by Ray Holland | Mar 22, 2023 | General
This fox might seem without motion, frozen, but her stillness is not passive, and her animal silence is not mute. I see her as a feminine spirit, but she can exist in all of us Riveted yet open to the Heart-dramas we enact, she sees us without fear, without...
by Ray Holland | Mar 13, 2023 | General
We observe certain constellations of family interactions which we have epitomized as the pattern of family interdependence, roles those of destroyer or persecutor, the victim of the scapegoating attack, and the family healer or the family doctor. Nathan Ackerman, 1968...
by Ray Holland | Mar 13, 2023 | General
Alas, we Who wished to lay the foundations of kindness, Could not ourselves be kind. But you, when at last it comes to pass That man can help his fellow man, Do not judge us Too harshly. Bertolt Brecht 1938 I would recommend Richard Schwarzes’ new book, There...
by Ray Holland | Mar 13, 2023 | General
POWER He is not here to tell us something. Humans make everything about themselves. So of course, some people will deprive him of his Power, see no value in this creature, declare he is inferior because he lives fully without our chattering mind, largely silent in the...
by Ray Holland | Mar 9, 2023 | General
The Beginning (Part 2), Looking with Curiosity. I see that when the protagonist is just beginning, the drama still speaks through them, especially when the familiar dances kick up in their lives. You hear them enact well-worn ways they turn resentfully away or...
by Ray Holland | Mar 9, 2023 | General
But the Beginning is not the End. (Part 1) Assessing where we are in the Work can be difficult, especially as we begin. How ever earnest we are, like any change we move forward and back, in and out of moments of sanity, then back into the misery again. Yet our Persona...