Solitude “When one is not alone when one is alone, when one is aware of a goodly presence within oneself, then one has achieved solitude. Our popular culture is a tacit agreement to flee the terror of loneliness, and it therefore circumvents the possibility of solitude. The avoidance of solitude is the flight, ultimately, from …
How Deep Does Depth Psychology Go?
IT DIVES TO THE DEEPEST DEPTHS OF YOUR SOUL — at least in theory, if not always in practice. Take a glance at Jungian theory, for example. Jung’s structural model of the psyche traces an inward trajectory that begins with the ego, and quickly descends through unconscious complexes and the shadow (something like a neglected …
Mist on a Breeze #8
Meaning, Myth and Human Consciousness “My old Pueblo friend … thought that the raison d’être of his pueblo had been to help their father, the sun, to cross the sky each day. I had envied him for the fullness of meaning in that belief, and had been looking about without hope for a myth of …
Mist on a Breeze #7
Confusion …Disappointment …Rejection …Loneliness … is the question. Love is the answer. Betrayal …Loss …Violence …Fear … is the question. Love is the answer. Joy …Blessing …Ecstasy …Being … is the question. Love is the answer. Thank you for reading my blog. If you enjoyed this post or found it insightful, please share it with …
The Mystery of a Creative Dream
IF YOU’VE BEEN READING MY POSTS, YOU MAY HAVE NOTICED a recurring theme beginning to appear with some frequency. That theme recently crystalized in my mind as a short, declarative sentence: Love is the answer. Until this morning, I “knew” the sentence was one that came to me some nine years ago as I woke …
The Transformation, Underway (and Underfoot)
SOMETHING TRULY REMARKABLE MAY BE HAPPENING, but it seems to be as quiet as a whisper, as invisible as a breeze. Christianity appears to be in the midst of another cycle of revolutionary change, the fourth one in its history by my count. Some may want to call it another Reformation, but it feels more …
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Peering into a Black Box
IT’S OFTEN DELIGHTFUL, AND SOMETIMES JARRING, when the flow of the book you’ve been reading suddenly takes an unexpected turn, right at the end. Talented novelists know how to do that well, but it’s not what I expect to find in a book about the brain by a neuroscientist. The first six chapters of David …
When Thoughtlessness Is a Good Thing
USUALLY, WHEN SOMEONE SAYS, “YOU’RE SO THOUGHTLESS!” IT MEANS you’ve done something wrong, something about which you should feel shame; but it’s not always so. Recently, I’ve been re-reading Brian Walker’s rendition of the Hua Hu Ching (now spelled Huahujing), a Daoist text attributed to Laozi, which had been preserved only through oral tradition for …
How to Tell What’s True from What’s False
SOMETIMES IT SEEMS WE’VE STEPPED THROUGH ALICE’S LOOKING GLASS into a world in which it’s become all but impossible to differentiate truth from lies and reality from wish fulfilling delusion. In this social context, Pilate’s question to Jesus (Jn. 18:38) becomes achingly relevant. What is truth, indeed? Who knows anymore, and how? In Paul’s first …
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Mist on a Breeze #6
Sailor Suite The current will seem random,When the tiller has no guiding hand.But . . . we always mold the flowThat will carry us along. Still . . .A ship without a portCan onlyCast its anchorIn shifting sand. You’ve got me hangin’ onLike a hangman pulling higher.Hangman can’t you seeYou will set me freeEven if …
Soul Spirit Wisdom 