In 1981 I was sitting in meditation when, just for an instant, a bolt of lightning flashed through my mind.
“For our only reality is psyche, there is no other reality.” -Jung
A life-transforming event happened within the very first minute of my being admitted to my very first psychiatric hospital.
Wounded healers access their gifts when they realize that their wound is itself the source of divine creativity.
It is only by being willing to face, consciously experience and go through our wound do we receive its blessing.
How our wound manifests is an unmediated, direct expression of our level of dissociation from our wholeness
The alchemists were dreaming big.
How we understand what is happening in Gaza depends upon where we start looking in time.
My parents told me about the rabbi being fired, and asked me, totally incredulous “How did you know”?
Paradoxically, the dreambody is continually revealing itself to us in its very veiling of itself.
Is something being revealed to us when people are triggered by the mere mention of the word “evil?”
We are not the master of our own house.
Just like in mythology, when we know the “demon’s” name, we strip it of its power.
The underlying source of what is playing out on the world stage is the unconscious psyche of humanity.
Our species is endlessly re-creating the same mythic, archetypal process, as if we are having a recurring dream.
PadmaSambhava is the supreme alchemist and exorcist: the greater the negativity, the greater his power of transmutation.
