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Sacred Mother

Sacred, complex, and emotionally powerful, the Mother Archetype is the most influential pattern in the collective unconscious. Consequently, relationships with mothers often feel fraught.

Second in a new series, The Mother, at The Third Eve.

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Brown Jesus

Since that day when games at Nana’s transmogrified into lessons in truth and atonement, there are more historically accurate depictions of Jesus in my home, even if the Christian church has yet to change theirs.
Ritual and Symbol

Symbols are objects, emblems, or language representing our relationship to persons, to the universe, to the sacred. They are concrete realities communicating universal truths.
Trauma Bears & Bees

I can handle a lot of projections–but my, do they sting.
These Ancient Stones

It takes a lot of courage to work through what has pained you all your life.
Going Back, Moving Forward

Vibrant elders are still teaching, still contributing, living in growing intellectual communities. They’ve kept living fully and authentically and are still very much needed and respected.
Stop and Listen

Collectives breed dysfunction by demanding conformity. Demonizing the “other” fuels destruction, leading us down a path we reject in personal relationships yet justify as patriotism or faith. Projecting our darkest parts onto others is madness. More and more, I see…
In Placebo We Trust

in spite of ongoing debates between atheists and believers (or skeptics and the faithful), research has proved that faith works, beyond any doubt, and that there is a god: Placebo is their name.
Orphan Quest: Finding One’s Myth

Jung wrote, “I am an orphan, alone,” because orphanhood is at the core of every human being.
Thoughts on Love

I don’t want to win at your expense. What solution can we arrive at that will serve our mutual interests? What can we do to achieve peace?
The Blessing

People who have been blessed carry the weight of that blessing with them their entire lives and have something of substance to pass on to others.
On Technology

We seem no different from our most primitive ancestors who believed in demonic possession. We who are so sophisticated can’t understand the lure of social media or other technologies we use as substances that dull the anxiety of being alive.
Knots

We’re tested and proved through what we do when what’s most dear to us is threatened or taken away. We see who we really are when we’re our most vulnerable. Vulnerability also shows us where our boundaries are.