When the Gods Return: Psychedelics, Noetic Knowing, and the Mythic Unconscious
Invited to write for the IAAP Bulletin (May 2026), I reflect on psychedelics and the mythic unconscious—two enduring personal, clinical, and theoretical interests of mine. Psychedelic experiences may disclose mythic, archetypal, and numinous dimensions of psyche.
Beyond Linear Time: On “Brackets of Time,” Relative Time, and Synchronicity in Jung
Addendum to my Speaking of Jung interview (Feb 18, 2026): a clarification of “brackets of time” as subjective time-contents beyond clock time, showing how relative temporality shapes synchronicity, i.e. the meaningful falling-together in time of inner and outer events.
The Illusion of Instant Depth: Misappropriating Jung in the Psychedelic Field
Jung’s psychology offers a uniquely powerful framework for preparing and integrating psychedelic experiences. A disciplined, symbolically-grounded Jungian work can transform psychedelic revelations into lasting psychological change. Peak experiences are momentary; integration is lifelong.
Called or Uncalled: Jung’s Doorway to the Numinous
C.G.Jung’s inscription in Küsnacht “Vocatus atque non vocatus deus aderit.”: the god who arrives uncalled, the unconscious, and the promise of transformation.
From Sensationalism to Soul: Reclaiming Meaning in the Age of Spectacle #mementomori
This is a call to hold mortality in minds at all times. Quietly meditating on the gravity of one’s own death is the only honest position against sensationalism’s distractions.This is the dignity of the finite and the beginning of authenticity.
Synchronicity: Carl Jung’s principle for understanding Time and Timelessness
We live our lives in a clock-bound world dominated by its fixed keeping of time. If we choose to pay attention, we realize that we are also inundated by paradoxical temporal occurrences that defy the clock.
The Invisible Women Syndrome (Warning to the gentle reader: Gender sensitive piece)
Invisible women can literally end the world as we know it. And right now, that sounds like a great prospect and perhaps the only way out of a world that is spinning off its axis outweighed with testosterone and male-ego.
(Mis)using Jung; or, “Who looks outside dreams; who looks inside awakes”
“…Who looks outside dreams; who looks inside awakes.” What does it mean? Judging from its common usage, it’s anyone’s guess. Literally…”
Mirrors; or, Narcissus Reloaded
"Narcissus’ downfall was not that he gazed into the pond; it was that he confused the reflection for the Other; that he projected unknowingly. And that is a terrifying, yet all too common prospect for the psyche."
Eternity Reclaimed: The Significance of Resurrection
"The idea of the resurrection is within our reach, at least in its symbolic form. This would explain the frequency of the motif of resurrection in religions and mythologies...Christ’s fate is important because it functions as a symbol of the Self, which exists outside space-time."
We: The fairest tale of them all
“…Romantic love must die. This sounds so anticlimactic, doesn’t it? Yet, if we manage to see the inner reality for what it is, an inner world will flourish. Once the anima/animus is brought to consciousness, the projection upon the actual person loses its power..."
Russians love their children too
“…‘Russians’ is a song that states our only source of comfort and, simultaneously, a source of profound despair: We are all humans…”
Saint Javelin: The Rebirth of a Symbol
“Saint Javelin is a much more potent symbol than a saint in her usual state of being: placid, peaceful, tolerant. At this point in history a new symbol is needed, and so it is brought forth.”