Fear and the Paradox of Pain
My Views on Existential Anxieties: Their Source And Solution
Inner Work as Time Machine
Confronting and transforming the past (the ancestral psyche) that remains within us is like reaching back in time and changing–or redeeming–history. But one must possess the courage and capacity for this kind of confrontation, a process defined as Inner Work. I was raised in a culture that taught me to...
Look, Listen, and Think Again … Then Again
Things are often not as they seem. This is true even when our “reality” is confirmed to us by what we are in fact hearing or seeing. It is only when we are willing to look, listen, or think deeper that we ultimately understand many things, people, and events. This...
Their Sorrows Live in Me
A Working Draft of Chapter 1 of my Memoir “Shadows in the Sunrise” Chapter 1 Their Sorrows Live in Me “I answer for them questions that their lives once left behind.” -C. G. Jung[i] One of my most powerful emotional experiences came to me when I was 12. My maternal...
Our Eyes Are Theirs, And Theirs Ours
-A Case for the Immortality of the Soul- [Spoiler Alert: Anyone interested in the 1883 series on Paramount who has not already watched through episode 6, should stop reading now unless you don’t mind a plot reveal. I was really moved by a monologue from episode 6 that I’ve been...
To Love Is To Lever
Attempting to follow an inner still-whisper last summer, I committed to withdrawing from public forums, aka social media. I did this after seeing how I was only polluting the swamp of our collective psychological river despite what I believed were my good intentions at the time. My experiment seems to...
February Seven
My brother Rick introduced me to The Avett Brothers. I am forever grateful he did. Their songwriting, sound, and depth have been a balm to my soul. When I first really listened to their song, February Seven, I was struck. Here is my attempt at performing it (with a brief...