If it weren't for two of my dear High School friends, I may not have this story to tell about singer, songwriter, Harry Chapin. But it was their invitation to go see him perform in our High School auditorium during our senior year that endeared me to his music. Harry, with just an acoustic guitar, gravelly voice and a love …
Alchemy Class Notes – Session Eleven
"The Suffering of Salt, Toward a Substantial Psychology," is the title of chapter three of James Hillman's book, Alchemical Psychology, and the starting point for the first class of year two of the Jung Platform's online course. Hosts Patricia Berry and Robert Bosnak focus the discussion on the notions of salt, commonality and substance. I am beginning to see an increased …
‘Alone with the Alone’: Henry Corbin and Visionary Experience
With limited time for writing this week, I am happily reblogging a post from "Conversations with Don Machinga" on Henri Corbin, the Imaginal realm and its parallels to ayahuasca visions. Happy 2015. Enjoy! Here's an excerpt: "Corbin is very interested, to put it mildly, in this intermediate world, which he calls ‘the Imaginal World’ – …
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After Life
"It’s almost as if you have to spend your whole life disengaging from your life, disengaging from the supposed reality of your living. I think that’s what Spinoza and Socrates meant about life is the study of dying, that you leave these convictions of certitude about the whole business. I certainly feel lots of that now, …
The Holy Birthing 2014
This post is an updated version of a post from Christmas 2013: What is it that is born, again and again - on Christmas day and in each new life, and in each moment of everyday? Perhaps it is symbolic of another ongoing kind of birth - the birth that brings renewal throughout our lifetime …
Theoria 