Maria Sabina was an amazing ceremonial leader in Oaxaca, Mexico. When I was a graduate student at Pacifica Graduate Institute, I found several old audio tapes in the bookstore. I bought a speech by Rolling Thunder, the Cherokee Medicine Man, an ayuaska ceremonial recording called “Songs the Plants Taught Us”, and a tape of Maria [...]
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Magic, Mushrooms, and Maria Sabina
Posted in entheogens, Erotic love, Peyote Ceremony, sacred ceremonies, tagged ayahuasca, Coyote, Native American Church on May 7, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Animals in Dreams
Posted in Dreams, Erotic love, sexual conduct, tagged Divine Intelligence on August 5, 2010 | 1 Comment »
John A. Sanford bridged the gap between modern analytical psychology and Christianity. A third generation Episcopal priest, who entered analysis early in his life, Sanford wrote several books suggesting that the world of visions and dreams we find in Judaeo-Christian literature is the world of inner dialogue with the Divine. Part of this dialogue occurs [...]
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.
Masquerade with the Vampire
Posted in Erotic love, men's issues, Mentoring, sexual conduct, tagged Erotic love, Feeling, Men's Movement, Myths, Psychology, Shadow, Spirituality, Vampire on February 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Mardi Gras Masquerade has a function which goes deep into the Source. It provides the possibility of seeing clearly the roles we play and how, by changing the Mask, we we can break patterns and become free at last!
Enduring Love
Posted in Erotic love, Psychology, sexual conduct, tagged Balancing the Opposites, Erotic love, Feeling, Shadow, Thinking on December 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Ian McEwan’s novel gets a fabulously acted screenplay in Enduring Love. The trip into the underworld of Hades is remarkably illustrated in the life of the thinker/professor and the feeler/artist and the unbalanced shadow function of the psyche. Much to meditate upon and hopefully avoid in the journey from the head to the heart.
Dionysos, Hades, and Osiris: One and the Same?
Posted in Carl Jung, Erotic love, psyche, Psychology, Spirituality, Uncategorized, tagged Erotic love, Myths, Psychology, Spirituality, Thinking on October 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The ancient divine patterns of the psyche are the gods and goddesses, or “archetypes” which (1) were here on the planet before us and (2) we experience in extraordinary ways. These ancient patterns behave like personalities, who, unlike humans, are “autonomous”, literally “laws unto themselves”. They are power centers which have their own, unique way of affecting us and our environment. They make their own rules of conduct. It is important to be aware of the archetypes and how to be in relationship with them. We can work with or against overwhelming forces of nature and be helped or destroyed.
Please Understand Me
Posted in Carl Jung, Erotic love, psyche, Psychology, Spirituality, Uncategorized, tagged Divine Intelligence, Erotic love, Psychology, Spirituality, Wisdom on October 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Standing under me you will feel my reality, my pain, suffering and my joy. Love me as I am without judgements and we can walk hand in hand in God’s Love. This could be the mantra of most people on the planet. We all want to be seen and heard, to be accepted and loved, [...]
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 [...]
