Here is my contribution to Barbara Franken's January Challenge series. This is a story in which the right kind of trouble unexpectedly brings a gift. From an early age, I struggled to feel a sense of belonging and identity. As a child I loved play-acting and imagining what it might be like to be a bear, a dog, …
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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 …
In my previous posts on James Hillman's book, Alchemical Psychology, I wrote briefly about the relationship between the colors of the alchemy and their correlation through the stages of the soul's journey as one begins a work of a psychological nature. The links to those posts can be found on the Index page of this blog. After …
"Psychology ought to make us feel at home in the world and interested in it and to recognize its beauty. Anything that's beautiful, you fall in love with and anything you fall in love with, you want to keep alive. And that solves the ecological problem and the nuclear problem. You don't want to destroy …
As a follow-up to yesterday's post about James Hillman and Sonu Shamdasani's book, Lament of the Dead, Psychology after Jung’s Red Book, I want to share a video I found on youtube of a symposium featuring several speakers and a panel discussion from 2010 that included Hillman, Shamdasani and other Jungians. It is very insightful for anyone …
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