This is amazing! Only at 7:20 but my goodness these directions are epically applicable. Got linked via Andy Phisher's lecture on Radical Ecopsychology.
I just came across the book Wild Mind I find listening to this and some other videos of Plotkin both inspiring in their clarity and a cataloguing of my failures to cultivate anything beyond a few technical skills. I can certainly relate to his description of arrested development and being stuck and lost. I have been exposed to and participated in quite a number of programs and groups with the intention of cultivating greater understanding or capacity or connection or something... Somehow nothing ever "took". Like there's nothing inside - nothing to latch onto or with. I feel extremely sad about that. I have encountered the more common archetypes before: Warrior Lover King Fool/Magician I couldn't really relate to any of those - certainly never felt competent at any of them... I also associated them with feudalism - anachronistic Schmuck wasn't an official archetype and implicitly was one to avoid. I will read Wild Mind with as much openness as I can muster - the 4 main directions seem very authentic. I already feel fearful , from these brief descriptions, that I don't really fit any of them let alone cultivating all of them before my clock runs out.
Bill has a fresh and vital presentation of these ideas, but hey are not new. Many of them come from four shields and even older than that the native medicine wheel traditions. Some props due.
Reading this book now. Absolutely love it. Gives such a clear and helpful framework for developing your soul.
This is amazing! Only at 7:20 but my goodness these directions are epically applicable. Got linked via Andy Phisher's lecture on Radical Ecopsychology.
Thanks Bill, we agree so many of us often forget WE ARE NATURE :-)
All the best with your book.
Smiles from The English Sisters
Thanks for the Inspired Inspiration! Greetings from North-Eastern-Turtle-Island (commonly known as Quebec).
I just came across the book Wild Mind
I find listening to this and some other videos of Plotkin both inspiring in their clarity and a cataloguing of my failures to cultivate anything beyond a few technical skills.
I can certainly relate to his description of arrested development and being stuck and lost.
I have been exposed to and participated in quite a number of programs and groups with the intention of cultivating greater understanding or capacity or connection or something...
Somehow nothing ever "took".
Like there's nothing inside - nothing to latch onto or with.
I feel extremely sad about that.
I have encountered the more common archetypes before:
Warrior Lover King Fool/Magician
I couldn't really relate to any of those - certainly never felt competent at any of them... I also associated them with feudalism - anachronistic
Schmuck wasn't an official archetype and implicitly was one to avoid.
I will read Wild Mind with as much openness as I can muster - the 4 main directions seem very authentic. I already feel fearful , from these brief descriptions, that I don't really fit any of them let alone cultivating all of them before my clock runs out.
Thanks bill
brilliant!
Bill has a fresh and vital presentation of these ideas, but hey are not new. Many of them come from four shields and even older than that the native medicine wheel traditions. Some props due.
He says right here in this interview that this is drawn from and found in almost all cultures, so I do feel he is being open about sourcing.
the magic word here is "Gary Snyder" !