What is EcoPsychology? Ideas on EcoPsychology.

What can we learn from it? How can it help us?.
On this page we will have ideas on and about ecopsychology. The intention
is to expand our knowledge of what ecopsychology is and can be; and to
discover how it can help us in our understanding of ourselves, the Earth,
and the Universe. We will also
explore how ecopsychology can be of practical use to us in how we can
live better as body, mind, soul and spirit as part of the Earth and Universe.

John Davis, Ph.D.,of The Metropolitan State College of Denver is helping to
extend the transpersonal potential of ecopsychology. "At their deepest," he writes,
"psyche and nature emerge as expressions of the same whole and
reveal these questions and insights as essentially spiritual. I propose
that ecopsychology be extended to a view that both
includes and transcends the nature-as-family and
nature-as-self metaphors, recognizing a fundamentally non-dual,
seamless unity in which both nature and psyche flow as expressions
of the same absolute source. . . .it calls for development beyond the self
(self-transcendence) to identification with the spirit or mystery
which gives rise to all manifestations--human, nature, and otherwise."
I like that. For more by Davis visit:
http://clem.mscd.edu/~davisj/ep/ecopsy.html
or his paper "The Transpersonal Dimensions of Ecopsychology" in a
forthcoming issue of THE HUMANISTIC PSYCHOLOGIST.

Another important person in ecopsychology is Robert Greenway (what an
appropriate name for an ecopsychologist!) He has challenged
Ecopsychology to develop a stonger, clearer and more
accurate language. He expressed frustration at the many
ways ecopsychology is
used so that it covers just about everything. He finds
"most ecopsychologies are either very vague or simplistic,
using a generalized form of pop-psychology summarized as
people's 'behavior', and a generalized form of pop-ecology
summarized as 'nature', or 'good nature'." "I find
this sad," he writes, "because I think that the
human-caused and widespread solutions, and for this
we need a strong, coherent, accurate language
so we can at least communicate with each
other in search of strategies and solutions...."
"Wise and widespread solutions": I like that as an intention.
For more by Robert Greenway, visit:
www.ecopsychology.org/gatherings/what.htm