core intellectual pursuits: philosophy

Only in this state of missing, of absence, can life be drawn into itself. Like the womb which is an empty vessel waiting for the seed of life, longing is the force that pulls potential towards it. Rather than a thing to be tolerated or gotten rid of, longing should be venerated as the elemental gravity that attracts towards us the life and world we

We think of Nazis as evil, but the truth is we all have the potential for this kind of evil, which is ultimately the act of turning away from the suffering of others and ourselves.

If we take the foundational idea that there’s a redemptive quality behind the darker, edgy, difficult emotions and experiences, then we are well on our way to making our house into a home.

Jung has demonstrated that myths and fairy tales are symbolic manifestations of the unconscious, just as dreams are. In a sense they are the collective dreams of the human race: They reflect the collective unconscious of a tribe, a people, or a culture rather than the local, personal unconscious of one individual.

every hero or heroine must endure a period of their own exile if they are to be initiated into the true medicine of their calling.

What if the ‘negative’ emotions aren’t wrong, but totally in their own right? What if they have something essential to communicate to us and each other,