Wild Tongue

This is here as part of my web site, not so much because I offer particular practises or therapy in this concept, (it is part of the work of eco therapy, none-the-less) but rather because it has been so interesting, inspiring, humbling and connecting and an ever expanding experience for me and I am so grateful to the people who are bringing this work to our awareness. Our culture does not trust this way, they call it whoo hoo, roll their eyes at the mention of these ways, call it primitive, ridiculous. I had this view in me too when I was younger but its as though something gets peeled away from our eyes. It is really about coming into relationship with the land and the more than human world. This ‘relationship’ emerges as a sort of non verbal conversation. Colin Campbell invites us to go and sit in nature, to keep going back and to sit, to just take ourselves to a place and be there. He explains its like making a new friend, you need to keep showing up, again and again…and again Then the ‘friend’ begins to know you are real and you are present and begins to explore being with you. We don’t need candles, icons, special buildings, although there is nothing wrong with them either, we need to show up, be still and listen. The guides explain that we used to be an integral part of how the land itself lives and regenerates itself, apparently the Amazon isn't an untouched wild place but a place the people of that land gardened within, grew food within, harvested and held rituals of gratitude and playfulness within these places, and included the sky and the universe. And - I love this bit - that the land misses us! Imagine that we have this entity, this friend that is waiting for our return. You can find the work of Colin Campbell and many other wonderful guides at link: https://animate-earth.org/. James Hillman the Jungian psychoanalyst discusses this in his introduction to Re-visioning Psychotherapy.