Hong Kong Dreaming: Thoughts on Chungking Express

Watching Chungking Express now is like time travel. ...this bedragoned city sheds its skin every few years. Leave it for a couple of years, and not only have your carefully mapped buildings and your favourite alley, skywalk, escalator routes through the city all been demolished, the actual topography has changed.

Whale Rider

The story of Whale Rider is about Pai, a girl descended from Paikea, the mythical ancestor of Ngati Konohi hapu (sub tribe) who live in Whangara on the East Coast of New Zealand. Paikea is said to have arrived from their place of origin, Hawaikii, on the back of a whale.

Gunning for Jung: from the Chicago Reader

Smith's review of Deirdre Bair's Jung: A Biography in the January 21 New York Times was extreme. It began: "Carl Gustav Jung was an insufferable egotist, cruel to his family, a womanizer, with bad table manners to boot. He was a founder of psychoanalysis, but today his teachings have little importance in the treatment of mental illness.  --Michael Miner, Feb. 13, 2004, Chicago Reader.

Our Soul's Journey from Bethlehem to Calvary and Beyond

The symbolic and psychological meaning of the Birth, Baptism, Transfiguration, Crucifixion, Resurrection, Ascension and Pentecost in our spiritual journey through the Cakras.

Desperados: Love in a Time of Broken Heart

...loneliness...seems to come with the modern age. CGJung wrote about it in the middle of the last century 'Through scientific understanding, our world has become dehumanised. Man feels himself isolated in the cosmos' (CW18) Jung's work and writings brings home to us how deep is our alienation from nature.