Posts related to the psyche.
In the song he popularized, Keep A-knockin, Little Richard sings of love spurned: Keep a-knockin’ but you can’t come in.Keep a-knockin’ but you can’t come in.Keep a-knockin’ but you can’t come in.Come back tomorrow night and try it again. Not infrequently the psyche comes a-knockin’ at the door of our conscious mind (the ego) asking…
A man who used to hunt rattlesnakes related to me some of his hunting experiences. He said that one way to gather his prey was to pound on the ground with a wooden post. The percussive impacts would vibrate through the surrounding soil and draw the snakes to him. He once did this in an…
A man in his mid-twenties dreamed: I’m sitting at a long board-room table at a meeting with another man and woman. The woman had been asked to evaluate the truthfulness of a small boy’s claim that there is a red ball at the bottom of a spiral staircase. Another boy had previously investigated this and…
In her groundbreaking book on parapsychology, Louisa E. Rhine shares the story of a Colorado man who was recuperating from an operation by spending some time with his grandmother in the country. One night he dreamed that she came in from gathering eggs and showed him one three times as large as usual, and longer…
A man dreamed: I’m in a basement room playing some type of ball game with my son. There is an object by his feet that looks like a short plastic snake, black in color. But then I see it start to move. It comes towards me and has become a living snake now. It releases…
A middle-aged man who was on a journey of self-growth through psychotherapy dreamed that a house was being built. It was a large house with workers all around, many on the roof hammering boards and shingles into place. Personal growth is a construction process – its excatly like civil construction. We are building a new…
The night before his first psychotherapy session to address marriage and spirituality issues, a man dreamed: I am on a sailboat with some other people. We are on the ocean or a very large lake and it has become stormy. The mast on the boat breaks. The next thing I know I am in the…
Darby is an 8 year-old girl from Seattle who at the age of 4 started leaving food for the crows in her backyard. When she was old enough to attend school she would break apart her sandwiches and leave a trail of crumbs behind her for the crows to gobble up. Naturally, she developed quite…
A man shared the following recurring dream: I am at my parent’s house. It is the mansion they owned after my mother inherited a lot of money, but before my step-father gambled most of it away. I used to live in the former chauffeur’s house on the property. There was also a separate servants’ quarters.…
We have a 17 year-old cat by the name of Mitzi. In the past couple of years she has developed the annoying behavior of meowing very loudly. Perhaps it wouldn’t be so annoying if we knew what it is she is trying to communicate. We explore the probable causes: she is hungry; she wants to…