There is a door to love’s presence. Having an open mind and an open heart opens the door to love. But this door also closes, and when it closes, it is calling you to open it again because that is the process required to deepen our love. When it closes, we need to be patient, forgiving and courageous if we want the door to open again. To truly live from a place of unconditional love, we must not only feel love's presence, but its absence, because love’s absence is the teacher.

“If you can recognize illusion as illusion, it dissolves. The recognition of illusion is also its ending. Its survival depends on your mistaking it for reality.” - Eckhart Tolle Sigmund Freud explains that the ego is, “t hat part of the id which has been modified by the direct influence of the external world.” The id being the unconscious instinctual component of personality. According to Freud, our ego operates by attempting to satisfy our instinctual desires and pleasures

Jung identified evil, among other things, as an “archetype” – a universal thought form of humanity that influenced human perception and experience through informational fields like a living entity. Native Americans coined the term “wetiko" to describe a mind-virus that operates through our psychological blind-spots. Both are pointing to a spell that humanity casts on itself, at both a personal and transpersonal level, that is literally akin to hypnotizing ourselves in our own