Bill Presentacion en la plataforma artistica GRUPO CONDOR de Ricardo Bautista y Lucy & Edgar

How do you as a psychologist who works with the human soul address being engaged and effective in the human realm of political, social and environmental activism?

Big question. What I’d like to say is that what we need now, more than anything, are 21st century visionaries. A visionary to me is almost a synonym for a genuine adult or elder. But more specifically, a visionary is somebody whose primary life choices and activities and projects are rooted in their soul. Which is to say, in their very deep creativity, their profound imagination that springs from a place in the psyche that is more vast than our everyday conscious selves.

 

Bill Plotkin, PHD, has been a psychotherapist, research psychologist, rock musician, river runner, professor of psychology, and mountain-bike racer. As a research psychologist, he studied dreams and nonordinary states of consciousness achieved through meditation, biofeedback, and hypnosis. The founder and president of Animas Valley Institute (www.animas.org/), he has guided thousands of people through initiatory passages in nature since 1980. Currently an ecotherapist, depth psychologist, and wilderness guide, he leads a variety of experiential, nature-based individuation programs. He is the author of Soulcraft: Crossing in the Mysteries of Nature and Psyche and more recently, Nature and the Human Soul.

 

Bill Plotkin, PHD, has been a psychotherapist, research psychologist, rock musician, river runner, professor of psychology, and mountain-bike racer. As a research psychologist, he studied dreams and nonordinary states of consciousness achieved through meditation, biofeedback, and hypnosis. The founder and president of Animas Valley Institute (www.animas.org/), he has guided thousands of people through initiatory passages in nature since 1980. Currently an ecotherapist, depth psychologist, and wilderness guide, he leads a variety of experiential, nature-based individuation programs. He is the author of Soulcraft: Crossing in the Mysteries of Nature and Psyche and more recently, Nature and the Human Soul.