Addressing the pervasive longing for meaning and fulfillment in this time of crisis, Nature and the Human Soul introduces a visionary ecopsychology of human development that reveals how fully and creatively we can mature when soul and wild nature guide us. Depth psychologist and wilderness guide Bill Plotkin presents a model for a human life span rooted in the cycles and qualities of the natural world, a blueprint for individual development that ultimately yields a strategy for cultural...
Since 1980, depth psychologist Bill Plotkin has been guiding women and men into the wilderness – the redrock canyons and snow-crested mountains of the American West – but also into the wilds of the soul. He calls this work soulcraft. There’s a great longing in all people to uncover the secrets and mysteries of our individual lives, to find the unique gift we were born to bring to our communities, and to experience our full membership in the more-than-human world. This journey to soul is a...
Our human psyches possess astonishing resources that wait within us, but we might not even know they exist until we discover how to access them and cultivate their powers, their untapped potentials and depths. Wild Mind identifies these resources – which Bill Plotkin calls the four facets of the Self, or the four dimensions of our innate human wholeness – and also the four sets of fragmented or wounded subpersonalities that form during childhood. Rather than proposing ways to eliminate our...
