work - Blogs - Depth Psychology Alliance2024-03-29T07:25:25Zhttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/profiles/blogs/feed/tag/workHalloween, Masks and Your Shadow: What’s Jung Got To Do With It?https://depthpsychologyalliance.com/profiles/blogs/halloween-masks-and-your-shadow-what-s-jung-got-to-do-with-it-12015-10-15T14:05:07.000Z2015-10-15T14:05:07.000ZEffie Heotishttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/members/EffieHeotis<div><p><b><font size="4">Halloween, Masks and Your Shadow: What’s Jung Got To Do With It?<br /></font></b> by Effie Heotis, M.S.</p><p><b><i>"One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious".</i></b></p><p>Like a haunted house in a good horror movie, shadow work can be scary. However, it holds a key which can unlock our unconscious minds, allowing us to become more at peace with ourselves and with others in the process. The shadow, if not called on, is that scary thing that...</p><p><a href="http://www.pathstothepsyche.com/blog/halloween-masks-and-your-shadow-whats-jung-got-to-do-with-it">http://www.pathstothepsyche.com/blog/halloween-masks-and-your-shadow-whats-jung-got-to-do-with-it</a></p></div>The Shape of Water: The Shape of Change?https://depthpsychologyalliance.com/profiles/blogs/the-shape-of-water-the-shape-of-change2018-02-02T02:34:24.000Z2018-02-02T02:34:24.000ZJean Raffahttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/members/JeanRaffa<div><p></p><p><span style="font-size:12pt;"> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}9142464666,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img src="{{#staticFileLink}}9142464666,original{{/staticFileLink}}" width="400" class="align-right" alt="9142464666?profile=original" /></a>Filmgoers may have laughingly dismissed Godzilla, the Teenage Werewolf, and The Creature from the Black Lagoon in the 1950’s, but nobody laughs at the real-life monsters we see on television every day in the form of terrorists, genocidal dictators, and political leaders who incite divisiveness and spout nuclear threats. We get it. Dystopia is us. Our problems are caused by humanity’s psychological and spiritual ignorance, and they will not be resolved until enough individuals acquire more mature and humane ways of thinking and behaving. What used to be the role of deities and religious authorities has now become everyone’s job.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:12pt;"> Fortunately, there are prophets among us to show us the way. They are the courageous and gifted artists who create books and films depicting ordinary people who evolve into heroic individuals. The Star Wars series, Avatar, Arrival, and The Shape of Water are examples. Their mythic themes and archetypal characters limn the shape of our own souls. Everyone enjoys a good story. But do we realize these stories are about us? Do we understand their metaphors and decipher their symbols? Do we apply their lessons to our own lives?</span></p><p><span style="font-size:12pt;"> Each of us contains a possible hero like Luke Skywalker, an indomitable Amazon heroine like Princess Leia, a Wise Man like Yoda, a menacing Warrior like Darth Vader. You may relate to Avatar’s Jake Sully, a vulnerable wounded Warrior with the potential to be healed by love, but his counterpart—the dark side’s ruthless, power-hungry Colonel Miles Quaritch—also lives in you. Regardless of your gender you can activate the healing of an Earth Mother like the Na’vi’s Mo’at, a beautiful Beloved like princess Neytiri, or a benevolent Wise Woman like Dr. Grace Augustine. Archetypes are latent patterns of energy in everyone’s soul. They teach and empower us when we listen.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:12pt;"> Consider Arrival’s gentle Louse Banks, a linguist who’s tormented by intuitions and visions which fill her with confusion and dread. She’s the image of a person in whom the Mediatrix archetype is activated. When the U.S. Army recruits her to communicate with alien life forms hovering over the earth, she breaks the rules to gain their trust. In a blog post titled “Arrival: How the Feminine Saves the World,” depth psychology expert Carol S. Pearson notes this “reveals how traditional elements of the Lover archetype are morphing to meet new challenges.” The world leaders see the aliens as dangerous threats and are preparing to make war on them. But because Louise is motivated by love, not fear, she sees them as wondrous life forms to communicate with and befriend. This prompts us to ask ourselves: Do I respect people and species different from me? Do I listen to the subtle messages of my body? Do I befriend my thoughts and emotions or