34. NATURE AND SACREDSPACES

IN THE WILDERNESS, SELF-REALIZATION IS BORN, AND, OVER TIME, IT CAN MATURE INTO A DISTINCTIVE KIND OF AWARENESS, WHICH HAS BEEN DESCRIBED IN THE ANCIENT TEXTS FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS.

From my earliest memory, I always experienced the power of nature – but I’ve always struggled to explain this experience to others. In developing the curriculum for the Leadership Forum, we all simply took it as gospel that the wilderness experience would be at the heart of the year-long program, enabling the injunction Bohm gave me to break the “self-imposed boundaries” between the Fellows so they could operate as a “single intelligence for the good of their communities.”

It was a year or so after my meeting with Bohm that the Harvard ...

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