熱帯雨林（The rain forest）は垂直の世界です。自分たちを囲み、保護してくれ、垂直性が特徴のこの子宮（彼らにとって子宮という言葉は森の意味でもあります）で育ち、生涯を過ごしてきたバンブティ族が垂直の世界を離れると、吐き気を催し始めます。そして熱帯雨林に戻されなければ、彼らのうちの何人かは一定期間の後に衰弱し、重い病気になるでしょう。
バンブティ族の安心感は、視覚知覚体系の垂直感覚という刺激、すなわち、自分の知覚が及ぶ場所にいるという感覚と非常に深く関連しています。
If you take the BaMbuti, pygmies from the Ituri rain forests of central Africa, out of that forest they become nauseous. What is it that occurs when the BaMbuti leave the rain forest?
The rain forest is a vertical world. And when the BaMbuti-who have been raised and have lived their entire life in this womb (their word for womb is also their word for the forest) that covers them, that provides them with protection and is so characteristically marked by verticalityーleave that vertical world, they become nauseous and some of them will collapse and fall very ill over a period of time if they are not returned to the rain forest.
Their sense of security is very strongly connected with the stimulation of that class of vertical line receptors in the visual perceptual systemーwith being in a place where they know how to perceive.
Judith Delozier
NLP共同創始者ジョン・グリンダー博士認定校
ニューコードNLPスクール
記事更新日：2026/01/11
