Wild Mind

Bill Plotkin introduces in his book Wild Mind—A Field Guide to the Human Psyche a way to understand the human psyche. While acknowledging that reality is always more complex and nuanced than any map, he provides two diagrams in the book: One on how we relate to ourselves, and the other on how others see us.

The main messages in the book are that:

1. The key to healing and growing is cultivating our wholeness.
2. There’s a vital relationship between cultivating personal wholeness and building life-enhancing cultures.
3. There are three imperatives of any healthy culture: To protect and nurture the vitality and diversity of its environment, to create and revitalize cultural practices for the well-being and fulfillment of its people, and to protect and foster the wholeness of its individual members.

The book is full of experiential practices. Additional experiential practices can be found here.