Every man you can think of — your father, your pastor, politicians, celebrities, scientists, looks for those moments when no one is around. Where they won’t be missed or disturbed. They sneak off and masturbate. And, if statisticians are to be believed (though statistics tend to insist upon themselves, I…

Swiss psychologist and grandaddy to psychoanalysis, Carl Jung, used to talk about synchronicities — a very particular form of coincidence where the contents of our psyches (whether a recurring thought, dream content or peculiar symbol) manifests in some way in the real world. Like when you’re thinking of a friend…

No one ever really talks about God. Joseph Campbell believed God is the “ultimate truth” and ultimate truth can’t be contained by language. Instead, we talk about the “penultimate truth” — which is kind of as close as we can get. And penultimate truth is still kind of tricky so…

Here’s what the Call to Adventure is like: A long time ago some Indian wives were doing the only things there were allowed to do: chores. They suddenly heard beautiful ethereal music.

Life is a series of thresholds — beginning and ending with the big two — birth and death, but punctuated by many smaller ones along the way: Starting school Graduating Joining clubs Dating Starting jobs Marriage Losing jobs Starting families Losing loved ones Life is about crossing these thresholds…

If you google the “Monomyth” or the “Hero’s Journey” you will find no end of diagrams representing Joseph Campbell’s structure of life, death, and rebirth. Here’s a little inside information — if the steps of the diagram don’t move right to left, whoever made it might not know their Campbell. …

I was a Christian for 30+ years. I hold no ill-will towards people who still are Christians, see the possibility of deep spiritual experience with the faith, and am happy when I see the actual ethics that Jesus taught being lived out in public — but Christianity, as interpreted by…

Who is the God of Stories? Humans have a tendency to see Gods everywhere. Put it down to the same proclivity of our brains to see human faces in light sockets and on the front of cars (Pareidolia, I think it’s called). We just can’t help from anthropomorphizing the world…

Unless you’re going to explain the point of it all. If you ask someone how to be more centered, calm, or spiritual, whether they know anything about those topics or not, they’ll probably tell you to meditate. If that doesn’t really satisfy you and you ask them what meditation does…