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Reflective Practice: Response to Eric's The Rewilding of the Human Spirit & the Ecological Self
Thank you for your post Eric. I went to your website, explored, and read your post in full.
I so appreciate your suggestion that we all need to include more reflective practice in our daily lives.
Playing daily outdoors and intentionally building a
Read more…Article: A Prescription for Injuries of the Soul: Healing the Earth: Healing Us
An interesting perspective on our relationship to environmental issues...posted on Facebook by Holos Institute: "A Prescription for Injuries of the Soul: Healing the Earth: Healing Us" by Carolyn Raffensperger...
Read more…Some remarkable questions for thought....
Hi everyone! I wanted to share this series of questions from terrapsychologist Craig Chalquist in case you haven't visited the book club this month. I think they are highly thought-provoking and particularly significant as environmental changes seem
Read more…Re-awakening the Green Man
Excellent and important read:Re-awakening the Green Man by Janet Kane. Check it out when you have time: http://www.jung.org/Re-awakening%20the%20Green%20Man.html. (Depth Alliance member Kathryn Quick did a stunning analysis of the Green Man for her
Read more…The Great Grief: How To Cope with Losing Our World
This short but important article caught my eye the other day and I wanted to share it here. I've done a lot of writing and contemplating on this topic, one I believe is deeply depth psychological. I would love to have a conversation online (either by
The Sacred from Below: the ecological spirit of our time--David Tacey
Excellent article The Sacred from Below: the ecological spirit of our time, from David Tacey, Australian David Tacey (2009), professor in literary and cultural studies along with depth psychology...
Our civilisation is at the edge of a new experience
David Abram on "Wooing our Culture Back into Reciprocal Relation with the Land"
"I don't think there is a way for those who work in service to the earth — for environmentalists, ecologists — to really woo our culture back into a reciprocal or sustainable relation with the land until we draw folks back to our senses, because our
Read more…Good Read: "Writing a New Story this Earth Day" by Jeffrey Kiehl
Good Earth Day read from the blog of Alliance member, Jungian analyst, and climate scientist Jeff Kiehl: "Writing a New Story this Earth Day": http://jeffreykiehl.wordpress.com/2013/04/20/writing-a-new-story-this-earth-day/
Read more…"Culture Collapse Disorder" -- New Facebook page
Hi everyone. I wanted to let you know I've created a new Facebook page called "Culture Collapse Disorder" to focus on the way our collective ecopsychopathy is showing up and potentially threatening life as we know it. This concept is based on my obse
Read more…Thomas Berry and the Evocation of Participatory Consciousness
Just came across this beautiful article about Thomas Berry by Geneen Marie Haugen about Berry's ideas about "participatory consciousness" with Earth and wanted to share it here:
Thomas Berry and the Evocation of Participatory Consciousness
What do yo
Read more…Excellent Introduction by Meredith Sabini on her work on Jung's Nature Writings
The Earth has a Soul by Meredith Sabini" C.G. Jung on Nature, Technology & Modern Life “Matter in the wrong place is dirt. People get dirty through too much civilization. Whenever we touch nature, we get clean.” You may not associate such bold, ear
Read more…Article: Nature Deficit Disorder
Thought-provoking article, "Nature Deficit Disorder" from the New York Times, March 29, 2012. What do you think?
TUCSON — Your day breaks, your mind aches for something stimulating to match the stirrings of the season. The gate at the urban edge is
Read more…Bill McKibben: EAARTH: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet
6 Ways Time Outside in Nature Helps Reduce Depression and Makes You Feel Better
Excellent article: http://ecosalon.com/6-ways-to-embrace-mother-nature-156/
What are the ways you find yourself healing through nature? Have you ever had a numinous experience with nature? Would love to hear about it....
Eco-Psychology in the Borderlands -- Audio interview with Jerome S. Bernstein
This is an excellent audio interview with Jerome Bernstein, Jungian analyst and clinician who now teaches at the Santa Fe Jung institute. His book "Living in the Borderland: The Evolution of Consciousness and the Challenge of Healing Trauma" has deep
Read more…The Collective Unconscious as a Wilderness
Came across this quote today. It got me thinking about what happens if we treat the collective unconscious the same way we as a culture have been treating the wilderness--specifically how it will respond to us in that kind of relationship. It makes m
Read more…Borderlanders, What's Happening to Earth, and What's YOUR personal Ecopsych issue?
Every day as I look for content to "tweet", I come across tons of articles on what's going on with ecology, climate change, environment, collapse of species. Last week I attended the ecological film fest in Nevada City, CA, and must have seen 20 docu
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