Love and Betrayal

For we must be clear that to live or love only where one can trust, where there is security and containment, where one cannot be hurt or let down, where what is pledged in words is forever binding, means really to be out of harm’s way and so to be out of real life. And …

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The Green Man

Having just returned from attending a four day Dream Retreat, I want to share a little about the experience I had there. Out of respect for the tribe that gathered, and the impossibility of ever fully articulating the essence of what transpired between us, I'll share an experience that relates to what I have been writing and sharing here …

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Wild Child

"Among oral people's, language functions not simply to dialogue with other humans, but also to converse with the more than human cosmos. Words do not speak about the world, they speak to the world, and it is our loss that we have become severed from the vaster life, and have forgotten the expressive depths of language provided by the whole …

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Class Notes – Session Seven

In the seventh session of the Jung Platform's class on James Hillman's book, Alchemical Psychology, the discussion moves to the nature of the material, the vessel used for containment and the necessity of the "separatio," of essence from the material. In psychological work this distinction is at the heart of the work, whether in a …

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Break on Through

"I found an island in your arms  Country in your eyes  Arms that chain  Eyes that lie  Break on through to the other side" Jim Morrison Oftentimes it is said that ideas are less important and that action is better; what counts then is what is done or made manifest. The favored status of action, an idea …

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