Each of us has a primary metaphoric image that gives life to and feeds our passions and gifts. These primary images usually come from childhood, and they’re often associated with that natural world. My metaphoric image is of my father and grandfather planting in their farm fields. One of my students who grew up in…
The present is not a phase in time. It is the tension by which past and future are metaphorically united and overcome. ~ Martin Foss Ten years after I completed the Ph.D., I was speaking to the president of a graduate school about teaching courses for his doctoral students in Depth Psychology. I didn’t have…
In doorway sessions, clients discover their unique relationship with Spirit–the unique way that Spirit wants to work with them. Because our ultimate assignment is to become Spirit’s dance partner. But in order to be that dance partner, we have to be our full selves. We have to show up as an equal. We don’t just…
Picasso famously said that every act of creation begins with an act of destruction. We live within a creative process…a creative process that is continually destroying and transforming our man-made things, relationships, and institutions. It’s as if the Universe is in a continual process of “making” and we are its ingredients. We’re part of the…
I’ve worked directly with metaphor for 30 years, both professionally and personally, and there’s one image that has never let me go: I’m a plant rooted in rich, fertile soil. On a personal level, when I don’t know what to do or something in life is troubling me, all I need is to open myself…
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