interbeing
David Brooks • The Relationalist Manifesto
On a purely biological level, the birth process itself is the first instance of separation and individuation, a paradigm of the pattern that will later be manifest psychologically. The fetus initially exists as part, literally, of the mother’s body; then, at birth, it separates—differentiates—and comes into the world as a distinct individual
... See moreNathaniel Branden • Honoring the Self: The Pyschology of Confidence and Respect
Basically, there are different sources of movement that have been described as the personal unconscious (personal story); the collective unconscious (transpersonal and cross-cultural); or the superconscious (connected to energies beyond the self).
Andrea Olsen • The Place of Dance: A Somatic Guide to Dancing and Dance Making
"I think one more thing I'll talk about, as far as a medicine for us is what I call our deep time ancestral inheritance. In a culture again, here in this country where our only focus is on the future and on progress, we forget that we are the inheritors of this enormous reservoir of wisdom. We survive. We're here today because of survival, of a
... See moreThere is medicine for the long dark by recognizing this interpenetrating reality of identity
Otter Voice Meeting Notes
Francis Weller
“ The world and the gods are dead or alive according to the condition of our souls .”
~ James Hillman
~ James Hillman
Facing the World with Soul
Sullivan believed that our struggles were interactional (meaning “relational”). He went so far as to say, “It’s the mark of a senior clinician that he or she is the same person in their living room that they are in their office.” We can’t teach patients to be relational if we aren’t relational with them.
