Barbara Shore, Animals in Our Psyche / Martha McKenzie, Defining Landscapes: The Animal Presence in Our Psyches / Tim LaSalle, Awakening to Ecocide

 
Barbara Shore, PhD Proposal: Animals in our Psyche Essayist, novelist and poet Gary Snyder writes in The Practice of the Wild, I hope to investigate the meaning of WILD and how it connects with FREE and what one would want to do with these meanings. To be truly free imperfect--and then be greatful for impermanence and the freedom it grants us... Through our looking at African folktales and photographic imagry of the animals taken in their native Botswana, Zambia, and South Africa w emerges/resonates through the symbolism of animals. Through our discussion we will explore Jung's conceptualization of projection, introjection, and dissimulation hoping to illuminate our collective Archaic Identity in thisTim LaSalle Awakening to Ecocide The human record in regard to ecology is one of destruction. Since long before modern times, the conscious or unconscious degradation of the environment, with its attendant pollution, atmospheric warming, soil loss, and pace ever recorded or studied. Humans are the primary disrupter of the natural balance and we remain as the principal disturbance to the self healing quality of the natural world. Social, economic and political structures b humanity's destructive patterns. Through a depth psychological lens this study explored what within the human psyche holds the propensity to ecocide. It also studied what it was that distinguishes those who are awake to offers to depth psychology and ecopsychology three important elements that these eccentric awakened offer the collective that is critical for the well-being of both the human psyche and the ecologically based soul of the Tim LaSalle brings twenty-seven years of leadership development experience, coupled with decades of non-profit leadership. Tim served as President/CEO for the California Agriculture Leadership Program, as Executive focused on ecological restoration and is currently Executive Director of the Northwest Earth Institute. He was originally trained as a population genetist and was a tenured professor for twelve years. He was a dairy farmer study and investigation that has been accepted as partial fulfillment for his PhD candidacy at Pacifica.