"An authentic ADULT is someone who experiences herself, first and foremost, as a member of the EARTH community, has encountered her soul (has had a revelatory experience of her unique place in the Earth community, her ultimate place in the more-than-human world), acquired some practical and culturally-effective means for embodying this place among her people, made a commitment to doing so, and is doing it.
"A true ELDER is someone who, after many years of adulthood, consistently occupies his ultimate place in the Earth community without any further effort to do so. This frees him for something with yet greater scope and depth and fulfillment, namely, caring for the soul of the world [the anima mundi]. He does this by assisting others to prepare for, discover, and embody their souls, and by supporting the more-than-human community of Earth in the evolution of ITS soul."
Bill Plotkin
I myself have a ways to go in becoming an adult and an elder, but this is my dream :)
Photo: Subalpine Firs and Goat Island Mountain; Mount Rainier National Park, WA; July 29, 2013
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