Healthy Skepticism or Paranoia? There is a great difference between healthy skepticism and paranoia. Conspiracy theories surrounding vaccines are an expression of the latter—a projection of an inner factor that originates in the collective unconscious, the shared soul of humanity. Its contents are the archetypes, and the most fundamental among them is the so-called archetype […]
Dedicated to the energy of desire, the development of emotional intelligence, and the care of the soulStart: November 5, 2021 — New Moon in Scorpio “Sow Desire, Grow a Soul” This is the second edition of an online group which, in its first edition, was called “Listening to the Voice of the Soul”—a 28-day online […]
A 28-Day Online Group for Building Habits of Emotional Awareness A New Moon in Cancer is approaching. According to astrologers, this is the time when natural cycles support new beginnings and the sowing of the seeds of desire. According to them as well, the energy of this New Moon is doubly strong because the Moon […]
“He [God] first appears in a hostile form, as an aggressor with whom the hero has to fight.This corresponds to the violence which is inherent in every unconscious dynamism.That is the way in which the god manifests himself, and that is the form in which he has to be overcome.The struggle has its parallel in […]
“During the night, Jacob arose, took his two wives, his two maidservants, and his eleven sons, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok. He sent them across the stream, along with all his possessions. Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him until daybreak. When the man saw that he could not overpower […]
It took me time to understand what Omraam Aïvanhov, one of the closest disciples of the Master Peter Deunov, meant when he said that if we believe we have a soul, then we have a soul; but if we do not believe we have a soul, then we do not have a soul. Such a […]
n his book Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation, Joseph Campbell writes: “I’ve lately gotten to know the work of a splendid psychiatrist in Germany named Karlfried Graf Dürckheim. This psychiatrist has summarized the whole problem of health – psychological and physical – with reference to myth, continuing the work of Carl Gustav Jung […]
There are already many articles on this site devoted to the topic of suffering—by which I mean psychic suffering, because it is precisely this kind of suffering that leads a person to psychotherapy. It is also what leads us toward spirituality and compels us to seek, in various spiritual practices, a remedy for the pain […]
“Buddha was once threatened with death by a bandit called Angulimal. ‘In that case, be good and fulfill my dying wish,’ said the Buddha, ‘cut down the branch of this tree.’” One slash of the sword and – voila! “Now what?” the bandit asked. “Take it back,” said the Buddha. The bandit laughed. “You must […]
At the moment, I am in a phase of “clearing out drafts” that have accumulated over the past years of my work on the site. One of them concerns the theory of the Gene Keys by Richard Rudd. Four years ago, this theory was still not very well known in Bulgaria, and his book had […]
“The great Buddhist saint Nagarjuna used to wander naked, except for a simple loincloth—and, somewhat absurdly, carrying a golden alms bowl given to him by a king who was one of his followers. One night, as he was about to lie down to sleep among the ruins of an ancient monastery, he noticed a thief […]
“Abraham Lincoln once asked his secretary, “If you call a tail a leg, how many legs will a horse have?” “Five,” the secretary replied. “No,” said the president, “the answer is four. Calling a tail a leg does not make it a leg.”” We often look at words as “things”. And in a sense, they […]
