https://adrianharris.org/blog/2019/11/13/the-wilderness-effect/ adventures beyond the skin-bag Fri, 16 Jun 2023 11:40:47 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.5 https://adrianharris.org/blog/2019/11/13/the-wilderness-effect/#comment-750 Fri, 16 Jun 2023 11:40:47 +0000 https://adrianharris.org/blog/?p=119#comment-750 […] Both psychedelic experience and nature connection can catalyse feelings of awe and increase our capacity for mindfulness. Many Indigenous peoples use psychedelics as a sacrament. In most cases, they are animists with a profound respect for the more-than-human world. Robert Greenway is a pioneer ecopsychologist who used to take people on ‘wilderness’ treks. After many years of leading these adventures, Greenway concluded that extended time in nature could engender an altered state that closely parallels the psychedelic experience. There are several aspects to this altered state, but fundamentally it involves “feelings of expansion or reconnection”, which Greenway unhesitatingly describes as “spiritual” (Greenway, 1995). (See The Wilderness Effect). […]

]]> https://adrianharris.org/blog/2019/11/13/the-wilderness-effect/#comment-714 Fri, 17 Sep 2021 19:02:11 +0000 https://adrianharris.org/blog/?p=119#comment-714 […] close to nature often changed how people made sense of the world. Rob Greenway used the term “the wilderness effect” to describe what happens to people on a multi-day trek in the wild. People […]

]]> https://adrianharris.org/blog/2019/11/13/the-wilderness-effect/#comment-583 Mon, 07 Sep 2020 20:06:25 +0000 https://adrianharris.org/blog/?p=119#comment-583 […] start to happen. You don’t need to travel to Papua New Guinea to experience the so-called Wilderness Effect. This was just the South West coastal path. And now it felt strange to be under a ceiling. […]

]]> https://adrianharris.org/blog/2019/11/13/the-wilderness-effect/#comment-33 Thu, 07 May 2020 12:06:57 +0000 https://adrianharris.org/blog/?p=119#comment-33 […] or reconnection” that he identified as spiritual (Greenway, 1995). I’ve written about this wilderness effect elsewhere, but it’s important to note that spending even a brief time in nature can open our […]

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