When Our Inner Self Connects To Our

I Consider Otto Rank To Be One Of The Great Spiritual Giants Of The Twentieth Century, A Genius As A Psychologist And A Saint As A Human Being. Though Vilified By His Original Community Of Freudians, He Never Became Bitter. He Died A Feminist And Deeply Committed To Social Justice, In 1939....his Deep Understanding Of Creativity Makes Him A Mentor For All Of Us Living In A Postmodern World....i Believe That Art And Artist, Especially Chapters 12 To 14, May Well Emerge As The Most Valuable Psychoanalysis Of The Spiritual Life In Our Time.

The Universe Is In The Habit Of Making Beauty. There Are Flowers And Songs, Snowflakes And Smiles, Acts Of Great Courage, Laughter Between Friends, A Job Well Done, The Smell Of Fresh Baked Bread. Beauty Is Everywhere.

Animals Love. They Love Their Being. They Strive To Survive, To Celebrate, To Propagate . So Certainly Something We Learn From Animals Is Love. To Survive And To Celebrate, Propagate And To Love Life. To Be The Best We Can Be - The Right To Be Here And The Responsibility To Be The Best Dog Or Bear Or Horse That They Can Be. Humans Have The Tendency To Self Pity That Other Animals Don't Indulge In.

We Are In The Cosmos And The Cosmos Is In Us.

Facing The Darkness, Admitting The Pain, Allowing The Pain To Be Pain, Is Never Easy. This Is Why Courage - Big-heartedness - Is The Most Essential Virtue On The Spiritual Journey. But If We Fail To Let Pain Be Pain - And Our Entire Patriarchal Culture Refuses To Let This Happen - Then Pain Will Haunt Us In Nightmarish Ways. We Will Become Pain's Victims Instead Of The Healers We Might Become.