Bell Sounding to Thoughts – and Hunter Thompson

The audible, nonphysical bell was a phenomenon that appeared in my apartment in Tienen, Belgium, just after the sudden death of my boyfriend, Willy Vanluyten. It stayed over two years. It sounded somewhat like the watch sound that signals the hour, though there was no such watch in the apartment. It was part of an initiation. More on this and other subtle experiences inside Keep This Quiet! III: Initiations (2014) and the revised, expanded, retitled brand-new edition of volume IV, Ancient Secret...
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EXCERPT: Willy Vanluyten – Keep This Quiet! III & IV

Willy Vanluyten, my fifteen-years-younger boyfriend from 1987 to 1991, died suddenly in 1991, at just under 35 years old. Everything around the death was spooky, and the apartment I had lived in with him was more spooky afterwards. Keep This Quiet! III introduces Willy, and the story is carried forward in KTQ! IV. Willy had a short life. He made his livelihood as a truck driver. But he was quite unordinary.  Here is how he entered KTQ! III. He was Flemish. This scene takes place in Tienen, Belgi...
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Excerpt from Keep This Quiet! III – Jung-Pauli

Excerpt from the Author's Note The third in the series, Keep This Quiet! Initiations continues my memoir. As well as being a memoir, this book is indebted to Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung (born in 1875) and Nobel Prize-winning physicist Wolfgang Pauli (born in 1900 in Vienna), who dreamed together of uniting physics with psychology. I attended the C. G. Jung Institute in Küsnacht, Switzerland, a suburb of Zurich, 1984‒87.              ...
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Chris Van de Velde

Chris Van de Velde created "Inner Landscaping," from which his exercises at the back of the book are taken, with his permission. He later went on to join the Netherlands Academy for Psychotherapy in Amsterdam and then founded Numenon Counseling Institute. Chris's advice to me in Keep This Quiet! III was a saving grace, as were the light body courses I also began, the latter in 1992.
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Alchemy in Keep This Quiet! III

Keep This Quiet! Initiations explores alchemy, through the focus on Jung and Pauli. The copyright of this Vintage engraving of Alembic distillation is by Morphart Creation. Below is an excerpt  from KTQ! III: In Isaac Newton: The Last Sorcerer, Michael White highlights a passage from the papers, in which Newton’s assistant (for five years beginning in 1683) recorded the hours the great scientist kept. . . . Newton almost never “went to bed, till 2 or 3 of the clock, sometimes not till 5 o...
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The Red Shark and Owl Farm

Here's a glimpse of the classic Hunter car, the Red Shark, gleaming in front of his ranch. This photo was taken by me at Owl Farm in 1991. That story ends Keep THIS Quiet Too! It's told again, with added details, at the beginning of Keep This Quiet! IV: Ancient Secrets Revealed. Of course, there's much more to read, as this was a dramatic visit.  
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Wolfgang Pauli and Carl Jung: Initiations

Above, Pauli sits with Einstein. Now both men [Jung and Pauli] are dead. Physics has undergone great advances with its grand unified theories and its current development of superstring theory. Yet the central question remains: What is the nature of Pauli’s great dream? What is that speculum that lies between the worlds of mind and matter? Will it be possible to develop a new physics and a new psychology which are complementary to each other? - David Peat, “Divine Contenders” An excerpt from...
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ID-ing Cover Figures – KTQ! III

I'm often asked who is on the cover of III. Starting left to right, that's Milton Klonsky, a New York Village poet/critic/wiseman, who appears in this book only after he's dead. Then at the top, the psychologist Carl Jung, founder of depth psychology and the serious study of images, fairytales, psychological types, and other topics that bear his stamp. Next is Wolfgang Pauli, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist who was fascinated with his own dreams and used them as a way to expand his consc...
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Keep This Quiet! III – Out Now

Keep This Quiet 3
  Read about the new book below, or you can browse through the reviews on Amazon. Jung & Pauli . . . Courageously, competently Harrell guided this reader through mazes of scientific exploration, all the while keeping her engaging 'anima' voice as lure to read on. —Puanani Harvey, Advanced Studies Coordinator, New Mexico Society of Jungian Analysts Margaret has done an amazing job witnessing for us all the deep path of walking with the Self. She has presented this information, whil...
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