 Shout out to all my beautiful nature lovers out there. It's your boy Ian aka serious crow here today to drop the first Course in the lit underground's history the spiritual ecology course and what is spiritual ecology? spiritual ecology is about Understanding our spiritual connection with nature and even more important than that developing a day-to-day Reciprocal relationship with nature and in this course we are going to be covering five Texts five books that are seminal texts in the spiritual ecology field and I am also going to be providing and Showing you guys in nature Fieldwork on how to create that reciprocal real relationship This is a harmony between pen and sword to activate your guys's Ecological consciousness in a way that has never been done before might I say for free on the internet? Yes, everybody. This is a free course and not just for you to watch, but I am going to be reviewing and editing your essays book reports and Journal entries for free tell the end of time because I understand that the first step in changing the world is waking up our equal ecological consciousness on a mass level a mass awakening to that because we are nature There is an axiomatic relationship no matter what you believe with us and nature and all the different kingdoms Relationships with each other is also affecting us. So if you guys would like to sign up for the course Hit the link in the description below or go to the lit underground comm dash courses dash spiritual Or slash courses slash spiritual dash ecology I think that is and you're gonna head get on this page right actually you're gonna end up right here the course page And it's gonna say it's closed and it's currently closed But if you hit sign up here for free you are going to be taken to the free course sign-up page as you see on the screen You're going to enter your first name last name and then your username I would love if you used your first name or your first and last name for the username because If I'm gonna be commenting editing on your stuff, it's more personal if I know your name not Jabrom 617 or your mom sucks 555, you know, that's fun And then all so when you sign up for this and for the Math problem the easy one you can either put the number or the ridden were outward both work So once you do that you guys are actually going to be taken to this page right here the course info page Which I'm going to run through really fast really fast. Excuse me Yeah, learn dozens of new ways to connect with nature create a more reciprocal relationship with that Earth and unleash your Wildness and this video is going to be available right here when it's done and you can also join there again And just FYI for those who have signed up and need help. This is where the course is located But we're gonna get to that in a second so There is going to be to start off with our first bullet 50 hours plus hours of lectures and fieldwork I am going to be going over in full chapter by chapter all of these books Classics in the field because this is like I said, this is better than anything that you'll get in university A university course is structured has a professor that is watching their back because they want to get tenure or do a good job That is not the case here. This is unleashed uncensored and has no time constraint for me or you as a student There are two options that you can take while taking this course you can either just watch the lectures and just learn to skip around or you can engage in the process of The assignments which I'm going to be going over later But which are if you complete the course you're going to be granted a lit university credit towards your lit university degree Which is the lit university start is dropping in late September of 2021 is going to be this the counteraction to or the reply to the university system in the humanities putting it online for free or you know at a cheap price depending on the course and Creating a whole new system for people to learn the humanities. So 50 hours of lectures and There's all once again going to be fieldwork I'm going to be going into nature and showing you guys all my favorite techniques to create a reciprocal relationship with nature Then your reports and papers are going to be reviewed slash edited by me and I am going to be doing this I'm hoping that you guys are going to going to be writing Heart-oriented works not cynical and logical works at this course is not for that This is this course is that well. I'm just gonna say that right now if you If you're going to come into this with a closed mind and a closed heart This is a great place to open it, but don't bring that into the comments. Don't bring that into the essays You know, I am here to give you guys warm suggestions and edits and like really try and help you guys and I Don't care if your mind is changed, but if you're not trying you're being cynical about it then I know that there you can't be cynical and Like nasty about something and actually get results. So Transform your writing I'm going to be helping you with your writing and build a writing portfolio That actually is going to give you some sway in the spiritually college you feel because you're going to have by the end Of this thousands of words written that could be published in whatever format you want Online in a book and a you for a paper a journal somewhere This that is why I'm helping you guys write this because there is a certain language we're going to be studying these authors and their language and mimicking that but more on that later and learn to live in harmony with nature That's what this is really about everybody learning to create contact with nature that creating a phenomenological awareness, which is an axiomatic awareness in this connection with nature right now not being lost because even in this room right now as we are Going to learn in a David Abrams book becoming animal This room is alive with nature even though nature is not anywhere near me right now And you're gonna live a happier and more balanced life if this is the I don't want to say the cure to depression, but like Having a deep connection with nature can make you Have a better mood Force bathing, you know, we've heard that term maybe before and living a more balanced life because in nature Hierarchy does not exist. There is no When you're out there sitting with nature and doing these practices, there is no you can think about things, but it doesn't it's not reinforced I'm looking at products. I've