Even after all this time
The sun never says to the earth, “You owe me.”
Look what happens with a Love like that!
—It lights the whole Sky. (Hafez)
In the Persian culture, everything is encompassed by love, or eshgh, deriving from the Arabic ishq. Icons such as Rumi and Hafez represent the ever-present passion in the history [...]
How does one define “soul”? Depth psychology makes the study of “soul” an important element of distinction from traditional orientations. James Hillman refers to soul as “the imaginative possibility in our natures, the experiencing through reflective speculation, dream, image, and fantasy”. For me, this evokes the idea that soul is a way of [...]
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Modern psychology is predominantly one of linear relationships and evidence-based approaches. We have grown suspicious of subjective experiences, however powerful, that cannot be quantifiable. We distrust the language of reverence, intuition, and mystical connection. Clients are provided treatment plans and medications and 8 sessions to feel better. In today’s model [...]
