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The term species loneliness was introduced in a 1993 article in Environmental Ethics by Michael Vincent McGinnis, an author and editor of books about ecology and bioregionalism. Nearly two decades later, he writes, “Species loneliness in a wounded landscape moves us to want to restore our relationship with place and others, or to put it another way, modern humanity yearns to reestablish and restore an ecology of shared identity.” An individual or family cut off from positive social contacts with other people is more vulnerable to alcoholism, depression, bullying, and abuse and is more easily controlled. Cult leaders understand this too well. Likewise, our species’ vulnerability to all manner of pathologies grows with our distancing from other species. Without contact with other-than-human kith and kin, the family of humans loses comfort, companionship, and perhaps even the sense of a higher power, however one defines it.
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It can be estimated that in the course of our lives, we enter our dream worlds half a million times. This state of affairs presents us with a challenge: as we neglect or cultivate the world of our dreams, so will this realm become a wasteland or a garden.
Stephen LaBerge | lucid dreaming scientist
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