Making people out to be evil when they are simply unconscious obfuscates the problem. When we are clear on how unclear others can be we begin to be able to find compassion and empathy and thus a way to communicate too. We learn this by traveling through and recognizing our own lack of clarity.
In Woodman's presence, the often enigmatic world of Jungian archetypal psychology becomes accessible to anyone, and especially to women who are on a quest for wholeness. Woodman believes that centuries of "patriarchal thinking" have stripped the soul from the inner and outer lives of individuals and in the world. To recover the soul, we must engage with the complex shadow world of the unconscious and go beyond absolute, either/or thinking to embrace the "dance of opposites."
YES!!! our entire mental health system which operates by drugging away symptoms is based on this fallacy... Telling another to “lighten up” or be more positive can be shame-inducing, however nicely we might do it. What if they need to stay with their hate or despair or depressiveness for a while? How can we be... Continue Reading →
Baawariya - Maatibaani feat. Shankar Tucker
I got the below recipe, which I've now modified a bit, from a great friend in an email. She knows me well...that email made my day!
As I've talked about in many posts our food supply is toxic. This is a good film that really goes into the basic problems of our food supply today. Our physical and mental well-being both are intricately tied with the food we put in our bodies.
A favorite poem with one of my favorite lines of all time -- I'm sharing again: from Song of Myself: by Walt Whitman All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier. Having pried through the strata, analysed to a hair, Counselled with doctors and... Continue Reading →
What if people struggling with madness could explore their emotions in a supportive sanctuary? Do frightening 'psychotic' experiences also have the power to transform and heal? Is breakdown also breakthrough? Michael Cornwall became a therapist after surviving his own crisis -- without medication or psychiatric treatment. For more than 30 years he has worked in... Continue Reading →
I've heard her speak before. She's a wonderfully articulate woman who gets it right.
Is it possible to navigate the "multiple worlds" that emerge during psychotic experiences? Are voices and altered states also like a shamanic journey, needing guidance to find your way? Anusuya StarBear has heard voices and gone through altered states her whole life. A tragic near-death experience 20 years ago left her with severe and chronic... Continue Reading →
My first sexual experience was a rape. I was 16 years old. Indisputably a rape and yet I had somehow not let that register somehow all these many years. As I defrost from the TRAUMA of having taken megadoses of mind/body and soul numbing neurotoxic psychiatric drugs some of these old traumas are starting to resurface. I've had many traumas in my life including the ones that psychiatric treatment incurred. I never forgot the rape. I'm not talking about a memory resurfacing...
