The Gas Station Observatory is the brainchild of The Gentleman and The Scholar, an installation grounded on the pursuit of our best selves. We lost ourselves in the quicksand of fear and found safety in our inability to take responsibility for our lives. This is a place to share the rambling road we’re all on as we try to figure out how to use our maps.
“To me dreams are part of nature, which harbors no intention to deceive but expresses something as best it can.”Carl Jung Spooky Realms Dreams are rooted in the unconscious, and they burst into our conscious mind when it is turned off. That means it is completely impartial, objective. Not constrained by what we might personally…
“Symbols are metaphors for the eternal in the forms of the transient.”
Oskar Doering
Beginning to think “You are not what happened to you, you are what you choose to become”Carl Jung Last time I was here, oh so many moons ago, I talked about stoicism and existentialism and why they were important. I wanted to continue that a bit, and set the stage for a GSO podcast and…
“Man conquers the world by conquering himself”Zeno of Citium Last post I went mystical as I find myself leaning more into that, but I thought I should do a post on the two beliefs that saved me from myself in my 20s. Trouble with those truths is their slippery. The more down I was the…
“Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer. “Rilke Mother’s molds:Our…
“The greatest burden the child must bear is the unlived life of the parent”.Carl Jung Grounded in Fear You know how last post we went into how fear kind of runs things for a lot of guys and we don’t even know it? We act one way without realizing we might have scared ourselves into…
It’s Mothers day weekend! Give whoever raised you a call or a hug if you can and sit with her memory for awhile. She is responsible for not just creating you but also molding and holding you into the person you are now. Congratulate you on mothering yourself to! You done good. I was blessed…
“Let the secrets of men be told. They are the Lilliputian threads that will bind the giant.”James Hollis Forced LawsI talked earlier about the way the patriarchy insidiously affects everyone, and I feel infinitely more qualified to talk about how it affects men so want to start with that. Men are prescribed laws in society,…
“Who looks outside dreams, who looks inside awakens” – C.G. Jung Hey everyone! I had a healing weekend in Houston, chock full of amazing blues and dive bars, where the Gentleman and I met up with our friend to unite the Trash Trio and send him off to live across the world. It helped shake…
“As above, so below, as within, so without, as the universe, so the soul”Hermes Trismegistus Certain Uncertainty: One thing that growing older has taught me is that going forward in life is so much easier when you are uncertain about things. You don’t hold so solidly onto beliefs that you can’t be sure about. We…