Author Archives: Chris
To Our Health! (“Historic Steps from Three to Four”)
“One, two, three; but where, my dear Timaeus, is the fourth…?”[1] Amid much fanfare earlier this month the United States Department of Agriculture, (USDA) unveiled a new food guide icon with the help of first lady Michelle Obama. Replacing the … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Depth Psychology, Symbols
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James Hillman’s Shift to Soul-Making (“From Anima-Mess to Anima-Vessel”)
Psychologist James Hillman is best known as the founder of archetypal psychology – a branch of depth psychology that developed out of and has found its place alongside Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalysis and C.G. Jung’s analytical psychology. And if there is … Continue reading
Posted in Archetypal Psychology, Depth Psychology, Puer Aeternus, Tributes
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Copulative Conjunctions & Other Natural Phenomena (“Is Philosophy Dead?”)
Last week’s post took its inspiration from an interview Stephen Hawking gave just before the latest Google Zeitgeist conference where he made yet another bold proclamation: “Philosophy is dead.” Perhaps professor of philosophy Justin E. H. Smith was secretly voicing a … Continue reading
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Heaven: Many Hints, One Hypothesis (“Paging Dr. Hawking”)
“I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.” Perhaps the most distinguished … Continue reading
Posted in Depth Psychology, Dreams, Imagination, Myth
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Reverence for Life (“Ethical Fundamentalism”)
Last week’s post attempted to place us inside the Chauvet caves in France so that we might once again stand awestruck, surrounded on all sides by thirty thousand year-old cave paintings and the ultimate mystery they represent. The way of the animal … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Depth Psychology, Fundamentalism/Literalism, Myth
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