Original love is love from the origin, mother, or Source, and as such transcends any limitations of time or space. It is love that has always been here and always will be here, love that is timeless and whole. Glenn Aparicio Parry tells a story of how love, humanity, nature, and consciousness co-evolved. In this […]

We are living through a polycrisis — a time when multiple global and psychological crises interact and amplify one another. The old world is dissolving. Yet historically, such breakdowns often precede rebirths — just as the European Renaissance emerged from the ashes of the medieval world. A polycrisis is a state wherein multiple crises — […]

This second evening will be devoted to myth and semiotics in contemporary wine culture. We will discuss how images, narratives, and codes generate meaning, how stories substitute for encounter, and how symbolic language is reorganized through labels, tasting rooms, prestige cues, and mediated experience. We will expand on the problem of hyperreality, when signs circulate […]

We continue our reading of this foundational work of James Hillman: The persons I engage with in dreams are neither representations (simulacra) of their living selves nor parts of myself. They are shadow images that fill archetypal roles; they are personae, masks, in the hollow of which is a numen.

We continue our reading of this foundational work of James Hillman: The persons I engage with in dreams are neither representations (simulacra) of their living selves nor parts of myself. They are shadow images that fill archetypal roles; they are personae, masks, in the hollow of which is a numen.

From the beginning of the “European intrusion” to the present time, the “American experience” has melded the political meanings of “freedom” and “dominion.” We will take up some psychological approaches to this profound and persisting paradox. Facts are neither favorable nor unfavorable; they are merely interesting. And the most interesting of all is that this […]

In the West, views about the self and personal identity first surfaced in Ancient Greece. Prior to that there were no recorded theories of self-identity. One to the earliest hints of interest in the self occured in a play written in 500 BCE Greece. A debtor decides he doesn’t need to pay back his lender. […]

We will finish chapter 7, in which we look at the daimon through the lens of Hermeticism and through association with the Goddess/Mother (a projection of the anima). We will then get into chapters 8 (the return to the Self and to wholeness) and 9 (the role of reflection /mirroring between the unconscious and conscious […]

“We, as humans, need community, but before community we need to commune.” —Nora Bateson With the increase in loneliness among all people, but especially among the young, and the concerns about the future of Life on Earth, it is imperative that we slow down and listen to each other, really listen. There’s nothing to fix, […]

The old religions with their sublime and ridiculous, their friendly and fiendish symbols did not drop from the blue, but were born of this human soul that dwells within us at this moment. All those things, their primal forms, live on in us and may at any time burst in upon us with annihilating force, […]

The world as we know it is coming to an end in the very near future. … Yet Edinger believed that this terrible transition in culture (what the poet Yeats called the “rough beast, its hour come round at last) will be bearable if we understand the meaning of what is going on. >>George F. […]

We continue our reading… Images are somewhere. The fundamental language of all the underworld is that of contained space . Look at the dream as if it were a theater program. Everything that happens, happens there. For the underworld view, what matters is not how the story comes out, but where it is taking place, […]