We are always other to each other — soul meeting soul, the body awakened with joy.

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We are always other to each other — soul meeting soul, the body awakened with joy. Pauli died in 1958 without completing his work in “micro-physics.” What his journey was demanding of him in his work with Jung and von Franz was not merely the masculine advancement of new hypotheses about the nature of matter, … Read more

This is an idea that still underlies the mandala-symbols in modern dreams.

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This is an idea that still underlies the mandala-symbols in modern dreams. A parallel conception is to be found in Plotinus, who lived a little later (c. 205-70). He says in the Enneads: “Self-knowledge reveals the fact that the sous natural movement is not in a straight line, unless indeed it have undergone some deviation. … Read more

That Great Man in the heart, who tells me his opinions about me by means of dreams.

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That Great Man in the heart, who tells me his opinions about me by means of dreams. Man, however, experiences something that is not  contained in our metaphor of the pine tree. The individuation process is more than a coming to terms between the inborn germ of wholeness and the outer acts of fate. Its … Read more

Twelve Defining Moments in the History of Alcoholics Anonymous

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Twelve Defining Moments in the History of Alcoholics Anonymous   Introduction There is a long history of recovery mutual aid groups that pre-date the founding of Alcoh0lics Anonymous—Native American recovery “circles”; the Washingtonians; Fraternal Temperance Societies; Ribbon Reform Clubs; institutional support groups such as the Ollapod Club, the Godwin Association, and the Keeley Leagues; and … Read more