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…
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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…
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…
Dive Manual: A Prose of Alchemy & Analytic Psychology – Chapter Five
Divination Arts & Modern Science [Dive & Submergence] “I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self Reliance “7 AM, The garbage truck beeps Read More…
Dive Manual: A Prose of Alchemy & Analytic Psychology – Chapter Four
Initiation & the Pilgrimage of the Fool [Setting Sail] “This town don’t feel mine I’m fast to get away far I dressed you in her clothes Now drive me far away It feels good to know you’re all mine Now drive me far away I don’t care where, just far away.” ~Deftones – Be Quiet and Read More…