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Bill Plotkin William B. Plotkin (born May 26, 1950) is a depth psychologist, wilderness guide, and agent of cultural evolution. He founded western Colorado’s Animas Valley Institute in 1981, and is the author (as Bill Plotkin) of three books. Biography: Plotkin graduated from Duke University in 1972 and in 1976 received his Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Colorado, Boulder. He studied there with the founder of Descriptive Psychology, Peter G. Ossorio. He became a research psychologist at the State University of New York at Albany, studying non-ordinary states of consciousness when, in 1979 on a solo winter ascent of an Adirondack peak, Bill experienced a “call to adventure”, leading him to abandon academia in search of his true calling. [ref NATHS]. He has described himself as “a psychologist gone wild”. Plotkin has guided thousands of women and men through nature-based initiatory passages, including a contemporary, Western adaptation of the pan-cultural vision quest. [ref Soulcraft]. 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 through the entire lifespan), and Wild Mind: A Field Guide to the Human Psyche (an ecocentric map of the psyche — for healing, growing whole, and cultural transformation). Works:

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