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  • Cultivating Wholeness and Community in a Fragmented World
  • By: Bill Plotkin PhD
  • Narrated by: Matthew Josdal
  • Length: 25 hrs and 35 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (17 ratings)
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Summary

Addressing the pervasive longing for meaning and fulfillment in this time of crisis, Nature and the Human Soul introduces a visionary ecopsychology of human development that reveals how fully and creatively we can mature when soul and wild nature guide us. 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.

With evocative language and personal stories, including those of elders Thomas Berry and Joanna Macy, this book defines eight stages of human life - Innocent, Explorer, Thespian, Wanderer, Soul Apprentice, Artisan, Master, and Sage - and describes the challenges and benefits of each. Plotkin offers a way of progressing from our current egocentric, aggressively competitive, consumer society to an ecocentric, soul-based one that is sustainable, cooperative, and compassionate.

At once a primer on human development and a manifesto for change, Nature and the Human Soul fashions a template for a more mature, fulfilling, and purposeful life - and a better world.

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"With Nature and the Human Soul, Bill Plotkin once again works miracles. This vital book provides a road map to help us remember how to be human - which means how to be a human being in relationship to the natural world, to our home. We owe Bill Plotkin a deep debt of gratitude for this important work." (Derrick Jensen, author of A Language Older than Words and coauthor of As the World Burns)

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My new bible!

Amazing, insightful, broad and deep overview of the human condition and how we might evolve.

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Important information for soul embodiment/ development.

Great book, important information for anyone looking to grow and mature into a more soulful life, which is necessary for many reasons and has largely been lost in modern culture. Here is a map for those looking, it’s a good map. Many thanks Bill Plotkin for sharing this with the world.

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a soulful book delivered by a soulless narrator

what a shame this rich material is not spoken through a voice that carrys equal depth. robotic american commercial voice delivers like a 'pop psychology 10 ways to fix the world manaul' when in reality Bill the author has touched something of great spiritual wisdom. Wish he narrated it himself.

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