If you don’t do the inner work, you will meet your turmoils as fate.  Just ask C.I.A. Director David Petraeus or any of the others involved in the current scandal.  You too can live at the emotional level of a high school sophomore, despite having attained worldly success. Their accomplishments were impressive on paper.  But Read more

Friday evening opening ceremony was light and humorous.  Rita Dwyer, tiny behind the podium, joked about her hair and many others’ now being grey.  She was glad that younger people were joining the association and carrying the work forward.  Younger people could also mean anyone under 60. This is the largest, most prestigious dream association Read more

“Stories Told, Stories Untold, Stories that tell Us” – An Evening with James Hollis  Jung Institute 5/18/12 We track the movement of the invisible through forms in the visible world. Dream images, for example. Story is a verb, not a noun, and is storying through us. We each need to find our story.  One person Read more

In Julia Cameron’s book: Finding Water: The Art of Persistence, she suggests you take a sheet of paper, number from one to five, and list five dead people you want to consult as mentors. These are people who excelled in the particular art you’re pursuing. Without thinking, I chose whoever came to mind: 1.  Jane Read more

From The New Yorker (May 31, 2010) I told the waiter there was schmutz on my machete.  He informed me I wasn’t sitting in the Yiddish section. Being bilingual, I told the waiter there was gunk on my machete.  Oh, he apologized then and brought me straight away a new machete, with which I sliced Read more

We’re currently bombarded with doom and gloom. So what do we do? Many people grasped onto the movie “The Secret” and became disillusioned if or when they didn’t experience immediate success with their dreams. Truth is, The Secret was never a secret. Science of Mind has used those techniques for a hundred years. It’s been Read more

Stand still. The trees ahead and bushes beside you Are not lost. Wherever you are is called Here, And you must treat it as a powerful stranger, Must ask permission to know it and be known. The forest breathes. Listen. It answers, I have made this place around you, If you leave it you may Read more

You love the roses – so do I. I wish The sky would rain down roses, as they rain From off the shaken bush. Why will it not? Then all the valley would be pink and white And soft to tread on. They would fall as light As feathers, smelling sweet; and it would be Read more

This is a book by Barbara Sher, also the author of Wishcraft. I particularly like several of her processes, which I’ve used for years without ever realizing it was a process. The Wish/Obstacle Solution: Tell as many people–friends, colleagues, people on the bus–what you wish and what is the obstacle you face. For example, “I Read more

by James Hollis, Jungian Analyst Your life asks you a number of questions. Here are some that I selected from Hollis’ long list. 1. What has brought you to this place in your journey? (this moment in your life.) 2. Whose life have you been living? 3. Why do you believe you have to hide Read more

While I was in Paris, Guy Corneau, one of the presenters at the Jung in Ireland conference, took me to a houseboat afloat on the river Seine and introduced me to a trance channel, Marie Lise Labonte. He wanted me to learn how Marie Lise balances her highly sensitive energy and see how I might Read more

Lana Turner has collapsed! I was trotting along and suddenly it started raining and snowing and you said it was hailing but hailing hits you on the head hard so it was really snowing and raining and I was in such a hurry to meet you but the traffic was exactly like the sky and Read more

I’m currently listening to Caroline Myss’s recording, Sacred Contracts (from Sounds True). Myss is so great for sound bites. Though she sounds as if she’s inventing the material, the issue of Soul Contracts is very old. The idea is that during our interlife (the period before we incarnate in this existence) we make contracts with Read more

(Here is the rough version of one of the pieces I’m still in the process of writing about this powerful CD collection from Sounds True. My only complaint about it is that it ended. I hope there will be a Golden World Part II.) In this CD collection, revered author and Jungian analyst, Robert Johnson Read more