on creativity and the mythic return to origins University of Dallas, September 2019
This squared up log came from the pin oak in our front yard. We have history with that pin oak.…
I first read Jung in an introductory class taught by Robert Romanyshyn. His instruction for our reading was to take…
Trees are constantly growing. When a limb is cut off the tree grows around the cut to seal the wound…
Slang for therapist, shrink is an intriguing word; rather it is a fascinating image. One story goes that it arose…
Language embodies imagination; its diastole and systole, its expansion and constriction. Our proclivity for constricting imagination by turning everything into…
A friend reported the following experience: “Being an empath can be an odd thing…I was introduced today to an art…
Let’s say you invest yourself in a task that calls for some resourcefulness. You run into an impasse. Working more…
…we no more own art by buying it than we own nature by buying land.
Be aware: some metaphors are a force of nature. A metaphor, charged with numinous force can spread like wildfire until…
There on a grassy hill stood a tree, old, vibrant, captivating in its beauty. People of all sorts traveled the…
in the essay, “the dream-ego in the dream, the waking-ego in creativity,” i write of how we (in this case,…
JSSS Conference presentation Robert Sandford, M.A., June, 2018 In this talk, the dream-ego in the dream, the waking-ego in creativity,…
What if we are so much of creation that the gift of free will, given in love, had consequences for…
“Perhaps ideas are the single most precious miracle in human existence. For ideas determine our goals of action, our styles…
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