“*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. […]
The Depressive State Is Necessary for the Creation of Individuality Here are a few more clarifications about the place of depression in our psychic life and spiritual development, and how to “use” it properly. They are especially valuable for people who have noticed that in their lives they often swing between extremes. At one moment […]
“Darkness has its correspondence in the alchemical nigredo, which comes after the coniunctio, when the feminine has accepted the masculine within itself. From the nigredo arises the stone, the symbol of the immortal Self.”— C. G. Jung To one degree or another, and in one form or another, all of us go through depressive moods […]
“The soul speaks to you in moments of silence. You hear its voice when you no longer know anything. Often, the soul begins to speak very clearly only when you surrender and throw in the towel. When you give up and despair, you open yourself to the new. It is then that you release all […]
“You can recognize the dominance of the ego by the need for control. For example, when you want certain people to behave in a certain way. To make this happen, you use specific patterns of behavior. For instance, you are compliant, pleasant, and you try never to hurt anyone’s feelings. Behind such behavior lies the […]
The Orphan is the very first of the archetypes described in Carol Pearson’s book The Hero Within. It marks the beginning of the journey toward oneself, starting with the feeling that we are weak and small, in need of someone else to come and help us. The painful experiences of feeling alone and orphaned are […]
“Despite all that recently popular self-help books seem to suggest, our emotional and spiritual journey is of necessity a slow process—sometimes even agonizingly slow. This is because the perspective of the intellect, while usually helpful, is not always sufficient. The unspoken unifying thesis of most self-help books is that we simply need to identify what […]
“Remember the seasons. With the onset of spring, one is not surprised if one day we have cold, piercing, wintry weather, and the next it is warm and rainy. Despite the inconsistency of the weather, we know that we are moving toward summer. It is the same with us. Being an inseparable part of nature, […]
According to David Gordon, author of The Mindful Dreamer, you can use the following “markers for the phases of the journey”—both in your daily life and in your dreams. You will recognize that you are in the stage of the Calling when your energy fades and diminishes. This is the stage of autumn, when our […]
According to David Gordon, a Jungian analyst and author of the book Mindful Dreaming, in order to interpret dreams we need to know the map of our inner journey. These are the different challenges of awareness that arise at different stages of our inner journey—the so-called Calling, Journey, Enlightenment, and Return. What we become aware […]
“When we ask God to heal our lives, He shines a bright light on everything we need to look at. Within ourselves, we notice things we might have preferred not to see. We have a thick armor surrounding our hearts—a lot of fear masking itself as something else. As anyone who has undergone serious psychotherapy […]
