Using Your Imagination to Care for Your Many Selves
“…the outer world and inner world are interdependent at every moment. We are simply the locus of their collision and whether we like it or not our life is what we are able to make of that collision…So what we need is a faculty that embraces both worlds simultaneously…” ~Ted Hughes, quoted in Lindsay Clarke, […]
Knowing the Substance of the Thing from Inside
“Man needs difficulties, they are necessary for health.” C.G. Jung, “The Transcendent Function” ([1916]/1958), CW 8, par. 143. This will be a short one. As you can see, I have a compromised left hand that makes it uncomfortable to type for very long. Late last week I sprained my wrist. I was standing on a […]
Mandorla: The Space Between
The Space Between is a 2021 American coming-of-age comedy film from Rachel Winter in her directorial debut. The film stars Kelsey Grammer, Jackson White, and Paris Jackson, and follows a musician named Micky Adams (Grammer) who becomes friends with Charlie Porter (White), a man sent to remove Adams from a record label contract in Los […]
A Special Invitation to Your Soul
“The Beloved we seek is the archetypal Self, our God-image that is a combination of all archetypes. As such, it is our portal to the Sacred.” This Saturday, June 12, I’ll present a free Zoom program for the Jung Association of Central Ohio called “The Partnership Profile: A Self-Assessment of Your Feminine and Masculine Archetypes.” The […]
Religious But Not Religious
“To discover the truth of the transcendent, whether that is understood as knowing God, gaining Buddha consciousness, being in Tao, or putting on the mind of Christ, one first has to engage one’s particular religious path as if it were true.” p. 168 “The knowledge gained through the practice of the symbolic life changes the […]
Yaaaay! This Is the Big One!
If we are connected on social media, you probably know what the title of this post refers to. Last week the Nautilus Book Awards winners for 2020 were announced. The Soul’s Twins received a silver medal! I’m over-the-moon excited. This is the big one, the one I’ve always admired and aspired to. Former Nautilus Winners Former Nautilus […]
A Thank-You and a Confession
” A man likes to believe that he is master of his soul. But as long as he is unable to control his moods and emotions, or to be conscious of the myriad secret ways in which unconscious factors insinuate themselves into his arrangements and decisions, he is certainly not his own master. These unconscious […]
An Announcement and a Request
I am honored to have been nominated by my publisher, Red Feather MBS, for a 2021 COVR-Award. Red Feather MBS is the Mind, Body, Spirit imprint of Schiffer Books and COVR is the Coalition of Visionary Resources, a non-profit trade organization established in 1996 that facilitates and supports business in the Mind Body Spirit industry. […]
Coming Home to your True, Pure Soul
My last two posts here and here, sparked a rich conversation with Deborah Gregory, a psychotherapist and poet who’s learning more about her masculine archetypes from the Partnership Profile in The Soul’s Twins. She wrote: “Hmm, so now I’ve woken up to these insights and find myself in a similar place … having to reclaim the […]
Archetypes: Your Guides to Your Authentic Self. Part II
The last post shared the first part of my article, “Archetypes: Your Guides to Your Authentic Self,” featured in the spring issue of ‘Inspired” magazine. You can read the whole magazine here. That post ended with a discussion of how your personal experiences with your human mother and father influenced your attitudes toward the universal […]
