March 19, 2026

I fell in love with a camera when I saw a 35mm Single Lens Reflex camera on a pool side table in a black-and-white made for TV movie as I walked through our living room on my way to the kitchen when I was a Junior in college. I felt the attraction throughout my body, and could not have dismissed, discounted, ignored the experience–my most memorial impact with intuitive knowing–although it took several years for me to explore its meaning and make photography the central aspect of my life throughout my life.

I think of intuition as an extension of Psyche, and of Psyche as “the other” in Carl Jung’s statement, “There is in each of us another, who we do not know.” Time spent coming to know, explore and serve “the other who lives within” is the sole purpose of being alive, and it is a travesty that we spend so much time with religion and trying to get to heaven when we die instead of doing what it takes to be alive in the time left for living in the life we could be living if we would only wake up and seek out The Other within. Why we are not told this early on and led in the way of inner knowing is the gravest failure and greatest injustice of humanity’s refusal to train its young in the ways of heart and soul. We could do better even yet.

For instance, we could intentionally teach our children about the importance of using self-induced trance states as a pathway to The Other’s world, so that playing a musical instrument, or drawing, painting (even painting houses), reading, writing, etc. put us in “the zone” of being available to The Other’s influence and leanings, so that our communion is established and the reality of The Other within leads to the central place of “The Muse” in our life throughout our life, and the transformation of life and the world as we experience both.