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Shaun Logan - Founder of Logan Kinei and Observing Experience

Hey! I’m Shaun, I am the founder of Logan Kinei and Observing Experience. Over the past 10 years of working the fitness/therapy world, I became aware that there is something more than the body-mind. Call it awareness, consciousness, the universe, love, the beyond, light, or life. Over the years, I started on the path of self inquiry without being aware until about 2018, but my experience lead me right to it. I recognize that my shyness was purely the manifestation of my insecurities and my self created fears had always held me back. … I created Observing Experience to share my stories and my experiences to help inspire and guide others to experience their true nature.  When I recently moved from Philadelphia to Cape Cod, I created Logan Kinei: Wellness & Nature Experiences to help more people connect with nature, themselves, and others.  Both, Observing Experience & Logan Kinei are to inspire others live the life that you desire, through peace, love, and freedom – to live cohesively with all humans and beings, nature/earth, the universe and beyond! I also love to travel, as I believe living through new cultures and new experiences is one of the best methods of enlightening our perspectives.

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(Part 2 of 2) Some quick info about our agricultur (Part 2 of 2) Some quick info about our agriculture system, how our food changed to lack nutrients, and how this has led us right to many of the issues we face today with human health, weather and the environment. #regeneration #regenerate #regenerativeagriculture #regenerativemedicine #sustainableliving #sustainablefashion #sustainability #sustainable #change #climatechange #climatecrisis #climate #nature #connectwithnature #soilheath #oceanhealth #airquality #energy #unknown #capecod #capecodgarden #kisstheground #healthylifestyle #healthyfood
(Part 1 of 2) Some quick info about our agricultur (Part 1 of 2) Some quick info about our agriculture system, how our food changed to lack nutrients, and how this has led us right to many of the issues we face today with human health, weather and the environment. #regeneration #regenerate #regenerativeagriculture #regenerativemedicine #sustainableliving #sustainablefashion #sustainability #sustainable #change #climatechange #climatecrisis #climate #nature #connectwithnature #soilheath #oceanhealth #airquality #energy #unknown #capecod #capecodgarden #kisstheground #healthylifestyle #healthyfood #hudsonvalley
Sustainable is not good enough. Sustaining what we Sustainable is not good enough. Sustaining what we now have is not going to work. We have to be regenerative. We have to change the way things are done and do our part to allow nature to regenerate. With our actions and choices, we have to always be thinking: How is this giving back to nature? What is this going to do to nature - is it going to fight it? Or is it going to be in line with it? Soil, air, ocean, and energy of life. With that, we can change our current course. We can change everything. #regeneration #regenerate #regenerativeagriculture #regenerativemedicine #sustainableliving #sustainablefashion #sustainability #sustainable #change #climatechange #climatecrisis #climate #nature #connectwithnature #soilheath #oceanhealth #airquality #energy #unknown #capecod #capecodgarden #mushroom #fungi
Nature will come back - we have to allow it time t Nature will come back - we have to allow it time to regenerate. We have to back off. How far back do “native” plants go? Don’t plants change and move location by all species of life, wind, water, movement of land and glaciers? Does it make sense to say that only plants that were here when the colonists arrived or even when the first indigenous peoples are “native”? That would cut out billions of years of plant life. It seems as though nature knows what it is doing, more so than we do. Humans are also part of nature so that can’t be overlooked, and if we brought a plant somewhere that seems to be taking over, we should exam and understand that. Many of the “invasive” plants are the first and fastest to grow when nature is taking back over - whether it be abandoned farmland, house or building, or anything else. Maybe we should start looking at “invasive” plants differently. If nature is growing them, there is likely a reason. If plants are growing that thrive off of MORE carbon, then it’s probably natures way of helping the Earth, and us. Foods that are considered invasive may be there because of our lack of general nutrition in the foods the majority of people consume regularly. Maybe an area doesn’t have enough diversity so nature is adding diversity. Do “Invasive” plants tend to be invasive in a healthy forest? Maybe nature is trying to tell us something, trying to help us. Swipe photos to see A timeline of how the land was changed by humans starting in the 1700s according to the Landscape History of Central New England, Harvard Forest.
