Fantasy is another word for imagination, for the world of dreams and illusions. C. S. Lewis’ Narnia is such a place, where animals and mythological creatures speak our language. We understand their nonverbal communication. We hear them and understand their speech. Their words are intelligible. The scene is that of war between the forces of [...]
Archive for the ‘psyche’ Category
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Posted in Dreams, Movie Reviews, psyche, Spirituality, tagged Balancing the Opposites, Indwelling Spirit, Myths, Self, Synchronicity, trickster on December 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Limitless Transformation
Posted in entheogens, Mental Health, Movie Reviews, psyche, tagged Alchemy, Psychology, Shadow on March 22, 2011 | 2 Comments »
The movie Limitless shows us a literal enactment of the psychic process of personal development. The hero, Eddie Morra, uses a magic potion to enter the underworld realms of the psyche. Although the movie seems to be about designer drugs and enhanced brain function, the hero must face dependence upon the grace of the gods [...]
It’s alright to keep on living
Posted in Carl Jung, Peyote Ceremony, psyche, tagged Balancing the Opposites, Family systems on August 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
When I was studying to be a counselor, we hit a land mine in Murray Bowen’s family systems theory. Just as Carl Jung regarded the person as an interconnected collection of conscious and unconscious psychic patterns seeking balance, Bowen similarly regarded the family. One of the maxims of the medieval alchemists was “so above, so [...]
Inception and the Unconscious
Posted in Carl Jung, Marie-Louise von Franz, Movie Reviews, psyche, Terroism, tagged Inception on July 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Inception is a teaching tool regarding dreams, paradox, and projection. It’s plot reflects a Freudian standpoint toward the subconscious. It is “ego centric”. Although diping into the unpredictable realm of dreams, the ego is the hero of the plot. He grows through encountering himself and others, through the struggle with the unconscious, but not in the way the wizard grows, through relationship with the Unconscious.
“Psyche”, that’s what she said.
Posted in Dreams, psyche, Psychology, tagged Balancing the Opposites, Spirituality on July 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“And what do you teach?” she asked me, looking at my card. “How to balance the opposites within ourselves,” I responded. She looked at me quizzically, and since I am a teacher, felt she wanted more of an explanation, so I continued. “The soul is feminine. The Greeks called her Psyche. Her ways speak in [...]
The River of Life
Posted in gnostic wisdom, Initiation, psyche, sacred ceremonies, Spirituality, tagged Indwelling Spirit, Myths, Wisdom on May 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Who is the guy on the left in the Baptism of Christ? If we are familiar with the basic story, we can tell who the wild guy on the right is by his clothing composed of spotted pelts of wild animals, and the shepherd’s crook. He is John the Baptizer of the Hebrew/Biblical story. The [...]
Sometimes NO is what you need to say.
Posted in psyche, Psychology, Spirituality, tagged Spirituality, Wisdom on April 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Communication does imply listening and understanding the message. If one can reflect back to the speaker what the listener heard and the speaker agrees that is what she/he meant, there is a level of verbal communication which we need in the arbitration of conflicts. The non-verbal communication expressed through body language is often culturally dependent. [...]
Gender and Indigenous Ceremonies
Posted in Carl Jung, Dreams, entheogens, gnostic wisdom, Peyote, psyche, Psychology, sacred ceremonies, sexual conduct, Spirituality, Uncategorized, tagged Alchemy, Divine Intelligence, Dreams, Gender, Gnostic, Grandmothers and Aunties, Indigenous, Indwelling Spirit, Native American Church, Old Catholic Church, Psychology, sacred ceremonies, Sophia, Spirituality, Thinking, Wisdom on December 23, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Celtic and Native American genes are waking up and informing us of our human, bi-sexual psyches. Discovering our inner world comes through personal experience. Unconscious processes project the inner world onto the “real” world causing paradox. Gender roles morph. This is normal in esoteric literature.
The Self
Posted in Carl Jung, gnostic wisdom, Marie-Louise von Franz, psyche, Psychology, Spirituality, Theosophical Society, Uncategorized, tagged Divine Intelligence, God, Grandmothers and Aunties, Psychology, Self, Spirituality, The Matrix, Wisdom on December 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Self is our image of god, resulting from cultural context and inner neuro-psychic structure. In the process of maturing as an individual, we often experience numinous, magical, mind blowing events, which can expand us into wholeness or drive us mad. We are summoned from within to encounter our depths.
Are you spam?
Posted in psyche, tagged Men's Movement, Psychology, Spirituality, The Matrix, Wisdom on December 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Internet spam evoked interaction with my memories of the Matrix and its opposite, Neo, the New Man. Conflict creates the need for peace and self-sacrifice can accomplish resolution, for a time. Turtle Island’s Iroquois form of government brought peaceful, self-sustaining practices for hundreds of years, but their Seitgeist was matriarchal. Can we remember how to save ourselves?
