What would you think if you suddenly felt so unwell that it seemed you might faint at any moment? Your heart is pounding; you feel tingling and numbness throughout your body; your breathing changes; you experience muscle spasms everywhere—especially in your arms, legs, face, and mouth; your throat and chest tighten; you feel dizzy; your […]
Recently, I heard myself telling a client that I am “like this” because I have been touched by death. And I realized that this expression describes, better than anything else, what matters most to me. When I was seventeen, my mother died. But even before that happened, I lived constantly with the fear of death, […]
“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 […]
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 […]
