Hints and Guesses

New Batteries, the Marlboro Man, and the Messiah Complex

What are the fantasies we'd like to maintain so our worldview doesn't have to change?  Plus, change your batteries!  Thanks for listening.  Stay safe, stay smart, be courageous.  

What Really Matters?

Just holding the question, "what really matters," seems to be more important right now than quick answers.   This week is about that question, as well as the gifts of silence, severance and solitude.  I also turn to some voices of wisdom, Merton, Berry and Rilke, who have lived through a few things, and still their words ring true. This time period is nothing short of a global invitation to change, but how and when and at what cost all seem to be unanswered.  I hope you hear a few hints and guesses which inspire and challenge.  Stay safe, stay smart, be courageous.  

Beauty and Terror...Just Keep Going

Collision of opposites, Corona, survival dance, sacred dance, abandonment, overwhelm, extrovert, introvert and the possibilities of a greater consciousness.  What a world we live in!  Stay safe and smart and courageous.  

The Vulnerability Hangover

Let's talk about vulnerability, over-sharing, wounds and the fundamental nature of being.  I Hope these hints and guesses are helpful.  Enjoy!

The Hidden Gifts of Anger

Does anger have anything to teach us in a world with so much violence and suffering?  Join me this week for an exploration around anger.  I'll weave threads from David Whyte, Bill Plotkin and Joanna Macy, plus share a few personal stories about my own relationship with anger.  Enjoy!  Or get pissed off.  

I Believe in the Night

A podcast on advent, incarnation, the womb, Rilke, holiday parties, the mall, and the pregnant possibility of sweet darkness.  Happy holidays my friends.  Enjoy!

The Earth is Flat

This week is about conspiracy theories, fantasies and our strategies for avoiding impermanence and the abyss. Enjoy!

How Not To Be A Narcissist

Sick of the news?  Let's talk about Echo and Narcissus, a David Whyte poem, flannel shirts, and Gandhi's well know imperative, "be the change you want to see in the world."  Enjoy!     

Stuff that Helps! 5 The Magical Other

"You complete me!" Not really.  As a follow up to the last episode on the Shadow, I'm diving into the image of the Magical Other.  Let's talk about projections and fantasies in intimate, long-term relationships.  And how to grow up.  This episode is in my series Stuff that Helps!, where I popularize stuff I've found helpful.  This week will be about the work of James Hollis, a Jungian Analyst and author who coined the phrase the Magical Other.  According to Hollis the fantasy of the Magical Other is one of the chief sources of suffering in long-term relationships, not to mention a kind of false god in the Western world.  Enjoy!

A Little Podcast on the Shadow

With so much finger pointing and blame right now, let's talk about the shadow and projection.  Ken Wilber calls shadow work the great gift of psychology in the 21st century.  So what is it?  How do we get close to the possibilities and invitations hidden beneath our conscious awareness?  Enjoy!