{"id":566,"date":"2012-03-28T12:24:25","date_gmt":"2012-03-28T19:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/?p=566"},"modified":"2012-04-01T13:07:02","modified_gmt":"2012-04-01T20:07:02","slug":"recovering-the-eco-unconscious-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/recovering-the-eco-unconscious-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Recovering the Eco-Unconscious"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_567\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.beautydialogues.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-567\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-567 \" title=\"Union of Opposites\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/2344184893_9a4d158a04_z-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Desert Flower\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/2344184893_9a4d158a04_z-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/2344184893_9a4d158a04_z-310x205.jpg 310w, https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/2344184893_9a4d158a04_z-135x89.jpg 135w, https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/2344184893_9a4d158a04_z-485x322.jpg 485w, https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/2344184893_9a4d158a04_z.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-567\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by: Amy Lenzo<\/p><\/div>\n<p>by <a href=\"mailto:rbngates@aol.com\">Robin E. Gates<\/a><br \/>\n<strong><\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract:<\/strong> Western culture has a history of union and subsequent separation from nature. This split between spirit and nature, psyche and soma, intellect and emotion, science, philosophy, and religion, manifests in our individual and collective consciousness creating crises that span the spectrum of human experience, from the psychological to the environmental. Since we have within our unconscious, memories of our being in union with nature, it is a matter of recovering them through what Carl Jung called the individuation process; whereby, a person develops one\u2019s unique individuality from that which has been imposed on him or her from the environment. An expansion of consciousness and recovery of the eco-unconscious is achieved by the confrontation with and integration of unconscious material culminating in coniunctio, or union of the opposites<strong>&#8230;.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Recovering-the-Eco-Unconscious-Robin-E.-Gates.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Read Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Robin E. Gates Abstract: Western culture has a history of union and subsequent separation from nature. 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