Realizing your own mortality is a life-changing event. For a long time you may burble happily along, vaguely aware that there’s a finite end someplace then–WHAM–you collide with the reality of the thing.
How you respond to it depends on where you are with your life. I didn’t respond gracefully; I think I did a good [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
