Connecting with Nature

I lay in bed unable to sleep.  Too excited by the conclusions I had made about learning science.  About how it all starts with observing nature, and then about learning how to study nature.  I started thinking about Winged Migration and feeling connected with nature through sitting and observing.  I sought the truth in that moment.  In knowing nature.  So often school is so detached from nature.  We are removed from it through the exercises, the books, the worksheets.  We put nature in a box.  We kill it instead of bringing it to life.  The way science is taught, we can't actually experience it.  I realized that I had been craving that feeling for so incredibly long.  Someone had told me once that I have a natural connection with nature.  I began focusing on that.  The emotion became so intensified and I felt so connected with the universe (it is weird, I felt something I've never felt before) - I felt as if I was communicating to some Gaia, some portal.  I felt like all the molecules in my body were interfacing with all of the other molecules around me in my physical space (my bed).  I didn't recognize myself as separate from the objects around me....I could only feel the bond energy between my elements and those of my elemental surroundings.  It was amazing.   It was very three dimensional and layered and colorful.  It was more intense than an orgasm, but not entirely in a physical way, in sort of a mental way.  It was like a mental and emotional orgasm (as opposed to a physical and emotional orgasm).