07.01.2025
Gardening in good and bad times
There is a significant difference between neurotic suffering caused by an inauthentic way of life and suffering caused by processes of spiritual awakening.
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For quite some time I have been postponing the presentation of Liz Greene’s work on the types of psychic defenses from her book Limitations and Boundaries: The Horoscope and Personality Defenses. Around election day, however, I decided to publish at least the anal type of defenses, because the way people vote in political elections is […]
Since it has become clear that a healthy expression of empathy depends on a high degree of differentiation and the establishment of firm boundaries between the Self and others, it is important to understand how such boundaries are formed. This is the subject of the next section in Liz Greene’s book The Astrological Neptune and […]
14.03.2023
Liz Greenе on Psychoanalytic Neptune
The fifth part of Liz Greene’s book The Astrological Neptune and the Quest for Redemption is entitled “Psychoanalytic Neptune.” In it, the negative expressions of the Neptunian longing for fusion with the Source are explored through the lens of the psychoanalytic interpretation of hysteria—the dominant psychic illness at the time when Freud’s psychoanalysis emerged (and […]
12.03.2023
Liz Green on Neptune, Hysteria and Hypnosis
The second chapter of The Astrological Neptune and the Quest for Redemption reveals how the mythological images “produced” by the archetype behind this planet are embodied in concrete psychological experiences, including pathological ones. The chapter is entitled Psychological Neptune, and at this point the reading becomes even more compelling, because we begin to recognize ourselves […]
I like Scott Kiloby very much. He is one of the few people who evoke genuine trust and affection in me when they speak about spiritual practices and enlightenment. And he has attained enlightenment. He has had the experience that he and the rest of life are One. He has lived through the dissolution of […]
24.09.2016
JP Sears and the Levelling of Pomposity
“Humor brings all people down to their normal size… That’s exactly why it works so successfully at leveling pomposity.” — Robin Skynner Finally, the moment has come to introduce you to my spiritual teacher. When I saw him, I immediately knew it was Him. There was something about his appearance that greatly attracted me, and […]
For a long time, I have been postponing writing an article on my website in which to recommend an exceptionally important and valuable reading: the interview-article by John Welwood, “Human Nature, Buddha Nature,” with the subtitle “On Spiritual Bypassing, Relationships, and the Dharma.” And since I do not know how much longer the agony of […]
27.03.2016
Rejecting the Father…
Author. M.V. Lukovnikova Translated from Russian by Violeta Book Rejecting the Father… During the initial interview (a 6-years-old boy; severe neurotic disorder): – Who do you live with? – Mom. – And dad? – We kicked him out. – How come? – We divorced him… He humiliated us… He’s not a man… He ruined our […]
“To activate the unconscious means to awaken the divine, the devi, Kundalini – to begin the development of the suprapersonal within the individual in order to kindle the light of the gods.Kundalini, which is to be awakened in the sleeping Muladhara world, is the suprapersonal, the non-ego,… For this reason Kundalini is the same principal as […]
04.10.2015
Depression and the Loss of Feeling
“A person can be deeply depressed and entirely unaware of their feelings… The definition of clinical depression includes a person’s refusal to acknowledge that they are deeply despairing. Many depressed people usually do not know that they are unhappy, because they cannot articulate their misery; instead, they display the symptoms of depression. They drift about, […]
21.12.2014
What A Shaman Sees in A Mental Hospital
Excerpted from: The Natural Medicine Guide to Schizophrenia, pages 178–189 by Stephanie Marohn (featuring Malidoma Patrice Somé). The Shamanic View of Mental Illness In the shamanic view, mental illness signals “the birth of a healer,” explains Malidoma Patrice Somé. Thus, mental disorders are spiritual emergencies, spiritual crises, and need to be regarded as such […]