try to ignore them? </span></p><p><span style="font-size:12pt;"> In The Shape of Water, an even more vulnerable heroine saves the life of an amphibious monster. The year is 1962. Elisa is a mute, mousy janitor on the night shift of a top-secret government research lab desperate to get one-up on the Russians. One night a promising “asset” arrives in a portable tank in the form of a scaly green creature-from-the-Black-Lagoon lookalike from a Brazilian rainforest where he was worshiped as a god. Deeply drawn to this equally voiceless and powerless creature, Elisa initiates a fairy-tale romance with him by playing Benny Goodman on her portable record player, placing hard-boiled eggs on the lip of the tank in which he’s confined, and teaching him sign language when he emerges from the water to eat them.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:12pt;"> As it turns out, the real monster in this story is Richard Strickland, a sadistic, square-jawed military officer who tortures the green man, sexually harasses Elisa, and makes racist comments to Zelda, her co-worker. Overhearing the scientists’ plans to kill and dissect her beloved in the name of science, a frantic and determined Elisa enlists the help of Zelda and her gay neighbor, Giles, to rescue him. The remainder of the film builds the tension amid a dreamy, watery green ambiance before reconciling it in a surprise ending that leaves us wondering: What just happened? Is he what he seems? Do I have it in me to do what she did? Does love really have a god-like power? How strong is my Lover archetype? Do I truly know how to love?</span></p><p><span style="font-size:12pt;"> The characters in these films play out their roles against a backdrop of mythic themes:</span></p><ul><li><span style="font-size:12pt;">the destructiveness of our shadow Warriors</span></li><li><span style="font-size:12pt;">the crises and suffering necessary for the making of a hero/ine</span></li><li><span style="font-size:12pt;">the need to respect, communicate with, and accept help from other people and species</span></li><li><span style="font-size:12pt;">love’s victory over ignorance and hatred</span></li></ul><p><span style="font-size:12pt;"> But here’s a not-so subtle difference. It used to be that only men got to be heroes, but we’re seeing more heroines now. Although the first Star Wars film to appear centers primarily on Luke Skywalker, it is his heroic sister, Princess Leia, who turns him into a hero. The same is true of Avatar’s Jake Sully whose heroism is inspired by the equally heroic Princess Neytiri.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:12pt;"> The most recent of these—Arrival, The Shape of Water, and The Last Jedi—convey a theme new to our time which resonates with many souls today: the feminine as savior. Louise, Elisa, and Rey are not fantasy superheroines like Wonder Woman and Aquagirl. And they’re not sidekicks who help the main character accomplish his goals. They are ordinary women who initiate change and accomplish it with the respect and cooperation of healthy, caring men. Louise’s heroism is aided by Ian, a scientist. Giles helps Elisa save the green man. And in the newest Star Wars episode, Rey becomes the last Jedi with the help of Luke Skywalker. The main protagonists are females.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:12pt;"> This shift in the spirit of our times is reflected in recent statistics. The Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film reports that of the top 100 films in 2014, only 12% featured female protagonists. But then something happened. In 2015 the figure was 22% and in 2016 it jumped to 29%.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:12pt;"> Although the data are not in for 2017, we appear to be seeing the beginning of a trend. Water, like earth, has always been considered a feminine element, and in dreams, water and earth symbolize the unconscious self. Societies have unconscious selves too. Like the ocean, our collective unconscious contains monsters, but it also holds overlooked hidden treasures. Is the feminine as savior of the world the shape of change? Are you and I the shape of change?</span></p><h2><span style="font-size:12pt;"><em>Note: For more posts like this, please check out Jean Raffa's blog, <a href="https://jeanraffa.wordpress.com" target="_blank">Matrignosis,</a> and the blog of author <a href="http://www.carolspearson.com/blog/">Carol S. Pearson</a>, where this post first appeared.