Summer is vacation time, so whether you can travel this summer or not, let’s talk about real HSP travel. As some of you know, last summer my husband and I embarked on a six-month “sabbatical,” as he called it. For me it was a pilgrimage. A pilgrimage is defined as an “intentional journey, possibly a […]
HSPs and Spirituality
A Table for Four: My Dinner with C. G. Jung, Martin Buber, and Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Along with all the other exciting things that have happened this fall, I also had accepted and published a manuscript that I’d like to share with you. In it, three men—Jung, Buber, and Maharishi Mahesh Yogi—are invited to dinner with me in my active imagination. Each devoted their lives to healing the collective psyche, decimated […]
With this Movie We Will Be Much More “Out”—Perhaps It’s Time to Be Much More “In” as Well
With this movie, Sensitive, The Untold Story, the story is going to be told. We HSPs will become much more visible. Of course, thank goodness, your sensitivity can remain invisible when you choose it to be. Remember I did a post about being invisible? https://hsperson.com/invisible-yet-definitive-part-of-yourself/. The comments on that are interesting, too, and some of […]
Some New Thoughts to Add to Last Issue’s Discussion of Enlightenment
Originally published in Comfort Zone Newsletter: August 2004. Since last May’s issue, where I wrote “Sensitive Spirituality: HSPs, Meditation, and Enlightenment,” I found a very relevant article by David Tresan, a Jungian analyst. It is titled “This New Science of Ours [referring to Jungian psychology]: A More or Less Systematic History of Consciousness and Transcendence.” […]
HSPs, Meditation, and Enlightenment
Originally published in Comfort Zone Newsletter: May 2004. Although this article does not often mention HSPs, meditation is a practice well suited to HSPs. Enlightenment, whatever that is, seems to pertain to us as well. So I am going to tackle both subjects at once. Why I Meditate—And Don’t Discuss It Very Much Over the […]