We are holistic beings. Body and mind work together as expressions of who we are. Psyche reflects body and body reflects psyche. A person's body speaks a great deal to who they are just as one's mental health is reflected in the workings and appearance of the body.

C.G. wrote, "Not infrequently the dreams show that there is a remarkable inner symbolical connection between an undoubted physical illness and a definite psychic problem, so that the physical disorder appears a a direct…

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The link above will connect you to an article on different Sparrow lore, from Christ's crucifixion, Venus Aphrodite's pet, medieval peasant totem bird (in contrast to the oppressor's totem bird, the eagle).

Happy Easter, and Happy Year of the Monkey,

Dale

(Dale O'Brien) 

Dr. Pat Katsky is a Jungian Analyst and core faculty at Pacifica Graduate Institute, and she has been a therapist for thirty years. When Pat sat down with me in a recent interview, our conversation focused on the idea that some of the most psychologically healing experiences come from the natural world, a theme derived from an upcoming certificate program, “…

What’s in a name?  Apparently, everything.  In the 1950’s and 1960’s the Civil Rights movement nominated its leader Martin Luther King, Jr.  to head up a movement which would bring civil rights to the disenfranchised African American.  A cultural zeitgeist was birthed in Alabama and ended on the steps of the Capital of the Confederacy in Montgomery in 1965.  The fruits of the Civil Rights movement were hard fought and won over the passing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Voting…

song for permaculture
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Giger’s Harvest Tradition @ Root River

New Myth #79 by Mythologist Willi Paul

http://www.planetshifter.com/node/2343

"It’s time-off for Giger, 3 miles downstream at the old Stormgate summer McMansion, a food forest and berry batch is weighted with apples, peaches and blackberries. His rituals dance in a submerged dock; the fire pit and the river’s…

Depth Psychology is often associated with “soul.” Many great thinkers in the field have shared some important thoughts on the topic, and perhaps none more so than psychologist and author, Thomas Moore, whose best-selling book, Care of the Soul, is one of the most recognized and appreciated works on the topic. Thomas Moore is speaking at the upcoming…

Great article by  Amanda Butler:

"Sometimes it is through loving another, including their shadow aspects, that we learn to accept and even love those same shadow aspects in ourselves. “If one’s partner is ‘truly loved,’ then that human being becomes a ‘representative of the unconscious.’ Love is a mediator, circulating energy both outwardly and inwardly.”

This type of love, which breaks through “the illusory …

Neurosis cripples joy. It’s felt as the urge to control, get tight, squeeze the life out of things so that everything works as we want it to. We end up having everything just so, then it busts loose. That’s how neurosis works. It’s about too much control.…

I’m sure you could offer all kinds of counter-arguments to what I’ve been saying from your own grading perspective. And you should; we all need to step back occasionally and consider what motivates our strong opinions. And I’m suggesting that our position within the myth of American innocence is a strong motivator. From outside the myth, others may see us more objectively.

Perhaps Obama really has tried but been unable to reform a dreadfully wasteful and brutal militarism that has…

Happiness is a Warm Gun:

A Community Conversation on Gun Violence in America

Last June the Depth Psychology Alliance hosted its first community conversation. The topic of this event was “What is Depth Psychology?” However, a few days before the event a young white man entered the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal…

Dear Depth Psychology Friends,

We are pleased to let you know that Going Bugs - an audio program with James Hillman, is available for the first time on  MP3.

I originally produced this title for Spring Publishing and James 20 years ago. We are now indeed proud to offer it in digital format for the first time. It is great stuff and we are excited we have found the Depth Psychology Alliance!

If you know of any other high quality audios or content in need of publishing or…

“Taking the Food Forest to City Hall” - International Permaculture Awareness Week. New Myth #78. Vision by Willi Paul, Planetshifter.com Media

http://www.planetshifter.com/node/2341

In the years since my book was published I’ve written many blogs about Barack Obama. How could I not? He has been anointed King in this version of our national myth. In each essay I attempted to temper my own expectations – I actually think that I had very few – as well as my continuing anger and growing grief, with a broader, mythological perspective and more questions than…

When I met Chris Hedges online for our recent interview together, I could see why Pacifica Graduate Institute invited him to speak at their milestone 40^th anniversary celebration conference,…

“Sound Archetypes and the Four Seasons”

Children’s Video and Documentation 

by Willi Paul, Planetshifter.com Media (+PDF)

http://www.planetshifter.com/node/2340…