</em></span></h2><h3><em>Jean Raffa’s The Bridge to Wholeness and Dream Theatres of the Soul are at <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Jean-Benedict-Raffa/e/B005K8MFNM">Amazon</a>. E-book versions are also at <a href="http://store.kobobooks.com/en-CA/ebook/the-bridge-to-wholeness-a-feminine-alternative-to-the-hero-myth">Kobo</a>, <a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-bridge-to-wholeness-jean-benedict-raffa/1111449439?ean=2940045493901">Barnes And Noble</a> and <a href="https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/jeanraffa">Smashwords</a>. Healing the Sacred Divide can be found at <a href="http://www.amazon.com/author/jeanraffa">Amazon</a> and <a href="http://www.larsonpublications.com/">Larson Publications, Inc</a>.</em></h3><div id="jp-post-flair" class="sharedaddy sd-like-enabled sd-sharing-enabled"><div class="sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled"></div></div><p><span style="font-size:12pt;"> </span></p></div>Interview: Jungian Analyst Carol McRae on Her Drumming and Ally Workhttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/profiles/blogs/interview-jungian-analyst-carol-mcrae-on-her-drumming-and-ally2014-02-02T00:34:07.000Z2014-02-02T00:34:07.000ZPatricia Dameryhttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/members/PatriciaDamery<div><p><span style="font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>On February 22, 2014, the <b>C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco</b> will offer the first of a series of eco-psychology seminars and workshops on the environment crisis. These workshops will be from differing perspectives but of one piece: the necessary crisis of consciousness in earth changes and what we can/must do. In this first workshop, <a href="http://www.eventbrite.com/e/indwelling-our-human-participation-in-the-dream-of-the-earth-registration-7406756809">Indwelling: Our Human Participation in the Dream of the Earth</a>, analysts Carol McRae and Barbara Holifield will lead participants into active imagination states through drumming and authentic movement. Following is an interview with one of the seminar leaders, analyst Carol McRae, PhD. </i></span><br /> <br /> <b>Carol, You approach the psyche in a particular way, using drumming and ally work. Could you say how you came to these practices? </b><br /> <br /> My shamanic emphasis with drumming and ally work began in 1979 with a dream of a snake jumping at my heart. I tried to deflect the snake, caught it behind its head. The next day I was to be diagnosed with breast cancer and I was afraid. I tried to find someone to help me understand what to do. I looked for help in an academic setting (through thinking) but found no help there. Further work with the dream in active imagination led me to direct conversation with the snake, who called herself Rosie. I have been guided by Rosie ever since. Drumming comes from work I did with a Lakota woman teacher at Rosie's urging. Ally work comes from the work of another Jungian Analyst, Jeff Raff, who has written <i>The Practice of Ally Work</i>.<br /> <br /> <b>Could you explain what you mean by ally work? </b><br /> <br /> Ally work is an extension of Jung's active imagination, which invites the unconscious to come forward to consciousness in whatever form it chooses. To find an ally, one develops this capacity of receptivity with a particular focus, that of finding an inner guide, a wisdom figure and connection to the Divine. Rosie is that figure for me.<br /> <br /> <b>How do you use drumming in this work?</b><br /> <br /> I drum as the Lakota drum, at the rate of double the human heartbeat. This constant sound creates an altered state over time. From the state achieved, images, feelings, whole stories can emerge. A traditional shaman uses drumming to help her/him in journeying to the underworld, which bears a striking similarity to Jung's active imagination. The shaman goes deeply into this state FOR the healing of the patient she/he is helping. I go deeply into this state WITH the person(s) I am helping.<br /> <br /> <b>Who have been some of your important mentors along the way?</b><br /> <br /> Rosie, of course, is a mentor, a teacher of the highest order. As with Jung's relationship with Philemon, his Ally, I discovered quickly that Rosie is not me. She knows more than I know and can teach me from her wisdom. Other mentors include Don Sandner, who I consider my spiritual father; Steve Wong, who taught me a combination of psychotherapy and shamanic practice; and Pansy Hawkwing, my Lakota spiritual guide.<br /> <br /> <b>What happens in ally work that is potent? How is it different from other ways of approaching the unconscious?