by Jeff Howlin | Dec 10, 2022 | Dreams, Ecopsychology, Imagery, Nature, Psyche, Psychology, Symbolic, Uncategorized
Of all humanity’s clever tools, perhaps the greatest is metaphor. Buffalo can serve as the metaphor for all wildness, and the lesson in their near extinction and return can inform us all about bringing our planet back to balance. —Dan O’Brien, Great Plains Bison In my... by Jeff Howlin | Jun 20, 2022 | Dreams, Imagery, Poetry, Uncategorized
In my last blog post, I wrote about the image of the butterfly. The image of the bridge is another significant and common image that presents in dreams. A butterfly image can be an image of transformation. The bridge can also be an image of potential transformation... by Jeff Howlin | Apr 22, 2022 | Ecopsychology, Imagery, Nature, Poetry, Uncategorized
There is nothing in the caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly. Buckminster Fuller Let me tell you about the butterfly. It is an image of transformation. It is not just any image. The journey from egg, to chrysalis, to caterpillar to butterfly,... by Jeff Howlin | Oct 3, 2020 | Depression, Dreams, Ecopsychology, Editorial, Nature, Poetry, Soul, Symbolic, Trauma/PTSD
Shelter from the storm–Bob Dylan sang about it and the sirens with their beautiful voices lured sailors toward it. When life deals you one heavy blow after another with no end in sight, seeking shelter may seem like the right thing to do. Here in California... by Jeff Howlin | Apr 6, 2020 | Biology, Consciousness, Editorial, Individuation, Poetry
The Mississippi River, one of the great world rivers, starts as a small stream in Northern Minnesota, where it flows from one of the thousands of Minnesota lakes. As the river travels south it gathers speed and size before emptying into the Gulf of Mexico in...
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