by Ray Holland | Dec 30, 2024 | General
Inquisitive Wild, Curious, Open The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature. Joseph Campbell. Reflections on the Art of Living Inquisitiveness—starts the Enlarging. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi describes...
by Ray Holland | Dec 30, 2024 | General
Spring Jewels Jewels and I go for a walk on our dirt road every morning. Back and forth, in startles and leaps. She’s unable to move in a straight line, While keeping her eye on dangerous tall grass in the wind. She stares at me with that long question, until she does...
by Ray Holland | Dec 30, 2024 | General
XI Healing and Growing “Everything psychic is pregnant with the future.” Carl Jung, CW, para 53 Now that I have achieved some loosening of the restraints, no longer at least helpless in the seclusion room up to my neck in a body suit with ribs of unbreakable plastics,...
by Ray Holland | Dec 30, 2024 | General
Pain into Ritual—A Turning Point Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; More anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned. Yeats, The Second Coming The Bear and child are engaged in a...
by Ray Holland | Dec 30, 2024 | General
Pain into Ritual as a Turning point If there’s to be a crucial Turning Point in the Heart-drama, if we are not just playing with a detour that returns us to the well-worn spot where we started, then we will need to embrace some daily rituals. The heart of any action...
by Ray Holland | Dec 30, 2024 | General
X Pain into Ritual The P in EXPAND “We are lived by powers we pretend to understand.” Auden Now that we see the barriers as energy-forms which enter our inner and outer stage, now that we understand “the problem,” the question becomes, “What next?” As I will use the...