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''A THOUSAND YEARS OF LOVE''

The preface to a conversation -turned book- between LA WEEKLY'S editor Michael Ventura and psychologist James Hillman

''It's a strange enough process to write a book; it's even stranger to talk one. Psychotherapist James Hillman and I have talked a new book titled WE'VE HAD A HUNDRED YEARS OF PSYCHOTHERAPY AND THE WORLD'S GETTING WORSE.

It began as a a dialogue in 1990, and then -you might say we couldn't shut up. Our talks became a work- in -progress then a book. The topic we set for ourselves was how psychotherapy relates to political life and how some psychological concepts don't work as advertised - they don't liberate or empower, they shrink and deny. Our questions: What are psychotherapy's blind spots? And how can psychotherapy be revitalized?

So of course, one fine night we found ourselves talking about love- because what and how we love measure the limits of both politics and our therapies. What follows is an excerpt from that dialogue, and, as befits any serious encounter with love, the tone is somewhat desperate.''

                                                                        -Michael Ventura

Birthday girl

She waited on tables as usual that day,

her twentieth birthday.

She always worked on Fridays, but if

things had gone according to plan

that particular Friday, she would have

had the night off.

(From the book ''BIRTHDAY GIRL'' by Haruki Murakami, 2004)

THE FEAR OF LONELINESS

“Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don't find themselves at all.”

 (from the book 'The discovery of being', by Existential Psychologist Rollo May)  

ΤΟ ΝΕΚΤΑΡ ΤΗΣ ΕΙΡΗΝΗΣ

ΕΠΙΣΚΕΠΤΗΣ:  ''Ποια είναι η μέθοδος που πρέπει να υιοθετήσουμε για να διασφαλίσουμε την ειρήνη;"

BHAGAVAN:   ''Η αντίληψη ότι υπάρχει κάποιο τέρμα και κάποια ατραπός που οδηγεί σε αυτό είναι λανθασμένη. Εμείς είμαστε το τέρμα ή η ειρήνη πάντα. Αυτό που χρειάζεται είναι ν' απαλλαγούμε από την ιδέα ότι δεν είμαστε η ειρήνη''.

(Από το βιβλίο ''Η Βίωση της Διδασκαλίας'' 
του Ρ.Σ. Μπάλσεκαρ, 2012)     

IMAGES AND SYMBOLS

''Symbolic thinking is not the exclusive privilege of the child, of the poet or of the unbalanced mind: it is consubstantial with human existence; it comes before language and discursive reason.''

(''Images and Symbols, Studies in Religious Symbolism'', 
Mircea Eliade 1991, Princeton University Press)