Have you ever found yourself tearing up or even crying when feeling deeply connected to nature? With a background in transpersonal psychology, a branch of humanistic psychology including focus on spiritual experience, Jay gathered stories from dozens of people who find deep emotions in connection with nature, sometimes as healing from personal losses, sometimes as "ecological grief" in commisseration with the destruction of the natural world, and sometimes as a way to experience a divine presense on earth.
Working primarily as a lawyer and mediator, Jay also teaches in psychology doctoral programs and is the author of Moving through Grief, Reconnecting with Nature, published in 2015 by Muswell Hill Press. He grew up in New Orleans, lived many years in California, and has lived primarily in Montana since 1999.
