Bill Plotkin
[In Thomas Berry, Dreamer of the Earth: The Spiritual Ecology of the Father of Environmentalism, edited by Ervin Laszlo and Allan Combs, Inner Traditions, 2011, pp. 42 – 71.]
Bill Plotkin – April 2026
In these deeply troubling times, many of us are recognizing that the current diminishment and destruction of life on Earth is, ultimately, caused by unhealthy […]
Who’s Up for Building a Cathedral?
Ecocentric Human Development, the Hero’s Journey, and Cultural Regeneration
~ Bill Plotkin, Ph.D.
Animas Valley Institute
A few months ago, Charles Eisenstein had, […]
By Bill Plotkin, Ph.D.
…There is only one life
you can call your own
and a thousand others
you can call by any name you want.
Hold to the truth you make
every day with your own body,
don’t turn your face […]
By Bill Plotkin, Ph.D.
There are several realms of awakening. Transcendence (conscious experience of or as Spirit or the Ultimate Mystery) may not be the most relevant, accessible, or beneficial for most people, especially in our […]
Descended from the indigenous hunter-gathers of the European arctic, I am an uprooted – or unrooted, or partially rooted – human being, currently re-homed in the American […]
Bison grunted and rolled amidst sagebrush, stirring clouds of dust. I made a wide arc around the herd. A coyote sprung straight up and landed, like a cartoon, […]
By Bill Plotkin
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a […]
By Bill Plotkin
Stand still. The trees ahead and bushes beside you Are not lost. Wherever you are is called Here,
And you must treat it as a powerful stranger, Must ask permission to know it and […]
By Bill Plotkin
To be soulcentric is to seek out the ways soul attempts to guide our relationships and individual development. It is to envision the principal goal of maturation to be the conscious discovery and […]
