It is the main engine of racism, classism, sexism, malignant nationalism, and terrorism. When dragon energies are present unconsciously, we have little concern for even the most blatant inequities. Injustice is not high on our list of concerns. We look for ways to stay in denial, to rationalize our acceptance of poverty, disease, political

That is spirituality. Human spirituality, psychodynamically speaking, is being able to connect with the refueling source without crashing into it. This is the ego-archetypal Self axis.

“What would an adequate planetary myth be like, one that would adequately contain us as a human family?”

Evil is very much antilife. It is full of hate. It tries to destroy relatedness. It uses deceit, lying, and illusion. In fact, almost all folklore presents evil as deceit and lying and a master of illusion. Evil hates the light, and even loses its power when light is around. Evil cannot stand to be exposed, and it hates human community for that

Once you demonize someone, you load that person with demonic numinous energy. There is an interesting parallel phenomenon. Since you are hardwired for this archetypal enemy, when you identify with it you are colonized by it. Not the personal shadow that we are all supposed to integrate, but the archetypal enemy. You begin incarnating it in the

More importantly, you will not identify your own ego with “the great royal one.” When you are dealing directly with the sacred king and queen inside, you will not project them onto some human being in the outer world or merge with them unconsciously.

Best of all, the increasing calmness enables us to slow down and “smell the flowers,” opening up a deep new sense of joy that can be nurtured to permeate all aspects of our experience. Here, more than anywhere else, we realize that we have opened a portal for some heavenly energies to enter into our lives.

Once you do, no matter what the school of thought, you soon recognize that they still have plenty of primitive infantile grandiosity left. Otherwise, their feelings wouldn't get hurt so easily.

My basic argument is simply that humans need to get rid of the overload on their psychic circuits. There is a certain amount of this energy that you want to be connected with. It is a connection, not a separation. We do not want to lose touch with this energy because it is like an umbilical cord. It is a life-giving, nourishing connection with the