The wilderness holds answers to the questions man has not yet learned to ask.
~Nancy Newhall
There is a tame, and
also a wild, side to the human mind. The tame side, like a farmer's field, has been disciplined and cultivated to produce a desired yield. It is useful but limited. The wild side is larger, deeper, more complex, and though it cannot be fully known, it can be explored. The explorers of the wild mind are often writers and artists. The "poetic imagination" of which William Blake so eloquently spoke is the territory of wild mind. It has landscapes and creatures within it that will surprise us. It can refresh us and scare us. Wild mind reflects the larger truth of our ancient selves, of our ancient animal and spiritual selves.
~ Gary Snyder
There is no defense against an open heart and a supple body in dialogue with wildness.
~Terry Tempest Williams
The historic mission of our times is
to reinvent the human at the species level, with critical reflection,
within the community of life systems, in a time-developmental context, by means of story, and shared dream experience.
~ Thomas Berry
What is it that is essential about your deepest nature that needs to find its way into Animus Mundi -- the soul of the world...must seek out collaboration with even the most mundane moments of the breath of day. This is how the creative spirit flourishes, how every moment is made holy.
~ Phil Rockstroh
Take care you don't know anything in this world too quickly or easily. Everything is also a mystery, and has its own secret aura in the moonlight, its private song.
~Mary Oliver
"Wild Mind
ushers in a new era of depth psychology....
To study it is to pass through a magical gateway into one's unique role within the
Great Work that Earth is calling us to."
~ Brian Thomas Swimme, coauthor with Thomas Berry of The Universe Story
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Wild Mind:
A Field Guide to
A 3-day experiential retreat
June 2 - June 4, 2017
Friday: 7pm-9pm, Saturday: 9am-5pm,
Sunday: 9am-3pm
at the Passionist Earth & Spirit Center
Guided by Doug Van Houten
with Dustin Pickett and Chris Isgrigg
Cost: $225; $250 after May 24, 2017
To register
click here
 Based on Bill Plotkin's book,
Wild Mind: A Field Guide to the Human Psyche this 3-day experiential program will help guide us on an exploration into the landscape of the universal forces of nature that helped shape the human psyche over eons.
The human psyche has been endowed by nature with a treasure trove of innate resources and potentials that have largely gone unrecognized or underdeveloped in the wake of our overly domesticated lives. During this program learn how to access, cultivate and integrate these powerful resources and potentials into our everyday lives.
Wild Mind provides us with an invaluable tool: The Nature-Based Map of the Psyche, a wholistic model rooted in nature, which serves as a guide in cultivating the major facets of our innate wholeness (i.e. the Nurturing, Generative, Innocent, Sage, Fool, Emotive, Wild, Muse, Inner Beloved self or selves, among others). This map teaches us how to delve into our fragmented, wounded or shadow selves and how to understand the initiatory gifts hidden in each.
By tending to all of the dimensions of becoming fully human, we recognize the extraordinary gifts of our own true nature. We are empowered to show up in the world and to become the agents of personal and cultural transformation that we are each called to be.
In this program, you'll explore the landscape of your individual psyche through focused time alone in nature, group work, deep personal sharing, journaling, possibly movement, and other soul-rooted practices.
Discover:
* how to recognize and consciously cultivate our innate human wholeness
* how to identify and befriend our fragmentation
* how to free all the windows of knowing: sensing, feeling, imagination, thinking, and intuition
* how to experience visceral, heart rendering realizations of our communion with the animate world
To register
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Doug Van Houten
 Body, art & soul guide, student of Hakomi, yoga trainee, apprentice to the honeybee, visual artist, self-design ceremonialist, activist and guide for Animas Valley Institute (www.animas.org). In this work he draws on the natural world, eco-psychology, depth-psychology, the wisdom of indigenous cultures, dreams, poetry, and many cross cultural soul-encounter practices such as vision fasting, council, trance rhythms, shadow work, and conversations with the sacred Other. Doug's Great Work lives in support of others uncovering their own unique genius and in so doing transforming their lives in service to the Great Turning transformation of our times.
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