What does it mean to be ‘natural’ or ‘wild’? Are these qualities, on an archetypal level, associated with women? Can we recognise the archetypes of wild women, incarnating freedom and desire, or earth mothers, here to nurture, who are ultimately very powerful, yet possibly not very bright?

It should trouble us all when anyone regards any of our most important philosophical, religious, or even scientific questions as “settled.”

Just as there are many different types of counseling and therapy, there are many different purposes to which clients may put their therapeutic work. Some are more conducive than others to positive change over the long haul.

To be fully aware and embracing of all that is within us and consciously seeking to be all that we can be is our most noble quest.

The giant crack in Earth that is the Grand Canyon has been here a long time — a very long time, in fact, before we humans came along. And it’s likely to go on for a long time, even if we do not.

In the end, all of our quests for ultimate understanding necessarily relegate us to metaphor. And over the years I’ve been exposed to many different explanatory metaphors.

We are organisms co-existing with our environment, making no sense without it, needing to be aware of what we are actually doing, rather than what we think we are doing — let alone what we think about what we are thinking we are doing.