I too have suffered from despair since childhood. It began at the age of 11 when my father died. To this day there are many occasions in my daily life when I cannot get excited about something because I know it will not last and my pleasure will not last and I will die and nobody will care and nothing I have done will make any difference, and so what?
“[W]e must also remember the Self, this living force with us, wants to help us face our wounds and darkest moments and then—through hurt, fear,
This is a follow-up from last week’s post titled Caryatids: Images of the Queen Archetype. Deborah wondered what the Caryatids on the Maiden Porch of
“The Queen is a mother impulse in all of us. She sits close to our Anima or archetype of the feminine. The Queen is the
“The vehicle of our right brain and much of our deeper Self is symbolized by what we often think of as “the heart”. Our symbolic
“Wisdom begins only when one takes things as they are . . . So it is a healing attitude when one can agree with the
“The crux of the matter is man’s own dualism, to which he knows no answer. This abyss has suddenly yawned open before him with the
“Anything conscious can be corrected. But anything that slips away into the unconscious is beyond the reach of correction and, its rank growth undisturbed, is
Intellectually the Self is no more than a psychological concept, a construct that serves to express an unknowable essence which we cannot grasp as such,
[T]he most important relationship of childhood, the relation to the mother, will be compensated by the mother archetype as soon as detachment from the childhood
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