Preserved Nature

Suzi Gablik the author of Conversations before the end of time says that James Hillman was a lot of the inspiration for this book, he is a psychologist. He mostly works with the humanities instead of the sciences of psychology. Hillman is a very interesting kind of person to me. He does things that he doesn’t even believe in. He says “I like to practice therapy. I do it well. Bit I don’t believe in it” (177). I suppose I do not understand how you can be “good” at something when you do not believe in it. How can you be a therapist and believe that you are helping someone when you do not believe your methods work. I suppose some of what he is says is a little contradicting to me or maybe I am just not reading it right. I suppose it is possible that he feels as though he just understands how the mind works and not really how you are suppose to “cure” it.
The insertion “Viewing the World as a Process” is about a woman named Carolyn Merchant. She is an environmental historian. Merchant and Hillman are both authors of several books. Merchant has theorized that civilization has but itself above nature. Meaning that civilization has a disadvantage and is being destroyed because of people. Which is entirely true. We have definitely put ourselves above nature. We have been developing, littering, and basically doing everything in our power to make the world a less beautiful place. The less populated places and the most beautiful and preserved places. I feel as though Dan Powell and her share common thoughts about nature.
Dan Powell, our guest lecture for the week is a topographer. This is a person who studies the Earth’s surface, which includes all the plants, moons, and asteroids. He has been photographing since 1978. He started off by putting things onto his walls and layering them to create new and interesting shadows. He learned that he did not like using color in his pictures so the majority of his photography is in black and white. Which were all very elegant and beautiful to look at. He begin a career where he could travel to all these different places he loves to take pictures of these less populated persevered places. He said that he really loves Eastern Oregon, but who does not when they go there. Professor Powell seems like he mostly takes pictures of the desert in Eastern Oregon, and the different trees but I really prefer the few hilly parts of Eastern Oregon.

 

This photo is taken by Stan McQueen. It is in Eastern Oregon. It is not in black and white but I feel like it really captures the glory of the land. Being able to see forever at all the different lush greens there are.

This is a Photo of Ice Lake taken by Michael Skourtes. This pictures shows that there is not only flat plains in Eastern Oregon but there are many different, yet extremely beautiful things in Oregon.