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Articles and Essays

(alphabetical listing)

Full essays and articles

Gestalt Psychology's Paradoxical Theory of Change

Hero's Journey and Brain-based Teaching

Hegel's Dialectic: The Journey as a Reconciliation of Poles

Myth and Wholeness

The Journey as a Dynamic Dialogue

Yin-Yang: The expression of dynamic polar opposites

Short essays and comments

Short essays and comments

Advertising, pseudo calls and the heroic journey

Being rather than doing

Boundaries both separate and unite

Call to Greater Meaning

Chaos and creativity

Cognitive Restructuring and the Heroic Journey

Educating creative citizens

Educational metaphors dictate educational values

Engagement and the creative act

Essay Writing as a Hero's Journey

Every form is a pattern of movement

Faith and security in the heroic journey process

Folk psychology as the ground for the journey

From whence the journey?

Hegelian dialectic: thesis, antithesis, synthesis

Hermeneutic loop: The cycle of interpretation

Impact of Cultural Discourse on the Individual

In a world without order, anything is believable

Individual journeys are part of the whole

Journey will destroy self-deluding projections

Letting go: Surrendering ourselves to our journeys

Living for the future robs us of the present

Origins of the Shadow archetype

Our Lives as Human Capital + Living Inauthentically

Personal interaction: the mirror through which we grow

Personal narrative as a contextualizing framework

Piaget and the journey

Reading to remake the self

Respecting the self: Taking time for assimilation

"Ripening" as the Heroic Journey

Sacred power of metaphor

Shadow play: Creation and effects of the shadow

Sacrificing the Reality of the Now

Schema and the Hero's Journey

Self-deluding projections and the journey

Self-realization and the journey

Speed is the measure of the cultural crisis

The suffering caused by expectations

Teaching to the Child's Story

Texts must "decontextualize" themselves

To do something, you must first "be" something

To know your journey is to know yourself

The transformative crisis of growth and understanding

The Whole is Part of the Whole...Holons and the Journey

Trickster is the agent of Chaos

Turning children into objects

Two paths to identity

What serves us can also replace us

Our world view gives meaning and coherence to life