#plotkin

[solace-philosophy]

Arrested personal growth serves industrial “growth.”

Nature and the Human Soul, by Bill Plotkin

[stelioverzera]

Soul work is disruptive of the egocentric, feminine-suppressing, nature-disconnected, dominator worldview, and it is richly contributing to the building of a contemporary Western version of an ecocentric and soulcentric partnership culture.

This is true of the lives and works of all soul-initiated Adults in this time of the dying of life-destroying societies and the birth of life-enhancing cultures. This is how the deepest cultural renaissance happens. All soul work, at this time in the world, is countercultural and revolutionary, as well as evolutionary.

~ Bill Plotkin

[solace-philosophy]

-Wild Mind, by Bill Plotkin

[solace-philosophy]

Positive thinking can be delusional and dangerous because it ignores the real source of problems and encourages complacency.

-Wild Mind, by Bill Plotkin

[solace-philosophy]

No true adult wants to be a consumer,

worker bee, or tycoon, or a soldier in an imperial war, and none would go through these motions if there were other options at hand. The enlivened soul and wild nature are deadly to industrial growth economies– and vice versa.

-Nature and the Human Soul, by Bill Plotkin

[solace-philosophy]

Human ontogeny is shaped significantly more by cultural influences than is the ontogeny of any other life-form we know. And yet, as we’ve seen, a thorough experiential grounding in nature is equally essential for us: without it, pathology and self-destruction result.

-Nature and the Human Soul, by Bill Plotkin

(Ontogeny: The origin and development of an individual organism from embryo to adult.)

[solace-philosophy]

We no longer grow into our natural wildness, our true human nature. Rather we retreat from it.

For the majority of people in the world today, personal growth becomes arrested in the third stage of eight due to our alienation from nature – from both our human nature and greater nature. Furthermore, this alienation is the cause as well as the effect of dysfunctional culture. Each generation has a more difficult time maturing, resulting in cultures less capable of facilitating the maturation of subsequent generations– an ever-sinking spiral.

-Nature and the Human Soul, by Bill Plotkin

[solace-philosophy]

When we are in our Wild Indigenous consciousness,

our joy derives from the astonishingly synergistic interactions of species, habitats, waterways, soils, and air; and our grief and anger are most powerfully evoked by losses to ecosystem vitality. Our Wild Indigenous One defends the rights of all species and habitats to survive and flourish.

-Wild Mind, by Bill Plotkin