So my last post was about reclaiming the dreaded concept of being “religious.” The idea here is that to be religious is to have had your core person transformed by an experience outside yourself. That’s Carl Jung’s definition, and something I can get behind. In fact, the Christian experience speaks to those who have been […]

Neurosis is a substitute for legitimate suffering. Carl Jung 1938 by Yale University Press, Inc. This quote from the noted psychiatrist resonated in me, since having spiritual leanings, I am very interested in the mechanisms of fear (though this first blog entry has nothing to do with neurosis). The quote was the hook. So much […]