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Which Masculine Archetypes Are Strongest In You?
Nobody can describe the archetypes with any certainty because they are deeply unconscious. However, there are many theories based on research and careful observation of human nature. Mine is largely...
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Puppy Love
Recently I shared a dream from many years ago (Seeing Through the Mist) of a sacred garden where a puppy playfully grabbed my hand as if inviting me to follow him. Who was this puppy named Prince? What...
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A Solitary Dance
Dream #4360: A Solitary Dance I’m in a large room that feels like a living room or study in an old house. Three men around my age are in here with me. They are somehow familiar and it feels...
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Circle of Dreamers
Sometimes my responses to your comments are so packed with new information that I wish I’d saved them for another blog post so readers who don’t subscribe to my comments won’t miss them. This happened...
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Partnership Between the Warrior and Mother
Archetypes, a concept introduced to Western psychology by Carl Jung, can be especially problematic. Jung said they are mental images of our physical instincts, but “So what?” people wonder. “What do...
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Are We Better Off Today?
In gratitude for my freedom and in the belief that every human being is entitled to equal rights, I dedicate this non-partisan Election Day post to my American grandmothers who made it possible for me...
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What Do Men Mean When They Say Women Are too Emotional?
In my recent posts about the role of feelings and emotions in gender relationships, I raised the questions, What do women mean when they say men are out of touch with their feelings? What do men mean...
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Keeping Score
A BIG black spider crosses the porch toward me. What if it climbs up my leg while I’m absorbed in my book? My territory. I consider stepping on it. This feels harsh. Maybe I’ll just relocate it. I...
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Connecting with the Holy, Step Two: Giving Our Warrior A New Job
What Does Your Life Map Look Like? “With inner work [your ego accords] every element of life, including the dark elements…a place of dignity and worth.” –Robert A. Johnson If spirit persons throughout...
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A Valentine For My Internet Friends
Last night before his power went out, Skip Conover, a social activist and creator of the web site Archetype in Action, sent me 9 pages of statistics about blog posts of mine that he has been supporting...
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Avatar and Cultural Transformation
Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet to come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable. Carl Jung Culture is created by the human psyche....
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Which Masculine Archetypes Are Strongest In You?
Fascinated by the inner forces that influence human attitudes and behavior, I’ve spent years trying to understand archetypes. Nobody can describe them with any certainty because they are deeply...
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A Zen Summer
You trust your unconscious as if it were a loving father. But it is nature and cannot be made use of as if it were a reliable human being. It is inhuman and it needs the human mind to function...
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Hillary Clinton and the Feminine Archetype: Part II
“At the beginning of a new millennium, we are participating in the birth of a new evolutionary era, one with radically different aims and values from those which dominated the patriarchal era....
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The Two Sides of Surrender
The Surrender of Lord Cornwallis, by John Trumbull After last week’s post Susan wrote: “Thank you Jeanie so much – a powerful post. Commitment to feeling our experiences, bearing our own cross and the...
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What Is Enlightenment?
Why am I here? What am I supposed to be doing with my life? Am I doing it? How can I know? Will I ever know? Is there an underlying pattern to it all? These are some of the Big questions that...
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The Shape of Water: The Shape of Change?
Filmgoers may have laughingly dismissed Godzilla, the Teenage Werewolf, and The Creature from the Black Lagoon in the 1950’s, but nobody laughs at the real-life monsters we see on television every day...
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Identifying and Working with Archetypes in Your Dreams
This wonderful book was written by Justina Lasley, founder of the Institute for Dream Studies. In my last post I answered questions from students at Justina Lasley’s and Tzivia Gover’s Institute for...
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