Jakkie DeCorsey
@northernedge
Jakkie DeCorsey
-Marketing the Wilderness, Joseph Whitson.
I really would like to do more research on Native peoples who inhabited this area that I live in, prior to colonization. I have no idea about any of this.
Holotropic BreathworkTM was developed by Dr. Stanislav Grof, a Czechoslovakian psychiatrist, and his wife, Christina Grof. The name "holotropic" comes from the Greek words "holos" (whole) and "tropic" (moving towards), meaning "moving toward wholeness." Dr. Grof, a co-founder of Transpersonal Psychology, began his exploration of non-ordinary states... See more
Midwest Breathwork
History of Holotropic Breathwork and it’s relation to psychedelic therapy
Ohhh. I’m really daring myself to be not a worker but like… the human I want to be in the world. And this is way less rigid than being told what to do and when (as a worker). This is like… a human with real connection to the world and daring enough to create something. To put actual time and energy into building something that represents ‘me’.
Like many strategies of settler colonialism, wildernessing is adaptive and is more concerned with the creation of communicable spaces that can be easily marketed rather than maintaining any one specific representation.
Marketing the Wilderness, Jospeh Whitson
Like talking about the waiting period after you plant the seeds. It’s sometimes the easy part to plant them; you follow instructions and get the “right things”, but after you plant you’re stuck with all the feelings that come with waiting. While the plant is doing all the “unseen” work. Liken that to therapy
Ohhhhh shit. This hits right in the fucking FEELS. WOWZAAAAAAAAAA.
My trips to the coffee shop is hard for me because it’s a symbol of fucking permission. HOLY FUCK.
“More importantly, recreation is often a precursor to traditional, and much more ecologically destructive mineral extraction. It is a politically salient justification for obliterating competing claims to land but becomes a flimsy shield in the face of ever-occurring energy and resource crises.“
Marketing the Wilderness, Joseph Whitson
BWCA.
Chamber 4, Visioning:
The vision or inspiration can be a picture or an idea in your head, a deep knowing in your bones or a revelation that quietly makes itself known to you. It can also seize you with startling clarity: so powerful that you feel compelled to act right away. While it’s critical to catch the download - we call it ‘taking dictation
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