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“Time makes ancient good uncouth.” ~James Russell Lowell Ancient values have become obsolete. They are rotten fruit, slick and hazardous...

“Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off a portion of one’s being, but by integration of the contraries.” ~Jung A fully integrated human is in touch with their wholeness, whether good or bad, light or dark, ugly or beautiful. Balancing these energies can be counterintuitive. Integrating the whole leads to the holistic experience of self-actualization. But it’s not easy to achieve. It does not come naturally. Yet if we can practice such integration, no matter how counterintui

“The Trickster is not a trickster by nature. He is a trickster by necessity.” – Malcolm Gladwell Governing the precept that the self is masks all the way down perceiving delusions all the way up, it stands to reason that one of those “masks” would embolden the self to question all delusions and break all masks. Indeed, one of those masks should embolden the self to the extent that it thinks it has nothing to lose. That mask is the mask of the trickster. When a person dons the