Tweet “The road of experiential knowledge that Jung spent most of his life leading people along is clearly not a road that is readily walked. As Jung relates, for many ‘the steep path of self-development is . . . as mournful and gloomy as the path to hell’” (C.G. Jung’s Psychology of Religion and Synchronicity…
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Something Ancient, Something New
Tweet “After the illness a fruitful period of work began for me. A good many of my principal works were written only then. . . . I no longer attempted to put across my own opinion, but surrendered myself to the current of my thoughts” (Memories, Dreams, Reflections by C.G. Jung, p.297). Jung needed to…
Grow Your Story
Tweet “. . . [Jung’s] work as a healer did not take wing . . . until he realized that the key to the human personality was its story. Every human being at core, he held, had a unique story and no man could discover his greatest meaning unless he lived and, as it were,…
God’s Way is My Way
Tweet “From the beginning I had a sense of destiny, as though my life was assigned to me by fate and had to be fulfilled. This gave me an inner security. . . . Nobody could rob me of the conviction that it was enjoined upon me to do what God wanted and not what…
The Sacred Battle
Tweet Arjuna is a warrior prince and Krishna is a symbol of the divine in the Bhagavad Gita, a holy book from India. “Krishna exhorts Arjuna to combat. This is the first lesson: Life is a battle—you must enter into it fully, and do what needs to be done. You cannot shrink from your duty….
The Taoist Writer: Creating Soul
Tweet You ask me why I make my home in the mountain forest, and I smile, and am silent, and even my soul remains quiet: it lives in the other world which no one owns. The peach trees blossom. The water flows. –Li Po (The Enlightened Heart: An Anthology of Sacred Poetry edited by Stephen…
No-Path is the Path
Tweet On Non-Dependence of Mind Coming, going, the waterbirds don’t follow a trace, don’t follow a path. –Dogen (The Enlightened Heart: An Anthology of Sacred Poetry edited by Stephen Mitchell, p.50) No-Trace “Dogen Kigen (1200-1253) [was a] Japanese Zen Master, philosopher, poet, painter [and the] founder of the Soto Zen school in Japan . ….
When I was the Forest
Tweet When I was the stream, when I was the forest, when I was still the field, when I was every hoof, foot, fin and wing, when I was the sky itself, no one ever asked me did I have a purpose, no one ever wondered was there anything I might need, for there…
Resistance to Writing and Archetypal Evil
Tweet I believe archetypal evil exists, based on my experience in helping people navigate the depths of the human psyche. For evil to exist as an archetype means that it is part of the innate structure of the psyche. Jung’s position on archetypal evil remains unclear. “Evil is not quite, or not always, archetypal for…
Viewing Your Life as a Drama
Tweet What wounds did life afflict you with? Did these wounds interfere with your ego plans for your life? “. . . Jung spoke of God as whatever interferes with or obstructs the ego’s desires and intentions” (The Alchemy of Healing: Psyche and Soma by Edward C. Whitmont, M.D., p.91). Did your wound appear in…
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