Insights from Ireland: Cooking Possum Stew
After I wrote my associations to the symbols in my Ireland dream, I started on its message. The biggest clues to a dream’s meaning are recent waking life experiences and how you responded to them. I...
View ArticleInsights from Ireland: Getting the Human Thing Down
A snake/dragon for Maeve I love the humanness of the dream I’ve been sharing. It’s so “lower chakra” with its symbolism of a possum and its excrement. Why do I love that? Andi sent me this quote in...
View ArticleInto the Heart of the Feminine
There is a thinking in primordial images, in symbols which are older than the historical man, which are inborn in him from the earliest times, eternally living, outlasting all generations, still...
View ArticleExcavating A Wounded Child with a Mother Complex
My parents have rented a vacation cabin on Lake Michigan. I’m playing by the shore and realize it’s getting dark. I look around. I’m alone. I begin walking along the water’s edge toward a distant...
View ArticleWhen Will I Be Loved?
Late at night a baby cries out in hunger. The exhausted face of its young mother appears over the top of the crib. She thrusts a bottle of cold milk in the baby’s hands and hurries away. Alone,...
View ArticleHow Do We Grow?
A hunger to understand the forces that aided my psycho-spiritual growth has dogged me since I first wrote about the inner life 27 years ago. Intuitively, I structured my first book, The Bridge to...
View ArticleExcavating A Wounded Child with a Mother Complex
Here’s another oldie, but goodie, from a few years back. Enjoy. My parents have rented a vacation cabin on Lake Michigan. I’m playing by the shore and realize it’s getting dark. I look around. I’m...
View ArticleThe True Meaning of Christmas Stories
“Stories … protect us from chaos, and maybe that’s what we, unblinkered at the end of the 20th century, find ourselves craving. Implicit in the extraordinary revival of storytelling is the possibility...
View ArticleSacred Laws of Psyche: The Connection Between Opposites
Last time I began a new series about the sacred laws of the psyche. Understanding them can help us think psychologically and live spiritually: the only lasting way to heal ourselves and the world....
View ArticleSacred Laws of Psyche: The Connection Between Entropy and Social Learning
“The increase of disorder or entropy is what distinguishes the past from the future, giving a direction to time.” Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time Last week I addressed Oneness, an ideal state...
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