“Go deep” the quarterback said to the receiver before the team broke huddle and returned to the line of scrimmage. “Go deep” means that the receiver is to run deep into the opponent’s territory and be ready for a long pass. Long passes, “Hail Mary’s” as they are sometimes called, can be very exciting plays.…
I recently viewed a television commercial for Kraken Black Spiced Rum. The ad depicts a male figure on a wooden ship sailing on a sea of rum within a glass bottle. A large squid—the famed Kraken sea monster—climbs up the side of the bottle, reaches a long tentacle into the bottle, then pulls out and…
The first article in this series examined the ego, Carl Jung’s term for the conscious mind. The ego gives us our subjective sense of identity, and is typically symbolized in dreams by the dreamer or by a vehicle that the dreamer is in. In this article we explore a component of the psyche closely associated…
Integrity isn’t a word you hear a lot anymore. Perhaps that is because it isn’t given the same value by people it once was. Or, maybe we just don’t like to think about it. If we hold other people to a high standard of integrity we might feel obligated to meet that same standard ourselves.…
The ego is your conscious mind, or conscious identity. It is symbolized in dreams by the person of the dreamer or the vehicle that the dreamer is in. By analyzing your dreams you learn more about your conscious attitudes towards your deeper self (the unconscious) and outer life.
There is a song I learned as I child called “The Magic Penny.” The song goes “love is like a magic penny. Hold it tight and you don’t have any, but lend it, spend it and you’ll have so many, they’ll roll all over the floor.” The Magic Penny conveys a simple truth which applies…
A woman dreamed: “My close friend and I are standing on a river bank watching her husband water ski. He is having fun going back and forth, waving to us and generally showing off. We are alarmed, however, and try to signal to him that there are some sharks closely trailing him, eager for a…
Prometheus brought light to humanity and was punished for it. Light is a symbol of consciousness, and growth in our own consciousness is typically achieved only through pain and sacrifice. The myth of Prometheus endures because it speaks to our own life experiences.