Dick Russell > Quotes

“I wonder if those in Silicon Valley who shave stones to their essence and put them in machines of memory perhaps already know somehow that stones have always managed information.”
― Dick Russell, My Mysterious Son: A Life-Changing Passage Between Schizophrenia and Shamanism

“If the information out there echoes the information inside of us, could it be that the great turmoil of unrecognized wisdom within us is forcing us to race along the information superhighway, hoping that we will discover what we already have? —Malidoma Patrice Somé,”
― Dick Russell, My Mysterious Son: A Life-Changing Passage Between Schizophrenia and Shamanism

“Bobby wrote, “the Big Tech, Big Data, Big Pharma, Big Carbon and Chemical-Industrial Food plutocrats and their allies in the Military Industrial Complex and Intelligence Apparatus now control our government. These plutocrats have twisted the language of democracy, equity and free markets to transform our exemplary democracy into a corrupt system of corporate crony capitalism. The tragic outcome for America has been a cushy socialism for the rich and a savage and bloody free market for the poor. America has devolved into a corporate kleptocracy addicted to a war economy abroad and a security and surveillance state at home. The upper echelons of the Democratic Party are now pro-censorship, pro-war neocons who wear woke bobbleheads to disguise and soften their belligerent totalitarian agendas for our country and the world.”
― Dick Russell, The Real RFK Jr.: Trials of a Truth Warrior

“Evangelos Christou. In his introduction to Logos of the Soul, Hillman would write about how psychotherapy’s legitimacy was “based on the soul” and the failure to make this clear “has resulted in psychologies which are bastard sciences and degenerate philosophies.” Christou’s was “a document humain attesting to the mystery of the soul.”
― Dick Russell, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman: Volume I: The Making of a Psychologist

“couldn't find a way into a way out”
― Dick Russell

“The larger the soul the greater the suffering. From suffering comes beauty.”
― Dick Russell, My Mysterious Son: A Life-Changing Passage Between Schizophrenia and Shamanism

“Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.”
― Dick Russell, My Mysterious Son: A Life-Changing Passage Between Schizophrenia and Shamanism

“Next came the thesis by Hillman’s late friend, Evangelos Christou. In his introduction to Logos of the Soul, Hillman would write about how psychotherapy’s legitimacy was “based on the soul” and the failure to make this clear “has resulted in psychologies which are bastard sciences and degenerate philosophies.” Christou’s was “a document humain attesting to the mystery of the soul.”
― Dick Russell, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman: Volume I: The Making of a Psychologist