Patrick Harpur's blog

We are all in the grip of a myth. We are all inhabiting an imaginative structure determined by the perspective and set of ideas we used to call a god. Proclus thought that myths are composed by the daimons and that the daimons shape our lives. (more)

Overcoming duality is a critical step in achieving wholeness, but the mysteries of light and dark are complex and often elusive. The vision of Nature and the vision of Eros belong to the Affirmative Way. The vision of God belongs to the Negative Way. (more)

The Greeks regarded sexual passion as a kind of madness -- possession by Eros -- which deprived you of all dignity and made you betray your friends. Nowadays we are particularly prone to such madness because we have lost the religious depth which would contain and define the soul's desire for something beyond the human.  (more)

The daimon overturns the conventional view held by psychotherapy: that what happens early in life determines what happens later. We are not the products of our history; we are a-historical creatures for whom events in our childhood and later development are mirrors in which we catch glimpses of our primordial image. (more)