</b><br /> <br /> Ally work is particularly powerful because It calls up one figure to dialog with again and again. This figure may first appear in a dream as she did with me. The ally may also come forward in active imagination itself. By setting an intention or focus before opening to the unconscious, one can ask for an ally. Jeff Raff has outlined a helpful approach to this process in his book on ally work, which I use in my classes for helping people to find their own allies. As Jeff says, "An ally is a divine being, a face of God that is unique to each human being. Every one of us has an ally with whom we could live, but of course most people are unaware of this fact, largely because they have been cut off from the imagination." (<i>The Practice of Ally Work</i>, p. 3) Active imagination is a broader form of contacting the unconscious which is receptive to whatever emerges from the unconscious. Dreams offer invitations from the unconscious to become conscious of particular material which it conveys. Art and dance offer ways to express unconscious material without words and may lead to greater understanding of particular personal material if approached as active imagination, an invitation to unconscious material to come into consciousness.<br /> <br /> <b>Do you have stories that you would like to share about your own work?</b><br /> <br /> My work with Rosie has had its dramatic moments, although much of it concerns my everyday learning. During my first vision quest, in this case a 24 hour time by myself in a forest, I had a particularly powerful experience with a woodpecker. For six hours he pecked on trees surrounding where I sat, moving in a clockwise direction beginning in front of me and ending six hours later in the same location at which point he was joined by a female woodpecker and flew away. I considered him a spirit guide (not an Ally, because he was a member of a species, not an individual like Rosie). Ten years later at a new home shaded by live oak trees, a woodpecker flew into a window in a direct line to where I was sitting and died. When I asked him why he had come (in active imagination), he said he had been sent to tell me to take this work seriously. I was to get up each night when I heard a bird song which imitated a woodpecker's pecking and go outside and speak with Rosie. I did this practice for about an hour each night around 3AM for three years. The woodpecker as a spiritual helper specializes in helping me get through difficult places. He opens a new space with his pecking.<br /> <br /> <b>Why do you think these approaches can help us in the crisis of the earth changes? </b><br /> <br /> This question is very important to me. I am very concerned about the crisis of climate change. It offers us both a horrifying possibility, the loss of much of the human race because we are destroying the earth system that sustains us, and an opportunity to develop a deep connection to the earth and a sustainable relationship to all that is in it. I feel ally work offers a way for everyone to feel a deep connection within themselves and to recognize all of earth and the beings on earth as related to them in a giant pattern of allies, our connection with the Divine. One of the major maladies of Western Civilization is loneliness, a break in connection with anything beyond oneself. Ally work offers a constant connection and a deep ongoing relationship. One is never alone again. Furthermore, the Ally, often an animal, connects one more deeply with the earth. Earth connection is what is lacking in our culture. We have thought of the earth as something to harness for our own purposes rather than a being to respect and relate to, to cherish even. All kinds of attention to the unconscious: dreamwork, art, dance, Jungian Analysis help to heal the split we feel between and within ourselves. For me, ally work, in particular, offers a way to heal and to dialog about what we can do to make this planet a sustainable environment again.<br /> <br /> <b>What advice do you have for those who would like to begin these kinds of work? </b><br /> I recommend reading Jeff Raff's book and doing the exercises he describes. This can lead you to a sense of deep connectedness. The process is not always easy. He describes the resistances that may come up at each stage. It helps to join— or form— a group of people committed to exploring in this way. You can share difficulties and discoveries together. I encourage you to keep at the process; it may take time to access the ally and to stay connected to Her/Him. It's worth the effort. Don't forget how connected we all are to each other and to the earth and all its beings.