Are You on an Ego Trip?

August 15, 2010

Relax… Everyone Knows About it!
There are some people who get caught up in a selfish and what we call ‘egocentric’ lifestyle. The egocentric person expects life to serve and gratify him and acknowledges no greater authority than his own wants. He tries to control and manipulate his own environment and especially others. He may appear [...]

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Do Your Dreams Have Meaning

July 25, 2010

Falling from a cliff, a house, the sky, etc., is a common theme in dreams. These falling dreams sometimes occur when we’re living with unrealistic ideas about ourselves, make lofty and grandiose plans, or deny reality under a veil of forced optimism. Dreams are messages sent to us from the inner world and point to [...]

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Are You on a Quest?

June 29, 2010

Prime time for following the soul’s call is in late adolescence /early adulthood or in mid-life when mortality becomes personal. Anytime is a good time to explore one soul’s visions and it’s never too late. Ojai itself has been a catalyst for starting a new phase in many lives. Lots of folks who live here [...]

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The Search for Meaning

May 23, 2010

This article is dedicated to my friend Succino.
Succino has had many incarnations in this life including but not limited to being a family man, a social activist, a craftsman, a horse-racing aficionado, a Buddhist monk, an attendant in a Christian Monastery, a student at Oxford University, a psychotherapist, a painter, a servant in the library [...]

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Keep Your Head Up When Your Neck is Dirty

April 17, 2010

Reflections on the Dark Side of Our Personalities.
One of the most painful and rewarding experiences in life is to unblinkingly look in the mirror and see who we really are, not who we would like to be. There we truly stand alone; most people can’t do it.
Arrogance, greed, selfishness, grandiosity, possessiveness, vengeance, envy, blame, [...]

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The Obsessive Personality

March 15, 2010

The obsessives were traumatized in childhood by the abuse of irrational power in their family of origin.  As Carl Jung tells us power is the opposite of love, not hatred.  What to do when the early family situation is emotionally chaotic ?  One defense against chaos is control; another one is not to feel – [...]

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Reflections on Friendship

February 17, 2010

Thomas Moore tells us if the body is in pain one of the first things to look at is the infection – if the soul is in pain, we might look for a lack of friendship. Friendship offers the soul intimacy and relatedness, without intimacy the soul goes starving. Throughout our lives we encounter many [...]

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The Armored Amazon

January 23, 2010

Women who are disconnected from their feminine center.
Looking at newspapers and television one has to wonder whether the world isn’t lost in some collective slam dance. People racing around frantically going nowhere. At bottom, this madness has been promoted by corporate and patriarchal cultures. Never have we been so cut off from [...]

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Are You Depressed? Is There A Bottom To The Well?

December 31, 2009

Depression can fall into three categories: (1) Reactive, (2) Endogeneous, (3) Intrapsychic.
Most of the time, when depressed, people suffer from one of these types, however there are times when two and, for some people, all three can be present. The initial task of therapy is to sort this out as different approaches to healing are [...]

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Are You Lonely?

December 1, 2009

If we’re honest with ourselves we have to acknowledge that most of the time we spend on this earth we’re alone.  In this sense we all share being exiles in the universe.  The author Thomas Wolfe believes that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, is the central and inevitable fact of human [...]

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