As humans have evolved and modernized, their connection to the natural world has rapidly diminished, and with it has gone the profound emotional energy that this symbolic connection supplied.

Today the core projections of our greatest aspirations are clustered around the concept of mechanization and mass production.

How do we get back to beauty and meaning?

Elders from the few remaining pre-industrial cultures in the world generally seem to say the same thing. There was a time when things were different. There was a time when our master was the god of nature who was not only all around us but deep within us too.

Colin Campbell is one of the few who were accepted, taught and initiated by some of the wisest pre-industrial African knowledge carriers who lived in Southern Africa.

He believes we have perifirized our ‘mythic nature’ – the colour of who we are, and this loss has left us with a deep sense of anguish.

The remedy is to begin to reincorporate into our cosmology the extraordinary topography of what the mythic allows for. 

Join him for this series of four talks that explore how we might do this using the four elements and their corresponding archetypes: The Magician, The Warrior, The Lovers and the King.

Colin Campbell is a celebrated public speaker who shares his insights and understanding of cross-cultural existential psychology, ecopsychology and indigenous knowledge systems on various platforms, symposiums and earth concerned gatherings, including the World Wilderness Congress in Gqeberha (previously, Port Elizabeth, RSA), the Edge of the Wild annual UK ecopsychology gathering, the Earth Talks at the Schumacher College (UK) and the South African Association of Jungian Psychologists. He has also participated in a conference with the indigenous Sami Parliament which led to various wilderness-based training processes in Sweden.