I feel there was in my childhood a kind of shadow cast on E.A.P. containing horror and death and stories of curdlywordly spiders. As if that were reason not to investigate, not to seek and find. And so, of course, I did not. For there was a great stretch and I am not too unaware of the tendency to relapse when I would avoid whatever was given a warning…

My thoughts/feels while reading were apparent but only clear in retrospect. As if, I wasn’t sure if I was getting it. I have to say I was tempted to put this one down from the first 20-30 pages given how bounced around I felt. I’m glad I didn’t…

My first of VA Woolf. The most important thing for me here is that to create, to write or whatever, one needs a great deal of time to one’s self. And to have time, one needs money (or to be supported). Virginia was the heir to a perpetuity…

It follows well on the last post to read one published some decades later touching on the same. The Title, “Sennex & Puer”, my first of James Hillman’s. This is another Jungian analyst but here I think is a new paradigm…

Another of von Franz, excellent analysis of The Little Prince and other stories. There is an eternal child in me, to be sure…

Philosophical novel, asks and answers a large number of questions. Or rather points towards the answers as these are the truly cursed questions, the unanswerable. Ones I’ve wrestled with the…

Everyone has a bit of Jekyll in them. Everyone a bit of Hyde. Timeless I think given humanity’s inner and outer struggle with identification of and with good vs evil…

Again, Camus, really awesome work! It is no wonder you won the Nobel for literature just one year after publication. To think that the works of Camus (among others, Nietzsche, Jung, etc.) had been in circulation for almost 50 years during my Christian belief and pretend leadership in college astounds me. Though I think it was important to go through “as if”…

My second of Von Franz’s. She was the co-founder of the original Jung Institute in Zurich, Switzerland, perhaps Jung’s most famous student and colleague, and certainly the preeminent on interpretation of fairy tales among other topics. Touching the relationship with my own anima is guaranteed while reading her analysis…

My first reading of Eric Fromm’s. Published in 1956. Bits about homosexuality and allusions to gender norms of the time made me look! Minor distractions really. I believe I came across this googling something like ‘best fucking books ever written about love…

How did I get here? Serendipity. On a bookshelf in my office is a pewter statue of Sisyphus rolling his ball up the infamous hill. It was to commemorate my retirement from one work life and the entering of another with unforeseen successes and failures. The eternal struggle between efforting and finding meaning…

How did way lead me to this again? There are so many possibilities. Instead of trying to recall the most significant or the exact moment which catalyzed my purchase, let me just say I had been wanting to understand Jung’s meaning of the title from his own hand. Because once I’d heard that it was not used appropriately in…

The lessons of Don Juan. First book of Carlos’s I read was madness to me. Hilarious at times as he recounted (as best as one can I imagine) his direct experiences of shamanic drug induced journeys…