I find it helpful to understand that clearing the I find it helpful to understand that clearing the Earth of plant life/forests has been happening since the first colonist set foot on this land. They were doing it with the purpose to change the climate hundreds of years ago and it did! And now we continue to do it and the climate continues to change, and we added a whole bunch of other bad stuff. We can stop this, collectively we can stop our current trend and reverse it. We do this through listening to, observing, and working with nature. Not against it. We do this through regenerative or restoration agriculture on medium and small farms. Building permaculture and food forests at our homes, in our communities, at our schools. By doing so, we create more local nutrient dense food, reduce green house gas emissions, and increase plant life which also takes carbon out of the atmosphere, increases water and solar absorption into the soil/ground. We do this through reducing destruction of wildlife, on land and sea. Less mass production, less consumerism, less material spending and frivolous destruction of life for fleeting moments of joy or power. More permanent consistent joy and beauty comes from reestablishing our connection with nature. Those are some of the ways we can all help our planet and life on it - mine, yours, all humans included. We must start reversing climate change. Save the ocean. Save the forests. Save the Earth. Please swipe or check out my story to read more of the history of recognizing climate change from deforestation from some of the most prominent people in the history of the US. (📷 9/9/20 - Coast Guard Beach, Eastham)
Here is some history about the land and deforestat Here is some history about the land and deforestation of the Northeast from the arrival of people from Europe... “America’s first colonists encounter dense, dark wilderness in the Northeast, their winters were freezing and summers dripped with humidity. Frequent, strong storms rolled in at a moment’s notice. They were shocked, disappointed, and dangerously unprepared. Rather than adapt, a collection of scientists, doctors, and writers campaigned to deforest the land. In their minds, cutting down thousands of acres at a time would improve the weather. Whether they were “successful” or not really isn’t the point. The fact that American colonists and preeminent thinkers actually advocated climate change by mass deforestation is a stormy stain in scientific history. When the first colonists arrived, wrote John Adams, “the whole continent was one dismal wilderness, the haunt of wolves and bears and more savage men. Now the forests are removed, the land covered with fields of corn, orchards bending with fruit, and the magnificent habitations of rational and civilized people.” By the 18th century, American colonists had drained marshes, tilled soil, and chopped down millions of acres of virgin forests. Before the settlers arrived, the United States had about one billion acres of forests, which covered about half of the country, including Alaska. In the time since 1600, it would be reduced by about 286 million acres (an area roughly the size of Colombia), converted to mostly agricultural use.” (Taken from: The first American settlers cut down millions of trees to deliberately engineer climate change, by Stephanie Buck - timeline.com, Aug. 2017) To be continued..... #savetheearth #restoration #restorationagriculture #truth #history #savetheplanet #regenerate #respectlife #respectyourself #respectothers #change #changeyourmindset #climateemergency #climatechange #healthyliving #healthyfood #sustainableliving #regenerativeagriculture #protecttheocean #protecttheearth #deforestationawareness #capecod #capecodlife #nature #natureisbeautiful #capeandislands #outercape
Did you know that one of the major reasons for def Did you know that one of the major reasons for deforestation is for agriculture and livestock to meet the rising demand for food? Did you know that one to two acres of rainforests are cleared every second for animal rearing and agriculture? (How livestock farming affects the environment, Downtoearth.org.in) That rise in demand is for livestock products, not because we are running out of food. We already produce enough food to feed about 10 billion (actually reports of producing this much food goes back to 2012 and is still reported today), and we are at a population of about 7.8 billion now. It’s not a food shortage problem. Our problem is demand for certain products AND that the mass amount food produced is nutrient-deficient. Deforestation in itself is extremely detrimental and torturous to humans, Earth, and all of life on it. It is a huge reason why people started to move West in the 1800s — actually it was used as a political ploy to get people to move West in search of more resources after pretty much deforesting the Northeast and East Coast. Forests are the natural habitat