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As we shed light on wetiko, and become sensitive to its movements within ourselves, there is no place for the spirit to hide. The spirit of wetiko needs to be 'contained'; this is the archetypal point behind the sacred alchemical idea of a mystical vessel which transforms the entire universe. Part Three in a series. (more)

A psycho-spiritual disease of the soul that I call malignant egophrenia and indigenous people call wetiko is undermining the evolutionary development of our species. The global financial system is the revelation of wetiko disease. (more)

For thousands of years a psychological disease has been informing human self-destructive behavior.  A psychosis in the true sense of the word as a "sickness of the soul," this illness is at the root of humanity's inhumanity to itself. (more)

The psyche has a pre-eminent place in the natural order of things. The life of the psyche arises out of organic life, while at the same time transcending it through its own self-creation.  A product of cosmic evolution, the conscious psyche is a relatively recent emergence out of the womb of nature. (more)

Encoded in the birth of the self-conscious, separate self is its own self-liberation. The moment of self-consciousness is the portal through which we can step out and let go of ourselves in the service of compassion. (more)

When I was first introduced to the world of psychiatry in May of 1981 at 24 years of age, I experienced a particularly unique synchronistic event that rocked my world and changed my life forever. (more)

In its initial stage, a spiritual awakening can look like a nervous breakdown. My experience was so off psychiatry's map that it wasn't even remotely recognized. I was immediately labeled as sick. (more)

To deny or distrust our own perceptions is to reject our authority as author of our own experience. It takes courage to stand for our experience when our perceptions are not validated by others. In not disassociating from our experience, we are on our way to becoming autonomous individuals.

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Compassion is the fuel of awakening, the cause and effect of seeing through the primal boundary of self and other and becoming lucid in our shared, waking dream. (more)

Far from a thing of the past or an ignorant superstition, demonic possession and evil spells, in our technologically developed society, are an increasing danger. C. G. Jung has given us modern terms for these very real states, uriging us to make exorcizing ourselves "the most vital task of civilization." (more)

When the alchemists had a living experience of God through their relationship with the imaginatively created philosophers' stone, they realized that the whole experience was nothing other than an experience of the divine imagination, which is to say that they were realizing that they themselves were living inspirations of the divine, creative imagination itself. (more)

The root meaning of the word consciousness, etymologically speaking, is "knowing together or seeing with an other." The process of becoming conscious requires both seeing and being seen, knowing and being known. The birth of consciousness itself involves being both subject and object of the process at the same time.     (more)

To the alchemists, creating the philosophers' stone was analogous to waking up to the dreamlike nature of the universe. Becoming lucid in the waking dream is seen as a reflection of God's ongoing creation of and incarnation into the world. (more)

Do we “dream up” our own psychoses? Whether we consciously know it or not we are continually enacting archetypal dynamics that have been passed down through the ages. These transpersonal processes have an impact on everything, including our own mental health. (more)

Our awakening is always a mutual and reciprocally shared co-awakening due to our infinite interconnectedness. Moved by something greater than our imagined self, we become an instrument of something much vaster than our own limited version of ourselves. (more)

Synchronicities are expressions of the dreamlike nature of reality – moments in time when the timeless, dreamlike nature of the universe shines forth its radiance and openly reveals itself to us, offering an open doorway to lucidity. (more)

Lucid dreaming is one of the most empowering tools to transform us from passive witnesses to active collaborators in our own dreaming process. But dream work can lead us to wonder: who is dreaming and who is awake? Are most of us asleep? (more)

The God-image is like a dream that we are dreaming that is simultaneously dreaming us. In a radical re-visioning of itself, the unconscious has offered us in the symbolic figure of Mercurious an image of God which includes and embraces evil as an integral aspect of our wholeness. (more)

The shamanic archetype is one of the major processes that is becoming animated in the collective psyche of our species. It creates a synthesis of the conscious mind and the unconscious, a further evolution in the incarnation of a more all-embracing, integrated and expansive consciousness.  (more)

While working as Book Service Manager for the C. G. Jung Foundation, I had a chance encounter with one of the world's leading experts on dreams. I will never forget what he told me. (more)

Art-making is a sacred act. Art attains its greatest numinosity and ability to affect others when the creator of the work of art is being transformed by the act of creating. One can mimic sacred art for a living (many people get paid for this) but this is mere forgery. There is a world of difference between copying, imitating, and aping sacred art, and living our own creative experience. When we live creatively, guided by our daemon, our life itself becomes a living work of art. (more)

Our wounding is a numinous event that can initiate us into a deeper level of our being. When consciousness is guided by feelings of gratitude for the wound's offer of self-realization and personal evolution, it reveals itself as a worthy object of veneration. Our wound manifests as a doorway to our healing, a portal through which we can glimpse our infinite potential. (more)

The archetype of the wounded healer reveals to us that it is only by being willing to face, consciously experience, and go through our wound do we receive its blessing. To go through our wound is to embrace, assent, and say “yes” to the mysteriously painful new place in ourselves where the wound is leading us. This is a genuine death experience, as our old self “dies” in the process, while a new, more expansive and empowered part of ourselves is born. (more)

The biospheric dreambody is a higher-dimensional aspect of ourselves that, just like a dream, is nonlocal and multi-channeled, as it is not
constrained by the apparent physical laws of the third-dimensional universe. It’s a deeper part of ourselves that expresses itself synchronistically both within ourselves and simultaneously in the outside world, through both our personal process and our collective body politic. Just like a dream, something important is being revealed to us in the process of its unfoldment, something that could have worldwide consequences for our planet’s current ecological crisis. (more)