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Monthly Archives: July 2010
The Goose Boy
The dream of threatening geese parents evoked a memory of an abandoned and neglected child, who was traumatized throughout his childhood. Resiliant, the child held onto life, surviving the abuse, but continually re-enacting it. He let me be his parent for a couple of years. He thought he could repair the damage done to him by the biological parents. Perhaps there was some healing, I want to think we did some good for one another. We certainly made each other conscious of our blind spots. That’s where the story begins, with the blinding attack of the furious geese. Continue reading
Would you be my dad, for a day?
The young man admired my leather jacket and told me he was a coyote. “If that’s true, we need to talk” I replied. When he visited me, his dreams led to disclosures about his sexual initiation by a neighbor girl who was being molested by her father. At five years of age the whole neighborhood of age mates were vampirized and still practice the art of loving many people of both sexes now that they have become adults. This man’s story merges with the friend he introduced me to, a Bulgarian Jew, who asked me to be his dad. Just for a day. Continue reading
Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall
Dreams mirror our psychic situation exactly as it is, seen from the perspective of the Spirit. They inform and acknowledge what the conscious personality sometimes does not yet know. The dream of the Blue Lady validated the changes I have felt over the past few days. Continue reading
Posted in Dream Interpretation, Family patterns, Individuation, Psychology
Tagged Dreams, Healing Sexual Abuse, Inner Truth
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Le Cri de Merlin
Marie-Louise von Franz compares Jung to the wizard Merlin in her book C. G. Jung: His Myth in Our Time (1998) originally published in 1975. What she has to say about Merlin is based on Emma Jung’s research regarding the … Continue reading
Posted in Balancing male/female energy, Foster Children
Tagged C. G. Jung, Celtic traditions, Merlin
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Living Life is our greatest teacher
In an introduction to Carl Jung’s major contributions to psychology, C.G. Jung: Word and Image edited by Jaffe (1979), we find the following quotation from the Collected Works. “Anyone who wants to know the human psyche would be better advised … Continue reading
Almost Suicide
About twenty years after my dad’s funeral, almost to the day, I sat down to eat my sandwich at the community college. I had been substituting for my colleague and head of the Philosophy Department. One of his students, who … Continue reading
