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How to interpret a dream

Posted on December 3, 2011 by Michael J. Melville

One of my students asked me about how to interpret dreams.  First you have to record the dream, tell the dream, and associate the symbols with whatever comes up for you around those images.  Sometimes the action is set in … Continue reading →

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Gay Catholic Bishops

Posted on August 17, 2011 by Michael J. Melville

Recently I picked up the newest edition of Charles W. Leadbeater’s Christian Gnosis, published by Quest Books, the Theosophical Publishing House.  In his introduction to the second edition, Richard Smoley (2011) explained the Roman Catholic doctrinal tradition of the “wandering … Continue reading →

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Holding My Sun

Posted on February 17, 2011 by Michael J. Melville

The man was in his mid-thirties. After the Native American Ceremony he told me that he was trying to allow love and affection into his life, to receive it with open arms. Recently separated from his wife and child, he … Continue reading →

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Just a 13 year-old girl

Posted on February 17, 2011 by Michael J. Melville

My dad used to tell me when he had a few shots of alcohol in him, “your mom’s just a thirteen year old girl.” After 37 years of marriage to Phyllis McFadden Melville, John F. Melville died before turning 60. … Continue reading →

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The Rattlesnake Man

Posted on February 16, 2011 by Michael J. Melville

We could have been twin brothers, both wearing crimson red coats, long white hair and glasses. I had heard of this man several months ago, from my grandson, who met him at the hot springs and wound up renting his … Continue reading →

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Men’s lives are governed by fear.

Posted on February 15, 2011 by Michael J. Melville

If we are to heal ourselves, we men must accept the secret that men’s lives are governed by fear.   And that means we must stop feeling shamed by our fear. In his insightful book, Under Saturn’s Shadow: the Wounding and … Continue reading →

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The Old Man and the Boy

Posted on December 1, 2010 by Michael J. Melville

Recently I resumed reading Richard Tarnas’ huge book Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View (2006). My nephew gave me a copy in 2007 before leaving to attend Sacred Medicine Ceremonies in the Amazon Rain Forest. He was … Continue reading →

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Denying is forgetting

Posted on October 6, 2010 by Michael J. Melville

I showed my Israeli grandson the picture of the Radical Faerie (“wow, that’s crazy!”) and the Rex Mercurius, “That’s Russian, you know.” I said I knew that, but pointed out how the photo and the painting were essentially the same … Continue reading →

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The Dragon Fly and the Faeries

Posted on September 29, 2010 by Michael J. Melville

A man in his thirties was having coffee with me in San Francisco. We had met at the Cafe Gratitude and he invited me to get to know one another better. Our coffee turned into four hours of synchronicity, each … Continue reading →

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