Howard Sasportas, in The Dynamics of the Unconscious: “The True Self is the deepest part of your individual nature — who you are beneath all your frills and trimmings. It is your own personality: who you are as a separate, individual being. Discovering your True Self is a process of freeing yourself from the false […]
Spiritual intelligence
" I will call the world a school instituted for the purpose of teaching little children to read. I will call the human heart the hornbook used in that school. And I will call the child able to read, the soul made from that school and its hornbook. Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul? A place where the heart must feel and suffer in a thousand diverse ways...."
John Keats
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-“Life, it seems, has an irritating way of doing this in those areas where we are unbalanced. This is precisely what Novalis meant when he said that character and destiny are two names for one and the same principle.” — Liz Greene, “The Dynamics of the Unconscious” This is the commentary Liz Greene offers in […]
06.12.2011
How we enter into the mysteries of life
“Our Ego wants to see God as a benevolent parent, strong enough to care for us so that no matter how old we are, we are never without a cosmic Caretaker. This is an important part of religion and spirituality; faith helps our inner child feel safe enough to grow. However, when we are in […]
Below, I present an abridged excerpt from Howard Sasportas’ book The Gods of Change. He retells the Sumerian legend of the descent of the goddess of the heavens – Inanna – into the underworld to her sister Ereshkigal. Sasportas includes this myth in his book to provide a more comprehensive understanding of the psychological symbolism […]
02.12.2011
The Archetype of the Destroyer
Over time, I have learned to respect the forces of the human unconscious as very real internal natural forces. There is little we can do against them other than getting to know them and finding adequate ways to experience them. They are like winter—we cannot stop it. But we can choose to put on warm […]
23.11.2011
The War Within: Facing the Core of Evil
“As we peel away the layers one by one, we move closer to our true essence. Purity. Every removed layer reveals sadness, dissatisfaction, and resentment. The process is not easy, and most people unconsciously feel a strong resistance. Through cynicism, hatred, contempt, or mockery, they deny the need for true inner conscious work and refuse […]
On the path from “self-actualization to self-transcendence,” there is a very specific danger—in Maslow’s humanistic psychology, it is called “higher sidetracking.” Here is its description by Howard Sasportas in the book The Dynamics of the Unconscious: “Some people associate feelings like joy, bliss, or universal love with the Higher Self. But the perception of the […]
This is a continuation of the previous post, “Containing by Restraining,” which introduced the work with the fire element in our psyche—passion and desire. Its purpose is to present the perspective of analytical psychology regarding experiences we all know to some degree: abandonment and rejection in love. This allows us to see the meaning of […]
17.11.2011
Containing the Fire of Transformation
What should we do when the emotions of anger are too strong? When neither the appropriate release techniques nor communication skills seem to help us diffuse their explosive energy? There is a third perspective for dealing not only with anger but with all intense emotions. It is called “containing by holding”: “I think the problem, […]
15.11.2011
Zorba–Buddha: The Union of the Two Truths
This is a continuation of the theme of the two truths from the previous article, “Depression and the Truth of the Body.” It begins with an excerpt from Nikos Kazantzakis’s Zorba the Greek, which Petya sent me and which beautifully illustrates what the union of these two truths looks like. “*I stretched out in my […]
14.11.2011
Depression and the truth of the body
“*Depression is the truth of the body, just as meaningfulness is the truth of the spirit. The one does not exclude the other. It seems as though life, like Janus, has two faces. There is truth in spiritual beliefs and disciplines. I do not claim there is none. But there is also truth in […]
Below is the response Osho gave to someone who shared that they were suffering incredibly from loneliness and asked what they could do about it. Since it is relatively long, I have translated it with some abridgments. To read the full text in English, I have provided a link at the end of the post. […]
