Healing the Shadow of Stolen Land: Jung, Steiner, Yunkaporta & Macy on Restoring Peace

In a time when the phrase “No peace on stolen land” echoes across the world, this essay explores how four visionary thinkers Carl Jung, Rudolf Steiner, Tyson Yunkaporta, and Joanna Macy illuminate a pathway toward true reconciliation.

Drawing on depth psychology, spiritual ecology, Indigenous pattern thinking, and collective activism, Emily Samuels-Ballantyne (Dr Demeter) reveals that peace cannot be legislated or imposed; it must be grown from within, through the healing of psyche, spirit, culture, and community.

From Jung’s call to integrate the shadow, to Steiner’s vision of sacred balance, to Yunkaporta’s custodial worldview and Macy’s Work That Reconnects, the essay weaves a tapestry of wisdom that transforms the pain of history into a praxis of renewal.

Rooted in the living work of Magical Farm Tasmania and the embodied practice of YoFence, Emily offers a model of regenerative reconciliation, where healing is not an idea but a way of life: a daily tending of relationship between people, place, and planet.

“Peace is not achieved by avoiding the wound, but by tending it.” Dr Demeter