Author Archives: ccseed

One of the great features of the new blackberry for worpress app is that you can take and post an image while posting, which really extends and aids a live blogging practice. Here I’m trying to do just this while … Continue reading →

Not sure yet how to postition or resize the photos…but user interface is pretty smooth. If your a blackberry and a WP user, this app is a no brainer. Just joined the user forum so I can add my experiences … Continue reading →

So excited about the wordpress for blackberry software, just hd to throw up this test post…and note, it inserts photos on the fly…wow!

As many are recapturing (or attempting to recapture) the magic of Woodstock this weekend in our neck of the woods, I’m wondering what collective event was formative in the story of your life? I’m not sure I really had a … Continue reading →

I can’t get past the idea that we really have not grasped the shear volume of information that is being generated on a daily basis, and we have an even fainter grasp of what to do with it…or how to … Continue reading →

In the midst of my travels out West, I came across a character at the laundrymat last night that so reminded me of others that have intersected my life. He was a man about fifty, traveling alone “for three months” … Continue reading →

So getting West, and by West I mean that expanse that runs from the Mississippi to the foot hills of the Sierra Nevada’s (not sure why yet, but the Pacific Coast is something all together different), I’m struck by how … Continue reading →

Some sage advice from Jung as I read while flying over the Great Plains on my journey to Yellowstone: “Contact with wild nature, whether it be man, animal, jungle or swollen river, requires tact, foresight, and politeness. Rhinoceroses and buffaloes … Continue reading →

It’s a pretty simple equation I’m about to share and I do help you will make it clear if you think I’m off the mark. But it strikes me that playfulness equates to fascination, and our adult defensiveness toward play … Continue reading →

Jung always walked the walk when it came to play. As an elderly man he could still sit for hours at the lake side where he built his retreat and play with a stick in the sandy shore, creating small … Continue reading →

Over at Catskill Cottage Seed (http://ccseed.com) I’m pondering how to approach yes and no as ying and yang instead of as right and wrong. How often is no right, and yes wrong? And how do we tie our choices to … Continue reading →

Every so often its good to bring up a problem with terminology. In common usage, to be self-centered means egocentric. Yet Jungian terminology recognizes the archetype of the Self, which speaks to the wholeness of the psyche, both in the … Continue reading →

Image via Wikipedia Something I wanted to share: my son and I make charcoal each winter in our outdoor wood furnace, which we then use for cooking in the summer. Pretty easy process. Put cut sticks into a sealed container. … Continue reading →

Image by ToniVC via Flickr Thinking how is it that we can and need to distinguish Jung’s understanding of synchronicity as meaningful coincidence, from magical thinking. What criteria would you use to distinguish the difference?  I’d point out as a … Continue reading →

Image by Guðskraftur via Flickr From my reading this morning: The Gloria Mundi says: “The salt of the earth is the soul.” This pregnant sentence contains within it the whole ambiguity of alchemy.  On the one hand the soul is … Continue reading →

Pondering the challenge of experiencing the archetypes without identifying with them. This delicate and difficult problem of handling powers and energies that vastly extend beyond the limits of the ego without falling into the trap of an inflation is a … Continue reading →

In the “Mysterium Coniunctionis” (CW XIV) the following quote leapt out at me as in a recent dream I found myself driving in the opposite direction of a cross country trip I took a decade ago. Jung writes: “But he … Continue reading →

Walking through the Red Sea, the trust needed to attain deliverence, no small feat…

Walking through the Red Sea, the trust needed to attain deliverence, no small feat…

It’s an interesting thing to explore the difference between Jung’s rigorous mode that appears throughout the collected works, and his more informal mode, which we get a hint at when we read the seminars that his students transcribed…perhaps rigor and … Continue reading →

Image by Joana Roja – in and out-Happy 4th via Flickr It’s interesting that colors can be approached as chords and that the musical analogy fits exactly to the color theory, even so that minor and major chords can be … Continue reading →

Image via Wikipedia Been struggling helping some folks see the difference between a view of the psyche that is objective versus personalistic.  The personalistic ties everything to the experience of the individual.  The objective admits transpersonal aspects while not dismissing … Continue reading →

Image by tassiesim via Flickr What are you planting these days?  And I ask that broadly.  It can be seeds in the garden, but also any creative project that might lead to some flowering somewhere down the road.  In relationship … Continue reading →