PSYCHOLOGICAL SAFETY

Ethics Overview

Moreu College does not see nature as sentient, only denizens like you and me, most birds, and larger mammals, are aware of themselves. Sadly, we humans are the prodigals who left our wild prehistoric niches in search of civilized power and materialism. We return today as desolate, frightened outsiders - ignorantly expecting a welcome, but unlike the biblical account of the Prodigal Son, nature will not welcome you with a party. You, instead, must re-learn all that your ancestors lost, with no safety margin for error.  Solo-hermitages work because they reveal the enormity of our loss:  Power has shifted, and we are at the mercy of the weather, a tiny shelter, and the weekly provisions brought to us by college staffers. After a week you will miss your comfy comforts back home, while the forest will not miss you at all, instead, by every means possible, it will erase you from its quiet hovels; you will be left with nothing tangible (psychologically speaking) only whatever your conscious & subconscious mind conjures up from years of television, movies, and magazines: Those will be your constant mental battles until you make internal amends with who you are, and who you want to be. It is then that your quest really begins, when you first hear the sparrows and deer-mice as they scurry around your supplies, and your roof, inspecting you. Do not feed the animals; consider yourself blessed if you see a bear, blessed to hear a sniffing deer outside your cabin, blessed if you hear the treading paw-steps of a pack of coyotes traveling to a nearby mountain: Those internal, non-verbal amends will prepare you for your transformation into a philosopher - then - for another solitary week, the battle shifts to the mystical universe.