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prana + alchemy in the quest
that's the purpose of the storm: to untether and reorient the pressure in the atmosphere.

colleen bishop
Mar 224 min read


24. Wildfire, structure, and spirit: East Shield invitations
Somewhere upward of 24,000 acres are burning in Colorado today, with thousands more just across the border in neighboring states. The Roaring Fork Watershed is currently at about 15–66% of normal, with most of the watershed in stage 4 (of 5) drought. Two days ago, the sky was so hazy with smoke that we could almost not see either of the two mountain escarpments that hold the north and south boundaries of this valley, each 10 miles away. This morning, a few raindrops have fall

thompson (tbird) bishop
14 hours ago7 min read


23. letting grief belong
There is a movement of emotion moving through me, a disorganized psycho-sensorial process that is having a conversation that I cannot ignore. Tears are close and frequent, and while there are moments where I remember the social awkwardness of being a highly sensitive human within a culture largely ambivalent and oppressing to deep feelings, there is a profundity to this experience.

thompson (tbird) bishop
Jul 124 min read


22: wilderness immersion: exploring the lifeworld from within the wild
Wilderness immersive experiences such as these have a way of re-foregrounding the body and embodiment. In so doing, the sensuality of existence is reawakened, and that expanded sense of awareness begins to innately include the more-than-humyn lifeworld all around. This blog explores the nuances of wilderness immersive experiences and draws an example from a recent teen quest hosted by Alchemy of Prana.

thompson (tbird) bishop
Jul 46 min read


21. field notes 2: waking the soul fire
Reflections from Waking the Soul Fire, a week-long wilderness rite of passage quest which transpired in the high mountains of Coloradoo

thompson (tbird) bishop
Jun 234 min read


20. field notes 1: found poetry at the Ceremonial Immersion
Found poetry from the School of Lost Borders Ceremonial Immersion. Emergent themes from a week getting deep and wild in the mountains of southern colorado.

thompson (tbird) bishop
Jun 113 min read


19. ecotherapy: inviting the third body
Ecotherapy is a burgeoning field of therapy which, as applied ecopsychology, offers a variety of techniques for bringing nature into the human-human dyad as a way of broadening the holding environment and situating our always-enmeshed, interconnected, and reciprocal relationship to/with/in the natural world (Delaney, 2021, p. 35). Pragmatically, nature is considered the third body, shifting therapy from a human-human dyad to a human-nature-human triad (Buzzell, 2009)...

thompson (tbird) bishop
Jun 15 min read


18. reflections on awe
Magnificent awe. That is what I see in the weather, feel in its changes, know deep in my embodiedness as I walk this fine earth and get to know myself through the interactive aliveness of existence.

thompson (tbird) bishop
May 265 min read


17. an impact gradient for defining wilderness
There is a false dichotomy between nature and the human world, a persistent story for hundreds or perhaps thousands of years that asserts that we humans are somehow outside of, beyond, or greater than and different from the wilder-than-human world.

thompson (tbird) bishop
May 195 min read


16. profound moments in nature: opening to our ecological identity
A blog exploring the ecopsychological concept of ecological identity. What are your earliest memories of feeling deep connection to/with/in the wild earth? What are your recent memories of this? Where do you wander back to in your psyche, dreaming of some vista or moment of deep meaning?

thompson (tbird) bishop
May 125 min read


15. taking a soul walk in nature
Time in a wilderness environment can often return us to our embodied way of being alive (Williams, 2019). The weather, the landscape, the wild ones, the way the water moves, all become aspects of aliveness which call to and echo outward the depth of our vibrant animal bodies and transpersonal potentials.

thompson (tbird) bishop
May 45 min read


14. transpersonal (eco)psychology
Maybe no one told you this lately, but we are all going to die. We will, each of us, breathe out a last breath, take a last step, see the sunrise for a last time, touch the cheek and hand of our most intimate, and depart this living world.

thompson (tbird) bishop
Apr 295 min read


13. the art of mirroring
There is an art to how we listen to one another, to how we might open ourselves beyond interpretation and explanation and lean in to the lived experience of another. Really, this can be and has been referred to in many ways throughout human culture.

thompson (tbird) bishop
Apr 164 min read


Participatory Mode of Perception—The Art of Mirroring
Like water in a parched desert, the animistic songs and silence seeped into the ancient and new soil of place and soul, while Raven...

colleen bishop
Apr 152 min read


12. always home with earth below: new song
I have been playing and writing music for over forty years. A while back, I recorded three albums. Currently, I have about fifty songs...

thompson (tbird) bishop
Mar 242 min read


11. where is everyone? encountering ecological amnesia
Encountering ecological amnesia is the focus of this blog, which explores the impacts of humans on the wild earth and who we can navigate it

thompson (tbird) bishop
Mar 224 min read


10: accepting limitations
Exploring how our human limitations can be a gift which brings us deeper into the experience of being alive.

thompson (tbird) bishop
Mar 156 min read


9. poetic interlude: a collection of recent poetry by tbird
a collection of recent poetry by tbird

thompson (tbird) bishop
Mar 112 min read


8. Is fasting hard?
Is fasting hard? This blog explores the interconnected questions about the difficulty of fasting and why one might choose to fast.

thompson (tbird) bishop
Mar 16 min read


7. Thresholds: A meeting of the intangible psyche with the physical real
When we speak of making sacred, thresholds have a few distinct meanings.

thompson (tbird) bishop
Feb 215 min read
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