purchased. I'm in this house There's I go outside and you know in cars on roads all society and civilization is being reinforced upon me whether You know that could be good or bad, but out of nature that does not exist And if you were caught up in civilization, you can balance that out with the nature and you know live Hopefully a more meaningful life Explore books with other nature lovers. I don't know how I'm gonna get this how I'm going to exactly do this yet, but I Want to create this for the late university members Of course, there's going to be a private forum where everyone's gonna talk but for the free course I'm so trying to figure out how I'm gonna regulate it But you're going to be able to talk to me about this course and how you feel through your essays and comments and whatnot and questions I'll answer in Q&A's and And I'm sure like I said, I'll be sharing you sharing essays with people's permission There's a lot that we can do and and last but not least. Let's co-create this course together Whatever ideas feedback techniques That you input in this course. I can reshare so that can help the world once again This is a free course. I'm not trying to get clout or money for this course. I'm putting my heart I'm putting time into this To help others and so whatever you can feedback comments once again that you can give me that would be great ideas so the course description is Spiritual ecology is a process of understanding our spiritual relationship with nature and I've talked about all this You're going to be able to go at your own pace and once again There's two different paths you can either watch or you can actually engage with writing with me and the course and most importantly the text Wow, there's a typo right here my bad everybody So I was trying to say and that will be fixed that The this is a mixture between a typical university course and a like a Workshop a nature workshop where you go out and you do a plant walk with somebody or you do a weekend retreat with a teacher That's why I'm trying to make this but then I'm trying to times tenant I'm trying to make this loving go at your own pace and dive actually deep into the books and Guess what? There's gonna be no time wasted. There's gonna be no calm if you've ever been in a university course that people are making Dumb comments during the lecture and time is wasted and you can't go as deep as you want to go I am shooting for the smart. I'm talking to the smartest people in this course I'm going to make it as simple and make sure it has it, but I'm speaking to people who I know care I'm not people who are doing this care. There is no reward at the end of the tunnel for this There's no, you know sheet of paper or like I said clout that you can get Um, there will be video presentations like this on all 75 books and let me zoom this in a little bit So there's gonna be 75 Chapters I think in total so there'll be 75 presentations on those and then you'll be making journal entries after those and then there Will be 10 videos on me doing field work in nature and integrating and showing you guys all these ideas Students who write journals journals after each lecture book reports after each book and a final essay at the end and We'll talk about that more in a second. So let's talk about the required books first My process for figuring out these books. I'll just speak on in order becoming animal and earthly cosmology by David Abram This is a book of solitudes a book that talks about Phenomenological awareness with nature in probably the best way I've ever seen Daily connections with nature and how to do them and miss things that you know things that we miss on the daily And that's why it's going to be first second also by David Abram Abram is spelled the the spell the sensuous And this is a philosophical book This actually talks about phenomenology, which is a form of ontology and a study of can, you know can the connecting to consciousness with awareness and Abrams Sites the book is based off the works of Ponty and Husserl and Heidegger Deleuze etc. So that is actually a great book. That's going to be for all the smarty pants out there Then third we're going to be reading. It's not an order right now mystery teachings from the divine or from the living earth by John Michael Greer and this is a And I should say real fast that This is a course for any budget. Like I said, this is a free course. You can find these books online For any budget, I'm just gonna say that I'm not gonna tell you where to find them But of course, you know, you can buy any of these on Amazon But you can also find them places if you are on a tight budget and maybe can't And maybe you are looking for a very very very low price so The mystery teachings is going to be a more foundational book for us It's an easy fast read and it's gonna give us some principles because at the end of this as a bonus FYI I'm going to be giving you guys a free e-book on Spiritual ecology and that's gonna that's gonna be kind of principle based talking about principles. So That's gonna be started That's gonna be built in a sense by John Michael Greer's work Then we're going to be moving on to soul craft crossing into the mysteries of nature and psych by Bill Plotkin And this is kind of a weird book and there's it's kind of a hit-and-miss some of these Actually, not really all of them are all these are fire But soul craft to some people may be a little woo, but I'm going it's gonna help us This is gonna be the integration book This is gonna be the book that's gonna help us get out there and out of our heads and into the moment more So than becoming animal then last but not least eco psychology restoring the earth healing the mind by Theodore Rosack And this is a compilation about things of eco Psychology is that what they call it and it's about 25 assay So we're gonna have 25 different lectures that they're pretty short But this is going to be just a cool Cumulation of a culmination excuse me of everything So let's talk about assignments everybody all assignments are optional however, if you want to gain a credit towards your lit university degree you need to do everything and I'll talk about formatting and submissions in a second. So journal entries are going to be 100 to 200 word Just musings just ramblings from your mind Intuitive ideas after every chapter after every lecture you guys are just including Actually not including this one, but including the next video in the course you guys are going to Write