The Inner Critic is a function of the psyche, installed during childhood to keep us safe in the environment. When the parents or caregivers are experienced as dangerous, perhaps the alcoholic or Veteran with PTSD flies off the handle sometimes, the child adapts strategies to survive. This can lead to perfectionism, especially when the parent [...]
Archive for January, 2012
Ascending with the Inner Critic
Posted in Child/Parent Relationship, Mental Health, tagged Healing, Wisdom on January 29, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Jung, the Red Book, and Prophesy
Posted in Carl Jung, Dreams, entheogens, gnostic wisdom, Theosophical Society, tagged ayahuasca, Gnostic, Indwelling Spirit, Santo Daime tradition, Self, Wisdom on January 24, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The prophetic aspects of Carl Jung’s Red Book, published in 2009, was the topic of Stephan A. Hoeller’s lectures at the Theosophical Society’s Krotona Institute in Ojai. Hoeller, an ordained priest in the Liberal Catholic Church and now Bishop of the Gnostic Catholic Church in America “Ecclesia Gnostica”, spoke of Jung’s vision of the coming [...]
