After teaching ethics, logic, and the history of philosophy, being a Montessori teacher and school director, and becoming a spiritual counselor, I find myself in 2011 wondering what has happened to Western Civilization. It is crumbling all around us. The old ways of the American Heartland Religion and Puritan hard work have been abandoned like [...]
Archive for the ‘Burning Man’ Category
Independence Day
Posted in Burning Man, Carl Jung, Dreams, I Ching: Book of Changes, men's issues, Mental Health, Montessori education, Psychology, tagged Feeling, Indigenous, Men's Movement, Shadow on February 20, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Thanks Uncle for giving my friend a ride
Posted in Burning Man, Dreams, entheogens, Peyote, sacred ceremonies, Spirituality, Synchronicity, tagged ayahuasca, Coyote, Eagle, Magic, Spirituality, The Sorcerer's Apprentice on July 20, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Sometimes picking up a hitchhiker just connects everything, especially when he synchronously knows everyone in your circle. Magic happens when we listen to our dreams, my grandson does, and he shares his dreams with me. This is the story of what happened when he got back from his trip to Peru and the Amazon.
The Shadow Side of Reality
Posted in Burning Man, Carl Jung, entheogens, Erotic love, gnostic wisdom, Mental Health, Mentoring, sexual conduct, tagged Balancing the Opposites, Shadow, Spirituality on May 28, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Before leaving academia and conservative Orange County, California, I tried to integrate the discoveries of Depth Psychology into the Ethics course at the Community College. That was before John A. Sanford wrote about it in Evil The Shadow Side of Reality (1981). So it was with delight I hermeneutically found the sections on integrating the Shadow and the benefits of this work when I was cleaning my bookshelf today.
The Masked Man
Posted in Burning Man, Dreams, Initiation, Mentoring, tagged Coyote, Dreamwork, Eagle, Men's Movement, Spirituality, Sweat Lodge, Synchronicity, Wisdom on April 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Coyote and the False Face Healer showed up at the Mystery School Initiation. Here’s what I made of it.
Holding Together, Leading and Following
Posted in Burning Man, entheogens, I Ching: Book of Changes, Peyote, sacred ceremonies, Spirituality, tagged Indigenous, Organic, Sweat Lodge, Wisdom on April 22, 2010 | 1 Comment »
As Indigenous people we understand we are part of an interconnected weaving of life. We are born into a complex family system which reflects the environment and its processes. Just as we have a personal mother who nourishes and cares for us, we have an environment which mothers and teaches us. Observing our surroundings we [...]
Light, Love, and Open Communication
Posted in Burning Man, entheogens, Liberal Catholic Church, Mentoring, Peyote, sacred ceremonies, tagged Native American Church, Raven, sacred ceremonies, Sweat Lodge on April 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Whether it’s sizzling hot or freezing cold for Easter, change is happening. Mixing the Native American Ceremonies with the Christian celebrations leads to prayers manifesting, silence broken, families mending, and Love ascending.
Looking out the windows of the soul
Posted in Burning Man, entheogens, Erotic love, gnostic wisdom, Mentoring, Uncategorized, tagged Interpretation on September 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Perhaps the most challenging task we have in life is experiencing and understanding projection. When we meet annoying and/or fascinating people, we usually believe we are experiencing reality; we are receiving perceptual information from the world, just as it is. The other person is actually fascinating or annoying. The emotions we feel are caused, beyond [...]
