It would be interesting to know if the biodiversity of an environment is further enhancing the positive effect on one's health, whether natural space is not equal to another natural space and that a monoculture of spruce, a cornfield, etc. has less positive, for instance, healing and self regulatory, power than a varied area, in which different habitats and climatic zones are present, and that the variety reinforces the positive health effect and generates more joy and relaxation.

If one wants to interpret it esoterically, one could also assume that every living being from the fauna and flora has its unique characteristics and that their qualities for human health cannot be quantified because we do not yet begin to understand the mechanisms before we have exterminated most species and destroyed their habitats. But more variety and potential synergies may be, just intuitively, the best for all involved parties, because monotony and uniformity are contra-productive in many other areas too.

Precisely given the quantum phenomena in photosynthesis, the non-decyphered language of plants, the yet to be discovered micro-orders of microorganisms (nanobacteria, viruses, ...), it´s arrogant to reject any hypotheses. Given the phenomenal ignorance and lack of knowledge any explanation, more likely to be in the realm of fantasy, could be correct. I mean, look at gravity, black holes, quantum stuff, we freaking know nothing about the biggest and smallest parts of our reality, and old theories are collapsing like the credibility of American presidents.

What all together affects a person when she or he moves in natural areas, possibly even for a longer time when making camping trips or, like indigene peoples, is always in direct contact with nature for a lifetime, could offer new insights into how both genetics and epigenetics works. For instance, how this affects perception and cognitive abilities, the genome, socio cultural evolution, body mass index, etc. In contrast, in the modern world, humans are almost always in dead, artificial environment and if one imagined and visualized this scenario with recognizable radiations, the civilized Westerners would sit in shielded isolation chambers with millions of new, toxic chemicals inside and outside of them in fancy foods and consumerism trash products.

Nature deities and a consciousness existing in everything move into the realm of the possible when this aspect is included, especially the evil devil worship we are practicing at the moment with sacrificing the whole ecosystem with the sixth extinction
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
fueled by the greed of the lunatic neoliberal monster conglomerates, the most disturbing entities ever created by human beings. Think about that, an almighty US military industrial complex, or even Chinese state syndicate corporation is a kind of evil superintelligence just focused on growth at any cost, crushing anything in its way to more and more profit, like a parasite in the flesh of humankind and the planet. And they´ve just started sparring and flexing the muscles for their epic economic warfare battle that determines the future of human history, manipulating all other sockpuppet allied states just as they wish. It´s completely crazy, like as if an alpha predator had taken some acting lessons to become the herding dog and everyone in this Western fringe democracies is doing as if everything is nice, fine, and dandy and as if no competing global superpowers are cannibalizing the environment.

Back to positive aspects of nature, regarding creativity, in particular, this explains why many prodigies have revolutionary ideas, especially in natural environments and during their long, lonely walks. That could be further interpreted: simple plants on a thin layer of soil, garnished with one or the other more massive mammal and many little critters, have measurable effects on the human mind. When a historical invention is made that changes the course of human history forever, what is the proportion of the environment to even think and get the idea at first? What affects the biochemistry and neurochemistry of the brain to enable it to reach such heights? Where does the exact right combination of components, which act in just the Heureka moment, come from? Again, quantum, nano, and stuff.

And is it just a coincidence that in the right environment, the right person gets the right dose to get the right idea? Depending on personal preferences, this can be interpreted quite differently from a philosophical, metaphysical, computational, or scientific point of view.

And there are also the real sensory impressions, changing backgrounds, different angles, and millions of details that are a balm for the nervous nerve system and food for the brain at the same time.

The "forest bathing" in Japan or the "forest healing programs in Korea" are precursors to a new, long overdue symbiosis between humans and nature, primary examples of how productivity and creativity in education, work, and also in the private sector could be increased when one combines natural and living spaces. Until recently, that was not technologically feasible or too expensive but with the new, emerging technologies, green, living interiors, flowing transitions between natural spaces and living spaces, and a novel spatial and urban planning concept can be created. Not to speak of the positive effects on the quality of life, especially in metropolitan areas, just look at the megacities that got how important that is and grow green. A simple, ignored reason for the increased numbers of mental health problems in cities could be the lack of touch with nature because its absence is against a million-year co-evolution with and in natural environments.

The intertwining of biological topics with just about everything in the categories of Wikipedia shows how complex the matter is:
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Many technologies are based on mechanisms that, in nature, are just integrated as simple subroutines in much more complicated types of machinery, those functions and meanings are minimally understood. Quantum, nano, yada yada yada. This includes only the biological component, without adding the physical ideas or even technology manipulating it, just imagine that. Like hypothetical, other dimensions affecting or interacting with the biology of one, like our, dimension. If something exists in 2, 3, or whatever number of places, dimensions, realities, parallel universes at the same time
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-...
and in the same place but is still separated by insuperable filters of reality and physics. And makes one happy and healthy.

A wiki walk can be as refreshing to the mind as a walk through nature in this completely overrated real-life outside books:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature_...