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. […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

“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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

We will finish chapter 7 and dive into chapters 8 and 9, hopefully finishing the book by the end of the trimester. Chapter 8 is on “Consciousness and Inner Wholeness” […]

Dreams are impartial, spontaneous products of the unconscious psyche, outside the control of the will. They are pure nature; they show us the unvarnished, natural truth, and are therefore fitted, […]

We move through spaces every day without thinking much about them: a house, a hallway, a room. Yet some places stay with us, while others feel strangely empty or unsettling, […]