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 | 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 | Jun 28, 2019 | Dreams, Imagery, Individuation, Psyche, Psychology, Soul, Sports Psychology, Symbolic
On August 10, 2011, I published an article on this blog titled, Jungian Psychology and Sports. I am re-visiting this topic now due to a very short, but meaningful dream that I had recently. The dream: I made a really long basketball shot. Shortly after this dream I... by Jeff Howlin | Dec 5, 2017 | Dreams, Psychotherapy, Soul, Symbolic, Unconscious
Just the other day I walked by two men who appeared to be homeless and whose conversation caught my attention. One man said, “You know they have truth serums and anti-truth serums.” I didn’t hear the rest of the conversation, but I heard enough to make me wonder. If... by Jeff Howlin | Sep 9, 2016 | Editorial, Imagery, Soul, Symbolic, Synchronicity, Trauma/PTSD
I could not breathe. Hot, tired and afraid, I was. Trapped in the middle of a crowd of strangers in an airport—people looking at one another more from suspicion than from wonder. Me—held in my mother’s arms while being touched and bumped by bags and elbows. There,... 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...
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