Rediscovering nature and its sentient beings is “rewilding.” In the mid-1990s, Michael Soule of the University of California, Santa Cruz, proposed the idea that to restore ecosystems one should start from the topside down — reintroduce bears, wolves and otters to a deteriorating system. Soule’s work was in conservation biology, but is now applied to psychology.
To many people in the field of mental health, a rewilding of the psyche is essential to the “heart’s ease.” The following article from The New York Times expands on several themes surging in ecology and psychology. I highly recommend you read this.
Is There an Ecological Unconscious? – NYTimes.com.
Artwork by Kate MacDowell (Photograph by Dan Kvitka for The New York Times)
Sage to Meadow ~ Jack Matthews 