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Tag Archives: post traumatic stress
What’s wrong with expressing my feelings?
Repressed feelings can make us sick, emotionally and physically. Expressing our feelings in creative ways can transform the process and lead us from dis-ease to balance. That process might start with confession to one’s friend or counselor that there is … Continue reading
Aphrodite Speaks
Love is the province of the Greek goddess Aphrodite. In the 21st century love gets complicated and so do relationships. But the goddess and her priestesses still show up when we need them most. Today’s biggest problem is living with … Continue reading
The Dallas Buyers Club
The Dallas Buyers Club is a story of how promiscuous sexual desire can lead to spiritual evolution and redemption. Denial and excess are central pivot points in this dramatization of what happened in the 1980s when the main character, Ron … Continue reading
Posted in homosexuality, Movie Reviews, Psychology
Tagged post traumatic stress, sexual abuse in childhood
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Water and fire, dragons meet
When we met it was my first Santo Daime Work. He was my youngest son’s age and he greeted me like he was expecting me. During the break I was sitting in a chair looking out to sea, watching the … Continue reading
Becoming Active for Change
We can make a difference. Take a look at this approach in the Canadian north country. I love Wild Rice Dreams! via Becoming.
Reclaiming Childhood
During lunch the other day a proud father showed me a picture of his four beautiful children. The oldest boy was twelve years old. His five year-old daughter was sitting beside her older brother. The man and his wife were … Continue reading
Takiwasi meets Santo Daime
Sometimes the Universe has a plan which we have to accept, even when the formal structure discourages doing what feels right. Within my understanding of the Santo Daime tradition, physical contact is kept to a minimum. The ayahuasca is … Continue reading
Trance, the movie about hypnosis and amnesia
Trance is a deeply disturbing psychological thriller. It is one of the most vivid illustrations of why Carl Jung rejected the use of hypnosis in psychotherapy. Trust in an authority figure is necessary for hypnosis, but it removes the active … Continue reading
Posted in Movie Reviews, Psychology, Trickster energy
Tagged C. G. Jung, Erotic Love, post traumatic stress
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Knight Terrors
The first day after the accident I found myself in the University of Utah hospital. I knew I had been severely injured. The Intern, my doctor, told me that in addition to multiple cuts and abrasions which had been sewn … Continue reading
Looper, the Light shining in the Darkness
Looper is a fascinating study in abnormal psychology, time travel, and love, parental and erotic/emotional love. The main character is an ordinary Joe in the future, a murderer specializing in killing time travelers. He’s an outlaw living in the time … Continue reading
Posted in Child/Parent Relationship, Movie Reviews, Psychology
Tagged post traumatic stress
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Merlin and the White Eagle 