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Depth Psychology

Synchronicity: Magic, and Shadow AyahuascaDepth PsychologyIntegrationSociety

Synchronicity: Magic, and Shadow

You think of a long-lost friend, and she gets in touch with you that very night. Glancing at the clock over the course of a few days, you continually get repeating numbers—11:11, 5:55, 2:22. You take a seat in a coffee shop, and the conversation at the next table oddly, unbelievably, but precisely parallels your line of thought. All these are examples of synchronicity, a term coined by Carl Jung a century ago to describe the coincidence of outer and…
Jul 6, 2018
Aya & Depth Psychology AyahuascaDepth PsychologyIntegration

Aya & Depth Psychology

Depth psychology works explicitly with the unconscious—everything that has been repressed, rejected, denied or ignored within us. Through dreams, images, fantasies, art, meaning and myth, it seeks to understand and unveil what has been hidden in the depths of the psyche. This is precisely the territory that ayahuasca works, as it unzips the unconscious with remarkable speed and skill, releasing buried memories and repressed feelings.Ayahuasca works and plays with psyche, passionately and intimately. Depth psychology brings a sensitive, attuned approach…
Mar 3, 2017
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Book a Session

Integration is the process of deepening and grounding your work with ayahuasca. The plant can show you the problem and even the solution, but the work is yours alone to do. Drawing on my lengthy experience as a psychotherapist and meditator and my 10+ years of intensive personal work with ayahuasca and master plants, I offer skills and support to strengthen and inspire your process. Hour-long consultations are by Zoom, or in-person at my home in Huaran, Peru. Please note…
Feb 19, 2017
Wisdom & Compassion, Part I BuddhismDepth PsychologySpirituality

Wisdom & Compassion, Part I

This is Part I of an article I wrote in 2004 on integrating depth psychology with Buddhist meditation. A .pdf of the entire piece is available here William James, the American writer and psychologist, predicted a century ago that Buddhism would deeply influence Western psychology. Far ahead of his time as usual, James’ prediction is beginning to materialise. Western psychotherapists are increasingly incorporating Buddhist principles and practices, applying them in ways suited to our own modern culture. We see this…
Feb 4, 2004
Wisdom & Compassion, Part II BuddhismDepth PsychologySpirituality

Wisdom & Compassion, Part II

Part II of an article I wrote in 2004 on integrating depth psychology with Buddhist meditation. A .pdf of the entire piece is available here. The simplest proposition is also the most radical: that our basic nature is open space infused with pure awareness. Beyond all our constructs and beneath all our holding, each of us is no more and no less than spacious awareness – the capacity to know, pure and simple. This “empty essence fused with luminous knowing”…
Feb 3, 2004