Why do so many movies from the fifties have monsters/robots carrying these passive women? (King Kong may have started it in the thirties.) It looks like some kind of some monstrous/masculine energy combined with an almost comatose feminine. The fifties were a time of fear of nuclear annihilation and Betty Crocker/Susie Housewife models of the feminine….
If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we…
From the earliest teachings of the Buddha, the practitioner has been encouraged to go against the stream of conventionality, to look at everything in experience including that which one would rather avoid or ignore. The way which the Buddha discovered was based on opening to all, including the “shadow,” to see fearlessly what is there,…
“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”
Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual’s conscious life, the blacker and denser it is. At all counts, it forms an unconscious snag, thwarting our most well-meant intentions. — Carl Jung
If you imagine someone who is brave enough to withdraw all his projections, then you get an individual who is conscious of a pretty thick shadow. Such a man has saddled himself with new problems and conflicts. He has become a serious problem to himself, as he is now unable to say that they…
Unfortunately there can be no doubt that man is, on the whole, less good than he imagines himself or wants to be. Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual’s conscious life, the blacker and denser it is. If an inferiority is conscious, one always has a chance to correct…
In Saving Grace, Angel Earl plays a major role as a “last-chance” angel — trying to set police detective Grace Hanadarko straight about the existence of God. I have a friend who only saw the show once because he thought it was ridiculous having an angel in a police show. I like Earl. He chews…
From Women and Hollywood Nancy Miller has worked on some of the most female-centric shows on TV… Last year her newest creation Saving Grace premiered on TNT. Grace is one of the most interesting and wild characters ever to appear on TV. She sometime looks like a train wreck waiting to happen but always manages…