Crescent City Elegy

by Deedy Young, published in Psych Perspectives 2017 Rising out of lowland swamps by the Mississippi’s endless flow, New Orleans reclines in an elemental embrace. Rhythms of marsh, wind, earth, water  pulse their way into her music, Professor Longhair, Dr. John, Neville Brothers, Tipitina’s;her food, gumbo, crab cakes, catfish courtbouillion, red beans and rice;her easy
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Anima Mundi Demands a Hearing from the Heart

by Laura Tuley, PhD. A revolution never come with a warning                                                  A revolution never sends you an omenA revolution just arrived like the morningRing the alarm, we come to wake up the snoring Michael Franti, “Yell Fire” “Catastrophe fantasies haunt us; they announce the end of the world. As with suicide fantasies we must ask them
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Experiencing the Pandemic

by Del McNeely This time of global distress is an opportunity in our evolution to examine our species’ response to a unique situation – the threat to survival that is presenting itself, not to a particular group or section of society, but to every person at once. What happens in the individual psyche when faced
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Nature Within/Nature Without

Written by Deedy Young, July 2015 The layer of utter unconsciousness contains the key to individual completeness and wholeness, in other words, healing. – C.G. Jung, CW 18, par. 270 Late in the evening I stroll out on the elevated walkway that gives access to our cabin at Palmetto Island State Park. Towering trees surround
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Hurricane Katrina: The Tequila, the Kleenex, and the Ivy

Written by Marilyn Marshall and published in Spring: A Journal of Archetype and Culture, vol. 88, Environmental Disasters and Collective Trauma, 2012 There is something captivating about the power of a hurricane. My first experience of this power was in 1957 as a six year old sitting in my grandparents’ house as Hurricane Audrey devastated
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