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The Alchemy of Ground

Author(s) / Creator(s)

Conger, John

Abstract / Description

The “Alchemy of Ground” is a personal essay about finding home in nature. Paleo-anthropologists tell us that the mineral structure of the earth and water of our childhood home, written into our bones, identifies our homeland. As one client demonstrates, while culturally we are independent and mobile, we hunger for our body’s familiar experience of homeland. More than minerals, the colors of the earth, the guardianship of the trees that think in slow time, the dominance of smell over our artificial sense of time – these draw our bodies back to a communication, deep rhythm and longing for a lost earth, that we split away from and forgot.

Keyword(s)

paleo-anthropologists bones alchemy ground homeland tree mineral

Persistent Identifier

Date of first publication

2016

Journal title

The Clinical Journal of the International Institute for Bioenergetic Analysis

Volume

26

Issue

1

Page numbers

111-118

Publisher

Psychosozial-Verlag

Publication status

publishedVersion

Review status

peerReviewed

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Citation

Conger, J. (2016). The Alchemy of Ground. The Clinical Journal of the International Institute for Bioenergetic Analysis, 26(1), 111-118. https://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.5457
  • Author(s) / Creator(s)
    Conger, John
  • PsychArchives acquisition timestamp
    2022-02-24T14:47:54Z
  • Made available on
    2022-02-24T14:47:54Z
  • Date of first publication
    2016
  • Abstract / Description
    The “Alchemy of Ground” is a personal essay about finding home in nature. Paleo-anthropologists tell us that the mineral structure of the earth and water of our childhood home, written into our bones, identifies our homeland. As one client demonstrates, while culturally we are independent and mobile, we hunger for our body’s familiar experience of homeland. More than minerals, the colors of the earth, the guardianship of the trees that think in slow time, the dominance of smell over our artificial sense of time – these draw our bodies back to a communication, deep rhythm and longing for a lost earth, that we split away from and forgot.
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  • Publication status
    publishedVersion
  • Review status
    peerReviewed
  • External description on another website
    https://www.psychosozial-verlag.de/catalog/product_info.php/cPath/20000/products_id/7257
  • External description on another website
    https://doi.org/10.30820/0743-4804-2016-26
  • Citation
    Conger, J. (2016). The Alchemy of Ground. The Clinical Journal of the International Institute for Bioenergetic Analysis, 26(1), 111-118. https://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.5457
  • ISSN
    2747-8882
  • Persistent Identifier
    https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12034/4856
  • Persistent Identifier
    https://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.5457
  • Language of content
    eng
  • Publisher
    Psychosozial-Verlag
  • Is part of
    Schroeter, V., Koemeda-Lutz, M., & Nascimento, M. (Eds.). (2016). Bioenergetic Analysis 2016. Psychosozial-Verlag.
  • Is version of
    https://bioenergetic-analysis.com/article/view/0743-4804-2016-26-111
  • Is related to
    https://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.5445
  • Keyword(s)
    paleo-anthropologists
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  • Keyword(s)
    bones
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  • Keyword(s)
    alchemy
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  • Keyword(s)
    ground
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  • Keyword(s)
    homeland
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  • Keyword(s)
    tree
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  • Keyword(s)
    mineral
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  • Dewey Decimal Classification number(s)
    150
  • Title
    The Alchemy of Ground
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  • DRO type
    article
  • Leibniz subject classification
    Psychologie
  • Issue
    1
  • Journal title
    The Clinical Journal of the International Institute for Bioenergetic Analysis
  • Page numbers
    111-118
  • Volume
    26
  • Visible tag(s)
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