Reflections from Bone:Dying into Life by Marion Woodman “The Positive Mother that opens me to oneness and love would carry me into Being in life. The Negative Mother that opens me to rejection and fear would carry me into blank nothingness.” (Woodman, 2000, p. 88) My reflection**: Positive mother/negative mother. Ooof!! This one hits home for me! […]
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Ugly Bulbs and Caterpillars
Reflections from Bone:Dying into Life by Marion Woodman “The inner work is my own.” (Woodman, 2000, p. 77) “… fantastic how an ugly bulb carries with it the archetypal field that produces that particular leaf, flower, color.” (Woodman, 2000, p. 78) “… if I spoke my mind, I was written off as a lost cause.” […]
All is Energy in Motion
Reflections from Bone:Dying into Life by Marion Woodman “… archetypes as energy templates, seeds that are coded with potential energies, sacred geometry.” (Woodman, 2000, p. 34) “…integration of consciousness and matter…” (Woodman, 2000, p. 35) “In the move toward unity, we will move through continuous birth, death, rebirth patterns. All is energy in motion.” (Woodman, […]
Body and Spirit
Reflections from Bone:Dying into Life by Marion Woodman “…in the “space” between, body chemistry transforms into imagery, and/or imagery transforms into body chemistry.” (Woodman, 2000, pg. 51) “…psychoneuroimmunology…” and “… psyche and matter are two different aspects of one and the same thing. – Carl Jung””Jung knew psyche and matter were not opposites.” (Woodman, 2000, […]
Beginning Anew …
Where has the time gone??? I started this blog a year ago in the fervor of the newly conferred PhD. I had every intention to write consistently but apparently life had other plans for me. But here I am a year later renewing my intention to tend to this blog. The past twelve months have […]
Spirit vs. Soul.
I have already referenced that moment back in 2012 when I realized that there was a real difference between spirit and soul. I had this sense that there was something circular about the two … or maybe cyclical. The works of Hillman, Corbin, and Casey were informative in those early considerations of the difference between […]
The Soul of St. Patrick’s Day
Well, here we are at the one day of the year where “everyone is Irish”. St. Patrick was the Bishop of Ireland back in the 6th century. There is much that is legend and much that is fact regarding his work and time in Ireland. (If you want to know more about that, just do […]
How we lost touch with soul.
Before the “how” let’s consider the “when”. Also, let me point out that I am aware that I am speaking predominantly about those of us who grew up in the western world of thought. (When I think of “Western” world I often contemplate the idea that the concept of “west” implies some other place that […]
Defining Soul. Part 2
The following is taken from my dissertation titled “Tending Aging Souls Through Connection with the Natural World: A Depth-ecopsychological Study” (Bridge, 2018). Soul In order to tend the aging soul, we must have an understanding of what is meant by the word soul. It is a word that is often used and yet seldom […]
Defining Soul. Part 1
For my first post I thought it would be a good idea to define what I mean by the word soul. I have long been interested in understanding soul and that is probably what drew me to depth psychology. I remember sitting in a class at Pacifica Graduate Institute in 2012 with Dr. Joe […]
Soul Tending 