At times I feel as if I am spread out over the landscape and inside things, and am myself living in every tree, in the splashing of the waves, in the clouds and the animals that come and go, in the procession of seasons. ~Carl G. Jung The rapid development of science and technology over … More We are all kin.
…I look out at everything growing so wild and faithfully beneath the sky and wonder why we are the one terrible part of creation privileged to refuse our flowering…. ~David Whyte, from “The Sun” In the first post of this series, I introduced the concept of the ecological self and argued that its formation is … More An Ecological Self – Part 2 (for the children)
I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world (Rilke, 1996, p. 48) As noted by psychologist Anita Barrows (1995), most contemporary theories of human development, focus on the growth of the child’s psyche in relation to other people, the coming of the child into human society: learning its signs, its … More An Ecological Self – Part 1
“We have severed our connection to the very source of life, and as a result we are possessed by an ever-growing hunger that we try to fill by consuming more and more, in the process destroying the very fabric of life that sustains us” ~Larry Robinson Recently, I started to re-read the wonderful anthology, Ecotherapy: Healing … More A Telling Tale
If we will have the wisdom to survive/to stand like slow growing trees/on a ruined place, renewing, enriching it/then a long time after we are dead/the lives our lives prepare/will live here. ~Wendell Berry It is easy to feel overwhelmed by the shear scope of our environmental predicament. It seems that daily I am bombarded … More The Great Turning – 3 Ways to Confront the Crisis
The holiday season is in full swing! And for the most part, it has been a nice change of pace for my family and I. Over the past week or so, we (my wife, two young children, and I) have had the opportunity to spend extra time together and have made many meaningful family memories. There … More (Happy) Holidays: Christmas and Consumption
Few would disagree that the last couple of weeks have been significant ones in the environmental world. First, on November 12, the United States and China came to an agreement that would see both nations commit to taking action against climate change. Obama announced that the U.S. has set a target to reduce carbon pollution by … More Straight through the Heart
This is the third installment of a 3-part series on the topic of ecopsychology. In the first post, I introduced the idea of ecopsychology and explained what it entails. In the second post, I illustrated why it is important for environmentalists to draw on ecopsychological ideas in their work. In this third and final post, I … More Ecopsychology: What it is and Why it Matters – Part 3
In many ways, the world is a lot smaller than it was 50 years ago. And, it continues to shrink. As noted by Norton (2014): “Today we can move our goods and ourselves from one place to another much more rapidly than ever before, while ideas and capital can travel anywhere in the world … More Globalization and the Human Soul
That millions of people share in the same forms of mental pathology does not make those people sane ~ Erich Fromm In the first post of this series, I suggested that two primary assumptions underlie the concept of ecopsychology: psychology needs ecology and ecology needs psychology. The focus of this post is on the ‘second’ … More Ecopsychology: What it is and Why it Matters – Part 2
Eric Windhorst 