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Illness and the River of Life

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...

The World Tree and a Christmas Haibun

by Jeff Howlin | Dec 23, 2019 | Ecopsychology, Editorial, Imagery, Nature, Poetry

  Over the Thanksgiving holiday last month, my family and I were “snowed in” in a mountain cottage west of Denver, Colorado.  In the Colorado Rockies, snow can come down hard and deep in almost any month. I was fortunate to have 48 hours or so in a...

Learning to See in the Dark

by Jeff Howlin | Mar 1, 2016 | Dreams, Ecopsychology, Editorial, Imagery, Nature, Poetry, Symbolic

There is a fish that lives deep in the ocean dark The fish has evolved over time To “see” in the deep With a lantern as a light Just in front of its eyes A young man Who knew about this strange fish Had a big dream In the dream He was riding his motorcycle...

The Psychology of the Unconscious (A Love Poem)

by Jeff Howlin | Oct 4, 2014 | Editorial, Poetry, Unconscious

the psychology of the unconscious is the psychology of the other the one that we seek whether it be a lover or another hidden down under   under our bellies and boils and foibles lies the other waiting to be discovered   discovered or not the other plots to...

The Quiet Therapist

by Jeff Howlin | Feb 11, 2014 | Ecopsychology, Editorial, Imagery, Nature, Poetry, Psychotherapy, Soul

I went for a walk in the woods quiet and stillness of the forest I smiled I meandered along a gentle stream of flowing water gurgling I relaxed I ran my fingers over long prairie grasses falling back to the sway of the wind I breathed deep I swam in a granite-bottomed...

In the Middle of the Night: Coyotes, a Synchronicity and the Trickster Archetype

by Jeff Howlin | Jan 22, 2014 | Archetypes, Consciousness, Creativity, Ecopsychology, Editorial, Imagery, Nature, Poetry, Psyche, Synchronicity

On January, 11, 2014, a good friend of mine who lives in Tucson, AZ, spontaneously sent me a series of photographs taken with a “trail cam.” This camera was mounted in his backyard which backs up to the desert. The photos were all of coyotes in the middle of the...
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