I'm a citizen journalist, citizen scientist, and psychoanalytic psychotherapist. I lived most of my life west of the Mississippi, but now I live in the Cumberland Mountains of east Tennessee near two headwater streams of the Cumberland River.
I love to write about psychoanalysis, nature, science, social justice, subtle energy fields and subtle activism. I’m especially interested in edges, spaces and places where all of these fields intersect.
At the core of my passion to follow these explorations is awareness that life on Earth has a long and troubling history of oppression and exploitation of people and nature. In balance with this is the truth that we have a core trans-dimensional Self. Justice and peace will be the way of Earth when humanity learns to fully incarnate the spiritual Self into the material dimensions of Earth and to stay centered in that Consciousness 24/7.
Interests in nature and photography: My undergraduate degree from Michigan State University was in Parks and Recreation Administration (College of Agriculture) with a focus on environmental interpretation. I worked as a naturalist at Wind Cave National Park in South Dakota for two seasons prior to graduation. After that, I married Bill, an environmental engineer with the Federal Highway Administration in Denver. I worked a couple of seasons at Rocky Mountain National Park, and camped, hiked and traveled in several western states with Bill.
These experiences, in particular, gave me the opportunity to live, work and play in some of the most awesome natural landscapes in the United States. I have enjoyed photographing these landscapes, and the beings that live in them, for many years.
Interests: psychoanalysis, social and environmental justice, human rights, earth and life sciences, jazz, blues, photography, space brothers and sisters, Qi Gong, Tai Chi, personal and planetary transformation.
Banner: Longspur violets and star chickweed on the banks of Hudson Branch, Campbell County, TN. [photo by Cathie Bird]
