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A Long Watch
“The more I believe my nature comes from my parents, the less open I am to the ruling influences around me. The less the surrounding world is felt to be intimately important to my story. So the coming ecological disaster we worry about has already occurred, and goes on occurring. It takes place in the accounts of ourselves that separate us from the world by attaching us to parentalism,.. The parental fallacy is deadly to individual self-awareness, and it is killing the world.”
“Psychotherapy compounds this fault. Its theory of developmental damage owing to the family actually turns the patient away from everything else that might give comfort and instruction. To what does the soul turn that has no therapists to visit? It takes its trouble to the trees, to the riverbank, to an animal companion, on an aimless walk through the city streets, a long watch of the night sky… We breathe, expand, and let go… The daimon in the heart seems quietly pleased, preferring melancholy to desperation…”
— James Hillman
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“All around us the Earth breathes in so many diverse ways… But human beings have the unique capacity to breathe light and love directly into the world, a light that is crucial if our world is going to regenerate and transform…it is the work of humanity to live this light, and so keep this energy flowing into the web of life, where it can heal and…
