We need to be curious about curiosity: what are we enacting–and why? In the unrestrained theater of our dreams even the most disallowed outer-world scenarios are played out.
Lisa Marchiano
SACRED SYMPTOMS: how does the numinous heal?
Life crisis and trauma can also open us to the numinous: fairy tales, myths, and religious texts relate happenings of help when all seemed lost. Whether sought or suffered, something greater appears when ego yields. We can act on the guidance that is given, and may attain the healing gifted by experience of the numinous.
At Home in Our Bodies: Incarnation & Individuation
Embodiment is the ground of being, and engaging the tension between instinct and archetype shapes consciousness and character.
Intuition: Non-Rational Knowing
We all have intuitive experiences, from an occasional hunch to powerful gut feelings. Unconscious intelligence is a storehouse of instincts and wisdoms humankind has accumulated over millennia.
Seeking Certainty: The Seduction of Conspiracy Theories
Understanding conspiracy theories as symbolic expressions of unconscious contents can allow us to take them seriously without taking them literally.
The Money Complex: Incarnating Our Dreams
Like Hermes, money traverses the realms from Hades to Heaven–money can be a matter of survival, and money can turn dreams into realities.
The Provisional Life: Redeeming the Real
The provisional life might be defined as a vague malaise: current relationships, work, and lifestyle feel like placeholders until the ‘real thing’ arrives—someday.
Pets: A Lived Relationship with Soul
Pets let us be tender, elicit nurturing, and help heal trauma through secure attachment. Our creatures keep our secrets.
Episode 123 — Every Hero’s Journey
The would-be hero first declines, then answers the call; he suffers tests and trials, succeeds with help from unexpected sources, and returns with the gifts of all he has learned.
Episode 122 — Covered: And Archetypal Take on the COVID Mask
Masks provide access to our shape-shifting potential, connect us to our instinctual depths, mediate our relationship to the spirits, and open a portal to the mythic realm of story and drama.
Episode 121 — Not Alone: Finding the Inner Companion
Every companion is an image of the inner Other, and is present whenever gifts of wisdom, care and guidance are received.