Organic Holistic Farming with a Spiritual Connection
On this episode of Explore Your Spirit with Kala Radio, Kala speaks with author Patricia Damery about her book, Farming Soul. A psychological and spiritual reckoning, ‘Farming Soul’ questions theories and assumptions that date back to the early 1900′s and the days of Freud, assumptions which have too often separated spirituality from psychology.
One strand of ‘Farming Soul’ is about redeveloping a relationship to the land-Mother Earth-being rooted in a particular place and being guided by the tenets of Rudolf Steiner’s Biodynamic(TM) agriculture. Another strand is about Patricia Damery’s professional path of becoming a Jungian analyst, which includes an exploration of four aspects of the body: the physical, the etheric, the astral, and the mental.
Farming Soul is a courageous offering that will help reconnect us to our deeper selves, the often untouched realities of soul, and at the same time ground us in our physical relationship to self and Mother Earth.
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More About Patricia Damery:
Patricia Damery is an analyst member of the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco and practices in Napa, CA. She grew up in the rural Midwest and witnessed the demise of the family farm through the aggressive practices of agribusiness. With her husband Donald, she has farmed biodynamically for ten years. Her chapter, “Shamanic States in Our Lives and in Analytic Practice” appeared in The Sacred Heritage: The Influence of Shamanism on Analytical Psychology, edited by Donald Sandner and Steven Wong, and her articles and poetry in the San Francisco Library Journal, Jung Journal: Culture and Psyche, Psychological Perspectives, and Biodynamics: Working for Social Change Through Agriculture.
