with Craig (I hope I've spelled his last name correctly) Chalquist! WOW! I've lived in a canyon for 35 years and have been unable and unwilling to leave. Why? It's because this breathing, soul-filled, growing, greening, living, dying, feeding, starving ball of life and death is my mother. I'm contained in Her embrace and She is and has been contained in mine. This was made ultimately clear as I listened to Craig and Bonnie's dialogue. I could, for the first time, see through to my need for Her. Craig's discussion of his trip through San Francisco with his students had me wanting to hop the first plane and join in. His love for our cherished environment struck me as not only being practical and dedicated but as nothing less than sacred.
During this earthy, Venus retrograde, I raise my glass to Craig and others like him, who in service to our gigantic earth, work diligently, lovingly and unselfishly at her divine preservation and to those creatures who also inhabit her. May I suggest that as a collective we raise our glasses to Bonnie Bright, as well. Her untiring devotion makes possible the meaningful and valued interviews such as this one with Craig, and others whose, words, thoughts, essence and existence have reached us in and through Depth Psychology Alliance's shared, sacred, sense of place.
BRAVO!
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Judie--Thanks so much for this wonderful endorsement. Craig was one of my first mentors in this field and I have always found his work highly significant and accessible to everyone. Your insight about earth and mother seems quite profound. I guess we all know it on some level, but it sounds like you had a very felt experience of it while listening to the interview.
I also had something similar just after editing the interview in which I felt (experienced) the Earth as very intelligent and alive for just a sudden brief knowing second. I also associated it at that moment somehow with the image of a Mother Elephant, and when I researched that, I discovered the most signficant archetypal aspect of mother elephants is that they are known to grieve quite profoundly. Very interesting and momentous for me as well: your words echo the depths to which I have also been touched by Craig's work, and my work with Craig.
Thanks so much for you kind words and I invite everyone to listen in--and join the June Book Club with Craig if you can....