Archive - Dreams, Spirits, and the Unconscious Mind

Toxic Ties Feed the Horror . . .

As a psychotherapist and writer, I treat and write about unhealthy emotional ties as horror-making. Sick ties exert toxic effects that can be felt as…

Feb 20 •

Dr. Paul DeBlassie III

Dreaming the Undreamable . . .

Depth psychologist and colleague Dr. Willow Pearson Trimbach and I both contributed papers for an upcoming volume (Routledge Press, 2024) on the mystic…

Feb 9 •

Dr. Paul DeBlassie III

January 2024

Find Your Rage, Find Yourself

Find Your Rage Rage cuts through the BS. It gets to the heart of things and sweeps all else away. There’s nothing like it to get things going in life…

Jan 13 •

Dr. Paul DeBlassie III

December 2023

YOU DRAW THE GOOD TO YOURSELF

Thanks for reading Dreams, Spirits, and the Unconscious Mind! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. You naturally draw the good…

Dec 27, 2023 •

Dr. Paul DeBlassie III

October 2023

The Magic of Metaphysical Reading . . .

Metaphysical refers to what is natural but outside the ordinary realm of human perception. It’s about realities lying beyond empirical data usually…

Oct 26, 2023 •

Dr. Paul DeBlassie III

September 2023

Stories That Call Your Name and Heal Your Pain

I’m a psychotherapist and can say for sure that stories heal you. They reach unconscious mindspaces and touch what needs to be released. It’s the…

Sep 9, 2023 •

Dr. Paul DeBlassie III

August 2023

The Uncanny and A Sense of Things

Intuition is a sense of things, what Freud called the uncanny. A New York colleague said, “I always know it’s the uncanny at work when the hairs on the…

Aug 28, 2023 •

Dr. Paul DeBlassie III

Mirrors and Psychic Energy . . .

Mirrors magnify psychic energy. I wrote about it in Goddess of the Wild Thing. The witch did black magic by gazing into a mirror: “Seconds, hours, or…

Aug 22, 2023 •

Dr. Paul DeBlassie III

June 2022

Sensitivity is Your Superpower

Odd as it sounds, we learn the most from our mistakes. That’s why I write metaphysical fiction. It goes into the dark side, and mistakes are made…

Jun 17, 2022 •

Dr. Paul DeBlassie III

December 2021

Start Now and What You Need Will Come

“As long as you can start, you are all right. The juice will come,” wrote Ernest Hemingway. And, as in writing, so in life. Get started, and the juice…

Dec 14, 2021 •

Dr. Paul DeBlassie III

July 2021

Can the Sacred be Abused?

Can the sacred be abused? Of course! I deal with it all week long in therapy practice. Then on the weekend, I write stories that imaginatively pull…

Jul 25, 2021 •

Dr. Paul DeBlassie III

April 2021

Horror, Transformation, and Your Worst Nightmare!

Nightmares scare the hell out of us. Blues chase the blues away. Fright ushers us into realms we’d never enter if it weren’t for life pressures and the…

Apr 3, 2021 •

Dr. Paul DeBlassie III

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