Bill Plotkin, PhD, founder of Animas Valley Institute, describes himself as a “psychologist gone wild.” A cultural visionary, author, and guide to the entwined mysteries of wilderness and psyche, he’s been blazing new trails for decades. His ecocentric re-visioning of psychology invites us into a conscious and embodied relationship with soul and with the more-than-human world. His other books are Wild Mind and Nature and the Human Soul. He lives in southwestern Colorado.
"Here is an abundantly wise and carefully crafted survival guide
for the wild soul currently dozing (or dying) at the heart of your
civilized life. Plotkin has wandered again and again into the
nourishing darkness, and has returned with this earthly bundle of
insights and images — talismanic tools for awakening to the
outrageous depths both within us and all around us. He has bound
them into a book that is immensely practical, alive with ritual
intelligence, thick with useful tools from a host of courageous
comrades."
— David Abram, author of The Spell of the Sensuous
"As we enter a future where humans and the natural world are more
intimate with each other, we will surely be powerfully influenced
by this new guide into the mysteries of nature and psyche. In
Soulcraft, Bill Plotkin gives us an authentic masterwork. In the
substance of what he has written, in the clarity of his
presentation, and in the historical urgency of the subject, he has
guided us far into the new world that is opening up before us. We
will not soon again receive a work of this significance."
— from the foreword by Thomas Berry, author of The Dream of the
Earth and The Great Work
"The fundamental worldview of industrial society is that Earth is
like a gravel pit or a lumberyard — just a resource for human use.
We live disconnected from the evolving earth community, but our
deepest allurement is a rich, intimate participation in nature and
the ongoing adventure of the Universe. In this stunningly original
and inspiring guide book, Bill Plotkin shows us how to reconnect
with the sacred powers of life, of nature, of soul, and the ways
that each one of us can reinvent ourselves and discover our unique
way to flower forth."
— Brian Swimme, cosmologist and author of The Hidden Heart of the
Cosmos,The Universe is a Green Dragon, and coauthor with Thomas
Berry of The Universe Story
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