Category: Nature

• Vernal Equinox

  

  Today marks the vernal equinox. Vernal is a lovely word, meaning pertaining to spring. Spring derives from the Old Norse and means to jump or rise. It seems appropriate that we spring forward into the season, a time in which new life appears to literally spring into being. Among my favorite places to visit as…

  Michael Watson PhD

  March 20, 2016

  Ecopsychology, Nature, Shamanism

  equinox, Native American, seasons, Shamanism

• At the Bird Feeder

  

   This post was published earlier this month in Into the Bardo, an online magazine. I hope you will take at look at the zine, and maybe say “hi” to the wonderful people who work so hard to being it to us! Earlier today I went out back to refill the bird feeder. I walked through…

  Michael Watson PhD

  March 8, 2016

  Climate Change, Ecopsychology, native american, Shamanism, Social issues

  animals, climate change, colonialism, healing, Shamanism, stories

• Mud Season

  Winter wanes, not that we ever really had winter this year. Still, the light arrives earlier and departs later each day, and the cold lessens. We are on the brink of mud season. For the past couple of weeks the temperature has vacillated from very cold to unseasonably warm. Each storm has brought rain instead…

  Michael Watson PhD

  February 21, 2016

  Climate Change, Stories, Travel

  mud season, stories, travel

• The Sacred Mundane

  

  Unlike the Western worldview in which the sacred and profane are divided, the everyday becoming profane and distant from the scared, in the shaman’s world, they are interwoven

  Michael Watson PhD

  February 6, 2016

  Climate Change, Psychotherapy, Shamanism

  profane, psychotherapy, sacred, Shamanism, Winter