My Favorite Books in 2022
2022 was a year of catching up on my reading. For those of you who love to read, here are some of my favorites listed in no particular order. I loved them all. The quoted blurbs are from other reviewers. (Apologies for the inconsistent spacing between paragraphs. I can’t correct it. There’s something very wrong […]
Learn Your Story: Write Your Myth
“Just as dreams do not conceal something already known, or express it under a disguise, but try rather to formulate an as yet unconscious fact as clearly as possible, so myths and alchemical symbols are not…allegories that hide artificial secrets. On the contrary, they seek to translate natural secrets into the language of consciousness and […]
The Defining Characteristics of the Opus
It’s life that matters, nothing but life — the process of discovering, the everlasting and perpetual process, not the discovery itself, at all. ~Fyodor Dostoevsky. The Idiot Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety. And […]
Staying Close and Letting Go
We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us. Joseph Campbell I’ve been writing this blog for eleven years and five months. I started in March of 2010 with two posts a week. Expressing myself freely and meeting so many wonderful […]
It’s Time to Bring Out the Silver
“The word ‘feminine,’ as I understand it, has very little to do with gender, nor is woman the custodian of femininity. Both men and women are searching for their pregnant virgin. She is the part of us who is outcast, the part who comes to consciousness through going into darkness, mining our leaden darkness, until […]
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 […]
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 […]
Reviews of Two Books with Heart
I’ve done some resting and a lot of reading since The Soul’s Twins was released in November. Two books have been especially meaningful to me and I’d like to share them with you. Heart of a Sufi By Rahima Milburn, Ashen Venema, Zohra Sharp His Medicine Was Love Heart of a Sufi is about Fazal […]
Your Invitation to Be Part of the Change
The USA witnessed a momentous change this past weekend, one I’ve longed for and worked toward for a long time. As one who writes about personal change, I’ve avoided political advocacy in the belief that we can make no lasting changes in the world without first changing ourselves. I still believe that. But now I […]
A New Idea of What We Are Part I
Note: I hope you enjoy this post from over four years ago. It feels like a good time to revisit these ideas. To paraphrase Terence McKenna, “Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness. We need to explore new ideas of who we are.” I know for a fact that in the […]
