Winter tends to be a time of cold and snow, leafless trees and shortened days. Some people are especially sensitive to the reduced sunlight and cold weather common to this season. They may experience changes in their metabolism such as decreased energy and a desire to eat and sleep more than usual. Certain individuals may…
Thomas is a young man who wants to change the world, wants to make it a better place. He can’t understand why there is so much violence, cruelty and war. Why so much hate between people and nations? “I’m thinking of going into the Peace Corps when I get out of college,” he said. “I…
You live in the age of the psychopath. In this age the values of love, honesty, commitment and integrity are increasingly rare. More and more, individuals are treated like the interchangeable or easily replaced parts of a machine. And this is true not just in the areas of business and government, but in personal relationships…
In recent years zombies have become an increasingly popular theme in movies, television, and literature. From what I can tell, they have also been spending a lot more time stumbling across the landscape of peoples’ dreams. What is it about the walking dead that has captured the interest of so many people? Or, perhaps a…
We use the word “grounded” in many different ways. From a psychological perspective, to be grounded means that we are “down to earth” and don’t have our “head in the clouds.” There is a certain stability associated with being grounded, for the word implies a firm footing, or rootedness. When we are grounded we are…
Stillness in motion: like the center of a spinning record, the axis of the earth, or the body of a hummingbird hovering by a flower. It is nature’s paradox: motion without movement. God is like this as well. He is the vision which guides the process, the quiet that sifts the voice of truth, the…
Is God a blind and sleeping slug, an unconscious and amoral being whose only eyes are the eyes of man? Does he move about in a blundering stupor, waiting for man to take his hand and guide him to the path of Goodness? Are we God’s teacher, more noble than our creator, the grand and…
When you talk to someone you usually expect them to respond. You want a reply and feel it rude if they don’t. “Hey, I’m pursuing this train of thought here, what’s your opinion?” Maybe they don’t want to jump on your thought train. Probably there are times you wish you hadn’t climbed aboard theirs. God…
“Were it not a fact of experience that supreme values reside in the soul, psychology would not interest me in the least, for the soul would then be nothing but a miserable vapor.” Carl Jung In my post, “The Soul House,” I discussed how we live in two houses. One is a physical structure with a street address…
You were troubled and unhappy and so you sought therapy. Maybe you were depressed or couldn’t sleep. Maybe you were anxious or so distracted you couldn’t get anything done. Whatever your symptoms were, they motivated you to get help. You looked outside yourself for guidance and healing. In your therapy, if you were lucky, you…