“To the soul, the most minute details and the most ordinary activities, carried out with mindfulness and art, have an effect far beyond their apparent insignificance.” —Thomas Moore, Care of the Soul: Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life Recently I […]
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Nature Has No “Outside:” Navigating the Ecological Self
Nature Has No “Outside:” Navigating the Ecological Self “Spirit is the inside of things and matter is their visible outer aspect” (C.G. Jung, in Sabini, 2005, p. 2). “I can only gaze with wonder and awe at the depths of […]
Continue reading »Memory, Place and Story: How Connection to Land Connects us to Self
Some would argue our contemporary consumer-based, productivity-oriented culture contributes to a collective loss of memory—done of being connected to something larger than our everyday selves. As a society, we have become dislocated in time and disconnected from place, leaving us […]
Continue reading »Ecopsychopathy and Sustainability: The End of Life as We Know It
What is Ecopsychopathy and What are the Implications to our Culture? In a recent blogpost, I wrote some introductory thoughts about what I’m calling “Culture Collapse Disorder,” an eco-psycho-pathological disorder […]
Continue reading »Culture Collapse Disorder: Can Depth Psychology Help Us Cope?
Earth’s inhabitants are in peril largely of our own making. We are, consciously or unconsciously, systematically destroying the our homeplaces, habitats, ecosystems, and above all, the only home we collectively know: Earth. Reports are emerging daily about the implications of […]
Continue reading »Ensoulment and Synchronicity: Concepts from “Cosmos and Psyche” by Richard Tarnas
Ensoulment and Synchronicity: Concepts from Cosmos and Psyche by Richard Tarnas In his 2006 book Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View, Rick Tarnas suggests that the western mind has catapulted us away from a fundamental cosmos where everything was ensouled, alive, […]
Continue reading »Engendering Innovation in Business, Organizations, and Individual LIfe: A Depth Psychological Approach
Everyone who’s interested in depth psychology knows that personal growth—what C.G. Jung called “individuation”—is a keystone of our existence in life. Learning to identify our shortcomings and places where we get “stuck” in patterns and processes that are not […]
Continue reading »On Magic, Shamanism, and Listening: The Collective Unconscious of C.G. Jung
“If we open our eyes, if we open our minds, if we open our hearts, will find that this world is a magical place. It is magical not because it tricks us or changes unexpectedly into something else, but because […]
Continue reading »Are We Implicated?–A Depth Psychological and Cultural Take on the Fall of Lance Armstrong
I was out of town for a conference the weekend the two-part Lance Armstrong interview with Oprah broke and missed it entirely, but the fall-out is hard to miss. Normally I am a bit of a media addict, fascinated […]
Continue reading »Image, Language, and the Lived Body in the Depth Psychology of the Self
In 1994 in the Ardeche region of France, three explorers pulled rocks away from a tiny opening at the base of a cliff and opened the door to another world. Inside the deepest recesses of what turned out to be […]
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