A man and a woman long for a child. The woman looks out of her back window into the walled garden of an enchantress and desperately desires the Rampion (Rapunzel) plant. Her husband goes to get it for her, but is confronted by the intense gaze of the enchantress. He reasons with her, and she negotiates: he can leave with it if they give her their firstborn. The wife consumes the wonderful salad and when the child is born, the enchantress takes it to a tall tower.

Rapunzel lets down her golden hair for the daily visits from the old dame, and her singing attracts a prince wandering the woods. He comes up at night, Rapunzel having reasoned that he will love her better than the lady. Soon Rapunzel unwittingly gives him away to the enchantress, who whisks the girl away to the desert. The prince visits the empty tower, and in grief jumps down, is blinded and wanders the woods, eating roots and berries.

Eventually he finds the desert abode of his love, who is now with twin boy and girl in a desperate situation. Her tears wash the blindness from his eyes, and they go to the castle and live many happy years together.

We think this tale is about development and the thrwarting of it by the enchantress. She wants to keep everything pure and unchanging, and to keep all natural things from fulfilling their purposes. She separates things: men and women, garden and nature, Rapunzel from the mother and the prince. She uses things for her own, and not their own, purpose. In this way she resembles a dragon in many European cultures, the hoarder, the ultimate stagnation, a kind of zombie or virus existing between life and death. And this story is about how love, intuition and faithful suffering can break through the artificial boundaries of the magical tyrant.

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The image of the dark, ruined castle as the unconscious mind. Then there is a series of steps going deeper and deeper, and silent. And after Hans' repeated bouts of suffering, the princess is able to speak. People don’t want to suffer without encouragement. And even after his first maturing transformation, he is still dependent. The princess leaves him, which is a part of your soul, the daimon, leaving you. You’re still secretly hoping to feel better rather than actually improving. There is a lot here in that story for us in our live, the language of which we translate from the story. From a discussion on “The Iron Shoes,” by Franz Xaver Von Schonwerth.

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The king’s groundskeeper doesn’t know what to do with his son so he kicks him off the farm with anger. Hans goes out into the world and encounters a dark, ruined castle. Inside, all is silent. Exhausted, he wants to rest, and a woman in black gives him food and wordlessly points to the bed. Three days he endures torture from dark figures, and the woman, now in white, saves and marries him.

Returning to his father wearing a magic ring, he is not recognized, and at the king’s feast he feels belittled and calls the princess to prove his worth. Since he broke his promise, she is gone the next day, leaving him a pair of iron shoes. He now searches the world for her, enduring a long journey that takes him up a mountain, where he proves his guile and gains magic objects that speeds him on his journey. Faster than the wind, he sabotages his wife’s wedding.

Fully descended to the station of a beggar, he steals from the reception plates and shares with them. Her ring falls off his hand and is returned to her. He shows her the worn shoes and they are reunited.

Ian and I discuss this story of going out into the world and encountering the demons of darkness, of mistakes from ego, of long suffering because of those mistakes, of endurance, of adventure, of loss and agency, of guile, skill and ultimate union. Please join us on this journey.

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The loneliness of the tyrant. Swiveling head, eyes leery of plots real and chimerical. Ian: the need for power to that degree can only come from a misunderstanding of power as the means of procuring some basic need.

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Ian and I continue our discussion on Aristotle’s idea of Character and the Golden Mean, bringing in other ideas from wisdom traditions and our experiences. Join us for this wide and deep dive into the mind and reality!

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To free yourself, some people probably have to change their lives. Tony Soprano or an oppressive dictator cannot grow spiritually and stay in their positions.

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Aristotle, Character, Wisdom and Foolishness, Part 1

Plato gave us an early psychological theory, that the mind has three parts: a man (rationality), a monster (appetite), and a lion (honor-seeking). Harmony between the parts helps bring one away from self-deception and illusion, and closer to reality, including the good. Further, Aristotle gave us the idea of character, which we develop by minding the Golden Mean between virtues. For example, you work on your courage by walking the line between foolhardiness and cowardice. We talk about these ideas and their application for wisdom, happiness and meaning, bringing in different ideas and stories, including those from Buddhism and Christianity. Please join us for this lively dialogue!

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Creating rituals is not difficult, but they have to come from a need, and you have to be careful about what the purpose is. If it is egoistic, self-serving, they will come back to you and could be incredibly destructive. I think what is very important is for you to know what your purpose is with most things in your life.

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