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Category Archives: Balancing male/female energy
Cloud Atlas
Cloud Atlas is as complicated as life itself. Some people hate the film. Others love it. Any creative expression which raises such intense emotions has hit the pulse of humanity. Weaving five stories together which are set in wide spans … Continue reading
Posted in Balancing male/female energy, Family patterns, homosexuality, Movie Reviews
Tagged Inner Truth, Reincarnation
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Traveling with the Shadow
A friend told me Hans Christian Andersen’s Shadow Story, whose main character loses his Shadow during a visit to a very hot climate. At night the lamp in his hotel room projects his Shadow across the street from his hotel. … Continue reading
Posted in Balancing male/female energy, Individuation
Tagged C. G. Jung, Inner Truth
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Returning to Life through Santo Daime
My first experience of Finados or All Souls Day in the Santo Daime Tradition was yesterday. It started out in the normal pattern. We were dancing and singing in Portuguese led by our Brazilian brother and sister. The hymns were … Continue reading
Asperger, the Fox and the old Coyote
Last night my spirit son and his wife took me out to an Italian restaurant for dinner. The busboy poured us water and I had one of those synchronous “Aha” experiences. He looked exactly like another nephew did five years … Continue reading
Posted in Balancing male/female energy, Psychology, Trickster energy
Tagged Asperger's Syndrome, Coyote, Mentoring Men
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Agora, the marketplace
Agora means marketplace in Greek, the ancient site where rhetoricians and philosophers (like Socrates) would discuss knowledge, truth, and reason. Agora is the name of an historical film about the woman philosopher Hypatia, who lived in times similar to ours. … Continue reading
The voice from the spirit world, “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, Christianity, Foster Children, Movie Reviews
Tagged C. G. Jung, Celtic traditions, Merlin
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Coyote’s Pitfalls: the dangers of mentoring men.
The Native American Trickster Coyote is a metaphor of great power and help. His androgynous nature explains how we act out both sexual orientations in relationships. Experiences in infancy and early childhood create expectations and pattern our future behavior. Preverbal and unconscious, they surprise us as compulsive feelings, desires, and behavior. Becoming aware of how our parents’ ignorance created our patterns is the first step to change. Perception isn’t what we feel it to be, like Coyote it is very tricky. Continue reading
Sexual Abuse in Childhood
My friend and colleague, the River Jaguar, asked me why I don’t write about my experience of feeling abandoned by my family, about being sexually molested by my parents as a child, and how it has affected me and my … Continue reading
Inner World Balance
The inner world of humans makes communication possible and confusing, since it creates paradox. Our left-brained logic wants to reject contradictions and hence paradoxical descriptions, but the Creator made us the way we are and out of respect for the Source, we need to accept and understand human nature. Continue reading
Merlin’s Foster Child
Healing family patterns of abuse can be very challenging without the cultural context like that of the ancient Celts, Native Americans, or other indigenous cultures. Young men are attracted to elders who can meet their needs for fathering. We can only teach what we have be able to acquire within our selves and that only when it is wanted. Continue reading
Merlin and the White Eagle 