"Inner Rose"
Photo by Amy Lenzo
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A graduate research project undertaken
by Bryan Grimwood utilises a narrative depiction of his experiences
as a wilderness canoe trip guide. Immersed in nature,
his relationships with particpant and crew, and his own mental
processes, Bryan finds himself
In the Thick of It.
June, 2008 |
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Professor
and practicing eco-therapist Jorge Canessa-Sevilla contributed
this
original piece on Friedrich
Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling (pdf: 24k), tracing the
antescedents of ecopsychological thinking to this German
Romantic's Naturphilosophie.
February, 2008 |
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The
Spiritual Implications of Climate Change, by John
Croft begins
"As we move beyond the ten-thousand year Holocene
interregnum of the
last Ice Age, rather than returning to the cooler autumn
and winter of
the Pleistocene glacial optimum, we are racing towards
a global summer
unlike any ever before witnessed upon the earth. This
summer of global warming poses the greatest spiritual
challenge ever confronted by humankind."
Keep Reading...
October 2007 |
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Mark
Schroll's valuable contributions to the field of
EcoPsychology continue with Wrestling
with Arne Naess: A Chronicle of Ecopsychology's Origins,
recently revised and published in The
Trumpeter.
May 2007 |
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Thanks to global change agent Lisa
Berg, who sent us two
articles by
the extraordinary author, magician and philosopher David
Abrams.
One, Waking Our Animal Senses, was previously
published
in Wild Earth: Wild Ideas for a World Out of
Balance, edited by Tom
Butler in 2002; the other, Storytelling
and Wonder,
is published here for the first time.
March 2007
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"Seabird"
Photo by Amy Lenzo
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Kathy
Pettet's inspiring
article on alchemy, nature, and spiritual transformation, The
Art of Transmutation: Gestalt in Nature (pfd:
132k),
was submitted as part of her doctoral work with Nature
Connect.
January 2007 |
"Magnolia in a Vase"
Photo by Amy Lenzo
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John
Seed has an article
on Ecopsychology published as a visiting author's page on Shumacher
College's website. Read other
articles of his on his own website.
November,
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Juicy,
Wild & Fertile
"Ecology
and psychology, having grown up on different sides
of the mountain, met one day in the thick brush at
the ridge line separating their home territories. Their
first contact was awkward and hesitant. They began
to circle, they danced, and finally they joined.
Their offspring
are twins. One is vigorous, skillful, joyous, and
sustainable environmental action. The other is
the wonder, intimacy, healing, expansion, and grace
of finding ourselves at home in the world. They
realized, too, that there was much work to be done
together. There were other such liaisons in the
thick brush at the edges, but this one was particularly
juicy, wild, and fertile."
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from a course called Ecopsychology and Environmental
Psychology, taught by John V. Davis at Naropa, CO,
USA
December, 2006 |
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Charley
Scull's beautiful film, Naturally
Connected, documenting the pioneering ecopsychologist
Micheal J. Cohen and his work is now
available for free viewing. Watch it free on the Internet Movie Database or purchase the DVD with extra features.
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This
letter came from reader Anne Saucier, at Prides
Corner Farms in Lebanon, Connecticut:
"Thank
you ... For offering these beautiful and potentially
life-changing ideas to the world at large.
I "work" (it's often more natural communion than work) for a large
grower in rural Connecticut, USA, where we subscribe to the knowledge that our
Earth nurtures and heals. One organization we work with is Hope in Blooms, a
non-profit group who plants gardens for men and women with breast cancer; we
also grow a product
line called Pink Ribbon plants, which helps support
breast cancer research, and a line of indigeneous plants
to encourage sustainable gardening, which helps support
the National Wildlife Federation.
I enclose a photo of a portion of our Arboretum on a summer morning...
 Such
peace and resuscitation, if we only stop to recognize
how essential Nature is to our well-being."
December 2007
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Open
yourself
to Gary Caganoff's evocative Song
of the Tarkine...
(and have a look at the wonderful photographic gallery
on his website!)
December 2007 |
"Crows" by Nanda Currant
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"Echinacea"
photo by Amy Lenzo
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Frances
Roberts, who submitted a short story to Gatherings
several years ago about the beginnings
of her creative life, is at
it again with the finely wrought Aging
Well, a memoir about nature,
her father, and the aging process.
March 2007 |
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Everything
is connected... no one thing can change by itself.
—Paul Hawken |
This
Ecopsychology
Poem was compiled
of lines written by Prescott College students taking
an Ecopsychology class taught by Dr Jeanine M. Canty.
February 2007
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Photograph
by Ian McAllister©, donated for the following poem
by Raincoast
Conservation
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Creekwalker,
a poem by John Beaton, begins
"He jogs the hop-scotch patches worn
to the earth
through treefrog-greens and sunlight spears and sparks
where grizzlies yield fawn-lilies careful berth,
confining their paws to these well-trodden marks that
stitch the forest...
Read
On for More...
November,
2006 |
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Jon
Barfield muses
on the question What
is EcoPsychology?
as part of an ongoing inquiry on the ICE
mailing list...
November,
2006 |
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"Protea Bird"
Photo by Amy Lenzo
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Composer
David Rothenberg's new CD, Whale
Music, is a
record that will "change the way you listen
to the sea". Buy
your copy today.
February, 2008
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Linda
Buzzell's review of Bill Plotkin's Nature
and the Human Soul is re-published here with
permission by EcoTherapy
News.
December 2007 |
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Ecopsychology
author Craig
Chalquist's speech at the student-organized
Voices for Change event at Sonoma
State: The
Environmental Crisis is a Crisis of Consciousness:
Bringing the Psychological Dimension Into the Discussion (link
sent in by eco- therapist Linda Buzzell-Saltzman)
November 2007 |
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John
Scull alerted us to Green
Drinks, a
social "Meet-Up" service designed for people
in the environmental field. Go online and see what's
happening in cities all over the
world!
October 2007 |
"Bottlebrush"
Photo by Amy Lenzo
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My Name
is Chellis and I'm in Recovery from Western Civilization
by Chellis Glendinning has been re-published as part
of New Society Publications’ new series The Sustainability
Classics.
Originally published by Shambhala
in 1994, My Name
is Chellis quickly became a classic
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"Dew Web"
Photo by Amy Lenzo
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Glenys
Livingstone's recently published PaGaian
Cosmology: Re-inventing Earth-based Goddess Religion,
a wonderful philosophical and practical guide
to seasonal ritual and modern nature
religion, is also available on Glenys'
website via the creative commons.
July 2007 |
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Susan
Loonsk, 'expressive
ecopsychology' teacher abd director
of the non-profit Art
to Earth, at the Northland Center for Art
& Ecopsychology, reminds us that
"In ancient
times before science, art, and religion were viewed
as separate realms, our fundamental thoughts and
feeling were expressed through the language of images.
We used art to celebrate and understand the natural
world around us. Through art today, we can open our
senses and intellect to experiencing and connecting
with the human and nonhuman world for the
physical, psychological, and spiritual health of
all. This is art as
environmental awareness."
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Ann
Archibald and John Scull review The Psychology
of Environmental Problems,
by Deborah Du Nann Winter & Susan M. Koger.
December,
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Circling
San Francisco Bay: A Pilgrimage to Wild & Sacred
Places by
Ginny Anderson goes significantly beyond the
scope of a standard guide book, introducing a series
of unusual walks and eco-adventures within the context
of healing ritual.
If you live in the bay area (or are planning a
visit), Circling San Francisco is an invaluable
guide to the places where inner and outer worlds
meet.
November,
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