Going out of your mind with Robert Bosnak
Most of us in the Western World were raised with the view that the mind is our most important feature. In fact, the rational intellect has been prioritized in western…
On being in love
What happens when you fall in love? Your world becomes electric and focuses on a single face. I can’t get enough of looking at pictures of her. I see new…
The Chilling Truth About Psychopaths
“What is it that makes psychopaths so compelling?” I asked Dr. Aaron Kipnis – psychotherapist, professor, and author of four books – during a recent conversation. I last spoke to…
Love and Work: Is happiness bad for creativity?
Green mountains of Laos ripple before me. It’s a hot and humid winter day. We’re in the ancient royal city of Luang Prabang. This morning at 6 am I witnessed…
The Mystery of Individuality
In the car in Sydney traffic just after December solstice, the longest day of the year. Carrie Fisher has just passed. Princess Leia now only lives as picture on a…
On Gift and Life Purpose
It is inconceivable that we humans could be in this world for no reason. There is no way we and our purpose can be ignorant of, or completely alienated from each other like twins…
The Story of Your Life
‘Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?’ ends Mary Oliver in her poem The Summer Day. This line is often quoted…
Capturing the Wind: Aligning with the Archetypal Through Dreams
How can we best understand what our dreams are communicating to us? According to Dr. Michael Conforti, dream images have an existence autonomous of how we think or feel about…
Dreams, Complexes and the Self Explained
The dream is a telling of the life we are meant to live, of a destiny awaiting our arrival, and of a union with something far greater than we could…
Drilling down: a conversation with Robert Bosnak
In my two-part conversation with alchemical psychologist Robert Bosnak he offers, amongst several other gems, some intriguing insight into his newest course on Alchemy.
A Matter of Money
It occurred to me after speaking to Dr Aaron Kipnis that he is to money what Masters & Johnson were to sex in the 60s and 70s. Core faculty member…
“What is REAL?” asked the Rabbit one day.
A conversation about Dreams with Machiel Klerk.