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Seeing Nature

Deliberate Encounters with the Visible World

by Paul Krafel

Table of Contents

Ten Years Later -- Looking Back 1
Shifting Assumptions 3
The Mistake of the Sand Fleas 5
We Become What We Practice 7
Living Within the Unknown 13
Tools for Seeing 19
The Fit 21
Seeing Animals as Individuals 27
Seeing through the Eyes of Animals 32
Edges Dissolve into Gradients 37
The Gradient of Converging Water 41
The Edge of Balance 48
The Tracks of Change 53
Seeing Further into the Fourth Dimension 56
Spirals of Change 63
Walking 66
The World Expands 69
Sitting 74
The Two Levels 77
The Rule of Flow 83
Invisible Flows 90
Time Lags 95
Cycles 103
The Flow of Energy 106
Shifting Balances 113
Two Canyons 115
First Visions of Gaia 120
Second Visions of Gaia 123
Within the Wedge of Life 128
The Invitation of Gaia 135
The Storms 138
Diverging 144
Allies Emerge 149
The Invisible Power 154
The Test 159
An Unexpected Ally 165
The Learning Curve 169
The Downward Spiral 171
Reversing the Spiral 176
Ten Years Later -- Going Deeper 181
Acknowledgements 191