<br /> <br /></p></div>The Environmental Crisis: What We Can Dohttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/profiles/blogs/the-environmental-crisis-what-we-can-do2014-01-13T17:26:32.000Z2014-01-13T17:26:32.000ZPatricia Dameryhttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/members/PatriciaDamery<div><table align="center" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;text-align:center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-WaxsTU4D2Xo/UtQeR87R3CI/AAAAAAAACYM/3P-hhLH1Opc/s1600/naturesfirstgreenART_4967+(1).tiff" style="margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-WaxsTU4D2Xo/UtQeR87R3CI/AAAAAAAACYM/3P-hhLH1Opc/s1600/naturesfirstgreenART_4967+(1).tiff" height="188" width="400" alt="naturesfirstgreenART_4967+(1).tiff" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align:center;">Some of the reasons I am willing to suffer knowledge of my participation in climate change.</td></tr></tbody></table><p><br />When I think of the best approach to the issues we have created in our environment, I think of the old Buddhist adage: <i>Show up. Pay attention. Tell the truth. Detach from outcome.</i> The problem lies in being so overwhelmed that we cannot show up to pay attention. Then we deny the truth, effectively participating in a horrible outcome! It is critical that we are not paralyzed into denial by our fear.<br /><br />In the recently published <i>Sacred Agriculture: The Alchemy of Biodynamics</i> (Lindisfarne Books, 2013), Dennis Klocek emphasizes the importance of this "showing up." It is important that we acknowledge our vulnerability to the earth, he says, versus feeling in control and <i>above it</i>. "The only way I can turn my soul from existential guilt into the willingness to imagine my role in the Earth's destiny is through active imagination (110)."<br /><br />On February 22, 2014, the C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco will offer the first of a series of eco-psychology seminars and workshops on the environment crisis. These workshops will be from differing perspectives but of one piece: the necessary crisis of consciousness in earth changes and what we can/must do. In this first workshop, <a href="http://www.eventbrite.com/e/indwelling-our-human-participation-in-the-dream-of-the-earth-registration-7406756809">Indwelling: Our Human Participation in the Dream of the Earth</a>, analysts Carol McRae and Barbara Holifield will lead participants into active imagination states through drumming and authentic movement. "We will allow what emerges to build on Thomas Berry’s idea that hope for our future lies in our human participation in the dream of the earth."</p><div><br />This workshop will be followed by on October 18, 2014, by <i>The Spiritualized Earth and the Birth of the New Consciousness: Jung's Analytical Psychology and Steiner's Biodynamic Agriculture: What Might Save Us.</i> I will present the common root of both and what Biodynamic agriculture offers.</div><div><br />This will be followed by a workshop on November 15, 2014, with a writing workshop, <i>Wounded Earth, Wounded Psyche: On Solastagia and Nature Deficit Disorder,</i> in which participants will be encouraged to find language for what is unbearable and unfathomable. This will be lead by four of us, poets Naomi Lowinsky, Leah Shelleda, Francis Hatfield, and by me, Patricia. Again, more about this later. </div><div><br />These seminars are very reasonably priced ($35 for the first, $25 for graduate students) and are a really good way to gather with others in aligning to address what we <i>can</i> do.<br /><br /><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%;text-align:center;"></div></div></div>My Green May Be Your Red: Perceiving Subtle Energieshttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/profiles/blogs/my-green-may-be-your-red-perceiving-subtle-energies2014-01-04T20:00:00.000Z2014-01-04T20:00:00.000ZPatricia Dameryhttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/members/PatriciaDamery<div><p>Many years ago when we were first learning Biodynamics we worked with a consultant who I've called B.B. in my recollection of that time (<i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Farming-Soul-A-Tale-Initiation/dp/1926715012/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1388865200&sr=8-1&keywords=farming+soul+by+patricia+damery">Farming Soul: A Tale of Initiation</a></i>. Soon to be republished by Leaping Goat Press, 2014<i>.</i>) He helped us on many levels, giving us tips and how-to’s about the practicalities of biodynamic farming but also direction in learning to perceive spiritual/subtle energies.</p><p><br /> One morning as B.B. and I were walking in the vineyard, B.B. was pointing out things that I normally paid little attention to. <i>See those birds flying in a spiraling circle?