Chapter 9: Prayer, Ceremony & Ritual [Letters from Home] “Home is not nearly a place, nor a term, home is a psychic integration… The home is a degree of consciousness, it is an unfoldment of principles, it is a revelation of purposes, it is something that happens as we unfold and evolve, by means of Read More…
Dive Manual
Dive Manual: A Prose of Alchemy & Analytic Psychology – Chapter Eight
Ch. 8 Boats and Microscopes and Bottles of Elixirs and Raw Steak and a Bunch of Dive Gear [Dive Encounters] “You know, I’m sick of following my dreams, man. I’m just going to ask where they’re going and hook up with ’em later.” –Mitch Hedberg “All the pretty visitors came and waved their arms And Read More…
Dive Manual: A Prose of Alchemy & Analytic Psychology – Chapter Seven
Facets of the anima [20K Leagues Under the Sea] “The sea is everything. It covers seven-tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides. The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful Read More…
Dive Manual: A Prose of Alchemy & Analytic Psychology – Chapter Six
Songs of the Soul & the Syren [Dive Sickness] “Stage Four begins where many modes of therapy end. It is called ‘From Vision to Commitment’. Here is where the insights are tested and reinforced so that the process envisioned can move from the hypothetical or imaginal realm into the phase of intention and then into Read More…
Dive Manual: A Prose of Alchemy & Analytic Psychology – Chapter Five
Divination Arts & Modern Science [Dive & Submergence] “I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self Reliance “7 AM, The garbage truck beeps Read More…
Dive Manual: A Prose of Alchemy & Analytic Psychology – Chapter Four
Initiation & the Pilgrimage of the Fool [Setting Sail] “This town don’t feel mine I’m fast to get away far I dressed you in her clothes Now drive me far away It feels good to know you’re all mine Now drive me far away I don’t care where, just far away.” ~Deftones – Be Quiet and Read More…
Dive Manual: A Prose of Alchemy & Analytic Psychology – Chapter Three
Transpersonality: Trees of Life & Death [Shoreline] “One thing meanwhile stands firm: the real, the original, way from the whirlpool lies in heaven. With this finding, one may plunge again into the bewildering jungle of ‘earthly’ myths concerning the Waters from the Deep.” ~Giorgio de Santillana & Hertha von Dechend [Hamlet’s Mill: An Essay Investigating Read More…
Dive Manual: A Prose of Alchemy & Analytic Psychology – Chapter Two
From Alchemy to Psychoanalysis [Map with an ‘X’] “I’ve been crawling on my belly Clearing out what could’ve been I’ve been wallowing in my own confused And insecure delusions For a piece to cross me over Or a word to guide me in I wanna feel the changes coming down I wanna know what I’ve Read More…
Dive Manual: A Prose of Alchemy & Analytic Psychology – Chapter One
Mysticism & Memetics [Thirst] “Paranoia, fear, group-think, superstition, You don’t understand you create what you envision Young lady opens eyes, sees true worth Blind man with a raven’s head seeks new birth It’s all too much, it’s all beautiful, all terrifying, All the projections of human souls One day, one became two I sat beneath Read More…
Dive Manual: A Prose of Alchemy & Analytic Psychology – Prologue
A Fight in a Phone Booth [Ocean] “This life is hard, my mental level is odd Like devils versus gods, there’s a war inside my mind going on Squads represent these separate emotions Three quarters of us is made of water, Now it’s land versus ocean.” – Existence Ill Bill (Non Phixion) [embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_0JorngHcw[/embedyt] Click Read More…