Essays

  • Ten Most Influential Books

    In response to an invitation from a book club that is creating a Legacy Library of works selected by various leading thinkers and authors, I composed a list of ten books that have been most transformative in my own life—spiritually, psychologically, intellectually.

  • Is the Modern Psyche Undergoing a Rite of Passage?

    This essay is based on lectures I gave in the late 1990s, and has since been published in several journals and anthologies.

  • From an Archetypal Point of View

    This paper was delivered at the “Philosophy and the Human Future” conference in Cambridge University, Cambridge, England, in August 1989, at the final meeting of the Esalen Re-Visioning Philosophy project. It later became the epilogue to The Passion of the Western Mind.

  • Two Suitors: A Parable

    This chapter is an excerpt from Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View.

  • Archetypal Cosmology: Past and Present

    Essay on the origins and history of archetypal cosmology.

  • Introduction to Archetypal Astrology

    Written in 1987 as a brief summary of the general background information to be read by clients before receiving an individual natal chart and transit analysis.

  • James Hillman Memorial Tribute

    Honoring the life and legacy of James Hillman, at the Memorial Tribute held on May 4, 2013, at the Society for Ethical Culture in New York City.

  • Esalen

    I wrote this prose poem in 1978 as a tribute to the place and community where I lived and worked for ten years.