Abstract
Dr. Bill Plotkin's new book, The Journey of Soul Initiation: A Field Guide for Visionaries, Evolutionaries, and Revolutionaries serves as a culminating project and capstone achievement to his body of work in the field of ecopsychology to date. A former university research psychologist who studied dreams, hypnosis, and other nonordinary states of consciousness, Plotkin left academia early in his career in the wake of his own encounter with soul in hopes of helping people become innovators of cultural change through encounters with and commitments to their own soul. In reviewing this book, I provide a summary of the text, analyze its strengths and limitations, and attempt to “ensoul” this review by discussing my own experience in academia. I end by suggesting that we need to take this book out now into the landed places we call home and attend to our own soul development, that which is longing to be lived out, enacted.
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