Posts on religion/spirituality and man’s search for meaning.
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…
In his book, The Eternal Drama, Jungian psychologist Edward F. Edinger shares the dream of a man who was contemplating leaving his wife and children to pursue a relationship with a younger, wealthy woman: I stand in the middle of the street looking up at gray, fast-moving skies. Behind the stormy façade I catch momentary…
“To everything there is a season and a time to every purpose under the heaven.” So begins the famous bible passage of Ecclesiastes. The beauty of this poem extends beyond its rhyme and simple, poignant imagery. It goes beyond the wisdom it offers for our outer life and relationships. To me, its greatest gift is…
What is it that makes gambling so addictive? What strange force makes otherwise rational people wager their car, house, or life savings for the chance of winning big? And what makes the gambling winner almost immediately put his winnings back into the system in pursuit of an even bigger win? The actions of a gambling…
A woman committed a crime, but it was not until later that evening that she heard the dreaded knock upon her door. She opened it to two tall and burly policemen who did not hesitate inviting themselves in. “Your ex-husband was found dead in his home, Ms. Jones, a bullet wound to his head,” said…
Are you a miser towards your soul? Do you offer it only the crumbs from your table, the loose change in your purse, or the last few minutes of a busy, ego-driven day? Your soul calls out for change, and you give it two nickels and a dime. It asks you to go to school,…
A man dreamed: “I see a soft bluish light emitted from wounds and sores on someone’s body. I’m to understand that there is a luminescent component to all wounds and to the organs of the inner body. Fascinated, I show this to my children.” One of the things that make this dream so interesting is…
In a letter, Carl Jung once wrote, “I consciously and intentionally made my life miserable because I wanted God to be alive and free from the suffering that man has put upon him by loving his own reason more than God’s secret intentions.” * “God’s secret intentions.” This describes the hidden calling and potentials that…
Death is a place on the other side of a dream. It is just outside the window, just across a threshold. It is nearer than you think. It is your constant companion. There are not two worlds, the living and the dead. There are not two lives, this and the one that follows. It is…
