Mini Poemcast - What My Migraines Taught Me

This poem is from my first collection- The Call of the Unwritten this is available by clicking here .  The photo in the podcast episode image is from https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Strider_%28chapter%29 The quote from CG Jung is as follows  “We think we can congratulate ourselves on having already reached such a pinnacle of clarity, imagining that we have left all these phantasmal gods far behind.  But what we have left behind are only verbal spectres, not the psychic facts that were responsible for the birth of the gods.  We are still as much possessed by autonomous (forces) as if they were Olympians.  Today they are called phobias, obsessions, and so forth; in a word, neurotic symptoms.  The gods have become diseases; Zeus no longer rules Olympus but rather the solar plexus, and produces curious specimens for the doctor’s consulting room, or disorders of the brains of politicians and journalists who unwillingly let loose psychic epidemics on the world.” (Jung, Cw 13, par. 54)