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Archive for August, 2005

Someone She Has Not Met

AngelShe never mentions the word addiction in certain company. Yes, she’ll tell you she’s an orphan after you meet her family. She paints her eyes as black as night, now pulls those shades down tight. Yeah, she gives a smile when the pain comes, the pain’s gonna make everything alright.

Says she talks to angels, they call her out by her name. She talks to angels, says they call her out by her name. She keeps a lock of hair in her pocket. She wears a cross around her neck. Yes, the hair is from a little boy and the cross is someone she has not met, not yet. Read more

What Would Jesus Say?

Where Is God?
Luke 17:20 And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation. Luke 17:21 Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.

Love for Enemies
Jesus said, “You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father in heaven.” Read more

Jung Blurred

C.G. JungIt’s been over a decade since (1) Richard Noll first put a challenge to Jungians: prove that analytical psychology rests on firm scientific ground, otherwise agree that it’s just a religion or pseudoscience. He was right to make this challenge. In my opinion, Jungians have lost their way – attaching themselves to new age voodoo, astrology, and any other practice that will sell books to the masses. Remember, Jung was an M.D. and did research according to the experimental method. Some of his best early work on complexes is the foundation on which much of modern psychology is based. Read more

Practical Campbell: Smoke or Mirrors?

“The occult” – an emotionally charged term evoking sinister associations, everything from fraudulent and greedy fortune tellers to satanic rituals, images reinforced on movie screens and in pulpits across the country … but is this the reality, or merely projections of the public imagination? Is the practice of occult arts–particularly popular forms of divination, including astrology, tarot, and the I Ching–simply ignorant superstition? Do such represent at best an exercise in futility, an abdication of responsibility for one’s own life? Or do they really work?

Original post by Joseph Campbell Foundation