</i> he asked. <i>The diva there is orchestrating that, showing you something. </i><br /> <br /> As we walked on he pointed out an energy spout across the valley. I saw a kind of shimmering rainbow of color, which he explained was the work of the nature spirits trying to integrate energy into the valley.<br /> <br /> At one point he described tiny swirls of energy around the vines. We had sprayed the biodynamic preparation 501 that morning (horned quartz, or silica,) and he told me these were the sylphs (air spirits) at work. <i>Close your eyes for 30 seconds to clear them and then look</i>, he instructed. As I opened my eyes, an orangish red surrounded the vines momentarily, then was gone.</p><div>I will always remember what he said next: <i>One person may look and see red, and another see green, but the meaning will be the same. My green may be your red. It is just coming through a different observer. </i><br /> <br /> What is important is that we learn to observe in these ways and <i>to trust what we see</i>. Then we can dream on what it might mean. There may well be an objective reality to what we are seeing, but it is colored by our own personal psyche. It is critical that we come to notice and accept our own perception and not override it with what we think we are seeing or what we think we <i>should</i> see.<br /> <br /> C. G. Jung talked about the period called The Enlightenment as a period in which we became more rational and less open to this way of perceiving. While our intellect developed, use of our imaginative abilities atrophied, abilities that are critical in the perception of subtle energies. The alchemists, he said, used the age-old method of the imagination to perceive and work with subtle energies in the creation of the alchemists' philosophical stone, or the Self.</div><div><br /> One of the more important tasks in farming or in analytic work is to approach the other as if for the first time, to forget what we think we know, and truly <i>listen</i> and <i>see.</i> Unfortunately we too often use our intellect in a dogmatic way, forgetting this other way of taking in information about the other that may actually be a dialogue. For myself, I have had to remember and often learn again these more playful, open ways of taking in information and communicating with the other.</div><div><br /> What are the little dogmas in your own life that override this other way of seeing?<div style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:14px;min-height:16px;"></div><br /><div style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:14px;min-height:16px;"><br /></div></div></div>Seeking Collaborationhttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/profiles/blogs/seeking-collaboration2012-08-07T19:06:48.000Z2012-08-07T19:06:48.000ZAlaya A. Dannuhttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/members/AlayaADannu<div><p><span style="font-family:'andale mono', times;" class="font-size-3">Greetings to the Community of DPA.</span></p><p><span style="font-family:'andale mono', times;" class="font-size-3">I find myself in a near frenzy, searching for a way to tenderly release it into the open. </span></p><p><span style="font-family:'andale mono', times;" class="font-size-3"> </span></p><p><span style="font-family:'andale mono', times;" class="font-size-3">I'm an Artisan, an all around creative, and have finally come to peace with myself, giving my full attention to the messages of my dreams. I've documented them for 11 years, and haven't paid much attention to them until this year.</span></p><p><font face="andale mono, times" size="3">What I've found throughout a handful of entries, is an underlying current of similarity - there's a distinct message within them, and it's something to be shared. </font></p><p><font face="andale mono, times" size="3"> </font></p><p><font face="andale mono, times" size="3">I initially sought to apply for the 2013 <a href="http://www.tedprize.org" target="_blank">TEDPrize</a>, seeing as it would provide me with the resources I need to accomplish this task [Funding and PEOPLE]. As I began gathering the information for the application, I've come to realize that this project is a lot larger than myself - more so than I initially assumed. After having been in contact with the music composers that are to be involved with this project, I've come to realize that I need more time...and the 'right' people to work with,<br /></font></p><p><font face="andale mono, times" size="3"> </font></p><p><font face="andale mono, times" size="3">Thoroughly, and Attentively. Nationally and Internationally...