David England, a Psychosynthesis Psychotherapist and Shamanic Practitioner, explores the birth of human creative consciousness and its potential in shaping Earth’s future in his new article.
Exploring history from the beginning of the universe (the void), he draws on the idea that evolution – the development of evermore complex forms – demonstrates that the universe is ‘Self Creative’. Moving forward through history to the present time, England posits an idea of what makes humankind different to other beings in the universe – our brain capacity for consciousness – and how our species has “come to embody the creative capacity inherent in the universe” during what many call the Anthropocene (a geological epoch of humankind’s significant impact on Earth’s ecosystems).
England delves into creation myths and storytelling; art and architecture; politics and power, to draw out this concept of the human being as this Self Creative embodiment of the universe, highlighting another essential psychological development: love.
Returning to the ‘void’, he asks whether our development has led us to a place where we can “participate in the unfolding of our own evolution”, choosing love, choosing to tackle climate change, injustice and other challenges we face as a species, through psychosynthesis.
Read David’s article here.
David England is a UKCP Registered psychosynthesis psychotherapist in private practice in the grandly named Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead. He trained as a psychosynthesis psychotherapist at The Institute of Psychosynthesis London, receiving his MA and Diploma in 1998. For four years—alongside his psychotherapy practice—he worked with a colleague providing psychosynthesis based personal development coaching and training for business organisations, then for seven years he worked as a course tutor at The Institute of Psychosynthesis London.
He trained as a Shamanic Practitioner at Eagle’s Wing College of Contemporary Shamanism. Impressed by the synergy between Psychosynthesis and Shamanism, he wrote Soulfulness, The Marriage of Shamanic and Contemporary Psychology (Karnak Books, 2017).