a short introduction and if you would like I'm actually going to put an introduction introduce yourself Journal or section after this one that's optional But so you guys are going to write just a hundred two hundred worlds really fast about what you just learned What you got from this because one this is going to help you think about the book more writing about the book Is good and you practice your writing But is also going to help you start building a portfolio for the book report And then the book reports going to help you build a portfolio for a final essay and suddenly by the end of this You're going to have one a memory of what you thought about the book So then you can go back 30 years from now not have to reread the book and understand what happened But then also like I said starting to build the portfolio of your own writing because you can be a beautiful writer And I'm going to show you how to do that in this course and others and especially through my feedback So then at the end of each book you are going to write a 750 through 1500 word Formal essay and prompts will be provided but I would recommend that you choose your own prompt That's unique but then has an axiomatic base and citations and thoughts thoughts with what we are learning in these books the books covered and an intro paragraph the sustainment and conclusion paragraph are required and this is Moving toward more of an academic essay, and I'll say it's an academic essay But I'm going to be a lot more lenient everyone's going to pass this section If you submit the right word count and it's relevant And I'm going to be giving comments on you guys and helping you improve the areas because we're going to have five tries at this Before we hit the big essay I'm going to hopefully we're going to see a progression through the five essays and then by the end We're going to be able to write and show off a great essay um And so then the final essay you guys are going to be writing a 1700 word through 3000 word final final essay blending all the text together. This is the big kahuna and Yeah, I mean this is where you show it all off and this is going to be judge on a approved decline ratio and I'm going to be judging on certain elements and really is it a complete academic essay that I think that you could display to the world And it's polished like is it up to the standard of I'm not going to say for journals But for blogging that something that I would post something that I would say is like, okay. This is good Like this is pretty good. Maybe not great Maybe english isn't your first language or your beginning writer But something like I said that I will help you edit it into something that people will be able to read and understand What's being said that's what the goal of this is and there'll be the same requirements of intro paragraphs thesis statement On conclusion paragraph will maybe you know Highly encouraged some topic sentences and transition sentences Um And once again, it's if I decline your essay. I'm going to help you I'm going to give you a ton of feedback and help you with the process and if I decline it again I'm we're going to literally keep drafting these to complete this and like I said by the end if you actually Um Listen to some of this advice and it's not going to be like that's subjective of advice It's going to be like this doesn't make sense. This is not connecting Uh, you know, not like this topic sucks or like why are you talking about this? No, uh, unless like I said It's just really not relevant So, um, I have a whole section and a whole video is on formatting the essay and then The essay and google doc. So let me show you guys real fast how to um Do the course So I'm going to switch screens real fast Boom So let's say I am doing the course now. So now I have signed up for this course So here is where the intro video will be you guys just watch that now we're going to go to um We're going to be reading becoming animal first. So you're going to read the introduction to becoming animal then We have a lecture right here. There's me in a hot spring That my girlfriend got bit by leech in actually, um And so then we're going to that right after this photo Then I'm we're going to hit intro journal where you're going to watch this right? You're going to watch this and um, maybe you're not going to watch this Like I said, um, if you want to complete the course Maybe you read it have your own ideas don't want to listen to me But want to show me that you know and that's cool too And you're going to hit the intro journal and then boom here's the instructions and you're going to hit start quiz Type your response here. So I'm just going to actually just copy and paste this real fast Uh to show you guys And let me show you guys one more time. You're going to come here intro journal You're going to watch and then this journal is going to happen here Then we're going to come here type your response Boom, so then let's say I did that now our quiz results are being recorded and boom And now you're going to say click here to continue if you want to keep going Um, and then I'll get this and I'll judge it in my own time, you know, whenever I have time um and boom Now we're At shadow which hasn't been uploaded yet, but you guys get that this is um I kind of messed up in the sense of like laying everything out But I've already recorded the intro and shadow and that will be as soon as you see this That will be ready and very soon. I'm going to be plowing through these trying to get this course page Formatted was The big one. So once again, let me know if you guys have any questions then down here. Okay, so real fast Um down at the bottom of each one is where you submit your book report So this would be a book report and like I said, you're going to submit a google doc shared link But make sure to watch the video on how to format and how to share it so that I get it It's going to cause me headaches if you don't and then uh final paper down here when you're done with everything So everybody I'm so glad to see you guys here Let me know down in the comments if you guys are taking the course help me out with the you know algorithm Uh, and yeah, share it with your friends. Let them know what's going on Uh, thank you guys for being here. Let me know like I said hit me up on youtube or or um for more direct support Go to the let underground.com slash Support and use the support form and I will answer any questions and I will see you guys in the course