</font></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family:'andale mono', times;" class="font-size-3">In order to execute this message within dreams, I need to engage a large community: dancers/movers, those in the field of creative expression [creative expression therapists], those in the field of psychology [most notably Jungian], those that have studied mythology [most notably Joseph Campbell's work], music composers, director's and producers [theater], screenplays [for stage], writer's [those that are experienced in memoir and fiction writing], those expereinced with holographic technology, photographers, videographers, and those most familiar with the business aspect of the world.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family:'andale mono', times;" class="font-size-3">Would any of you have any insights or suggestions on how I can begin assembling such a team?</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family:'andale mono', times;" class="font-size-3">Looking forward to hearing from you soon.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family:'andale mono', times;" class="font-size-3"> </span></p><p></p><p><font face="andale mono, times" size="3"> </font></p></div>Permaculture and the Bios Factory (A Transition Buckle) New Myth 24 by Willi Paul,openmythsource.comhttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/profiles/blogs/permaculture-and-the-bios-factory-a-transition-buckle-new-myth-242012-07-05T16:30:00.000Z2012-07-05T16:30:00.000ZWilli Paulhttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/members/WilliPaul<div><h2><strong><a href="http://wp.me/p14SHM-Fv" target="_blank">Permaculture and the Bios Factory</a> (A Transition Buckle) <a href="http://www.planetshifter.com/node/1855">New Myth 24</a> by </strong><strong>Willi Paul,<a href="http://openmythsource.com/">openmythsource.com</a></strong></h2><p><strong> </strong></p><p><a href="http://openmythsource.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/gal_prison_02.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-2574" title="gal_prison_02" src="http://openmythsource.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/gal_prison_02.jpg?w=300&h=223" alt="" width="300" height="223" /></a></p><p></p><p>The Cascadia Tribal Council began transforming the broke and broken rural prison system into the Permaculture Bios System soon after WA, OR and NorCal left the United States for independence.</p><p>The leaders designed a way to not simply let all of the inmates go free but to offer them a valuable transition and survival course as a re-entry into the post-carbon landscape. Cascadia choose rural prisons first because urban jails did not have the land required to teach permaculture and grow food forests.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://openmythsource.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/prison45.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-2575" title="prison45" src="http://openmythsource.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/prison45.jpg?w=300&h=200" alt="" width="300" height="200" /></a></p><p></p><p></p><p>Henry James Robinson was one of thousands trapped in this multi-state prison trap. He was convicted and sentenced to 3 years in the Shutter Creek Correctional Institution near North Bend, OR for growing and selling marijuana that he cultivated in the near-by Eliot State Forest.</p><p> </p><p>All of the necessary infrastructure is already in each prison:</p><p>• large fully equipped kitchen<br /> • laundry<br /> • sleeping quarters<br /> • dining hall<br /> • play area<br /> • lounges<br /> • library<br /> • roads<br /> • barb wire as internal forms for cob furniture and ovens<br /> • land for food production and research<br /> • space to install solar panels and biodigesters<br /> • security against raiders</p><p></p><p><a href="http://openmythsource.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/20111012-farm.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-2576" title="20111012-farm" src="http://openmythsource.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/20111012-farm.jpg?w=300&h=200" alt="" width="300" height="200" /></a></p><p> </p><p>Mr. Robinson tends the fields in the morning and attends classes in the afternoon. Interns and PDC designers work in the new Green Union with the x- cons. He is learning about food, self and reaps barter from their local market day.</p><p>Forgiveness, heart, work… transmutation. <strong>Transition.</strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong><a href="http://permaculturexchange.com/how-we-work/about-permaculture/">Care for the Community</a>.</strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p></div>