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.

I Think That There's A Hidden Darkness In All Of Us!

Faith Takes Us To Deep Places, To The Ruptures In Our Self-confidence And Our Lives. Do Not Settle For Spiritual Comfort All The Time...darkness Is Divine Also. Faith Is Not About Positive Thinking So Much As About What Kicks In When We Are Weak, Sick, And Short Of Self-confidence. The Via Positiva Never Stands Alone. The Via Negativa Is Always With Us On Our Faith Journey As Well.

We Must Work On Our Souls, Enlarging And Expanding Them. We Do So By Experiencing All Of Life-the Beauty And The Joy As Well As The Grief And Pain. Soul Work Requires Paying Attention To Life, To The Laughter And The Sorrow, The Enlightening And The Frightening, The Inspiring And The Silly.

Beauty Saves. Beauty Heals. Beauty Motivates. Beauty Unites. Beauty Returns Us To Our Origins, And Here Lies The Ultimate Act Of Saving, Of Healing, Of Overcoming Dualism.