of more than 70 percent of the world’s plant and animal species. Many species of animals and plants are becoming extinct, or on the brink of extinction because of deforestation. The world still deforests 15 billion trees every year. Since the beginning of human civilization, the global tree count has fallen by 46 percent. And warming trends are increasing drought risk and shrinking geographic ranges for trees.” (The first American settlers cut down millions of trees to deliberately engineer climate change, by Stephanie Buck - timeline.com, Aug. 2017) More info on deforestation and livestock to follow… #savetheearth #restoration #restorationagriculture #truth #history #savetheplanet #regenerate #respectlife #respectyourself #respectothers #change #changeyourmindset #climateemergency #climatechange #healthyliving #healthyfood #sustainableliving #regenerativeagriculture #protecttheocean #protecttheearth #deforestationawareness #capecod #capecodlife #nature #natureisbeautiful #capeandislands #outercape
Did you know that “whales are enormous carbon si Did you know that “whales are enormous carbon sinks, the era of commercial whaling hastened today’s climate crisis. According to one estimate, a century of whaling equates to the burning of seventy million acres of forest.” (What Have We Done to the Whale? By Amia Srinivasan August 17, 2020, The New Yorker, August 24, 2020 edition) “Great whales are the carbon-capture titans of the animal world, absorbing an average of 33 tons of CO2 each throughout their lives before their carcasses sink to the bottom of the ocean and remain there for centuries … A tree, by contrast, absorbs no more than 48 pounds of the gas a year. … In addition to binding significant amounts of CO2 themselves, whales also support the production of phytoplankton, which contributes at least 50% of all oxygen to the Earth’s atmosphere and captures as much CO2 as 1.7 trillion trees, or four Amazon forests. Increasing phytoplankton productivity by just 1% would have the same effect as the sudden appearance of 2 billion mature trees, according to the study.” - (One Whale Is Worth Thousands of Trees in Climate Fight, New Report Says, Jana Randow/Bloomberg) The more ocean life we kill through erosion, plastics, toxic contamination, drilling, industrial whaling/fishing, sunscreens, pollution, the more we are also killing our selves. Life and resources can not be formed and grown as fast as we are using and destroying them. This is the problem. We are taking so much from this Earth, from the very nature that allows us to be here, and rarely, if ever, giving back or allowing for recovery. This life that we humans are constantly taking - animals and plant, ocean and land - hold the answers to all of our issues. They will all help our greenhouse gas issues. Diversity of everything. We must respect all life, not just human, not just your family and friends...all life. Diversity is nature. Nature is life. #savethewhales #savethewhalessavetheworld #savetheplanet #regenerate #respectlife #respectyourself #respectothers #sustainableliving #regenerativeagriculture #protecttheocean #protecttheearth #oceanlife #whales #ocean #capecod #capecodlife #nature #natureisbeautiful #capeandislands #ptown
To continue on from last post - Even more so, when To continue on from last post - Even more so, when fires and killings happen in mass quantities over short periods of time - think California, Australia, Amazon wildfires, whaling and shark industry, the wiping out of species from oil spills and so forth - this is when things get extremely bad. Burning wood for a fire occasionally or in small quantities not so bad, an entire city or all cities around the world burning wood or fossil fuels all day everyday or wildfire - extremely destructive. Going to repeat this from a previous post - For example, the 2018 California wildfires released estimated emissions of roughly 68 millions tons of carbon dioxide, which equates to about the annual emissions produced by generating enough electricity to power the entire state of California for a year. Read more in my story ✌️ 📷: somewhere in Northern California 2015. #effectsofwildfires #pollution #understanding #climate #climatechange #climatechangeisreal #climateemergency #fire #california #healthychoices #change #changeyourmindset

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Observing Experience was started by Shaun Logan in August 2019. Observing Experience is the culmination of many years of trying to figure out how I can best serve myself, others, and the Earth.  I started a blog to share insights into my life experiences, from my perspective as a human, father, husband, traveler, creator, and guide.  The sharing of my thoughts, experiences, recommendations, and perspective is very purposeful with the intention to help others be kind, grateful, healthy, happy, and generous.

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