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Reflections on Ecology and Soul

Robert Romanyshyn
Independent study
Online
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Overview

Robert Romanyshyn, a poetic thinker and storyteller, is our guide in this this course.  Together, we descend into the depths of spirit and move beyond our singular focus on current day manifestations.

In the depths we encounter the soul of the world, which presents itself through dreams, synchronicities and symptoms in our everyday world. These two realms of soul and world are deeply interconnected. Soul invites us to a more balanced, meaningful and fulfilling life that benefits ourselves, our families, our culture and also the world at large.

At a perilous time, the availability of deep imagination is there. These classes tap into this wellspring and show how we can co-create a more sustainable future.

  • You are curious about and want to dive deep to explore the unconscious dynamics in the spirit of the depths which lies beneath the agitated spirit of the times in this pandemic world.
  • You are interested in how dreams, symptoms and synchronicities are psychological forms of action that can help to translate events into experiential exercises, which allow us to slow down and pause to be responsive to events that too often overwhelm us.
  • You are open to looking at examples of specific myths, films and visionary literature as ways to become more aware of the current myth/story/dream within which we are entangled.
  • Learn about the therapeutic and healing value of memory and the creative imagination where the work of remembering re-members one for the sake of re-imagining a possibly different future. This transforms the sense of being a victim condemned to a fate, to a destiny that one can understand and choose how to respond.
  • Learn to work with personal and collective symptoms as a vocation, which calls one to remember something too vital to forget, but which is forgotten because it is too painful to remember.
  • Be able to re-vision psychological work as ‘marginal’ work, as home-work, as an obligation to change your heart and not just your mind. To go deep by doing the difficult but necessary work if we are to survive today. And by going to the margins where the monsters we make wait to teach us the way back home to ourselves, our bodies, each other and the natural world.
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