Hera, Puer, and Hero and Mother-Complexes
Man in the moon - son in the mother I have been spending a lot of time going over and over James Hollis’ little book called The Eden Project and have been fascinated at that quest to return to the...
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Mothers and sons – Cosmic womb “Through the bloodweb of our mothers, we start out connected to the pulse and rhythm of the cosmos. And then we are torn from the Mother, separated from the cosmos,...
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The mystery of a woman doesn’t get resolved with time. She knows I am taking her photo and she knows that she is loved regardless of reason. Reason doesn’t seem to enter into this at all. If anything,...
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Eros, god of love and desire and the yearning for “Other” “Jungians view the psyche not as a monarchy, as the ego would have it, ore even as a central intelligence agency, bur rather as an entity that...
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Magical Other captured within the body of a woman I love. “Everything, everything, seems to ride on this thing called love. We love nature, we make love, we fall into and out of it, we pursue love and...
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Caught between the ephemeral energies of masculine and feminine. “As no popular culture has built itself upon the idea of romance more than twentieth-century [and 21st] America has, so no one has...
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The Great Mother as the Mother Church I am ready to go on with what I had begun last day, looking at how my Mother Complex makes its appearance in my life and how it influences my relationships. Though...
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A Great Kiskadee in flight “. . . the capacity to suffer wounding and learn to adapt to it is crucial to the development of self. . . We have wounds, and the clusters of energy that accompany them,...
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Relationship as dance. A child, such as the type of child that I was who either adopted or was thrust into the role of mediator or go-between within the family, internalizes the idea of being the good...
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Magical Other – What is love? Yes, what then is love? I know it exists and that it blossoms and often withers turning into bitterness, sorrow and even sometimes hatred. I that magical attraction in...
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