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On this episode of the Planetary Regeneration Podcast, host Gregory Landua interviews Bill Plotkin about his amazingly deep body of work in depth and eco psychology. Bill is a psychologist, author, and the founder of Animas Valley Institute, whose latest book, The Journey of Soul Initiation, discusses personal identity, ego, and the mysteries of the soul. You can learn more about Bill's work at animas.org, or on Instagram @animasvalleyinstitute.

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SUMMARY KEYWORDS

The Journey of Soul Initiation, early adolescence, ego, initiation, Regen Network, regeneration, elders, species, cocoon, Animas Valley Institute

SPEAKERS

Gregory, Bill

TRANSCRIPTION

Gregory 00:00

Hello regenerates, welcome to the Planetary Regeneration Podcast. I'm your host, Gregory Landua. I'm really excited to be bringing you all this interview with Bill Plotkin, who recently published a fantastic new book called The Journey of Soul Initiation, you may be familiar with Bill's other works such as Wild Mind. He's definitely been an inspiration to me through the years and sort of reinventing a, a psychology based on a deep nature connection. So hopefully, this exploration of sort of the inner and personal side of transformation and regeneration will be helpful. And I do want to just note that I've been getting feedback from folks about audio quality issues, and we're going to be doing our best to upgrade the software that I use to do my podcasting, to make it easier for my guests to be recording locally as well and sort of mixing that together with a minimum of sort of production time. And I got myself a new mic, and we're sort of taking some other actions, I'm also going to have a friend, do some post production work and engineer the sound quality, a little bit. So hopefully, if you happen to be listening to this, sometime in the future, you all of the past recordings will be of great quality. And for those of you who've been, who've been with me here on the journey, my apologies for discrepancies between the audio of myself and my guests. I've been slowing down on producing these podcasts. I've been thinking about a lot. I've been really busy. We're leading up towards main net launch right now, Regen Network. And I have a lot of other things going on. But I'm hopeful to be able to get back into a weekly rhythm, maybe even quicker. And I also think pretty soon I'm going to publish a little bit of a monologue, just looking back over the last couple of years of the podcast of Regen Network and of the journey that we've all been this last year especially has been pretty, pretty wild. So I hope you all enjoy this one. I am excited to bring you Bill Plotkin.

Gregory  02:44

All right. I am so grateful to be able to introduce Bill Plotkin. For the first time here to the podcast. And, Bill, it's an honor to receive you i Yeah, I was so excited to hear from your publicist that you were interested in hopping on the podcast, it was kind of actually a sort of a peak moment for me, I've been a longtime fan. So and your work has been I mean, fan isn't quite the right word. Your your work has been really meaningful to me. So I'm really excited to dig in and talk about the role of cultural regeneration in service to planetary regeneration here on the podcast. So thanks for joining us.

Bill  03:31

Thank you, Gregory, for saying all that. And it's a pleasure to be in conversation with you. Thanks.

Gregory  03:37