Provocateurs: Do What Enlivens Your Soul. {poetry}
We will not be overwhelmed by corrupt power's parasitic presence, the twisted notion that we can metabolize poison by contorting our soul while Rome burns.
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Melissa La Flamme
Being Authentic Through Traumatic Times.
There is no living a soul-centered life without being authentic and compassionate, without mustering the courage to do the excavating in the dark.
Retrieving Eros: Isn’t Anything Sacred Anymore?
When I say the words god, faith, sacred, holy, I remember C.G. Jung's response to a journalist when asked if he "believed in God." Jung said, "I know God."
Grief: The Doorway to Love.
Seek real, empathic support from others who show you the capacity to be able to sit with you in your grief, let you have this experience of being wildly human.
The Gift of Your Genius. {poetry}
I just wish you knew
the rest of us were there too,
in the caves, up the trees, in the holes
in the ground,
in the shadow of our own genius.
Cultivating the Archetypal Feminine in Men (And Women): Debunking an Exclusionary, Limiting View.
Among the inner work, for men and women, is to look hard into dark places to identify within, excavate, liberate, and integrate the presence of the archetypal Masculine and Feminine psychological and embodied energies within ourselves, and bring those energies, once well-balanced and made ...
On Soul’s Revolutionary Road: Witnessing Another’s Unfolding.
Soul wants to sink us down into the ground of our being, where it's fecund and rich, damp and ripe, ready for flourishing, continually opening and deepening into more of who we are, and what we are here for. To do so, our soul needs a witness in the other. An empathic, fiercely loving, solidly ...
The Mythopoetics of Sacrifice and Transformation: Breaking Free, Jungian Style.
We do this sort of heavy-lifting, soul-level excavating, deep-diving inner work to consciously disassemble, sever, re-member, and over time, integrate long-lost but reclaimed pieces of who we are -- to fully ensoul our self/Self.
Holy Fuck: On Vulnerable, Erotic, Soul-Centered Loving and Caring for Our Planet.
When our heart is broken wide open, there is an invitation to nearly unimaginable receptivity and fantastical courage to inhabit this sort of loving.
The Deliciously Alive, Broken Open Heart.
A deliciously alive, broken open heart is a revolution. And it is what you are for, as a human being. Your torn open and glistening heart is a wild, throbbing portal to aliveness, to living a life with your own freaky artistry. Imagine that.