Creating Communities of Initiation

Bill Plotkin, also known by his soul name; Impossible Dreamer and I Sara McFarland, also known as Hologram Heart, speak about these times of crisis as personal and species wide initiatory journey and how we might turn towards this beautifully crafted crisis as the dying of the old paradigm needed to descend into the depths. We also speak about what is needed to answer the call. Impossible shares his vision for communities as transitional cultures and necessary next steps for our evolution as a species. We listen in to questions around elder hood and who might be our elders in these times, as well as the call that might come through the deep imagination for Beauty making and the way Myth is an ancient remembering and map for these times given to us by our ancestors. This is a delicious conversation at the edge of the known, calling out our longing to Mystery and the human species for a response that is generative and transformational. Please join us in the wander through the wilds of the deep imagination and the hearts of two edge-walking humans.

Bill Plotkin, he/him, www.animas.org

Bill Plotkin, PhD, is an eco-depth psychologist, wilderness guide, and agent of cultural regeneration. As founder of southwest Colorado’s Animas Valley Institute, he has, since 1980, guided thousands of people on the journey of soul initiation. He’s also been a research psychologist (studying nonordinary states of consciousness), rock musician, and white-water river guide. In 1979, on a solo winter ascent of an Adirondack peak, Bill experienced a “call to spiritual adventure,” leading him to abandon academia in search of his true calling. He is the author of Soulcraft: Crossing into the Mysteries of Nature and Psyche (an experiential guidebook), Nature and the Human Soul: Cultivating Wholeness and Community in a Fragmented World (a nature-based stage model of human development), Wild Mind: A Field Guide to the Human Psyche (a nature-based map of the psyche), and The Journey of Soul Initiation: A Field Guide for Visionaries, Evolutionaries, and Revolutionaries (a guidebook for the descent to soul). His doctorate in psychology is from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Visit him online at www.animas.org.