What is the Crone Goddess Archetype?
According to Jungian psychology, “women are influenced by powerful inner forces or archetypes, which can be personified by goddesses.” (Jean Shinoda Bolen) An archetype is a pattern of instinctual behavior that is contained in the unconscious mind and that is...
This being human is a guest house
This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all! Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows, who violently sweep your house empty of its...
Get Your Crone On
What is like to fully step into your Crone?
“Beauty is that in the presence of which we feel more alive.”
This is based on a podcast interview with John O’Donohue by Kristen Tippet – excerpted from Becoming Wise on the On Being Podcast - March 18, 2016 Imagine that you are hearing these words spoken in the lilt of John O'Donohue's (philosopher, poet) Irish brogue. "Beauty...
Our Heart Center – Keeping Coherence
Neuroscience tells us that the heart has its own nervous system. Scientists know now that the heart is in charge of the brain. (It had been thought it’s the other way around.) New research cited in the Psychiatric Times shows- “The heart sends more information to the...
“Emancipate Yourself From Mental Slavery. None but ourselves…”
My dad loved World Music. Consequently, I was introduced to Bob Marley at an early age. Out of his many great songs, I just loved Redemption Song the most. I would replay it again and again. EMANCIPATE YOURSELVES FROM MENTAL SLAVERY. NONE BUT OURSELVES CAN FREE OUR...
Trapeze Wisdom
I don’t know about you - I love the trapeze act in the circus. It is death defying and exhilarating. We might believe that the artist’s most difficult act is to grab hold of the trapeze bar and to step off the landing. Even more demanding is the act of their living in...