No Tristans Allowed Beyond This Point—Looking into the Western Myth of Romantic Love

Western romance mythology centers around being in love as an ecstatic state in which we feel we have been completed, found the ultimate meaning in life, and have larger than life feelings of intensity. Unconsciously we have the expectation that our lover provide us with these feelings continuously. We also assume that our model of romance is the best and that love relationships not based on “being in love” must be pale, insignificant shadows by comparison. We are convinced of this despite all the evidence that tells us that few enterprises, besides diets, begin with such high hopes and typically such dismal results as the falling in love sort of romances.

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Alex Grey and the Mind Parasites

This article derives from a discussion I had with Alex in 2005 and an interview I did with George Noory and Alex in 2006.. Alex narrates an out of body vision which lead to his painting "Demons and Dieties Drinking from the Milky Pool." I provide some analysis of his experience and comments on two other paintings of his which have mind parasite imagery.

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Energy Sappers

The phenomenon of “energy sappers,” of people who are energy drainers, is well known to many from real life experience. The most insightful discussion of the subject I have to date encountered is in Breakthrough to Creativity, a wonderful book on parapsychology which was copyrighted in 1967 by Shafica Karagulla, MD.

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Born Under a Blood Red Moon-Metamorphosis of the Feminine in the Dreams of Young Women

A young woman I know sent me a dream this morning with themes that resonate with dreams of other young women I have interpreted, and now I wish I had written down more of them because so many of them have been so powerful and illuminating of the state of the feminine after six thousand years of patriarchal history. In this essay I will discuss what I have learned from these dreams and from other cultural observations. I will conclude with analysis of two of dreams, including the one from this morning. Like most of my web-posted documents, this is a work in progress, and I expect to add to and revise this document as more dreams and observations come up.

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