A Grief Ritual
This is the continuation of a story that I related in my talk Transpersonal: Integrative Therapy for Past-Life Trauma. It concerned a tragic accident in which a 17 year old…
The Infernal Medicine: the Madness of William Blake
“Blake … was … mad!” This was Jonathan Wordsworth’s introduction to William Blake’s ‘The Marriage of Heaven and Hell’. A tall, patrician figure, with an air of amusement and a…
Cryptozoology
Like a big cat in the Norfolk Fens or a towering simian figure in the American backwoods, a neurosis is a real experience that doesn’t belong. I want to talk…
Madness and the Spirits
A recent study of people who reported hearing voices in California, Accra and Chennai found that: In a California sample, people were more likely to describe their voices as intrusive…
Being Amphibious
In 1899 Sigmund Freud declared dreams to be “the royal road to the knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind”. Just three years later, William James wrote, Our normal…
Stalking the Body Zone
The body is a device to calculatethe astronomy of the spirit.Look through that astrolabe and become oceanic Rumi, trans. by Coleman Barks Somatic or bodily experience is a realm that…
What is Weird Therapy?
Weird Therapy is an approach to psychotherapy that embraces a vision of reality as weird. What do we mean by ‘weird’? The word first appeared as wyrd in Old English,…