AWAKENING TO HEALING<br > AND RECOVERY<br > It is as if a fiver that had run to waste<br > in sluggish side-streams and marshes<br > suddenly found its way back to its proper bed，<br > or as if a stone lying on a germinating seed<br > were lifted away so that the shoot<br > could begin its natural growth.<br > Carl lung<br > On a recent trip I received the gift of witnessing the healing<br >powers of nature at its most basic， fundamental and natural<br >l~evel. I drove through Mount St. Helens in Washington State<br >nine years after the devastating volcano had erupted its de-<br >structive ash down the mountainside， killing everything in its<br >path. All the trees for miles around the mouth of the volcano<br >had fallen like match sticks. They looked like thousands and<br >thousands of telephone poles fallen in straight rows along the<br >mountain side. Gray ash still covered everything， and it looked<br >as if a major war had been fought and lost. It was an awesome<br >sight. The destructive power of nature could not be denied.<br >