Meeting ourselves as Whole and living from that place is our birth-rite. This rite is sometimes veiled by the pressure of a culture that has ignored aspects of wholeness -- such as death and darkness, birth and aliveness, play & innocence, and initiation & purpose. Reclaiming our wholeness is accessible through our meeting with the natural world; in such a way, we meet the wilderness of our heart --- the place of natural beauty & purpose --- beyond any cultural…