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Facing Your Feelings: Avoidance or Encounter?
While we welcome “good” feelings, we often try to banish “bad” ones like sadness, fear, vulnerability and shame. We may deny them by trying to “think…
5 years, 3 months ago
Self-Loathing: What’s Gnawing on Your Bones?
The judgmental inner voice has volume, speed, pitch and range. It may appear as a perfectionistic critic, demanding taskmaster, or abusive bully. It …
5 years, 3 months ago
MYTH AS MEDICINE: An Interview with Kwame Scruggs, PhD
Kwame Scruggs inspires men through mythology, drumming and connection to community and culture. As a young man Kwame discovered his inner fire throug…
5 years, 3 months ago
The Archetype of the Good King
The king is figured prominently in myth, religion, and fairy tale. This compelling archetypal image has roots in our earliest human beginnings, when …
5 years, 4 months ago
Episode 146 - INFLATION: The Challenge of Archetypal Possession
Inflation applies to balloons, economics--and psychology. Jung defined it as being seized by archetypal energy resulting in “a puffed up attitude, lo…
5 years, 4 months ago
Willpower: Choice, Energy & the Power to Achieve
The ability to choose and exercise will is a defining characteristic of humans. Only humans have enough energy available to consciousness to escape t…
5 years, 4 months ago
Fierce Female Initiations: Claiming Authority & Selfhood Through Trials
Mythological Paths to Personal Potential
Myths and fairy tales depict women’s initiation into authority and adulthood. Hades abducted Kore (maiden) in…
5 years, 4 months ago
Scrooge on the Couch: How the Numinous Transforms
Something's going on in Scrooge's soul...and it's tired of waiting for an invitation.
Charles Dickens’ novella, A Christmas Carol, vividly portrays th…
5 years, 4 months ago
The Archetype of the Divine Child: Light Reborn
Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be unto all people. Luke 2:10
The divine child appears when least expected,…
5 years, 5 months ago
FANTASY: Do We Have Fantasies or Do They Have Us?
Is fantasizing helpful or harmful?
Fantasy is the process of engagement with unconscious processes, from the depths of the mythic unconscious to the m…
5 years, 5 months ago