initiation - Blogs - Depth Psychology Alliance2024-03-29T09:23:14Zhttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/profiles/blogs/feed/tag/initiationIllness, Identity, and the Archetype of the Exile: Finding Meaning and Vitality through Depth Psychotherapyhttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/profiles/blogs/illness-identity-and-the-archetype-of-the-exile-finding-meaning2018-03-20T14:00:00.000Z2018-03-20T14:00:00.000ZBonnie Brighthttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/members/BonnieBright<div><p><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}9142474867,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="300" src="{{#staticFileLink}}9142474867,original{{/staticFileLink}}" class="align-right" alt="9142474867?profile=original" /></a>C. G. Jung viewed mid-life, the time midway between entering adulthood and the end of life, as a critical time of transition. Dr. Brad Chabin, a depth psychotherapist with a practice in West Hollywood, California, had his own experience of a spontaneous and powerful mid-life transition. It involved a devastating diagnosis and challenging times, during which, Chabin now recognizes, much of his social identity slipped away. </p><p>After going back to school and getting licensed in Counseling, as well as a Ph.D. in depth psychology—even while battling a deadly disease—somehow Chabin pulled through.</p><p>Chabin now believes he survived in great part because his studies led him to engage his psychological life in a direct way, restoring a sense of vitality and joy as he began to understand the reality and importance the deep psyche plays in his life. The process of awareness included an important dream that revealed to Chabin the power of depth psychology and the “symbolic life,” which Jung believed was so critical to our well-being. When people view the world through a depth psychological lens, it changes everything, Chabin insists. That powerful perspective is one he wanted to share with clients.</p><p>Early in his career, Chabin witnessed a number of youth who experienced isolation and depression because they questioned their sexuality and orientation<em>.</em> One thing Chabin identified in his work is that such individuals may often carry the archetype of the exile. </p><p>Chabin’s book, <em>Adolescent Males and Homosexuality: The Search for Self</em>, emerged, in part, as a way to tell the stories of such young people, and to honor their courage.</p><p>The one who notices he or she is not wanted, or who has been actively told they are not welcome somewhere, ultimately has to begin again, Chabin points out. The similarity to Chabin’s own initiatory process when he lost his ego identity after being diagnosed with cancer is deeply and symbolically connected. The deep wounds of the exile require tending in ways that bring compassion, consciousness, and meaning. The gift of depth psychotherapy is that it provides a powerful mechanism to shine a light on the darkness, awakening vitality, creativity, and passion….</p><p><strong><a href="http://www.pacificapost.com/illness-identity-exile-finding-meaning" target="_blank">Listen to my audio interview with Dr. Brad Chabin, or read the full summary article here</a></strong></p></div>Shamanic Initiation, Descent, and Learning through Direct Experience of the Sacredhttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/profiles/blogs/shamanic-initiation-descent-and-learning-through-direct2020-03-17T04:12:13.000Z2020-03-17T04:12:13.000ZBonnie Brighthttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/members/BonnieBright<div><p><a href="https://www.depthinsights.com/blog/shamanic-initiation-and-learning-through-direct-experience/" target="_blank"><img src="{{#staticFileLink}}9142474253,original{{/staticFileLink}}" class="align-left" alt="9142474253?profile=original" /></a>A common and compelling component of both shamanism and Jungian or depth psychology is that each seeks to treat soul loss by retrieving and reintegrating vital essence that is missing. This must occur through direct experience; therefore, the underworld journey to retrieve the soul is one of necessity and initiation.</p><p>Swiss psychiatrist C. G. Jung believed symptoms of soul loss, such as disorientation, lack of focus, or feelings of powerlessness, exist because a portion of psychic energy that is normally available to the ego has vanished into the unconscious; becoming lost to the underworld. However, Jung realized when there is a depletion of libido, that life energy is not irrevocably gone; it continues to exist in the unconscious, awaiting the opportunity to resurface. The energy, equally powerful in the underworld as in our conscious life, continues to be busy as it manifests in images and symbols, the language of soul (Ryan, 2002).</p><p>The solution, Jung insisted, is for us to descend into the unconscious to engage with the missing libido through symbolic thought. This is what the shaman does when he or she journeys to other realms to...</p><p><a href="https://www.depthinsights.com/blog/shamanic-initiation-and-learning-through-direct-experience/" target="_blank">READ THE FULL POST</a></p></div>SoundSourcing: Building the New Permaculture - based Mythologyhttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/profiles/blogs/soundsourcing-building-the-new-permaculture-based-mythology2012-05-28T20:04:05.000Z2012-05-28T20:04:05.000ZWilli Paulhttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/members/WilliPaul<div><div class="yiv907291620yui_3_2_0_33_1338219915813159"><span class="yiv907291620yui_3_2_0_33_1338219915813188">SoundSourcing: Building the New Permaculture - based Mythology </span><br /><span><a target="_blank" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkE2o_QCrkc&amp;list=PL0FAEA97D12725FB0&amp;index=94&amp;feature=plpp_video"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1338235259_0">Video / SoundScape</span></a> by Willi Paul, <a target="_blank" href="http://openmythsource.com/"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1338235259_1">openmythsource.com</span></a></span></div><div class="yiv907291620yui_3_2_0_33_1338219915813174"></div><div class="yiv907291620yui_3_2_0_33_1338219915813163">"I have long believed that Humanity needs New Culture and to have that We have to have new myths. </div><div class="yiv907291620yui_3_2_0_33_1338219915813163">Myths rich in Truth as well as mystery. We have an advantage in this undertaking because of what </div><div class="yiv907291620yui_3_2_0_33_1338219915813163">We know of the past and Our World today. So much that We can speculate well on possibilities and </div><div class="yiv907291620yui_3_2_0_33_1338219915813163">potentials of Truth…as We make these Ours in Our Times. Myths can strengthen Us, by inspiring Us, </div><div class="yiv907291620yui_3_2_0_33_1338219915813163">in Our Quest to become More and Better…Individually and Tribally."</div><div class="yiv907291620yui_3_2_0_33_1338219915813176"></div><div> -- <span class="yiv907291620yui_3_2_0_33_1338219915813181">email from</span> <b class="yiv907291620yui_3_2_0_33_1338219915813207">occupysonoradan1 to WOX</b><br /><br /><strong><a target="_blank" href="http://planetshifter.com/node/2020"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1338235259_2">html</span></a> | <a target="_blank" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkE2o_QCrkc&amp;list=PL0FAEA97D12725FB0&amp;index=94&amp;feature=plpp_video"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1338235259_3">video</span> </a></strong></div><div><strong><br /></strong></div><div><strong><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}9142439658,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="400" src="{{#staticFileLink}}9142439658,original{{/staticFileLink}}" class="align-center" alt="9142439658?profile=original" /></a></strong></div></div>