From the monthly archives:

June 2009

A Spiritual Dilemma

June 18, 2009

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I tend to speak indirectly about the work I do at a therapeutic boarding school.  And that distance is appropriate for clinical boundaries, etc.  In my reading lately, the themes that are emerging so relate to what I witness on a daily basis that I’d like to consider the following quote [...]

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The Fruits

June 17, 2009

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“An archetypal experience does not reflect merely a primordial experience but an experience in which one obtains an absolute immediacy with the timeless fundamentals of life.  In this sense, love and death are also archetypal experiences.  It is the narration of an archetypal experience by means of the language of simile, i.e., metaphorical [...]

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Toys in the Sand Box

June 16, 2009

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A really useful piece of advice passed by my twitter stream some months back, and though I’m not quite sure who said it, it remains quite useful to me as I face the challenges that life throws my way.  It went something like this:
“Obstacles are but toys in the sand [...]

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Big news from a little corner

June 15, 2009

It’s official.  I’m holding the letter of acceptance into the analyst training program at the C. G. Jung Institute of New York.  So a new journey, one that will take at least four years, is underway.
As the word began to spread some asked if that would mean I’d be disappearing from this space.  The answer [...]

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Screens

June 14, 2009

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Tonight, a day after developing a relationship that never would have unfolded outside the digital world, I’m taken with the analogy of the computer screen concretely representing the spiritual veils noted in many religious traditions. It’s only when a relationship erupts outside the acceptable bounds of our collective social media “business as [...]

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Initiation yes, but to what?

June 12, 2009

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At different times over the past year I’ve hinted at the value to be found in the teachings of Henri Corbin regarding the imaginal.  My introduction to Corbin’s teachings came through the Charles Olson Archive, where I was able to study Olson’s heavily annotated copy of Corbin’s Avicenna and the Visionary [...]

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Resonance

June 11, 2009

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“Not without cause then is my mind perplex’d.” Euripides, Ion
Sometimes a text begins to resonate even before we get a chance to read it.  My approach to the Ion of Euripides has been such a journey.  Great discussions both the social media space and in person have preceded my entry into this lesser [...]

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The Context of Mystery

June 11, 2009

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This morning @dirkjohnson asked if I was familiar with the work of Karl Kerenyi, the mythologist who contributed a great deal to the Eranos Conferences in the early years and collaborated with Jung on The Science of Mythology.  It so happens that earlier in the week I began re-reading Kerenyi’s Apollo.
What’s [...]

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Payday

June 10, 2009

While dragging my carcass up Sugarloaf Mountain in the Catskills a few days ago, most notably the final ascent to the summit where the trail gains 1200 feet in elevation in just under a mile, I was keenly aware of the value in undertaking the physical strain in order to attain the liberating vista the [...]

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Could you use a hand?

June 9, 2009

Currently I’m managing a platform of that includes twelve blogs and dozens of social media accounts.  At times it gets a little overwhelming.  Learning Wordpress has not been too difficult, but in many cases my time allotment runs up against my learning curve.
Enter Jeb Dickerson.  Our relationship around my blogging platform issues started quite casually. [...]

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