| Jamie Egolf, Jungian Psychotherapist, Consultant, and Psychodramatist in Laramie, Wyoming, received a MSW from Catholic University of America, Washington, DC. She was trained by the Interregional Society of Jung
Magic Theatre of Life (workshops in psychodrama and drama therapy,) co-authored the PreMarital Inventory; wrote Dreaming Superman, presented, University of Melbourne's Superhero Conference, 2005; Desire and Se
Archetypal Feminine, presented, 2007 Creativity and Madness Conference in Santa Fe. Her grown daughter Sarah is a Conservationist.
Thomas Elsner, JD, MA
The Symbolic Life of Inner and Outer Nature
The contemporary ecologist and depth psychologist have something in common. They mourn the loss of an erotic, reciprocal interaction with non-human reality. This loss, whether it is expressed as separation from natureBetsy Perluss, PhD
Where Psyche Glides along Mountaintops and Rivers flow Deep within the Valley of the Soul: Thresholds and Liminality in Wilderness Rites of Passage
In maintaining a dualistic perspective of cause and effect, modern approaches to the ecological crises often employ the same rationalistic techniques that perpetuate human detachment from the environment. Although co
only to the rational realm they keep us locked up in the ego, detached from the world, and trapped in what Jung called The cult of consciousness. Thus we seek literal solutions to literal problems and continue to downplay
School of Lost Borders, a training center for wilderness rites of passage, I have been witness to the revitalization of nature's soul that ensues when participants are willing to step beyond their ego-boundaries and into the
the living landscape in which psyche speaks in the form of desert breeze, pinion pine, river, and stone. By turning our focus to the movements of psyche in nature, we experience a shift in consciousness that gives equal w
Betsy Perluss, PhD holds a doctorate in Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute. Her dissertation on Landscape Archetypes weaves together insights from Depth Psychology, nature studies, and wilderness e
(www.schooloflostborders.com), a training center for wilderness rites of passage located in Big Pine, CA. Betsy is also a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and is Associate Professor of Counseling at California Sta
Passage into the Symbolic Landscape was published in Spring: A Journal of Archetype and Culture.
tends to experience erotic reciprocity in non-human nature, the depth psychologist in non-human psyche, but both experiences are symbolic and archetypal and the distinction between them is not absolute. This short pre
certain statements by psychologist C.G. Jung and ecologist David Abram to illustrate these points. |