Spiritual Health: Finding Balance in Natural Spirituality

By Ed (Eagle Man) McGaa, J.D.
Special to Tribal Connections

What is Natural Spirituality?

Simply, it is the deep reverence for the power that lies within all of which we observe especially when we are surrounded by pure, undiluted Nature.

Let us begin with what it is not. For the folks who simply want to revere Nature as a direct Creation of some Great Mystery, Natural Spirituality does not proselytize. Nature-ism has no controlling, dogma spewing hierarchy, and has no organization other than the intrinsic empowerment, a Great Mystery Creator (Higher Force, to some) has so specifically endowed each and every particle of surrounding Nature. I believe that the more knowledge we have of Nature, the more enhancement our spiritual self receives and henceforth progresses to a more harmonic and positive plane. True Natural Spirituality is devoid of human control or man-made devised fear. Superstition should not be attached by mere human regardless of those who are foolish enough to listen to falsifying detractors.

Ed (Eagle Man) McGaa

Basically, a 'Naturist' or a true 'Nature Spiritualist' bases one's belief system on natural observation. I refuse to accept the term 'Pagan'. If you can't see or experience what Creator has allowed before you, backed up by what Science also cannot observe or indicate, then there is basically a higher probability that man-made claims constantly cast before you, just may not exist and such claims should be classified as simple superstition of which the world unfortunately abounds in. This supposition of course, rules out Satans, Devils and their various forms of associates, witches on brooms, werewolves (despite Papal Edicts), curses, conjurations, 'holy orders', 'holier writs', pigs that fly and let us not leave out the Abominable Snow Man or 'Sasquatch'. This holding should turn off many readers, as humans are deeply prone to believe in all forms of so-called fairly tales, to the extremes of so-called "Black Magic" or 72 awaiting virgins for Jihadic warriors. Many detractors challenge Darwin and the many wondrous and accurate measurement tools of science, insisting that human and the livable planet has been in existence but a few thousand years. These types become quite angry and unreasonable when their gross superstitions are refuted.