Description

Nearly twenty years ago, while trying to meditate early one morning at his home in San Jose, California, Jay Dufrechou noticed that if he quieted the chatter in his head, he heard rain falling on the roof in a way that felt intimate and sacred. This brought weeping, along with grief. Following the trajectory of this and similar experiences, the author moved with his young family to the mountains of Montana and envisioned the possibility of experiencing ourselves--through our bodies and emotions--as part of the natural world. Moving through Grief, Reconnecting with Nature addresses the hearts and heads of readers through tracing a trajectory of psychospiritual transformation from realizing loss of connection with nature, to grieving the loss, to longing for ecological wholeness, to internalizing the natural world as part of oneself. Many of the experiences described in the book might be considered spiritual or mystical and are placed within the context of transpersonal psychology and modern consciousness research, particularly the work of Stanislav Grof.