Greater Intelligence Revealed in the MansionsLinda Hogan writes in her preface to Dwellings that "there is an earthly intelligence that lies beyond our human knowledge and understanding." This is the main point that is constantly reiterated throughout the book, and this is the point that makes the book so important. The problem with the earth today is that humans have become too intelligent; so intelligent that they question everything they once took for granted and, unable to explain it, consider it unreal. Science, the very thing that catapulted us into our current state of “greatness,” is also the human evil that has isolated us from everything we knew. The "knowledge" Hogan talks about is not scientific knowledge, it is not something that can be hypothesized and demonstrated in the laboratory. It is rather the feeling you get when you see a dead horse, or a large bird of prey swooping down to catch some small running animal. Here is the difference between artifice and reality. Humans live in an almost completely artificial world, which makes it too easy for members of Congress to vote on the government's sale of a patch of land inhabited by wild animals, or for park rangers to give in and murder wolves to Yellowstone to "control" the population when in reality they are innocent animals, unaware of human boundaries, who cross Yellowstone's borders and enter "private" ranches. Let's consider the day of an average human being. He wakes up in a “house,” completely isolated from his environment, bathes in a fake pond or simulates rain using chemicals to strip away his natural oils, eats packaged food that rarely resembles anything found in nature, gets. .. paper medium……the need to get closer and touch it. It reminds me of an alien abduction, the aliens approach a human being they have captured and killed and lay him on a table with caution and awe. They slowly stretch out their long ET fingers trying to make a connection with the thing, to make sure it's real and solid. Imagine a wolf in the wild approaching a dead bear in awe, carefully extending its tongue and licking it in wonder. The wolf would simply accept the bear, perhaps even eat it as a means of survival. We have forgotten this, and now some of us feel that void and recognize the overwhelming need to fill it with nature, our nature, the nature we have fought for centuries and have now conquered. But as Hogan argues, by defeating nature, we have defeated ourselves, so nature's wounds are our wounds, and our "self-hatred" will not allow us to repair them..