Nature and the Human Soul: Cultivating Wholeness and Community in a Fragmented World (Paperback)
by Bill Plotkin (Author)

http://www.amazon.com/Nature-Human-Soul-Cu...d/dp/1577315510

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http://www.animas.org/newBook/

Bill Plotkin has been a psychotherapist, a research psychologist studying non-ordinary states of consciousness, a rock musician, river runner, professor of psychology, and mountain-bike racer. He is the founder and president of Animas Valley Institute. Since 1980 Bill has guided thousands of people through initiatory passages in nature. Currently an ecotherapist, depth psychologist, and wilderness guide, he leads a variety of experiential, nature-based, individuation programs. He is also the author of Nature and the Human Soul: Cultivating Wholeness and Community in a Fragmented World (2008), and Soulcraft: Crossing into the Mysteries of Nature and Psyche (2003). His doctorate in psychology (1976) is from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

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What is your experience of this guy? There's something about him that raises my hackles. Kind of in the "If You Meet the Buddha on the Road - Kill Him" way.

From a quick scan, a lot of his themes seem similar to what is emerging in the Thread, Information
processing Model of Personing in the Social System...

Pegatha and RLA:

I don't have any 'experience' with this guy. Never heard of him.

But the book jumped off the library shelf into my hand because it is consistent with my own personal experience (development/psychology), and it is similar to that which I have read and prescribe elsewhere (in my 1,400 page tome entitled "Summon The Magic")(excerpts from over 200 books), and similar to the work done at http://wilderdom.com/.

I am only about 40 pages into the book, but I'm already applauding and cheering.

First, I had to finish and return "The Evolving Self" [ http://www.amazon.com/Evolving-Self-Mihaly...i/dp/0060921927 ], after transcribing by hand 30 pages and photocopying another 60.

If one were to capstone "Summon The Magic" with these two books, it'd be an expression of who I am, how I have raised my two, and what I hope to teach in the future, through one method or another.

I will be blogging about this more in the future, and am currently investigating the concepts of a separate web site, and developing a related curriculum at both the high school and college level. But I have to move at a snail's pace at the moment.

Please let me know where you are blogging about it. I love Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi!! He has been a pretty significant influence in my life, albeit at a snail's pace.

I've read most of his books, and many of those he is referenced in, like Seligman's stuff.

A while ago I borrowed this book: Optimal Experience: Psychological Studies of Flow in Consciousness

It's more academic, but provides vary unique selections of the concept of Flow.

he is away for up to a few weeks.

Okay, well, keep me updated okay?

heart, my blog is here: http://z7.invisionfree.com/E_Pluribus_Unum...hp?showforum=36 . But you'll get to the meat of the matters a lot faster by reading the books. I am operating at very slow speeds as a result of a computer crash and personal stuff.

If you liked "Flow" by Mihalyi how-is-his-name-pronounced?, you'll love the sequel "The Evolving Self".
It's sort of a "okay, take the flow concept and apply it socially" kind of book.

I've finished "Soulcraft" and I am almost done with "Nature and the Human Soul". Stunning stuff, in the same vein, from the perspective of eco-depth-psychology, it shows how our society is stuck in 'patho-adolescent' behaviors, how it is decaying person by person, family by family, and affecting our economy, our environment, and the world as a whole as a result, and what we can do about it (starting with our selves , of course).

Right on, brother... but in detail, with a focus on life skills that can be (ought to be ) learned at each level of development, with emphasis on adolescence.

Really good stuff.. you'll like it, RLA. I can hear you cheering from here.

All my blogs are linked here to CGCS too.. http://www.commongroundcommonsense.org/for...;blogid=57&