Nov 8, 2024 | Essays
“Transitions between the aeons always seem to have been melancholy and despairing times, as for instance the collapse of the Old Kingdom in Egypt between Taurus and Aries, or the melancholy of the Augustinian age between Aries and Pisces. And now we are moving...
Nov 1, 2024 | Essays
“So much is at stake and so much depends on the psychological constitution of modern man. … Is he conscious of the path he is treading, and what the conclusions are that must be drawn from the present world situation and his own psychic situation? … And...
Sep 26, 2024 | Essays
“The psychological process of transference is a specific form of the more general process of projection. It is important to bring these two concepts together and to realize that transference is a special case of projection… Projection is a general psychological...
Aug 29, 2024 | Essays
“The numinous experience of the individuation process is, on the archaic level, the prerogative of shamans and medicine men; later, of the physician, prophet, and priest; and finally, at the civilized stage, of philosophy and religion. The shaman’s...
Jul 29, 2024 | Essays
Dealing with Parental Complexes “Complexes are in truth the living units of the unconscious psyche, and it is only through them that we are able to deduce its existence and its constitution…. The via regia to the unconscious, however, is not the dream, as he...
Jun 26, 2024 | Essays
Part IV: Managing Our Fears … make your fears your agenda.” Hollis (1996)[1] … by “going through,” one breaks a hold of the primal fear that holds sway over much of our lives. To go through it with the insight and courage of an adult, to make friends with it,...
