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A handy sea-faring metaphor: learn to sail, for we cannot tame the ocean

I am the person people come to when they would like to further understand their own mind; their feelings, their reactions, the content of...

Here I am going to point out the fundaments of the Jungian shadow, and how it is probably one of the most useful concepts, if not the...

Do you remember it? That feeling when an adult you trust, whose leg is as long as you are tall, is walking next to you; your bastion of...

This is a little tale of something I experienced this Christmas. It plays into a concept I have been considering for a long time, which...

The purpose of this post is to do something I encourage people to do, and more so now that I counsel. There is no advice, no conclusion,...

Consciousness, qualia, sensation, experience. Whatever you want to call it, it's really mind-boggling when you think about it. In the...

This is a metaphor that over the years has just kept giving. I believe we glorify love, and don't see the beauty in the cold hard truth...

This may not come as much of a surprise, but here is what science has to say about the hug. And it mostly comes down to out friend:...