Sublime

James Hillman

My beginning premise is that a more mature human society requires more mature human individuals. For twenty-five years, I have been asking how we might raise children, support teenagers, and ripen ourselves so we might engender a sustainable human culture. My second premise is that nature (including our own deeper nature, soul) has always provided

He picked up what others were feeling and took those emotions into his body, without knowing how to filter or funnel them back out. In his chosen path, there was no place for his spiritual gifts to be honed. There was no way for him to share the intuitive knowledge that he held. So, he kept that information to himself and it haunted him. There was

The old fairy tales, we are told by their modern interpreters, Bruno Bettelheim, Robert Bly, Joseph Campbell, and Clarissa Pinkola Estes, are ancient maps, offering their own guidance for the development of full human beings.

During my own three decades of research with workshops, consultations and personal experience, I have come to believe that archetypal astrology and holotropic exploration have the potential to revolutionize humanity's relationship with its deeper nature and help us to rediscover a more harmonious relationship with each other, the natural world, and

“But if the soul chooses its daimon and chooses its life, how have we still any power of decision?” asks Plotinus.

Healing the Divided Self

On my lost trail, possibilities I had never considered opened up. A childhood in the bush and a life around campfire stories became an unexpected asset in ceremonial spaces around America. My lost track turned to first tracks and then trails.

The transformation of the lower self is the heroic journey for our times. The hero’s path for our day is to go inward, not outward; to travel deep into the basements of our inner darkness, where we will meet and transform our devils and demons.