As deep ecologist John Seed has stated, "Deep ecology critiques the idea that we are the crown of creation, the measure of all being: that the world is a pyramid with humanity rightly on top, merely a resource, and that nature has instrumental value only".
Championing the Experiential Deep Ecological approach of John Seed and Joanna Macy by 1990 the Foundation adopted the intention "to lovingly empower ourselves and others to know oneness with Gaia, the living Earth, through taking couraggeous and joyous action, now".
Her work, originally called "Despair and Empowerment Work" was acknowledged as being part of the deep ecology tradition after she encountered the work of Arne Naess and John Seed, but as a result of disillusion with academic disputes in the field, she now calls it "the Work that Reconnects".
Joanna Macy, John Seed, and others developed Naess' thesis into a branch they called experiential deep ecology.
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The experiential nature of the experience of deep time, has also greatly influenced the work of Joanna Macy and John Seed.