Indigenous initiations into adulthood sometimes ended in death. California Natives disposed of young misfits or “sociopaths” during ritual medicine ceremonies. Matriarchal kinship rules prohibited taking the life of a blood relative, but there are several stories of hiring a “poisoner” or shaman to dispose of unwanted people who could not internalize the culture’s rules of [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Psychology’
The Hunger Games
Posted in Initiation, Movie Reviews, tagged Myths, Psychology, The Matrix on March 24, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Robert Frost at Dartmouth 1962
Posted in Child/Parent Relationship, Mental Health, tagged Grandmothers and Aunties, Psychology on May 5, 2011 | 1 Comment »
My freshman year at Dartmouth College in 1961 taught me a lot about looking in the mirror. I wanted to get as far away as possible from my alcoholic family and decided to use my intellectual gifts to get a scholarship to the Ivy League. My mind was my ticket to freedom. We drove from [...]
The Power Differential
Posted in Elder Activities, Movie Reviews, sexual conduct, tagged Psychology, Shadow, trickster on April 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Back in 1998 I watched the premier showing of Warren Beatty’s movie Bulworth. My daughter-in-law had been waiting to see the movie. She and my son took me out for the treat of my life. The main character, Senator Jay Billington Bulworth, had been a Kennedy democrat back in the day, and now had fallen [...]
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 [...]
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.
Homophobia: Fear of Men
Posted in men's issues, Mentoring, Psychology, sexual conduct, tagged Men's Movement, Psychology on March 15, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Fear of other men is built into our culture, yet we are also told to cooperate and trust our teammates. This puts us into a double bind, unless and until we learn to love ourselves in all our many aspects as humans.
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!
Bright Shadows and Dark
Posted in Carl Jung, Psychology, Spirituality, tagged Avatar, Grandmothers and Aunties, Psychology, Shadow, The Feminine on January 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Grandmother’s wisdom on how to recognize, dispell and integrate the shadow qualities of our personalities is offered here. Imagine her as a Na’vi spiritual counselor talking to Jake Sully in Avatar. Can you hear what she is saying? Can you see her?
Avatar 3D Making the Invisible Visible
Posted in Dreams, Initiation, Movie Reviews, Psychology, Spirituality, Synchronicity, tagged Avatar, Dreamwork, Indigenous, Psychology, Spirituality, The Matrix, Wisdom, Zeitgeist on December 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Art is prophetic and Avatar in 3D shows us how to manifest the future. Cameron’s visual feast demonstrates a very familiar story of conflicting values between the indigenous cultures and the conquering mindset. It also makes visible the relationship between us and our dreams, how we can be Dream Walkers in an alternate reality. The myth of Pandora structures the magical setting for Avatar. Her curiosity about what is contained within the mysterious box creates its opening. She releases pain, suffering, and death upon the people. What is the last gift in the box? Hope. That’s what Avatar is all about, hope for the future if we can act together to save our Mother Gaia.
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.
