In the age of curated perfection, the holiday season has become a battlefield. On one side, you have the hyper-commercialized, calorie-dense, anxiety-inducing December most Westerners know. On the other, three radical alternatives have emerged in the cultural zeitgeist: the (raw Russian nature), the French "Art de Vivre" (sophisticated indulgence), and the Enature movement (the philosophy of returning to the naked, organic state).
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Enature spirituality is pantheistic—God is the tree. In the age of curated perfection, the holiday