The Father of Men’s Work: Robert Bly – a new film
Posted in Q & A9 mn read Sometimes a man can live his life on the borders and in the margins, camp out in purgatory, know the territory of thresholds and sing his song among strangenesses
9 mn read Sometimes a man can live his life on the borders and in the margins, camp out in purgatory, know the territory of thresholds and sing his song among strangenesses
8 mn read ‘How could you possibly have such a purity in a clay creature? A clay creature is always a mixture of light and darkness.’ John O’Donohue
6 mn read Therapists, in my view, are born not made, preferably within the toxic shambles of ancestral cock-ups, gloom and tragedy, glued together by betrayals and abandonments under a carapace of despair.
< 1 mn read This myth you make now, this soup of old bones, stretches like a necklace of islands strung out over a watery grave, a garland of ancestors, begging, pleading, healing. And what you do now cascades up and down your family line and stems an evolutionary tide that washed up waves of curses and vows, which […]