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,...
May 30, 2024 | Essays
Part III: Men and Their Fears men’s lives are essentially governed by fear. Hollis (1994) men’s two fundamental fears, the fear of not measuring up and the fear of physical or psychological trial. Hollis (1994) Beneath displays of power is the complex; beneath the...
Apr 30, 2024 | Essays
Part II: Fears of Knowing, Growing and Becoming Conscious “But modern man’s consciousness has strayed rather too far from the fact of the unconscious. We have even forgotten that the psyche is by no means of our design, but is for the most part autonomous and...
Mar 28, 2024 | Essays
“The spirit of evil is fear, negation, the adversary who opposes life in its struggle for eternal duration and thwarts every great deed, …” Jung (1952) “Fear, however, is an admission of inferiority; it shrinks back from chaos and longs for solid,...
