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When I was young, I had imaginary friends. Not too unusual, especially for an imaginative kid raised in the sticks.
So I read the headline “Half of adult Brits have imaginary friends” with a great deal of interest. The article is actually about how many people have friends they’ve met over the Internet but whom […]

A couple weeks ago I went to a local Jungian seminar. The topic was the archetype of the path. For the first exercise, we had to select a picture from a stack–like selecting a card–and talk about it.
I pulled the only B&W photo. It was a foot path through woods, just a dirt path. The […]

It’s been a while since I chose to trust my inner resources. This is a sad and sobering realization. For too many years, I’ve believed the SJ mentality of the majority–the craving for security above all things, at the expense of my soul.
The last few months have been a process of digging in and reviewing […]

I was teasing someone who had been out of touch with “giving up email for Lent.” This progressed into a discussion about how people usually “give up” things like chocolate, sweets, etc–turning the practice of sacrifice into a mini-diet.
So…meaningful contemporary things that people can sacrifice?
I see that other people have given up social networking, like […]

Someone suggested that I read Your Money or Your Life by Joe Dominguez and Vicki Robin.
I’m up to Step Three in reading–no, I haven’t started on Step One or Two. Sdalek is reading it also. It seems like a sound way to get control of money. Scary, but sound. I may start the actual […]

Viewed from a psychological perspective, the Resurrection can refer to the emergence of the differentiated self at the second adulthood. Resurrection can be the shucking off of the self-imposed unconscious limitations and the awareness that we are solely responsible to living authentically.
Is it significant that Christ died at 33? “Midlife” is traditionally understood to […]

These are not mine…. I borrowed them from Rowan Bayne’s book Ideas and Evidence. He may have borrowed them in turn. Here they are.

When I was walking from the parking deck this morning, I was considering how much time I spend thinking about different interests, both on a daily basis and on a general basis. I’ve been trying to decide what I would do if I didn’t need to work. Ah–that old chestnut. Hm….
I realized that money is […]