03/12/2024
Addressing the PERVASIVE LONGING FOR MEANING AND FULFILLMENT in this time of crisis, the book entitled "Nature and the Human Soul" by BILL PLOTKIN PHD introduces a VISIONARY ECOPSYCHOLOGY of HUMAN DEVELOPMENT that reveals how fully and creatively we can MATURE when SOUL and WILD NATURE guide us. Depth psychologist and wilderness guide BILL PLOTKIN presents a MODEL FOR HUMAN LIFESPAN rooted in the cycles and qualities of the natural world, a blueprint for INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPMENT that ultimately yields a strategy for CULTURAL TRANSFORMATION. The book begins by positioning the CRISIS AND OPPORTUNITY which reads, "In our moment of history, perhaps the MOST SWEEPING AND RADICAL TRANSFORMATION ever to occur on Earth is under way. This “moment” is the TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY, a lifetime from a human perspective, yet a mere dust mote of duration within our planet’s 4.5 billion years of exuberant evolution. As is so often the case, the opportunity at the heart of this moment arises from a great crisis. Over the past two hundred years, INDUSTRIAL CIVILIZATION has been RELENTLESSLEY UNDERMINING Earth’s chemistry, water cycles, atmosphere, soils, oceans, and thermal balance. Plainly said, we have been SHUTTING DOWN THE MAJOR LIFE SYSTEMS of our planet. Compounding the ecological crisis are decaying economies, ethnic and class conflict, and worldwide warfare. Entwined with, and perhaps underlying, these devastations are EPIDEMIC FAILURES IN INDIVIDUAL HUMAN DEVELOPMENT. True adulthood, or psychological maturity, has become an uncommon achievement in Western and Westernized societies, and genuine elderhood nearly nonexistent. Interwoven with arrested personal development, and perhaps inseparable from it, our everyday lives have drifted vast distances from our species’ original intimacy with the natural world and from OUR OWN UNIQUELY INDIVIDUAL NATURES, OUR SOULS. But if we know where to look, we UNCOVER GREAT OPPORTUNITIES spawned by these crises. All over the world, we are WITNESSING A COLLECTIVE HUMAN RESPONSE to exigency, an IMMENSLEY CREATIVE RENEWAL, addressing ALL DIMENSIONS OF HUMAN ACTIVITY on Earth — from the ECOLOGICAL, POLITICAL, & ECONOMIC to the EDUCATIONAL and SPIRITUAL. This book is my contribution to the GLOBAL EFFORT to create a VIABLE HUMAN-EARTH PARTNERSHIP.".
INSIGHTS INC is a start-up company with a VISION to create the INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF PROFESSIONAL BUSINESS COACHES (IAPBC) to enable POSITIVE SOCIAL CHANGE and IMPROVE MENTAL HEALTH AND OVERALL WELLBEING through CONSCIOUSLY CONNECTED individuals within and between their organisations. INSIGHTS INC is a LIVED EXPERIENCE RECOVERY ORGANISATION (LERO) that represents part of this COLLECTIVE HUMAN RESPONSE to the global current affairs that DEMAND PROMPT ACTION. Future posts will EXPAND ON THE CONCEPTS that inspired the INSIGHTS INC brand, the ROLE of the IAPBC and how our PRODUCT SERVICE OFFERINGS help CREATIVELY ADDRESS specific DIMENSIONS OF HUMAN ACTIVITY as set out by BILL PLOTKIN.
