People get stupid in relationship not because they are really stupid but because their stupidity protects them form their own feelings. The bottom line is that our stupidity keeps us safe from our deeper fears.
When you really begin to see people’s dreams. then the illusions
Winter couples retreat 2011
I am here at our mountain retreat center in northern Vermont. Sue and I got up here Wednesday night late after our NOE executive meeting. We always arrive at least a night before everyone else to get the buildings opened up and make sure all is well for the retreat.
Dream Descent is about letting go of who we think we are and descending into what has been unconscious to us. It is about honestly looking at what keeps us from the promise of the life that we each are meant to live. This level of honesty is a battle [...]
This writing is from a class that I teach with my sweetheart Sue at the Center for Archetypal Dreamwork. We always spend part of this class writing about our own dreamwork. This is a quick 15 minute piece. Part of the class assignment was to write about where we were in [...]
the chickadee flickers black-and-white and quick in the lilac’s limbs
my body matching its rhythm remembers the wild call of winter’s grey song
This is from my friend and colleague Patsy Fortney’s Blog:
A couple of days ago while I was running in the pre-dawn dark, I finally got something I thought I got years ago. It’s this: Nothing is really happening “out here”—meaning, in my outer life. I mean, stuff happens: [...]
This is the intro to Marc Bregman’s blog and book about Carl Jung’s Red Book:
In 2009, Carl Jung’s Red Book was finally released to the public after being kept secret first by Jung himself and then by his family for over 50 years. At first glance, Marc Bregman, founder of [...]
From my dear friend Karla Van Vliet, The River From My Mouth:
Iris Open
Irises open their tight blue hearts
in a day, this is how I remember it,
the dark of birth unbolts.
Like thunder-clouds or starlings. [...]
DREAM: I am walking on the outskirts of a small town. As I walk people start rising from the ground like they have been there sleeping or dead. Some are partly buried and others are just on the ground. I am for some reason unfazed by this. The more I [...]
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