Jungstop
The first and last stop on your Jungian journey.
Welcome to my blog, Jungstop. Jungstop is your destination for lively commentary on life, dreams, and spirituality viewed through a Jungian lens….
One thing I’ve learned in building fires over the years is that adding a cold log to a dwindling fire has an enlivening effect. I suspect that the temperature difference between the burning logs and the new log increases the air convection within the fire. More air movement means more oxygen which means a more…
How do you make decisions? Are you the “decider,” as George W. Bush once referred to himself? Do you have a cabinet or board over which you preside? Is your soul on your board? Does God sit at your conference table offering His recommendations. Do you take what He says under advisement? Your ego likes…
“The greatest and most important problems in life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved, but only outgrown.” Carl Jung Your honest response to this quote by Carl Jung might be, “Outgrow my problems?! Are you crazy? I don’t have time to outgrow my problems! I need answers. I need relief. And I…
A karate teacher I know used to give the following advice to his students: “If you are sparring with another person, don’t focus your vision directly on that person. Look somewhat beyond him or off to the side. Your responses are quicker when you utilize your peripheral vision.” To look at something directly, to focus…
It is important to see connections, to see the relationship between events. Whether that relationship is causal or synchronistic, seeing the connection can save your life. It might even save your soul. Seeing the connection between a decision you made at age 13 and how it influenced where you are at age 26 can help…
“Hello darkness my old friend, I’ve come to talk with you again.” (Simon and Garfunkel, The Sounds of Silence) It is sometimes said that we are creatures of habit. This is no less true of our thoughts than of our behaviors. We can become so accustomed to a certain identity and self-concept, to a particular view of…
Have you had enough of the ego’s way? Are you tired of the boredom, loneliness, depression and anxiety that characterize a life built around the ego? Are you ready to move beyond the surface of things to discover a deeper source of meaning, value and purpose in life? Perhaps it is time to start doing…
Clueless: to be without a clue. You’ve probably known someone that you’d describe as clueless. Of course, we’re all pretty clueless about some things: advanced calculus, for example, or what our neighbors had for dinner. But some people are clueless about things they really shouldn’t be clueless about. Many times cluelessness is not as clueless…
“Who are you?!” sings Roger Daltry of The Who. It’s a good question to ask yourself every now and then. When you find the song going through your head, or hear it on the radio, answer the question. Life is asking you to contemplate and remember who you really are. You play many roles in…
In times of spiritual trial you may question the meaning, purpose, and value of your life. You may feel empty, lonely, or abandoned. Like a river damned up or a well run dry, you feel cutoff and disconnected from the flow of life. At these times it is important to remember that God, like the…
