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.
“You are a slave to what you need in your soul.”Carl Jung The Other SexWe have gone over our Hyde’s and Grover’s, through currents of spiced wheat fields and roots to discover ourselves. Paradoxically enough, the deeper you knowingly immerse yourself into the collective that all people share, the more you will discover and be…
“Man is not truly one, but truly two.”Robert Louis Stevenson’s Let’s look today at Robert Louis Stevenson’s story of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde. Dr. Jekyll was an esteemed scientist who created a potion to let out Mr. Hyde, a monster of a man who was purely selfish and barbaric. Jekyll…
“If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.” The Gospel of Thomas Well my mini-wheats, we are still sailing on, but I misjudged as a new captain and we…
I just wanted to jump in here and say that it’s Jerry Jeff Walker’s birthday, and he has been one of the primary dudes I jam since I was 14 or so, so he helped make me a pretty weird kid. He wrote his famous song Mr. Bojangles while in jail in New Orleans, and…
“Archetypes are images of the soul that represent the course of ones life.”Carl Jung Jung worked at an acclaimed asylum in Zurich when he started his work on the unconscious by trying to understand his patients. Freud worked with a drastically different population, notably middle-aged and upper class women in Vienna. While a different generation,…
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself” Leo Tolstoy Well last post I said how I was going to talk about what “we’re swimming towards” but I got excited and wrote too much and decided to break it up into two parts. So here’s some stuff on life stages…
“The doctrine you desire, absolute, perfect dogma that alone provides wisdom, does not exist. Nor should you long for a perfect doctrine, my friend. Rather, you should long for the perfection of yourself. The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.”Herman Hesse I apologize for the hiatus, I…
Looking at the above photo one gets an idea of that rustic, romanticized aloneness that we see in movies and novels. “That tree is such an individual, what a rugged antihero of a tree, like the Batman of trees, strong in a desolate place, sure reminds me of me”. However, that tree is still standing…
The overwhelming majority of people today are assailed by choices wherever they turn. How someone wants their coffee, their clothes, their love life, every aspect of an outward life can be customized. We equate these choices with love–the more specific the more meaningful. In fact, focusing on the customization of everything is what some might…
Last post I talked about the shadow and how common it is to do something that keeps you in the position you’re in, but be determinedly unconscious of it. The most common (and often substantial) problems in our lives are also the hardest to see, the largest elephants are somehow the most stealthy. Our elephants…