Chapter 9: Prayer, Ceremony & Ritual [Letters from Home] “Home is not nearly a place, nor a term, home is a psychic integration… The home is a degree of consciousness, it is an unfoldment of principles, it is a revelation of purposes, it is something that happens as we unfold and evolve, by means of Read More…
Outside the Box
Dive Manual: A Prose of Alchemy & Analytic Psychology – Chapter Eight
Ch. 8 Boats and Microscopes and Bottles of Elixirs and Raw Steak and a Bunch of Dive Gear [Dive Encounters] “You know, I’m sick of following my dreams, man. I’m just going to ask where they’re going and hook up with ’em later.” –Mitch Hedberg “All the pretty visitors came and waved their arms And Read More…
Dive Manual: A Prose of Alchemy & Analytic Psychology – Chapter Seven
Facets of the anima [20K Leagues Under the Sea] “The sea is everything. It covers seven-tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides. The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful Read More…
Child Drag Queen Poses Next To Naked Adult Counterpart, But Mother Says Boy Not Sexualized
A photo showing a 10-year-old Canadian drag queen posing next to a half-naked adult performer sparked outrage online. But the boy’s mother thinks it’s all OK and the child is not overtly sexualized. The world of drag queens – male performers taking on exaggeratedly female personas and taking to the stage – may seem like Read More…
Dive Manual: A Prose of Alchemy & Analytic Psychology – Chapter Six
Songs of the Soul & the Syren [Dive Sickness] “Stage Four begins where many modes of therapy end. It is called ‘From Vision to Commitment’. Here is where the insights are tested and reinforced so that the process envisioned can move from the hypothetical or imaginal realm into the phase of intention and then into Read More…
Uncle Sam Doesn’t Want You Anymore
OK, I’ve got some good news and some bad news. Which do you want first? The good news? OK, no problem. You know that old anti-war cliché about “Suppose They Gave A War And No One Came“? Well that slogan might be closer to becoming reality than you think. Exhibit A: This story from Japan Read More…