Earlier this week I was giving a seminar called "Beyond Carl Rogers". Rogers was a humanistic psychotherapist who had been inspired in some way by exposure to Eastern ideas. Western psychotherapy all the way back to William James, has benefitted by s
Read more…QUESTION: What is the right attitude to have toward guilt feelings?
SHORT ANSWER: It is unproductive and wasteful of life to attack oneself for being what one is.
LONG ANSWER:
An Assault Upon Ourselves
First we must distinguish between guilt feelin
Read more…This diagram shows the principal goddesses revered here. The vertical axis represents personal inner transformation toward love, faith and resilience, and the horizontal axis represents outer transformation and creation of a healthy, rich, sustainabl
Read more…This is a discussion group for poems alluding to the elements.
Read more…This is a place for posting haiku.
A haiku is a 17 syllable poem, generally consisting of three lines with 5-7-5 syllables respectively. Normally the final line gives a twist or "turn" to the meaning or makes a reference to the season of the year. Tr
Read more…This discussion is a place for adding and talking about "Metaphysical Poems", a genre widely understood as including any poem that alludes to metaphysics, gods and goddesses, the human existential situation or philosophy that takes one beyond the ord
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