Drops of Wisdom

There is so, so much information to process in this modern technological age, and a lot of it is very expertly and subtly spoon-fed to us through advertising. Expanding on and playing with the imaginal experience of that information, the texture of the information being spoon-fed is suitably mushy and formless, easy for whatever hapless, …

The Body-Mind and the Hero: The Integrative Mythdream

The integrative mythdream is an archetypal meditation that has grown out of my depth psychology studies and my personal contemplative practice. It allows us to encounter the archetypes through their personification in mythology. It involves the experiencing of a mythic story through active imagination, and engaging the bodily felt-senses associated with the places and characters …

On Becoming a Druid: A Winter Fragment and a Hope of Spring…

A rare piece of fiction that I hope has a few layers worth experiencing on a cold winter evening.... On Becoming a Druid “Why are you here? “ His gruffness might have been offensive to some, but in his eyes I saw curiosity, compassion almost. “I want to be a Druid.” I answered. A breeze …

The History of the Unconscious: An Introduction

The unconscious has filled many roles through history, from the divine to the cognitive, from the personal to the transpersonal. It has been the realm of gods, the playground of mesmerists and hypnotists, a ‘trash bin’ of unwanted emotions and memories, a means of subliminal control, and of personal liberation. It has been cited as …

Holding the Space of Autumn: A Meditation on Neart and Liminality

For the most part these moments that defy articulation rest on a paradox: at every crossing there is always a moment in which one is neither on one side nor on the other, neither what one was nor what one will be … One is in suspension-hovering timelessly in between.[1] We welcomed the autumnal equinox …

A Very Brief Ecocritical Analysis of Irish Mythology

 A druid stood on the shore of Ireland, and recited a poem. The Celts had recently arrived in Ireland, and were preparing to battle the mythic race of the Tuatha de Danaan for the island. After calming a sea storm sent by the sorcery of the Tuatha De, Amhairgin, druid of the Celts, came ashore …