The Suffering Soul
Psychopathy is marked by the disconnection and adversarial attitude of the ego towards the soul. Such an ego lacks genuine empathy. Its own suffering remains superficial for it has built a wall between itself, the soul and God.
The Importance of Your Fournancial Development
A woman who needed to make an important decision regarding a monetary investment had the following dream. A man says to me I must work on my ‘fournancial’ development. I wonder if I mis-heard him, but he just repeats the word ‘fournancial.’ Your dreammaker is clever and sometimes uses puns, strange spellings, and words with…
Jungian Psychology Series: The Anima and Animus
My last article in this series examined the shadow. As its name suggests, the shadow is that part of our personality that we tend to keep in the dark, concealed from our own and others’ awareness. Because the shadow is composed primarily of undeveloped characteristics common to one’s gender, it is symbolized in dreams by…
The Patterns in Your Life
1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34…Can you figure out the pattern in this series of numbers? It is called the Fibonacci series and it is a pattern that is very common in nature. For example, flower petals and leaf clusters tend to occur in groups of 3, 5, 8, etc. Daisies, for instance,…
Your Hidden Black Swan-ness
Are you an “average Joe”? And, if so, how do you know? Perhaps you could be quite out-of-the-ordinary, if you let the unknown flow. We live in a world of statistics. From the vitamins we take, the movies we see, the places we visit, or the way we invest our money there is a tendency…
Discouragement: The Other Silent Killer
Over the years heart disease has been dubbed “the silent killer.” But there is another disease of the heart which can be just as deadly, and just as subtle. It’s called discouragement. Discouragement is a slow but methodical killer that feeds upon the unresolved disappointments of your life. It is a predator of the human…
Jungian Psychology Series: The Shadow
The shadow is the term developed by Carl Jung to describe the rejected and disowned aspects of one’s personality.
A Jungian Perspective on the Origin of Gold
New research shows that precious metals form from the collision of two neutron stars. A similar type of process is at work in the formation of our own inner gold.
Go Deep
“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.…
Truth in Advertising
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…