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 ‘I Ching: Book of Changes’ 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 »
Peace in the midst of change
Posted in I Ching: Book of Changes, Mental Health, tagged economic recovery, The Matrix on June 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The meditation on Peace in the Book of Changes has the following transitional line: Everything on earth is subject to change. Prosperity is followed by decline: this is the eternal law on earth. Evil can indeed be held in check but not permanently abolished. It always returns. This conviction might induce melancholy, but it should [...]
The Well of Living Water
Posted in Dreams, I Ching: Book of Changes, tagged Indwelling Spirit, Mystery, Spirituality, Wisdom on June 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In the I Ching: the Book of Changes it says The well is there for all. No one is forbidden to take water from it. No matter how many come, all find what they need, for the well is dependable. It has a spring and never runs dry. Therefore it is a great blessing tor [...]
The Invisible Force
Posted in Carl Jung, Dreams, I Ching: Book of Changes, Mental Health, tagged Alchemy, Dreams, Indwelling Spirit, Psychology, Spirituality on June 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Invisible Force is always available to us and trying to communicate with us. We need to listen to its messages, because it behaves like a person with infinite power at its disposal. When we have ignored the messages repeatedly, and I might add disrespectfully, the Force acts to get our attention. This could be through illness, accidents, economic failure, divorce, or eventually death. We are intimately connected to the eternal force which goes on with or without us. Listening will give meaning to your life and possibly improve its quality.
Core Shamanism with Michael Harner
Posted in Carl Jung, Dreams, entheogens, gnostic wisdom, I Ching: Book of Changes, Psychology, Spirituality, tagged Alchemy, Gnostic, Indigenous, Mystery on May 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
My son Davi got an invitation for dinner and asked me to go as his guest. We met several MDs, PhDs, dreamers, authors, and academics. Then Michael Harner spoke about Core Shamanism and how he found drumming journeys had the same effects as medicine journeys. This means everyone can access the inner world of spirit [...]
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 [...]
Honesty, authenticity, transparency, and vulnerability
Posted in I Ching: Book of Changes, Mentoring, Peyote, Psychology, Uncategorized, tagged Native American Church on February 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Honesty about my feelings brought about confrontation and change. When my brother quit responding to my telephone calls, I was puzzled. What had I done to create his response? I had some ideas, but I needed the truth. So I asked him to sit down with me and explain. He said he would. That was [...]
Become Green “Man”
Posted in Carl Jung, I Ching: Book of Changes, Initiation, men's issues, Mentoring, Psychology, Spirituality, tagged Alchemy, Avatar, Erotic love, Gnostic, Men's Movement, Organic, Wisdom on January 9, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Become a Green Man dedicated to the re-greening of the planet. Start your own group of allies, other men who want to belong to the greenmen’s lodge, the universal brotherhood of man. All indigenous society attempts to live in harmony with the environment. She is the Mother who gives us birth and takes us into herself when we depart for the spirit world. How can we save her right now?
Leadership: Holding Together Organically
Posted in Elder Activities, I Ching: Book of Changes, Mentoring, Spirituality, tagged Leadership, Organic, Wisdom on December 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The symbol of water flowing into water shows how we must hold together with others of like mind to create an organic fellowship of persons.
Balancing Our Needs: Interconnectedness with Independence
Posted in I Ching: Book of Changes, tagged Balancing the Opposites on December 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Linguist Deborah Tannen suggested many years ago that humans use indirect communication to meet mutually exclusive needs spontaneously. Sound paradoxical? We need our space, our privacy, our freedom to choose, to be independent. And at the same time we need to feel connected, included, cared about, wanted, loved, dependent upon relationship. Balancing these needs is [...]
