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John F. Kennedy and America’s Obsession with Innocence   If anyone's going to kill me, it should happen now. – John F. Kennedy, 1962Assassinations, murder – and war, to – begin this way. This revolution is not just outside us in the streets and…
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Part OneDulce et decorum est pro patria mori. – It is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country. – Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace)If any question why we died, tell them, because our fathers lied.  – Rudyard KiplingSo if you love your Uncle…
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Part 1 – Framing the MessageMost American men above the age of sixty who learned about masculinity by watching John Wayne movies as children are familiar with this melody without knowing its name, let alone its history. Here it is.Recognize it? The…
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Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. – Benjamin FranklinI was married 18 years, two kids, unfulfilling work; alienated from society, heritage, creativity and former…
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Part OneNa na na nana na, nana na na na nana na na…Why does  The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down continue to move us over 50 years after The Band first recorded it?The fact that so many people continue to debate its meaning online (see…
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How old is the habit of denial? We keep secrets from ourselves that all along we know…For perhaps we are like stones; our own history and the history of the world embedded in us, we hold a sorrow deep within and cannot weep until that history is…
Oct 25, 2021
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Part OneMy point…is not that those ancient people told literal stories and we are now smart enough to take them symbolically, but that they told them symbolically and we are now dumb enough to take them literally. ― John Dominic CrossanTwo events in…
Oct 15, 2021
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Part One What is madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance? – Theodore RoethkeDivide us those in darkness from those who walk in light. – Kurt WeillDionysus was the ancient Greek god of wine, drunkenness, masks, frenzy, ecstatic joy,…
Aug 28, 2021
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"July 23: Well, things are improving, but I'm afraid we still have a way to go before we get back to the easy linking of the old website:
1 -- My page is improved. I can now see my blogs. However, I still can't see any way to edit them or post new…"
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Barry Spector commented on Bonnie Bright's article Bulletin Board
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  • This new format is utterly confusing! I can't access my blogs or find a way to post a new one. There is no link to speak to the website moderator. Are other people having these problems? Is anyone actually moderating the website who can answer any of these questions?
  • Hi Barry -

    Will do.  And send yours to

    5050 Poplar Ave., Suite 1633

    Memphis, TN  38157

     

  • Hi Barry. I'd like to add my welcome to Ed's and thank you for sending the links and articles for your work by email. You've done some wonderful things in your career and it's great you've found the Alliance. My main goal in founding this community is to help get depth psych out into the world and you have a both a wealth of information to share and willingness to share it. I am truly glad to meet anyone so in tune with a calling!

    I hope you'll find this a place to deeply connect with likeminded others and that you will actively engage whenever you can find the time. I find it truly wonderful to be involved in this dynamic and growing community--especially since it allows us to connect from all over the globe in a way we otherwise could not.

    I'll get those links up in the next couple of days. In the meantime, it looks like you're already off and running, but I'll  send you some tips on navigating the site in a separate email in case its of help. Enjoy the site, and I look forward to seeing you around. ~Bonnie Bright, Founder

  • Welcome Barry,

    Glad you have found the Alliance and have decided to join. Your new book sounds intriguing and it will be on my shelf soon. These is an author's group where this information about your book can be posted as well. As an American, I lost my innocence about the nation during the Vietnam War era. Still lament its passing from time to time.

    Ed

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A Truce For Christmas


A Truce for Christmas 

November 2018 marked the 100th anniversary of the end of World War One. Within two months of its beginning, it had devolved into the stalemate we know as trench warfare. The opposing forces established a line along the Western Front extending from the English Channel to the Swiss border that would not fundamentally change for the next four years. The armies settled into a perpetual clash under the most barbaric and…

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John F. Kennedy and America’s Obsession with Innocence 

 

If anyone's going to kill me, it should happen now. – John F. Kennedy, 1962

Assassinations, murder – and war, to – begin this way. This revolution is not just outside us in the streets and jails and detention homes and clinics, or in Texas, but is the Shadow in each of us that is trying to             come out. – James Hillman, 11/22/1963

 

Part One:…

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Part One

Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori. – It is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country. – Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace)

If any question why we died, tell them, because our fathers lied.  – Rudyard Kipling

So if you love your Uncle Sam
Bring them home, bring them home
Support our boys in Vietnam
Bring them home, bring them home – Pete Seeger

My good…

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Part Five

He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past. – George Orwell

I will never apologize for the United States of America. I don’t care what the facts are.  – George H.W. Bush

Universities commonly mirror what students have already endured. Public education reverses the age-old tradition of identifying a child’s innate and unique gifts.…

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Part One

What went before, as told by those who think they know it. – Gary Snyder

Everything comes to the reader as interpreted by the historian. Everything is seen through the medium of his personality. The facts of history when they are used to teach a moral lesson do not reach us in their entirety…but selected and arranged according to the overmastering ideal in the mind of the historian. The reader is at the…

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Barry’s Blog # 77: Evolution of a Song


Part 1 – Framing the Message

Most American men above the age of sixty who learned about masculinity by watching John Wayne movies as children are familiar with this melody without knowing its name, let alone its history. Here it is.

Recognize it? The tune is called “Garryowen,” and it has been featured as a military marching song in several movies, including The…

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Barry’s Blog # 398: An Epiphany Story


Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. – Benjamin Franklin

I was married 18 years, two kids, unfulfilling work; alienated from society, heritage, creativity and former spiritual interests; never cried as an adult, rarely felt either joy or anger; had a cynical, judgmental, self-deprecating sense of humor; was more like my father than I knew, needier for maternal for affection than I…

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Part Six

A myth never says what to do; it points out where the difficulties will arise. – Ginette Paris

The past isn’t dead. It is not even past. – William Faulkner

At this point things get far more complicated, just as they do in the unconscious mind. Pelops and Hippodamia had many children, but his favorite was an illegitimate son, Chrysippus. Hippodamia convinced her…

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