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Cheryl Strayed’s Vita Nuova.

12-Feb-15

Tecamac de Felipe Villanueva In my previous essay about Cheryl Strayed’s excellent book Wild, I took as my theme the nature of the experience Strayed had, a truly transformational one which ultimately changed her perspective on almost all the issues of importance. Tranformation of perspective like this is called in Greek metanoia, a wonderful word which implies both alteration […]

Dis-ease.

13-Feb-14

http://schottremovals.co.uk/?p=516 This morning I woke to the sound of large machinery.  I was surprised: it had started snowing last night and a full-on blizzard was expected.  I got up and looked out the window: there was an excavator trying to turn around on my driveway.  The snow was melting, too, which surprised me, and there were […]

Dreams.

04-Jan-14

From a Jim Harrison interview: I remember this—it might be an apocryphal story—they gave some old Zen master seven hits of acid. And nothing happened. You see what I mean? You have to accept your dream life as part of your life. Only our culture would neglect the dream life. I mean my God, it’s […]

Marie-Louise von Franz, Jung, Death.

20-Dec-12

I had the sudden conviction that I should finally more fully explore the writings of Marie-Louise von Franz, a second-generation Jungian whose writings I have been impressed by in the past.  I am in general always partial to people who have some kind of redemptive salvific Messianic purpose in their work: ‘Like all of us, […]

Night in the Desert.

05-Feb-12

Feeling horribly contained by urban life here, I drove out of the city not really knowing where I was going and pulled my truck to the side of the road by a small shrine about fifty miles into the desert.  I pulled out my sleeping bag and found a spot where the rocks were a […]

Dreams.

10-Apr-11

One of the consistently impressive things about life in the woods is the enlarged importance of dreams: if you keep to the natural cycle of light and dark you will sleep more, and arise naturally: and these two things are probably enough to ensure that your mind will get some harvest from its natural crop […]

Jung on Dreams.

09-Aug-10

“It is from the all-uniting depths that the dream arises, be it ever so childish, grotesque, or immoral. So flowerlike is it in its candor and veracity that it makes us blush for the deceitfulness of our lives.”

Death in Dreams.

22-Nov-09

I had a friend over Saturday, and after he left I felt tired – I had not slept well Friday night – and the warmth from the fire put me to sleep around 5 p.m., just as it was getting dark.  I slept for three hours.  Just before I woke, I dreamt I was driving […]