Tag: alchemy
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Word to the those who seek help from my kind
I’ve been a psychotherapist for closing on 20 years and while I can say I’ve seen a lot I certainly have not seen it all. I saw something today that threw me off enough to break my silence and write this post. It was a subreddit I follow and the post was from a young…
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The Shadow of the “Big Beautiful Bill”: An Alchemical Analysis of America’s New Law
The Shadow Beneath the Beauty H.R. 1, known as the One Big Beautiful Bill, is more than legislation. It is a symbolic event in the psyche of America. On its surface, it promises “big” and “beautiful” reforms. Beneath, however, it exposes the archetypal shadow of the nation—a collective split between care and control, between nurturance…
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MAPS 2025
Arrived in Denver for the MAPS 2025 psychedelic research and science conference. Always a good time coming to Denver, yesterday 97 and cloudless sky, today 65 and staring to rain. Gotta love that high altitude weather. The conference promises to be just as fascinating, with a wide variety of speakers and researchers presenting their findings…
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American Political Alchemy: A Jungian Analysis of Republican and Democratic Transformations
Can the political shifts of the past 60 years in the United States mirror the transformative journey of the psyche described by Edward Edinger in Anatomy of the Psyche? Edinger’s work, grounded in Jungian alchemy, maps psychological development through symbolic stages of transformation such as calcinatio, solutio, coagulatio, and mortificatio. Though originally applied to individual psychological processes, these alchemical stages…
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The problem with irony
The hospital I work in is on hallowed ground. I don’t mean that metaphorically, I mean literally the building in which I am typing this post used to be a catholic hospital and all around me are the buildings from a long ago time when this was, for lack of a better word, a catholic…