recovering the wild sacred
awakening to the energies that exist in the unconscious and influence our interactions with the surrounding environment
When we actively and imaginatively participate with the myths that influence us, we are spurred to create a new story, to live authentically, and take part in our individuation process.
Animals are often vilified, demonized, and extirpated because historic and narrative fallacies integrate into societal and cultural memories. This happening can be seen as the evolution of an emergent process that takes place across generations. This presentation examines myths that have unconsciously become part of our beliefs as a lens for cultural, psychological, and ecological events. The historical extirpation of wolves in Yellowstone National Park is examined, together with the 2,500-year-old myth of Gilgamesh, in which the protagonist undertakes a journey into the Cedar Forest to exterminate the creature Humbaba.
Through these two examples, using analysis, eco-psychology, and depth psychology—the study of the unconscious—the speaker explores the consequences of unconscious archetypal energy, or universal patterns’ manifestation in the individual or society.
To create the changes that our world needs, we must sense and see ourselves. We can’t change our belief systems unless we our change consciousness. And we can’t change our consciousness unless we sense and see ourselves as part of the greater whole.
An engaging and thought-provoking presentation in which participants:
Gain a deeper awareness into how their own belief systems and those of society have come into being.
Learn how to look to their inner world in order to understand and live in harmony with the outer world.
Discover that with the transformation of one’s consciousness, change is accelerated for both the individual and for our planet’s environment.
Recapture a reverence for the beauty of creation and an understanding of the importance of protecting and living in harmony with the planet’s ecosystems.