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Macy/Esbjörn-Hargens & Zimmerman - Coggle Diagram

- - - - environmental issues are ubiquitous yet subtle; "seeing is believing"
      - environmental degradation often shielded from public view
    - - taking refuse in rejection, solace in ignorance
    - - we tend to live our lives as if nothing has changed, while knowing that everything has changed.
      - repressed awareness
      - conditioned to take seriously only those feelings that pertain to our immediate welfare
  - - - pain = dysfunction
      - if we were to let ourselves fully experience our dread, we might fall apart, lose control, or be mired in it permanently
    - - confidence in the future has been a hallmark of the American character and a source of national pride (despair = lack of stamina or competence
    - - we think we need to be experts/walking data banks in a topic in order to talk about it; acting for common good becomes confused with winning an argument
    - - we are accomplices to catastrophe
    - - maintaining carefree status quo as a protective mechanism; don't want to burden or alarm loved ones
    - - negative thoughts are self-fulfilling
    - - To entertain feelings of despair over our country's present condition and future prospects seems un-American
    - - theodicy: balancing existence of evil with existence of a benign God
    - - "prey to our feelings"
      - separation of reason from feeling; objectivity reigns over subjectivity
    - - reluctant to engage in issues that remind us that we do not exert ultimate control over our lives.
      - psychic numbing; if we don't less ourselves feel pain, we won't feel much else either
  - - - grief for our world cannot be reduced to private pathology
    - - when we disown our pain for the world that it becomes dysfunctional
    - - We need to process devastating information on the psychological and emotional level in order to fully respond on the cognitive level.
    - - otherwise known as catharsis
- - - - what is perceived as nature.
      - how the perceiver uses different methods, techniques, and practices to disclose nature
      - who is perceiving nature
  - - - composition (e.g., physiological and chemical) and
        exterior behavior of individuals
    - - examines the systemic structures and exterior behaviors of collectives
    - - interior perspectives; aesthetic experience, psychological dynamics, religious meaning, ethical issues, and cultural values
        
        terrain of experience
        
        subjective realities of any organism at all levels of its perception. Known by felt experience
        
        terrain of culture
        
        intersubjective realities of any organism at all levels of its communion; known by mutual resonance
        
        terrain of systems
        
        interobjective realities of any organism at all levels of its intersection; known by systemic analysis
        
        terrain of behavior
        
        objective realities of any organism at all levels of its organization; known by observation