Dear Reader, “Few are guilty but all are responsible,” the great religious scholar and leader Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel wrote about the moral state of a people. As a people, we Americans are at a turning point in our history. …
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As I write this blog post, I realize I am in an interesting place. During the last few years, I have found myself, as a Jungian analyst, deeply involved with people in the suffering, fear, chaos and uncertainty of these …
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Facing the Apocalypse: A Call for Outrageous Courage, Love, and Compassion From the Foreword of Facing the Apocalypse: Over a decade ago I opened a lecture I was giving by recounting a dream I had during a crisis period in …
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When I was a child my mother began a slow journey with cancer. Her journey ended when I was fourteen years old. That was when I learned that the price of love was grief. It was love’s absence that finally …
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At midnight on New Year’s Eve I noticed there were far less fireworks celebrating the arrival of the new year than in the past. On New Year’s Day, a day I like to spend in reflection, I realized that I …
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Why do so many of us insist we need to have military-grade assault weapons? This question has haunted me for decades, and I am surprised that so few on our national scene have asked it. I also wonder why so …
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Those of you who follow my work know that the rise of mass shootings in our country is deeply troubling to me, and I am strongly compelled to do what I can to help heal our individual and collective wounds …
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