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Medicine Wheel Maps Your Nervous System Healing
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Translate Shamanic Healing for Science
Welcome back to the Deep Dive. So today you brought us to, I think, one of the most fascinating and
Wounding the Innocent Archetype and Healing Your Body
Welcome back to the deep dive. Today we are taking a truly immersive approach to healing
Jungian Dream Analysis: The Collective Unconscious, Archetypes, and the Path of Individuation
Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) developed the most comprehensive psychological framework for understanding dreams since Freud — and departed radically from Freud's model by proposing that dreams are not disguised wish fulfillments but authentic, purposive communications from the unconscious psyche,...
Addiction and Its Emotional Roots
Category: Emotional Healing | Level: Jaguar (West) — Medicine Wheel
Shadow Work and Jungian Integration
Category: Emotional Healing | Level: Jaguar (West) — Medicine Wheel
Mugwort — Artemisia vulgaris
Common names: Mugwort, Common mugwort, Wild wormwood, Cronewort, Felon herb, Sailor's tobacco, Traveler's herb, Moxa herb, St. John's herb (not to be confused with Hypericum), Mother of Herbs Latin name: Artemisia vulgaris L.
Vitex — Vitex agnus-castus
Common names: Vitex, Chaste tree, Chasteberry, Monk's pepper, Abraham's balm, Agnus castus Latin name: Vitex agnus-castus L. TCM name: Man Jing Zi (蔓荆子) — though this more commonly refers to Vitex trifolia/rotundifolia.
Internal Family Systems: The Neuroscience of Parts, Self, and the Multiplicity of Mind
Category: Somatic Therapy / IFS | Level: Jaguar (West) to Eagle (East) — Medicine Wheel
Archetype Work and Self-Discovery
You are not one person. You are a cast of characters — some noble, some shadowed, some ancient beyond memory — and they are all competing for the microphone of your life.
Jung and the Path of Individuation: Becoming Whole
Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) proposed that the human psyche contains a built-in drive toward wholeness — not perfection, not sainthood, but the integration of all that we are, including what we most want to deny. He called this process individuation: the gradual, often painful realization of the...
The Safe Container for Awakening: A Functional Medicine Protocol for Consciousness Transformation
The preceding articles in this series have documented what can go wrong during the awakening process: kundalini syndrome, the dark night, meditation-related adverse effects, depersonalization, psychotic-like episodes, spiritual bypassing, and the full spectrum of spiritual emergency. This final...
Spiritual Bypassing: When Awakening Becomes a Defense Against Being Human
The most insidious obstacle on the spiritual path is not materialism, not doubt, not laziness, and not even the dark night. It is spiritual bypassing — the systematic use of spiritual concepts and practices to avoid confronting unresolved psychological wounds, developmental deficits, and...
Integration: Bridging Worlds and Making the Journey Whole
The ceremony ends. The retreat is over.
Cook-Greuter's Ego Development Framework: The Most Empirically Validated Map of Adult Consciousness
If Ken Wilber built the most comprehensive architecture diagram of consciousness and Spiral Dynamics mapped the cultural operating systems of human civilizations, then Susanne Cook-Greuter produced the most rigorously validated firmware diagnostic tool for individual ego development. Her...
The Unified Map of Awakening: A Meta-Synthesis of All Consciousness Stage Models
We have now surveyed the major consciousness development maps produced by human civilization: Wilber's integral model, Spiral Dynamics, Cook-Greuter's ego development, Maharishi's seven states, the Buddhist jhanas, the Theravada path of liberation, kundalini rising, Aurobindo's integral yoga,...
Kundalini Energy: Neuroscience, Awakening, and Safety
Kundalini — from the Sanskrit "kundal," meaning "coiled" — is described in tantric literature as a dormant energy resting at the base of the spine, coiled three and a half times around the Muladhara chakra. When awakened through practice, grace, or sometimes spontaneously, this energy is said to...