Article: THE BEAUTY OF DISCONNECTION.(nature, progress, and the Yuroks of California)

I recently attended an environmental conference with the slogan prominent on its promotional literature and program brochure, "It's all connected." It made me sad to hear that. I had a twinge of the same kind of sadness I felt when I first read and understood the implications of John Muir's wonderful insight: "When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe." The same kind of sadness I feel when I read something by Joseph Campbell or some other Jungian that shows that underlying the apparent diversity of religious belief and practice are almost identical images and concerns. The same kind of sadness and uneasiness as when ...

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