Nature’s Inescapable Demands

It takes two inches of rain to awaken the annual grass seeds in the savanna, and we definitely got two inches of rain last week. It started slowly, with 0.6″ on the first day followed by 1.5″ on the second. I was overjoyed. The dryness of the drought chokes the land. We were all suffering…. Read more »

Jung, Steiner, and Evolution of Consciousness

A recent seminar on Jung and Steiner and their contributions to an evolution of consciousness, held at the C. G. Jung Institute in San Francisco, was well attended by individuals schooled in both camps. This seems to be happening more and more: finding the common ground of these two men’s great works. Although contemporaries, Carl… Read more »

Tucson: Goethe and the Art of Seeing

Tucson: Goethe and the Art of Seeing   After the Tucson lecture and workshop, April 4-5, 2014, Friends of Jung, Tucson, Arizona , The Environmental Crisis: Birth of a New Consciousness? Goethe:”sublimely towering, wide-spreading tree of God” Strasbourg Cathedral, from Wikipedia   I am home after a weekend with a great group of people in Tucson…. Read more »

Tucson: April 4-5: The Environmental Crisis: Birth of a New Consciousness?

  Tucson: April 4-5: The Environmental Crisis: Birth of a New Consciousness? On Friday evening, April 4,and Saturday, April 5, 2014, I will be presenting a lecture and workshop  to Southern Arizona Friends of Jung in Tucson, Arizona. The title of the weekend will be The Environmental Crisis: Birth of a New Consiousness. If you… Read more »

Review: Platko’s In the Tracks of the Unseen

Review: Platko’s In the Tracks of the Unseen Some topics are so controversial we cannot discuss them. Jane Davenport Platko’s In the Tracks of the Unseen: Memoirs of a Jungian Analyst brings one of those topics into full view: when the doctor and patient fall in love. While we psychoanalysts and psychotherapists have thorough discussions… Read more »

Two Reviews: Marked By Fire: Stories of the Jungian Way

Naomi and me at a recent reading. Photo: Dan Safron     Marked by Fire received two incredible reviews (Jung Journal: Culture and Psyche, May 2013) by George and Suzanne Wagner. We could not be more honored! Suzanne Wagner is a senior analyst at the C.G. Jung Institute in San Francisco practicing in Sausalito. She was the writer… Read more »

Smoky Zeidel interviews Patricia Damery

Smoky Zeidel interviews Patricia Damery The following interview of Patricia Damery by Smoky Zeidel is a posting from Smoky Talks Authors. It was my pleasure to have the chance to talk with author Patricia Damery, whose novel, Snakes, is one of my favorite books of the year. (You can read my review of Snakes here.)… Read more »

On Materialism

By Patricia Damery Meditation at First Light Storm Concert Rain gutter   chimney pan pipes  of the Storm Beings    concert of the Dead      what Spirit sings? On Materialism After my parents died, my sisters, brother, and I had the dreaded task of cleaning out their 120 year old farmhouse. We knew this time would come,… Read more »

MOSES Organic Farming Conference & Farming Soul

MOSES Organic Farming Conference & Farming Soul   For those in the area Feb 24-26, 2011, be sure to visit the: MOSES Organic Farming Conference February 24th-26th, 2011 at the La Crosse Center in Downtown La Crosse, WI 300 Harborview Plaza – (300 South 2nd Street) Farming Soul: A Tale of Initiation will be on… Read more »