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Bison bison: A Jungian Psychologist Reflects upon an Enduring American Animal and Symbol

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...

The Storm: Mountains Ablaze

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...

Jungian Psychology and Sports 2: The Shot

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...

Dreams, Truth Serums and Anti-truth Serums

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...

The Red Ribbon (A Short Story of Trauma, Dreams and Healing)

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,...

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...
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