How did fear enter our intimacy & relation with Nature? How has fear cut us off from deep encounters with the other? With spirits & beings with who we share the one creator & Earth home? But fear has drawn a line between us & them. So completely have we denied one half of existence, blocked it out, that we call them "alien" to us & have placed ourselves at the top of the great chain of being. Nostalgia for contact & exchange with the other remains. We long to be immersed in the full experience of natural intimacy.