Essays and insights on the nature of consciousness, from the archetypal to the personal and political, centered on how we live and work, and the cultures we’re creating.
In addition to reading below, you can also listen to some of these posts as audio essays here on my podcast channel, Again, but with Feeling.
There’s No Method to Your Madness
How is your New Year so far? Personally, this part of the year is always accompanied by a psychic darkness. I feel disoriented about which way is up, and I am constantly questioning each step [...]
Meaninglessness in America
In Western culture and particularly in the United States, we are in the “in between times.” Religion as an external organizing principle for internal spirituality and meaning has waned in significance over the last half [...]
Meaninglessness & the Human Condition
“We’re all in search of an adequate biography.” – James Hillman, paraphrased This week I read a passage that made me blush. And no, not in a coy, cute way. In that red hot flushed [...]
Enjoy the Void. It Won’t Last Long.
Those of us running businesses, working from project to project, or surfing the gig economy know that work naturally ebbs and flows – as does income and inspiration. When you are new to this cycle, [...]
The False Promise of Mastery
I know, I know. There are many very prominent leaders offering courses and seminars coined as “mastery” programs. How could this be a problem?I’ll let you in on a secret: mastery is marketing. Just as [...]
How to Rehab Your Confidence
HINT: It's not about you. Try this: Think about walking into a room full of higher-ups and proving yourself to them, your worth, your value. Feel the feeling of being everything you have in that [...]
Hello 2019: Setting Rates, Getting Raises
Overcoming undervaluing and disillusion. It’s that time of year when people are thinking about making more money. You’ve set your goals, you have a sense of your budget (lol maybe, maybe not), and you are [...]
Having Vision and Getting There
“There” is a feeling. It can only be experienced “here” in the body. Some of us have a sense of personal vision. Many others have no access to authentic vision at all - we may [...]
Making Big Changes
Filling the void or avoiding the work. When we are moved to change things up in our lives – leave a job, get a new degree, move town – we can often be motivated by [...]