Wild Mind

Nature-Based Map of the Human Psyche

A map of psychological wholeness — a nonarbitrary and comprehensive map unearthed by Bill Plotkin and the guides at the Animas Valley Institute, because it uses the template of nature’s own map of wholeness. It serves as a guide to becoming fully human by cultivating the four facets of the Self and discovering both the limitations and the gifts of the four groups of our wounded, fragmented, and shadowed subpersonalities/Inner Protectors. It maps all of these elements of the psyche onto the qualities of the natural world that we observe in the cardinal directions as well as the characteristics of the four seasons and the four times of day: dawn, noon, dusk, and midnight