This is true of the lives and works of all soul-initiated Adults in this time of the dying of life-destroying societies and the birth of life-enhancing cultures. This is how the deepest cultural renaissance happens. All soul work, at this time in the world, is countercultural and revolutionary, as well as evolutionary.

worker bee, or tycoon, or a soldier in an imperial war, and none would go through these motions if there were other options at hand. The enlivened soul and wild nature are deadly to industrial growth economies– and vice versa.

-Nature and the Human Soul, by Bill Plotkin

For the majority of people in the world today, personal growth becomes arrested in the third stage of eight due to our alienation from nature – from both our human nature and greater nature. Furthermore, this alienation is the cause as well as the effect of dysfunctional culture. Each generation has a more difficult time maturing, resulting in cultures less capable of facilitating the maturation of subsequent generations– an ever-sinking spiral.

our joy derives from the astonishingly synergistic interactions of species, habitats, waterways, soils, and air; and our grief and anger are most powerfully evoked by losses to ecosystem vitality. Our Wild Indigenous One defends the rights of all species and habitats to survive and flourish.