The story of Eros (Cupid) and Psyche is a second century mythologem told by the Latin writer Apuleius. It appears nowhere else in the classical literature. Here, it has been contemporized by Dr. Paul Kiritsis.
I have recently added a new section to our Healing and Consciousness Library, and wanted to share it here. I myself was pretty excited about and started trying it out :) Haven't lucid dreamt yet, but I'm remembering more and more of my dreams.
A friend turned me on to this short article. It discusses the inability of sincere spirituality to always unlock and untie persistent problems of the mind... taking an integral, holistic approach.
Before the word "racism" was created (to create a word means everyone must agree upon the definition in order to use a word... or some people in "power" decide and everyone "must" agree), what were acts of hatred because of skin color? Certainly not isolated events, but not a conspiracy such as racism. Not a cause for anybody to stand behind or against.
In his psychoanalytic work in object-relations theory, Christopher Bollas identifies a phenomenon among his work with patients that has been named "Normotic illness" or "normopathy" within the psychanalytic field. Bollas' angle is that such a disorder is created through a misrecognition of "the other".
I was going to post this on the old Breaking Open the Head forums, because I've gained a lot from them even though I came to them about 5 years after they stopped being really active, to pay my respects to the challenge and the inspiration of the forums, but the registration software is no longer working in the forums or doesn't work on my laptop. So I'll post this here.
So I have read in various works of Mr. Daniel Pinchbeck of a distinguishing effect called a synchronicity, which is basically a random line up of an event or a series of events that in no way has any co-relation, things that were often times confused by myself for my entire life up to this point as sheer “coincidences”.
We are baseless, intimidated, torn from the interrelationships from which we strive. Portions of psyche disintegrate and are replaced with pseudo synthetic replacements, the breeze from which becomes our glazed expression. A map is needed to chart our expressive dance, to realign our toes as they are hammered and stubbed. Who will open our doors?
I recently heard John Trudell speak at the US Social Forum in Detroit.
He was talking about how reactionary politics and activism often starts from a place of anxiety and fear, from a place of trauma and defensiveness, under which lies an investment in the illusion that we’re not good enough.
Im seekiing a solution or even ideas to why I have been having bad dreams. They have been going on for about 4 years, and since then I have only had very extreme weird dreams or terrifying ones. Ive considered the fact my dad died at a young age, but I do not feel that affects me still. I feel I have a pretty chill, normal life.
In January 2008, David Caron of Texas filmed a UFO in the sky for nine minutes. As UFOs go it was unusual because it was morphing into what at times seemed like squiggly lines and at other times seemed like symbols or characters. It would transform directly from one shape to the next, as if it were the frames of a movie.
The phrase "Not long now", clearly emphasized in the dream and later that day with an additional synchronicity, would imply that this accessibility is imminent. Once I had worked out a rough interpretation of these dreams, the imagery began to spill over into my daily reality.
It was a long time ago, even though it feels like last week or just a few days ago. The whooshing and shuddering sounds still echo in my being. I am 60 now. 45 years have passed. I seldom think about yesterday or yesterdays past. I am generally right here in this moment doing exactly what I am doing. I don't have to think about doing.
"Banish the word 'struggle' from your attitude and your vocabulary. All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration.
We are the ones we have been waiting for." — Hopi elders
