Healing and Archetypes

Marqués de Riscal Hotel Healing and Archetypes This last Sunday the Curriculum Committee of the C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco offered an intramural event for members and candidates on Contemporary Issues in Archetypal Theory in which several members and board members presented different perspectives. The concept of “archetype” is an ancient one with… Read more »

Drought: What We Need to Change

Sigh of Relief!   Drought: What We Need to Change The courtyard pavement glistened in the early dawn this morning. I felt myself sigh with relief. The promised rain was beginning. It has steadily picked up. The weather predicts heavy rain today and tonight, even 6 inches before the current series of storms have passed… Read more »

Interview with Jungian Analyst Carol McRae: Drumming and Ally Work

Interview with Jungian Analyst Carol McRae: Drumming and Ally Work On February 22, 2014, the C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco will offer the first of a series of eco-psychology seminars and workshops on the environment crisis. These workshops will be from differing perspectives but of one piece: the necessary crisis of consciousness in… Read more »

The Environmental Crisis: What We Can Do

Some of the reasons I am willing to suffer knowledge of my participation in climate change. The Environmental Crisis: What We Can Do When I think of the best approach to the issues we have created in our environment, I think of the old Buddhist adage: Show up. Pay attention. Tell the truth. Detach from… Read more »

Quest for Manitou

Looking toward the tail of the Great Serpent,         In my own story in Marked by Fire: Stories of the Jungian Way, I told a big dream I had as a young adult in which I was introduced to the word manitou. The word was so compelling I began a search to… Read more »

More About Mystery: Marked by Fire Stories

The Path of Contemplating Mystery, Pisa, Italy       Opening to mystery: such a creative act! My job as analyst is often helping people tolerate the anxiety of mystery long enough to enter the portal of the unknown. So often we scramble to the so-called safety of the known, concentrate on adaptation, the tasks… Read more »