Nature and the human soul by bill plotkin pdf

Depth psychologist and wilderness guide Bill Plotkin presents a model for a human life span rooted in the cycles and qualities of the natural world, a blueprint for individual development that ultimately yields a strategy for cultural transformation. Bill Plotkin guides every reader, stage-by-stage, on the journey toward wholeness and an active, contributing engagement with the world. Each stage is illuminated by the pairing of a human archetype with an Earth archetype: the Innocent in the Nest early childhood , the Explorer in the Garden middle childhood , the Thespian at the Oasis early adolescence , the Wanderer in the Cocoon late adolescence , the Soul Apprentice at the Wellspring early adulthood , the Artisan in the Wild Orchard late adulthood , the Master in the Grove of Elders early elderhood , and the Sage in the Mountain Cave late elderhood. Following a discussion of how Western society fails to provide adequate support for any of the stages of human development, Plotkin goes on to offer practices and principles that assist the reader to ripen into a more complete and genuine adulthood and eventually an elderhood of wise caring for the more-than-human world. Brilliant, insightful, and masterful.