From my perspective as a depth psychologist, I see that those who have a connection with story are in better shape and have better prognosis than those to whom story must be introduced.

Vessels expose the invisible Zeitgeist, the visible formed by the invisible.

We cannot be studied or cured apart from the planet.

It's the only way we can get out of being so human-centered: to remain attached to something other than humans.

I am not caused by my history-my parents, my childhood and development. These are mirrors in which I may catch glimpses of my image.

Beauty has never been an important topic in the writings of the major psychologists. In fact, for Jung, aesthetics is a weak, early stage of development. He follows the Germanic view that ethics is more important than aesthetics, and he draws a stark contrast between the two. Freud may have written about literature a bit, but an aesthetic sensitivity is not part of his psychology.

When they talk about family values, it's in a repressive way, as if our American tradition were only the Puritan tradition or the 19th century oppressive tradition. The Christian tradition.