Posts which reflect on social events/trends from a Jungian perspective.
There is a certain exhilaration that comes from something new: a new car, a new interest or hobby, a new job, a new relationship. Learning comes fast during the novice stage. Life is exciting as you acquire new skills and experiences. You are in the honeymoon stage, the beginner’s high, and the future overflows with…
Every few years or so it seems that a new mental illness comes into vogue. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Bipolar Disorder are two examples. Word gets around and pretty soon it seems like half of the population thinks they suffer from a certain illness when in fact they don’t. Of course, pharmaceutical companies…
They say that those who live by the sword die by the sword. To this we can add, those who live by society die by society. A young man who was neglecting his deeper values and individuality in favor of a more societal path through life had the following dream. “I am in the lobby…
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…
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…
Dreams of oppression and protesting often symbolize the need to address egocentricity so as to provide greater expression to the soul.
According to a Viagra commercial I recently saw, we are in “the age of getting things done.” The advertisement shows a mid-life cowboy hauling a horse trailer behind his pickup truck. Predictably, his truck gets mired in a mud slick so he uses the two horses he’s been hauling to pull the pickup and trailer…
