Dick, watched the video this morning — gentle, humorous, disarmingly self-revealing, incredibly insightful, a fascinating story, the perfect exemplification of the Hillman, Soul’s Code Way — ‘go with it’ and ‘treat him like a person’, an Archetypal/Alchemical Narrative, as you say at the start, as exotic as a Medieval Alchemy Book; a Tale of the Ancestors and Shaman-guided Trip to the ‘Underworld’, a Healing Journey-Adventure Tale for you perhaps even more than Franklin, or, better said, for your Family, Living and Dead, a Tale of ‘Madness’ finding a ground and meaning through a Father’s love concretized as curiosity, openness, willingness to explore and go along. Franklin remains a Mysterious Son whose appealing character and runic, hieroglyphic Destiny shines through. All of this unfolds as naturally as if you and Jon were unfurling a tapestry for a new Artist’s Exhibit overheard casually talking about its marvelous content and colors.
As far as the ‘Mental Health’ field is concerned, It’s a Revolutionary Tale free of the Revolutionary Ambition and Agenda that turns so many people off. Gosh I hope wish the video gets wide distribution! Maybe it will. Folks these days so much more likely to watch a youtube video than read an entire book. The interview, information packed even as it conversationally unfolds a story, is ideally suited for an assignment, class, or CEU Seminar for Professionals.
I thought when reading the book that it really served as a kind of Master Class in ‘What is Soul’s Code kind of therapy in practice?’ It is
‘Going with it’ … ‘going with it’ into the Mysterious, the Marvelous and most Mundane..,. and treating….. ‘Treatment’ … people like people, nobody ever more or less than the guy or woman sitting next to you on the Bus or at the Bar with a riveting story to tell … instead of ‘Patients’.
Jon does a great job, curiously teasing out and unobtrusively directing with his questions, and you really have perfected being at ease and accessible in the interviewer, a natural raconteur, whose every story and remark adds insight and meaning.
Thoroughly enjoyable. Great stuff! Thanks very much for sharing the Link.,
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Dick, watched the video this morning — gentle, humorous, disarmingly self-revealing, incredibly insightful, a fascinating story, the perfect exemplification of the Hillman, Soul’s Code Way — ‘go with it’ and ‘treat him like a person’, an Archetypal/Alchemical Narrative, as you say at the start, as exotic as a Medieval Alchemy Book; a Tale of the Ancestors and Shaman-guided Trip to the ‘Underworld’, a Healing Journey-Adventure Tale for you perhaps even more than Franklin, or, better said, for your Family, Living and Dead, a Tale of ‘Madness’ finding a ground and meaning through a Father’s love concretized as curiosity, openness, willingness to explore and go along. Franklin remains a Mysterious Son whose appealing character and runic, hieroglyphic Destiny shines through. All of this unfolds as naturally as if you and Jon were unfurling a tapestry for a new Artist’s Exhibit overheard casually talking about its marvelous content and colors.
As far as the ‘Mental Health’ field is concerned, It’s a Revolutionary Tale free of the Revolutionary Ambition and Agenda that turns so many people off. Gosh I hope wish the video gets wide distribution! Maybe it will. Folks these days so much more likely to watch a youtube video than read an entire book. The interview, information packed even as it conversationally unfolds a story, is ideally suited for an assignment, class, or CEU Seminar for Professionals.
I thought when reading the book that it really served as a kind of Master Class in ‘What is Soul’s Code kind of therapy in practice?’ It is
‘Going with it’ … ‘going with it’ into the Mysterious, the Marvelous and most Mundane..,. and treating….. ‘Treatment’ … people like people, nobody ever more or less than the guy or woman sitting next to you on the Bus or at the Bar with a riveting story to tell … instead of ‘Patients’.
Jon does a great job, curiously teasing out and unobtrusively directing with his questions, and you really have perfected being at ease and accessible in the interviewer, a natural raconteur, whose every story and remark adds insight and meaning.
Thoroughly enjoyable. Great stuff! Thanks very much for sharing the Link.,
Randolph Severson Ph.d. LMFT, LPC