Millennia are really big events”like when the odometer on your car rolls over from 9999.9. Well, the kid brought his car in for its 2,000 year check-up, so I did it. But I warned him, the news is really bad, so fixing it is really going to cost a lot. Heres one problem. The redeemers . . . . Continue Reading »
The Jung Cult: Origins Of A Charismatic Movement. By Richard C. Noll. Princeton University Press. 387 pages, $24.95 Nothing is possible without love, C.G. Jung once told Miguel Serrano, not even the processes of alchemy, for love puts one in a mood to risk everything and not to . . . . Continue Reading »
Heresies perish not with their authors, but like the river Arethusa, though they lose their currents in one place, they rise up again in another . - Thomas Brown, Religio Medici Modernism is the synthesis of all heresies . - Pope Pius VI When I was young, time took forever to pass. I remember that . . . . Continue Reading »
It is of course a commonplace nowadays to observe that we are living in the era of “psychological man.” By this we mean that psychology in one of its various incarnations—psychoanalysis and psychiatry included—has become the primary means whereby we try to understand the meaning and purpose . . . . Continue Reading »
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