First, let’s define the versions of love that we’ll be talking about here: Self-love is when we learn to partner/couple/marry our own ego with our own spirit or soul. Ego being your rule maker, the part of you that keeps you oriented and in line and…
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Dreaming Big & Remembering Desire
It can, at times, be virtuous to use restraint. There are times that a holding back of desire is truly called for and appreciated. Say, for instance, there are only 4 pieces of pizza and 4 hungry people to feed. It would clearly be greedy to take more than one…
Can’t Sleep?
At The Center, we put a lot of attention on both waking and sleeping dreams. We explore how to dream bigger and how to engage those wild, nonsensical dreams that happen when you’re asleep. But you may fall into the category of a non-dreamer simply because sleep eludes you. That…
Living the Dream
“The dream is a living thing, by no means a dead thing that rustles like dry paper. It is a living situation; it is like an animal with feelers or with many umbilical cords.” C. G. Jung “I had the weirdest dream last night.” How often have we said…
Cycle of Giving & Receiving: A Holistic Approach
Did you know that giving and receiving need each other to exist? Did you know that all opposites need one another to exist? That we could not turn something “on” if we couldn’t also turn that thing “off”; that what we understand as “cold” would be completely different if we…
Fathering
We humans do not come into this world as a blank slate or an empty vessel. We emerge from the womb with a set of predestined needs, desires, and expectations that are paradoxically both universal and also unique to each individual. Carl Jung, in his depth exploration of the psyche,…
Pan and the forest dark Part 2
Part 2 of a three part series. For Part 1 click here As we all, hopefully, Humpty Dumpty requires a few Band-Aids, some duct tape, a significant makeover, a psychological evaluation, and maybe a lobotomy. Patterns and routines that need to change quickly melt away, while others demonstrate the defiance…
Pan and the forest dark
A three part series. Jung once observed that “The gods have become diseases; Zeus no longer rules Olympus but rather the solar plexus and produces curious specimens for the doctor’s consulting room” (CW 13; §54). This is an idea that vexed me when I first heard it. But we are…
Undressing Libido
What comes to mind when you read the term libido? Oh, come on, don’t be bashful. You know you are thinking that libido is the way we speak about psychic energy that is directed between the polarity of opposites: inner/outer, up/down, full/empty, and so on. Wait, you had something else in…
