If you missed it and are interested, you'll find my notes on Session One here. After the second class on James Hillman's, Alchemical Psychology, I find myself at odds. Something seems to be missing. The hosts, Patricia Berry and Robert Bosnak, engaged in a wonderful discussion about the nature of the vessel and the use of heat …
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Archetypal Psychology – a Brief Account, Part I
As a lasting legacy to James Hillman, Spring publications has been publishing his writings in a 10 volume set called the Uniform Edition. The latest of these offerings now available in both cloth-bound and for Kindle readers, is his Archetypal Psychology, described by Spring as: "Originally written for the Italian Enciclopedia del Novecento, this indispensable book is a …
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49 Reasons Redux
It's hard not to be emotionally touched by the tragedies of this past week, even though most of us do not know the victims, survivors or the criminals. In that way we all share in the very impersonal nature of the mass shootings in nearby Clackamas, Oregon and far away Newtown, Connecticut. I think the …
49 Reasons
Of course we want to know why anyone would plan and execute a horrific mass murder of strangers in an American movie house. We want to know why so we can understand it, fix it, and not live in fear for our lives and the lives of those we love. But senseless murders happen all the time, …
The darkness around us…
"As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being." C.G. Jung What followed my adventure into Taoism, was a delightful new discovery of the writings of Carl Gustav Jung, the Swiss psychologist. Unlike Freud, who I had learned a bit about …
Theoria 