Life Dynamics Counseling Service

05/04/2024

“For small creatures such as we, the vastness is only bearable through love.”

~ Carl Sagan

05/11/2023

“The psychotherapist is not just working for this particular patient, but for himself as well and his own soul, and in so doing he is perhaps laying an infinitesimal grain in the scales of humanity’s soul. Small and invisible as this contribution may be, it is yet an opus magnum.”

~ C. G. Jung

06/19/2022

Yep…

Academy Award-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney and New York Times best-selling author Michael Pollan present this documentary series event in four parts, each f...

05/31/2022

I’m conflicted. Most scientists are suspicious of any hypothesis about the natural world that even vaguely smells like “intelligent design.” I don’t blame them! Christian thinkers have historically embarrassed themselves with their eagerness to find God everywhere. Wherever you look in histo...

04/25/2022

Dig this…

THERE IS NO PATH THAT GOES ALL THE WAY

Not that it stops us looking
for the full continuation.

The one line in the poem
we can start and follow

straight to the end. The fixed belief
we can hold, facing a stranger

that saves us the trouble
of a real conversation.

But one day you are not

just imagining an empty chair

where your loved one sat.
You are not just telling a story

where the bridge is down
and there’s nowhere to cross.

You are not just trying to pray
to a God you always imagined
would keep you safe.

No, you’ve come to a place
where nothing you’ve done

will impress and nothing you
can promise will avert

the silent confrontation;
the place where

your body already seems to know
the way, having kept

to the last, its own secret
reconnaissance.

But still, there is no path
that goes all the way,

one conversation
leads to another,

one breath to the next
until

there’s no breath at all,
just
the inevitable
final release

of the burden.

And then,

wouldn’t your life
have to start

all over again


for you to know

even a little
of who you had been?

…

There is No Path that Goes All the Way
From ‘River Flow:
New and Selected Poems’
©David Whyte and Many Rivers Press
https://davidwhyte.com/collections/books-cards-and-audio/products/river-flow-new-selected-poems
…

Path to the Sun
Photo © David Whyte
Asilomar. Monterey Bay.
April 15th 2022..

This last weekend found me with working with three hundred participants at what was until the Pandemic, my annual conference; all seemingly very happy to be out in the world again; all very happy to be at The Asilomar conference grounds on the shores of Monterey Bay where this photograph was taken, all very, very happy to work with the theme of 'Still Possible'. I am already looking forward to returning in April of next year. DW

01/16/2022

“Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”

~Carl Jung

11/12/2021

Very promising…

Compass Pathways, a U.K.-based company developing psilocybin-assisted mental health therapy, released data from its clinical trial showing how the active ingredient in magic mushrooms can help patients with treatment-resistant depression.

10/28/2021

Do your brain (& thus your mental health) a favor….

New research in mice examines the impact of a Western diet on cognitive decline and neurodegenerative disorders.

08/11/2021

“Study the science of art. Study the art of science. Develop your senses — especially learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.”
~Leonardo Da Vinci

08/03/2021

“Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but most of all, endurance.”

~ James Baldwin

04/08/2021

Belated Easter post, after apt reminder of how fragile yet miraculous our bodies truly are, and how much we still hope to fully incarnate them...

Thank you, Mary Karr

I always found crucifixion way easier to get than rising from death. We all suffer pain/loneliness/loss in our bodies, and the cross is buried inside each of us as a skeleton. So I tried to envision resurrection for Jesus as carnal, which made it less glowy, somehow more real for me. (This poem is from a series in