Paul DeBlassie III, Ph.D.

SoulCraft for Dreamwork and Life Issues

505-401-2388

Personal Depth Consultation

After more than four decades as a depth psychologist and psychotherapist, my work is evolving into a more spacious, soulful, and spiritually attuned form of practice. This transition reflects both the natural maturation of my clinical life and a deepening call emerging through dreams, writing, and long-standing spiritual exploration.

SoulCraft Consultation is a non-medical, depth-oriented approach devoted to inner life, meaning, and transformation. It is grounded in presence rather than diagnosis, and in relationship rather than treatment.

This work may include:

Dreamwork and engagement with the unconscious

Sensitivity to energetic and relational fields

Psycho-spiritual insight and soul development

Symbolic exploration of life transitions and thresholds

Long-term accompaniment rooted in attunement, meaning, and mutual presence

SoulCraft is not psychotherapy. It does not diagnose, treat, or operate within a medical or insurance model. It is a form of consultation and guidance—soul companionship—shaped by decades of clinical experience and a lifetime of immersion in dreams, myth, spirituality, and the living field of consciousness.

For some long-term patients, this work represents a natural continuation of our shared journey. For others, it offers a new doorway into a more imaginal, relational, and spiritually alive dimension of inner exploration.

SoulCraft is the work I am called to offer in this season of life—
and for as long as the soul allows.

The Challenge of Bliss

December 20, 2019  /  Paul DeBlassie III

Bliss and Years End

The transition from years end to a new beginning is challenging, even when things are going well. When the going is bad, we want to let go of the worst and ready ourselves to embrace the better and best. But, as we've all noticed, things can follow us. No matter the time, place, people, or space, things follow us. Stability, well being, and bliss is a challenge.

I like bliss. It's not some mind-popping state. In actuality, mystics of old and seasoned depth psychologists would describe it as subtle energy. Gaston Bachelard, French philosopher and psychologist of archetypal realms, wrote of the Platonic ideal of bliss: ". . . to stand over every single thing as its own heaven, as its round roof, its azure bell, and eternal security." We soon discover that such a perspective and experience comes with a price.

Bliss as State of Mind

Bliss is a challenge because it requires we move out so we can move on. The end of a year and transition into a new year calls us to take stock, let go of what no longer is meaningful and embrace the unknown. It's filled with potential. Inevitably, there will be ups and downs, dark matters to go through, and, hopefully, light at the end of dark tunnels.

Bliss is a state of mind, one we can lean into and trust. It can be with us, in the background, during trying moments. It's consciously experienced when things go well. However, we realize it's always there once awareness is raised, appreciation for self and others discovered, and we immerse ourselves in each moment of life.

Bliss as Moving Out and On

Treating patients all year in depth psychotherapy, has brought to mind gratitude for the human capacity to move out so we can move on. As long as we're willing to make the sacrifice, pay the price, the bliss of knowing and feeling ongoing growth and change will be sensed. It's subtle. Patients report, and I, from experience, confirm, it's like a butterfly landing on your shoulder or a snowflake on the palm of your hand. It's there, comes and goes, and leaves the sense of it behind, the wonder of nature at work. Patients move out of what no longer works and into what does, butterflies and snowflakes and inspiration and insight alighting then departing, internalized as soulful nourishment.

Bliss as Subtle Current

So, moving out of one year and toward and into the next means letting go. It means embracing. Then, the subtle current of bliss arrives with surety as a genuine sense we are growing and going on. To be stuck leaves us unhappy, perhaps emotionally and spiritually unstable. As we sort through how we're stuck, then working on letting go and moving on opens us to the subtle current of bliss that is the nature of a soul always growing and moving on.

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