Journal #19 Importance of Nature

The blog for today reminds me a lot of the Lion King, because they talk about the circle of life and they also live in the wilderness. I think that nature is very important to spirituality because people who are really religious tend to go to nature, where everything is pure and they can kind of escape their lives for a while. For example, when people go camping and hiking, they usually are not around technology and rely on the land. Nature helps spirituality because it helps take away all aspects of life, so that you can focus. In the Lion King though, the animals eat each other and the land, but its a circle of life because they all have a place and everything has a purpose. When someone dies spirituality plays a major role in the decisions they make during the death process. Nature is one of the big factors because there is some people who would rather not be buried in the ground after their body dies. Other people want to be cremated and either their ashes are kept or they are thrown somewhere indicated in the person's will. I think that determining what to do with a body after death is chosen because of someone's spirituality and their views on nature. In life though, many people do use nature as a place of worship. Like in the movie "The Proposal" Sandra Bulluck meets with Ryan Reynold's grandma and ended up staying to "chant" in the woods with her. It showed that just by putting on nature sounds, and clearing your mind, that you can actually worship the spirits of nature. Nature helps a person speak their mind because they can never be judged by nature. Nature is not something that we can control, so it is very easy to connect our spirituality with nature, I think. I have personally never chanted in the woods or really worshiped in nature, but I do believe it could be a much purer place where you can clear your mind of all thoughts and get a lot more accomplished.