Cognitive Immunology and Soulcraft™
Antidotes to Wétiko
Soul is fundamentally a biological concept, defined as the primary organizing, sustaining, and guiding principle of a living being." ~ Thomas Berry
What is Cognitive Immunology and Soulcraft™?
In a nutshell, cognitive immunology and Soulcraft is an approach to facilitating our growth and maturation beyond the limited, overly-domesticated ego-centric mode of life all-too-common in today's competition and possession-obsessed consumerist society. It is a reclaiming of our ancient need and desire to evolve beyond mere individual survival and expand into an ecological mode of being rooted in true wisdom and an authentic belonging to Earth and the larger community of life.
In other words, it's what most people are looking for in therapy and other means of "self-improvement," but rather than seeing you as flawed and needing "fixing" or "improvement," it seeks to cultivate your innate wholeness and actualize the latent potentials we all carry within us.
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Soulcraft™...
...supports life-long psycho-spiritual-social growth and maturation
...creates ecological intelligence
...generates sovereignty, autonomy, and agency
...cultivates eco-centric being, rather than ego-centric self-obsession
...liberates creative energies from the excessive domestication of civilizational society
...integrates individual and relational efforts for natural efficiency of form and function
...unlocks latent energies and actualizes repressed potentials
...leverages innate intelligence rather than outsourcing expertise to credentialed professionals whose formal credential reflects abstract, theoretical, technical knowledge more than lived-experience and embodied wisdom
Cognitive immunology...
...is an emerging branch of science and medicine that expands the fields of micro-immunology and pathology to the entirety of human experience, cognition and mind included
...constitutes a key part of a total paradigm shift in the life-mind sciences that makes use of the best scientific evidence to be published over the past 100 years (Most institutional psychology, and much of mainstream medicine, is rooted in long-outdated ideas and frameworks)
...advances the healing sciences beyond the stodgy dogma and drug-focused medical practice that still dominates much of the field
What is Wétiko?
Wétiko is an Algonquin/Cree term referring to a cannibalistic force, power, or spirit that consumes without satiety. In modern medical terms, it is a mind-virus that hijacks and manipulates individual and collective cognition such that people think and act in ways that undermine life and health rather than supporting them.
It is, essentially, a sickness of soul, and it has infected nearly the entire human population. It is the domination of life by machines. It is the inversion of a natural relationality of tools (where we use them): today, human activity has been put in service of a dogmatic machine ideology untethered from the needs and demands of living intelligence.
You may be thinking: "Is this for real? This sounds like sci-fi, or new age woo-woo pseudo-science. This is just all metaphorical, right? Surely you can't be serious about such a 'mind-virus'?"
Unfortunately, I am quite serious, and there is a solid scientific basis for these ideas.
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