Thank you so much for your article on the puer aeternus. Such an accurage portrayal of the shadow side – the cold, brutal senex. I have just experienced this cruelty and am reeling somewhat, so reading what you have written has helped me greatly. I was supposed to help this person, a soul task, but I am still astonished and wounded by this side which has manifested in a way I did not expect.
I will read your other posts too as I enjoy the way you write.
Best wishes,
Linda Barlow
I am very happy to see that you value this information enough to make a comment on the article. This kind of information and subject matter are not commonly seen, (except, probably, inside some thick, technical and dusty tome high on some obscure bookshelf). The Good Doctor boils it down for us, filtered and presented practically, from his years of experience in psychoanalysis.
Hey Peter
Always love to read your missives to the soul and try to imagine what is going on in yr life.
I hope that your are holding the light in my precious Ojai Valley.
I have been mostly alone now for about 10 years and I still love it. One of the reasons that I left the civilized world was because everyone is too busy for a long talk around the fire. Every time you wanna chat on the phone or in person they gotta go…gotta do something…gotta be somewhere. Yikes!!
I have been re reading Jack London. His family has a terrific web site up now with all his books and papers on line for free. What a great and brilliant soul he was. And his wife was very cool also.
When he was in Hawaii he was impressed by the langour of the Hawaiians. When he asked one how he could sit and stare at the water for so long ..the man replied
‘Ah, my brother, you will never learn to know the happiness of thinking nothing and doing nothing; this is next to sleep; this is the most delightful thing there is. Thus we were before birth; thus we shall be after death.’”
My biggest thrill these days is doing nothing…and when not…have a nice long “talk story” with whomever stops by.
Methinks that it doesn’t get more civilized that that.
Just checking in to let you know that YES!! I am on an ego trip…my dreams are full of juicy inspiration and grace…I am a pilgrim in seach for the meaning of the great cosmic giggle and when my neck is dirty..I wash it! (sometimes)
Heheh
I hope this finds you well and that your camp fire is bright and your clients delightfully challenging.
Much Love Compenero
Lil
Dearest Dr Milhado,
I am ever so grateful to read your articles – many were important and much needed for me to read. The depression article I will forward to a friend who is hurting deeply and your mentioning shamanism and SRE (soul recovery extraction) is something I already mentioned so it does not look like I invented gibberish.
Secondly, I am mourning deeply as my former step-daddy recently died last week from a heart attack at 69 years old. Reading the puer aeternus – it described my Daddy perfectly. In the last 28 years I carried a deep emotional festering psychic wound and a lot of unanswered questions – then I felt his presence last Monday night — he came through a song and being a sensitive empath, I grieved out of the blue. Not understanding why I was overreacting — I felt a nudge “Google up my name.” Blindly while still sobbing, I did so– and there was his obit. My world crashed – it’s been a week and suddenly a few days later – I was emotionally exhausted and tried to nap but drifted in and out of consciousness and suddenly I spontaneously had my own shamanic SRE – I saw my 13 years old spirit leave out of my Daddy’s shell. Shocked – I found new answers through her — he is now communicating with me more than he ever did when he was alive. Still confused, and unsatisfied — I searched online and there, bless you, was your article on puer aeternus – describing him to the T. I will have to journey to the rest of my life with so much left unsaid between us – but for now, I am utterly grateful of your impeccably written article. Thank you for your medicine.
Dear Peter
I’m a retired psychooanayst from the Philadelphia area, living in Ojai for the past 3 momths. Phila Center of Psa, APsaA, IPA.. the whole nine yards. I only read View for your column. A colleague and friend, past president of the APsaA, Newell Fischer, has written a book, “Nine lives”..Vantage press. in plain English, writing nine vignettes of his woek with nine patirnts,revealing the two party immersion behindl psychoanalytic psychotherapy..or whatever nameone picks, honest therapy, attunement to what lies behind defenses etc It’s. hard, I’m sure you know better than I, to put suchings into words, but Newell does in manner that actually nakes it hard to put the book down,
And no, I don’t get a cut of his royalties..but as newbie to the area, I recognize a resonent soul from your column and would hate to see you miss a book by yet another resonrnt soul also a writer.
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Thank you so much for your article on the puer aeternus. Such an accurage portrayal of the shadow side – the cold, brutal senex. I have just experienced this cruelty and am reeling somewhat, so reading what you have written has helped me greatly. I was supposed to help this person, a soul task, but I am still astonished and wounded by this side which has manifested in a way I did not expect.
