Hi! 👋🏻 I've become increasingly aware, via conversations I've had with folks on here, that it may be helpful to share books/audios/resources that have been particularly meaningful to me, on my own meandering psychospiritual path, and why. If you're interested, bookmark this

Jungian, Linda Schierse Leonard on the story of 'Beauty and the Beast' as a reflection of the tasks for men and women in our culture.

All the self-examination that we do is valuable only as an introduction to our real selves as we live in the world. I firmly believe that none of us can be, or should be, so self-involved that the external world pales in importance in comparison with the inner world. — June

One of the best pieces of advice I was given, once finally committing to this psychospiritual path, was to prepare for the inevitable descents into the psyche's often abysmal and suffocating depths. Thomas Moore's, 'Dark Nights of the Soul' has proved the single most helpful

Such a beautiful passage.

More from Thomas Moore on love triangles.

Thomas Moore on love triangles: You can't love deeply until you are a deep person in the first place, and the torture of difficult love is the very ordeal that makes you a person capable of strong love. Your love for another, especially when it is difficult or impossible, works

Fascinating passage, from Iain McGilchrist, on the intuitive wisdom of the body.

Jolande Jacobi from, 'The Psychology of C.G Jung': The widely prevailing view that psychic development leads ultimately to a state in which there is no more suffering is of course utterly false. Suffering and conflict are a part of life; they must not be regarded as 'ailments';

For anyone who may need reminding, here's Erich Fromm with a magnificent passage on how you are 𝘯𝘰𝘵 defined by your possessions. From his book, 𝘛𝘰 𝘏𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘰𝘳 𝘛𝘰 𝘉𝘦?

Me whenever I'm faced with someone who's experiencing fateful encounters that even stop them in their tracks; whose dreams are coming at them in 4K surround sound, and whose astrology is also screaming, 'Change! Now!'... but still choose to ignore their soul anyway.

On why the human ego cannot go it alone if it is to honour and fulfill the soul's divine calling.

We imagine the unconscious as something inside us ... But the unconscious can equally well be imagined outside of our bodies, out in the world, like a dark, wild forest through which we roam. There are equal measures of mystery in dreams and wilderness. — Bill Plotkin, Soulcraft

David Whyte is always a wonderful listen.

James Hollis on men, their mother complex, and the virgin-whore complex.

At times I feel as if I am spread out over the landscape and inside things, and am myself living in every tree, in the splashing of the waves, in the clouds and the animals that come and go, in the procession of the seasons. — Carl G. Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections

[A]n individual's harmony with his or her 'own deep self' requires not merely a journey to the interior but a harmonising with the environmental world. The deepest self cannot be confined to 'in here' because we can't be sure it is not also or even entirely 'out there'! . . .

I've been working with a story — The Prostitute and the Pearls of Wisdom — told by Michael Meade on his audio, 'Fate and Destiny: Eye of the Pupil, Heart of the Disciple' ever since I first heard it in 2007. A story of great depth with lessons for many. https://t.co/2itLfzrf6H

A real story touches not only the mind, but also the imagination and the unconscious depths in a person, and it may remain with him or her through many years, coming to the surface of consciousness now and then to yield new insights. — Helen Luke, The Inner Story

Jean Houston on how our wounding may contain the seeds of healing and transformation.

[T]he older I get, the more uncertain I am about the formulations of truth and morals I received in my youth. There was a time when I thought I knew everything and had the right slant on every issue. Now life is so subtle and complex that I stew in my reflections as people around