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Spiritual Ecology and Psychotherapy: Listening to the Earth
What if the ecological crisis is not only environmental, but spiritual? A therapist and artist reflects on Spiritual Ecology and the sacred call of the Earth.
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Jun 137 min read


The Philosophers Secret Fire - A history of the imagination by Patrick Harpur
Imagination is the ground of reality. What a treasure trove this book is. "It must be understood that Imagination in the poetic,...
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May 131 min read


The Smell Of Rain On Dust - Grief and Praise, by MartÃn Prechtel.
"If there is ever to be any real peace on earth, all people need to relearn and reestablish the now diminished and hidden arts of Grief...
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May 62 min read


Crossing The Unknown Sea - Work As A Pilgrimage Of Identity, David Whyte
As you can see from the condition of this book, it has lived a life. A sign of its importance to me during the past decade, and no doubt...
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May 54 min read


Alchemy & Mysticism - A journey through art
I love this Taschen volume. I see in these pages evidence that even when partly instructional or diagrammatic, to approach the opus...
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Apr 241 min read


"James Hillman was an artist of psychology."
This is the opening sentence of Thomas Moore's prologue. I thought that this book would make a good first post as I begin to describe...
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Apr 102 min read


Carl Jung on the permeability of Psyche
In this quote Jung is describing his experience of the tower he constructed at Bollingen on the shore of lake Zurich. This suggests that...
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Apr 92 min read


The Wisdom of Not Knowing: Reflections on Jung and the Soul of Therapy
The First Encounter I discovered the work of Carl Jung during my mid-late teens, when I plucked this text from a shelf in a local book...
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Apr 96 min read


In Celebration Of Cecil Collins
"Images arise from the fountainhead of human life--the heart, the solar centre from ancient memories in the blood, and from the polarity...
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Apr 82 min read


Arthur Machen - A tale of curious connections
In the current newsletter I explore strands of my life and art that seem subtly interwoven with Arthur Machen, a writer of mysterious and...
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Nov 3, 20231 min read
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