The Dream as Theater and Play

Carl Jung wrote that the Renaissance man still lives with us in our dreams, reminding us that archetypal forces in the collective unconscious are very much with us. For Jung, the language of the dream is the image and image is psyche or soul. Jung went to the language of…

Another View of Jung’s Depth Psychology

Two Jungians sat in the Queens Pub in Crouch End, North London, waiting for the innkeeper’s beautiful tenor voice to sing to the rooftops, “time gentle time,” announcing closing time was near. The two men had been at the pub for hours but, being deeply…

Everything — and nothing — is the same

This year, there won’t be a last-minute rush to get a Mother’s Day card out for you, just like there hasn’t been a rush for years.

You kept the cards your grandchildren sent you each year, I know, I found them. Sister’s kids were much…

Beautiful Human Down

You might have seen it on the news, two Muslim girls being harassed on the Portland, Oregon, MAX train, two people try to intervene, they both are ‘viciously attacked’ and killed by the racist harasser…..

Linga sharira

Doc, your complacency
is hard to beat

Remembrance

The dead weight 
of years
is relieved
in the flash
of tingled joy,
also rushed
over the luckless rapids —

Evening

It’s a drab evening — 
the clouds are funeral plumes 
sailing into the sunset
(which is a flaming pyre)
with your soul,
leaving behind an empty…

Something silent

Something silent, 
something soothing
and holy
in the seething hush
of the horizon’s beyonder, 
the gushing froth
and…