Women Who Run with the Wolves

Emotional Bankruptcy Caused by Alienation from Nature

In Women Who Run With the Wolves, Estes associates Nature with the Wild Woman Self. She describes her childhood, during which she grew up and into nature. “ I was raised up near the Michigan state line, surrounded by woodlands, orchards, and farmland and near the Great Lakes. There, thunder and lightning were my main nutrition….

Popular, I Want to Be Popular – I’m Catching A Wicked Case of Stripes

Down here in the South, folks go back to school in August. I think that this trend is a leftover behavior from long before my initial school days, which began in the 1950s. I grew up in the middle of a cotton patch, and the primary source of my community’s sustenance came from harvesting the…

Papa Please Get the Moon for Me by Eric Carle, The Rolling Stones, William Blake, and Buddhist Yearning

In his series of videos about Buddhism and Modern Psychology, Duke University’s Robin Wright says that The Rolling Stones song I Can’t Get No Satisfaction expresses the crux of the first Buddhist Noble Truth and may have been one of the most Buddhist of the more modern songs of our culture. He says that the first noble…

Loss of Intuition Is A Centuries-Old Problem for Both Women and Men

Romanticism is a Cultural Movement that is almost 300 years old. It began with the teachings of Jean Jacques Rousseau in the 1700s. I discovered Romanticism when my 10th-grade English teacher introduced me to William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Experience. Blake’s Experience is a state of alienation and emotional exile. I grew up in…

Loss of Inner Light in Women Who Run With the Wolves – Learn to See in the Dark

Over the past week, I have explored the theme of darkness in literature. In the Bible, we are told that in the beginning, the world was nothing but darkness. There was no moon. There was no sun. We are told that water moved across the darkness at that time, and therefore, I imagine that in…