{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/62c700e8b155a500150a868f/6870ac8aea74e132fbc6efbe?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"32. Depth Psychology and Soul Initiation – with Bill Plotkin from Animas Valley Institute ","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/62c700e8b155a500150a868f/1752214400463-5825dbfc-49a5-4928-9f76-20396f50a809.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>In this episode, I sit down with Bill Plotkin, founder of Animas Valley Institute. Over the past 40 years, Bill has developed intricate, nature-based models of human development and education that challenge dominant psychological frameworks and invite us into a maturation process rooted in wholeness, wildness, and the more-than-human world.</p><p>We explore their three major maps of a person’s “soul-centric journey” and cover topics including:</p><ul><li>Why most modern humans remain developmentally stuck in early adolescence</li><li>The 8-stage Soulcentric Developmental Wheel and how it mirrors nature’s rhythms</li><li>The four cardinal facets of the psyche, and the inner protectors that distort them</li><li>Whether other species undergo their own versions of soul initiation</li><li>Why the path to a mature culture will not come from the strategic mind, but from descent, mystery, and imagination</li><li>This is a deep-dive into a body of work that’s revolutionizing the lives of thousands of people, and how to think about adulthood, education, and healthy human cultures.</li></ul><p>Episode Website <a href=\"https://www.lifeworld.earth/episodes-blog/depthpsychology\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Link</a></p><p>Links:</p><ul><li><a href=\"https://www.animas.org/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Animas Valley Institute</a></li><li><a href=\"https://www.animas.org/offerings/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Animas Valley Offerings</a></li><li><a href=\"https://www.animas.org/books/soulcraft/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Soulcraft: Crossing into the Mysteries of Nature and Psyche</a></li><li><a href=\"https://www.animas.org/books/nature-and-the-human-soul/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Nature and the Human Soul: Cultivating Wholeness and Community in a Fragmented World</a></li><li><a href=\"https://www.animas.org/books/wild-mind-a-field-guide-to-the-human-psyche/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Wild Mind: A Field Guide to the Human Psyche</a></li><li><a href=\"https://www.animas.org/books/journey-of-soul-initiation/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The Journey of Soul Initiation: A Field Guide for Visionaries, Evolutionaries, and Revolutionaries</a></li><li><a href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Parable-Tribes-Problem-Social-Evolution/dp/0791424200\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Parable of the Tribes</a></li></ul><p>Look out for meditations, poems, readings, and other snippets of inspiration in between episodes.</p><p>Music: <a href=\"https://www.audionetwork.com/browse/m/track/electric-ethnicity_157744\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Electric Ethnicity</a> by Igor Dvorkin, Duncan Pittock &amp; Ellie Kidd</p><p>Photo Credit: Midjourney</p>","author_name":"Alexa Firmenich"}