..This blog became an artshow at Spring Street Gallery in Saratoga Springs, New York in March 2008, and in Fairbanks, Alaska in August, 2008. You can read the reviews at www.heartak.com.It is being reviewed for publication with the University of Alaska Press.Your comments, and rating it so that it becomes more visible on the web, can help to get it published. You can also contact me through the e-mail provided in the profile.Thanks for reading..You might consider starting the blog at the begi... Read Full Story

Wikizines are interactive magazines that anyone can create or edit - and this one is called "Heart Attack". Here you can find fresh voices and respond in real time. Some members write articles about recent news and trends related to the wikizine's topic, others recount relevant personal stories or share their favorite pictures and video clips. Got an interesting idea or story to share with other members of this wikizine? Well, then put on your journalist's cap and add your... Read Full Story

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I cannot prove to you that God exists, but my work has proved empirically that the pattern of God exists in every man and that this pattern in the individual has at its disposal the greatest transforming energies of which life is capable. Find this pattern in your own individual self and life is transformed. ..........................................................................CG JungThis blog has been writing itself for the last forty days. I did not know what I would write from one day ... Read Full Story

Suddenly, from behind the rim of the moon, in long, slow-motion moments of immense majesty, there emerges a sparkling blue and white jewel, a light, delicate sky-blue sphere laced with slowly swirling veils of white, rising gradually like a small pearl in a thick sea of black mystery. It takes more than a moment to fully realize this is Earth . . . home. My view of our planet was a glimpse of divinity. ..................................................................................... . .. ... Read Full Story

Know the active, the masculineYet keep to the passive, the feminine,Being the entrance of the worldYou embrace harmonyAnd become as a newborn..................................Tao to Ching Chapter 28At the beginning of June, seven months after the heart attack, I essentially finished the last drawing in the series I had done after heart attack.Through the process, I had found emotional release and comfort. I re-discovered the world of alchemy, which now seemed as if it had something very impor... Read Full Story

.The Valley Spirit never diesIt is named the Mysterious Female.Her gateway is the root of heaven and earth.It is like a veil barely seen. Use it; it will never fail..........................................Tao Te Ching, Chapter 6When this drawing was completed, it suddenly reminded me of alchemy, of pictures I had seen of alchemical processes being contained in egg-shaped flasks. It was at this time that I started reading about psychological processes and alchemy.In looking at it now from a... Read Full Story

. ...........Water – of all things indeed most divine...........Water gives life to the ten thousand things and does not strive...........It flows in places men reject and so is like the Tao...........In dwelling, be close to the land,..........In meditation, go deep in the Heart.. ....................Tao Te Ching Chapter 8...A friend looked at this drawing and said he felt sad for the person frozen in the ice...I remember feeling some optimism when I made the image; to me, the person’s head... Read Full Story

. He who looks outside, dreams, he who looks inside. awakens. Carl JungAfter each hospital surgery, I found myself singing the Carole King song, Sometimes I wonder if I am ever going to make it home again. All I wanted to do from the hospital was to make it home to my bed and look out the window.Even though in May it was beginning to turn green in Alaska, I found my view of the external world blocked by the anxieties and images of the internal world. For the previous six months, I was much mo... Read Full Story

A defeat for the ego is a victory for the Self..Carl Jung, Collected Works...When I drew this landcape, I thought I was drawing an image of where I needed to go. It could just as well be an image of where I had been. Were those black shapes punctures of the body from the stent procedures?With every surgery, I had to give up any sense of control over my fate. It was a humbling experience.With the heart attack, I lost any sense of entitlement I had to life or to a future. At the same time, I g... Read Full Story