THE LIFE ECSTATIC

My wife and I have been looking at preschool programs for our young son. A family friend told us of a new, home-based preschool called the Sovereignty School for Love. I really love the name of this school. It encapsulates so much. In one respect, perfecting our understanding of sovereignty and love is what life is all about. Certainly, these are the main aims of both psychotherapy and spiritual practice. So let’s explore. Sovereignty. At first blush, it is tempting to imagin

I have come to believe that the best therapy is shamanic in nature. It is active, energetic, integrative, cooperative, holotropic. Psychotherapy facilitates something in the client: a growth or development toward wholeness and completeness. Often clients come to therapy at an impasse within themselves. Often their way of seeing and being in the world must shift in order to make room for something new to occur. I see the path of therapy as unfolding in three stages, though not