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Dreaming is good medicine

posted by Robert Moss

Most human cultures before the modern era have valued dreams as a source of healing. It was widely understood, for starters, that dreams can diagnose what’s going on inside the body. One of the ways to understand dreams is that [...]

Use your imaginal cells, or stay a worm

posted by Robert Moss

You can’t stay a worm, if you want to become a butterfly. It’s not surprising that, cross-culturally, the butterfly is a favorite symbol of the soul. The connection is even built into the Greek language, where psyche means both “butterfly” [...]

How the Creator defined humans

posted by Robert Moss

I have figured out why man is the most fortunate of all creatures and as a result worthy of the highest admiration and earning his rank on the chain of being, a rank to be envied not merely by the [...]

Undefinitis and its remedies

posted by Robert Moss

There’s a malady that has reached epidemic proportions in our culture. Its carrier is a foggy beast.Its clinical name, I have decided, is undefinitis. It is a serious complaint, because the human is an animal that must define itself or [...]

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The passions of the soul work magic
The passions of the soul work magic. This observation, attributed to the great Dominican scholar and magus Albertus Magnus (and loved by Jung) is eminently practical guidance for living your juiciest and most creative life. There are two conditions for working positive magic this way. The fir

posted 6:52:20pm Jun. 10, 2013 | read full post »

The shaman as poet of consciousness
Poets, it’s said, are shamans of words. True shamans are poets of consciousness. Journeying into a deeper reality with the aid of sung and spoken poetry, they bring back energy and healing thr

posted 5:21:44pm Jun. 09, 2013 | read full post »

Listening to children's dreams
Young children know how to go to Magic Kingdoms without paying for tickets, because they are at home in the imagination and live close to their dreams. When she was very young, my daught

posted 2:48:12am Jun. 08, 2013 | read full post »

Unless something goes wrong, you don't have a story
We know this is true of the tales that thrill us or entertain us, whether on the screen or in the pages of a book, or told to each other: unless something goes wrong, you don't have a story. In every quest, the hero or heroine is required to face ordeals and survive perils. Misadventure, screw-ups a

posted 10:52:36am May. 29, 2013 | read full post »

Dreaming our way to the heart of the world
If we could fold time, travel forward a century or two, and then look backward, I believe we would find abundant confirmation that the rise of the dreamwork movement

posted 12:15:40pm May. 15, 2013 | read full post »


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