I will read your other posts too as I enjoy the way you write.
Best wishes,
Linda Barlow
Dear Linda,
Awesome stuff, eh?
I am very happy to see that you value this information enough to make a comment on the article. This kind of information and subject matter are not commonly seen, (except, probably, inside some thick, technical and dusty tome high on some obscure bookshelf). The Good Doctor boils it down for us, filtered and presented practically, from his years of experience in psychoanalysis.
Keep reading!
Best to you on your “soul journey,”
John Anthony Miller
Hey Peter
Always love to read your missives to the soul and try to imagine what is going on in yr life.
I hope that your are holding the light in my precious Ojai Valley.
I have been mostly alone now for about 10 years and I still love it. One of the reasons that I left the civilized world was because everyone is too busy for a long talk around the fire. Every time you wanna chat on the phone or in person they gotta go…gotta do something…gotta be somewhere. Yikes!!
I have been re reading Jack London. His family has a terrific web site up now with all his books and papers on line for free. What a great and brilliant soul he was. And his wife was very cool also.
When he was in Hawaii he was impressed by the langour of the Hawaiians. When he asked one how he could sit and stare at the water for so long ..the man replied
‘Ah, my brother, you will never learn to know the happiness of thinking nothing and doing nothing; this is next to sleep; this is the most delightful thing there is. Thus we were before birth; thus we shall be after death.’”
My biggest thrill these days is doing nothing…and when not…have a nice long “talk story” with whomever stops by.
Methinks that it doesn’t get more civilized that that.
Just checking in to let you know that YES!! I am on an ego trip…my dreams are full of juicy inspiration and grace…I am a pilgrim in seach for the meaning of the great cosmic giggle and when my neck is dirty..I wash it! (sometimes)
Heheh
I hope this finds you well and that your camp fire is bright and your clients delightfully challenging.
Much Love Compenero
Lil
Been thinking of you…of course you’d land in Ojai…
Your ex-wife….never remarried….you cured me of that!
Cid
Dearest Dr Milhado,
I am ever so grateful to read your articles – many were important and much needed for me to read. The depression article I will forward to a friend who is hurting deeply and your mentioning shamanism and SRE (soul recovery extraction) is something I already mentioned so it does not look like I invented gibberish.
Secondly, I am mourning deeply as my former step-daddy recently died last week from a heart attack at 69 years old. Reading the puer aeternus – it described my Daddy perfectly. In the last 28 years I carried a deep emotional festering psychic wound and a lot of unanswered questions – then I felt his presence last Monday night — he came through a song and being a sensitive empath, I grieved out of the blue. Not understanding why I was overreacting — I felt a nudge “Google up my name.” Blindly while still sobbing, I did so– and there was his obit. My world crashed – it’s been a week and suddenly a few days later – I was emotionally exhausted and tried to nap but drifted in and out of consciousness and suddenly I spontaneously had my own shamanic SRE – I saw my 13 years old spirit leave out of my Daddy’s shell. Shocked – I found new answers through her — he is now communicating with me more than he ever did when he was alive. Still confused, and unsatisfied — I searched online and there, bless you, was your article on puer aeternus – describing him to the T. I will have to journey to the rest of my life with so much left unsaid between us – but for now, I am utterly grateful of your impeccably written article. Thank you for your medicine.
Kindly,
RaVen Sequoia
aslraVen@gmail.com
Dear Peter
I’m a retired psychooanayst from the Philadelphia area, living in Ojai for the past 3 momths. Phila Center of Psa, APsaA, IPA.. the whole nine yards. I only read View for your column. A colleague and friend, past president of the APsaA, Newell Fischer, has written a book, “Nine lives”..Vantage press. in plain English, writing nine vignettes of his woek with nine patirnts,revealing the two party immersion behindl psychoanalytic psychotherapy..or whatever nameone picks, honest therapy, attunement to what lies behind defenses etc It’s. hard, I’m sure you know better than I, to put suchings into words, but Newell does in manner that actually nakes it hard to put the book down,
And no, I don’t get a cut of his royalties..but as newbie to the area, I recognize a resonent soul from your column and would hate to see you miss a book by yet another resonrnt soul also a writer.
Howard
Howard Huxster MD