A Brief Interlude before Ireland

My stimulus for creating a site for these posts was a vague desire to stitch together some sort of autobiography. I can trace that faint impulse back to reading Jung’s, “Memories, Dreams and Reflections,” for a second time, after having read it perhaps 10 years earlier.

Gods, Spirits and Monotheism

When struggling with a difficult situation, Rebecca, one of my best friends in college, would say, “I don’t know how to think about it.”  I’m sure the look on my face was not what one would wish to see from a good friend. “

Turnip Soup

The first step in putting the pieces of my heart back together again came shortly after I moved  to New York when I was twenty-nine.

Reality-Food

Recently, I have been reading James Hillman, who is probably best described as “neo Jungian.” Without a doubt, Hillman was a genius of the first rank

In Search of the Archimedean Point

So where were we?  Ah yes, the beachhead Tom has established. As he began to ask the little guy “What are you feeling?” - as he was beginning to imagine him - he reported a sense that something had shifted slightly.