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The Back Road (Jungian Psychology in Everyday Life Series)
Jungian psychology and psychotherapy is about taking the symbolic back road. Recently, I was thinking about taking the back roads on a drive across part of the country. As I was reflecting upon this...
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Timing and Discernment on the Journey of Your Life
Sanderlings You will have some important and pivotal decisions to make as you journey through your life. A decision at the right place and at the right time can make all of the difference. In biology...
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Color and Emotion in Dreams and in Life
Drake Wood Duck* If you pay attention to the natural world around you, it is not hard to see that plants and animals utilize color in all of its grandeur. The same is true for you and your unique...
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Of Mountains and Dreams 2: What the Hawk Sees
The hawk flies free over the valley below. If you climb the mountain and look toward the valley below, you may see the soaring hawk. Watch the hawk glide and circle while it soars on the currents of...
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A Realm of the Numinous: Religious Imagery in Dreams and Psychotherapy
For psychotherapists who practice therapy in a way that fully takes into account the totality of the psyche, they will be exposed to their clients’ dreams and other unconscious imagery that is...
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Consciousness: The Bright Side of the Moon
Photo credit: Abrams Planetarium by John French There are still tigers roaming our modern world, and make no mistake about it, you have a very real chance of being attacked and eaten. Of course for the...
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I am the Forest
There is a movie called House of Cards (1993), starring Tommy Lee Jones and Kathleen Turner. It is a story about a family, a father who died unexpectedly, a troubled young girl, and a big dream and...
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The Dream and the Ancient Path (Jungian Psychology in Everyday Life Series)
“The Ancient Path” I don’t usually write about my own dreams on this blog, but I had a recent dream that reminded me of an elemental truth. Here is the dream: I was riding a horse down a river with the...
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The Bride and the Coniunctio: An Archetypal Image of Love and Union
The Bride* The wedding and specifically the bride just might be one of the grandest of all archetypal images. We commonly associate weddings with the bride and the groom, but I’m going to make a case...
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The Psychotherapist, the Client and the Tide Pool of Depression
There is a great paradox for the psychotherapist in helping a client navigate through depression. On the one hand, life can be extremely painful and debilitating for a person suffering with symptoms of...
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Calcinatio: Sitting in the Heat and Fire
“NPS Photo by Jim Peaco” Fire and heat—what occurs outside in nature and is viewed as a natural process there can also occur inside of us in the form of symptomology. But because of one dimensional...
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Fighting with the Shadow: An Ethological Approach
We can learn much by observing and studying animal behavior in a natural environment. Witnessing raw, unedited scenes of animal behavior can give us clues on how to approach raw, unedited images that...
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The Wind
Sitting on a small island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean I can’t help but notice the wind. As the temperatures climb, the trade winds pick up bringing with them a cooling breeze as thoughts and...
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The Psyche at Dawn and Dusk: A Look at Crepuscular Moments
Any fisherman or fisherwoman knows that fishing is best at dawn and dusk. Similar to the feeding behavior of fishes, other wildlife is most active at twilight during those precious crepuscular moments....
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Abundance
And He said to them, “Cast the net on the right side of the boat, and you will find some.” So they cast, and now they were not able to haul it in, because of the multitude of fish. John 21:6 The past...
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Dead Wood
If your life was like a tree, you would learn to be a master gardener. You would take the time to prune away all of your dead wood. Like the life of a tree, your process of growth and change can be...
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Learning to See in the Dark
There is a fish that lives deep in the ocean dark The fish has evolved over time To “see” in the deep With a lantern as a light Just in front of its eyes A young man Who knew about this strange fish...
View ArticleTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Through a Jungian Lens: Colin McNeil of Metro...
I read recently that when Jungian analyst, Dr. Lionel Corbett, was asked to name films with a Jungian theme, he replied, “all movies have a Jungian theme.” So right he was. I was asked last month by...
View ArticleThe Red Ribbon (A Short Story of Trauma, Dreams and Healing)
I could not breathe. Hot, tired and afraid, I was. Trapped in the middle of a crowd of strangers in an airport—people looking at one another more from suspicion than from wonder. Me—held in my...
View ArticleDreams, Truth Serums and Anti-truth Serums
Just the other day I walked by two men who appeared to be homeless and whose conversation caught my attention. One man said, “You know they have truth serums and anti-truth serums.” I didn’t hear the...
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