One can only conclude that the unconscious tends to regard spirit and matter not merely as equivalent but as actually identical, and this in flagrant contrast to the intellectual one-sidedness of consciousness, which would sometimes like to spiritualize matter and at other times to materialize spirit. That the lapis or in our case the floating…
C.G. Jung: “The spiral in psychology means that when you make a spiral you always come over the same point where you have been before, but never really the same, it is above or below, inside, outside, so it means growth. “ (Dream Analysis, Parts II & III. 1929) First Image: Paul Klee, The Beginning,…
Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty (1970) is one of the most well known examples of “Land Art”. It took about two weeks and two tries to get in place, moving 6000 tons of basalt with heavy equipment. One could perhaps see it as a culturally collective symbol of the emergence of the feminine. However, I would…
Carl Jung: “I began to understand that the goal of psychic development is the circumambulation of the self.” I began to understand that the goal of psychic development is the circumambulation of the self. Uniform development exists, at most, at the beginning; later, everything points toward the centre. This insight gave me stability, and gradually…
From Aldo Carotenuto’s The Vertical Labyrinth In psychotherapy, the initial dream frequently sums up the the whole psychic situation of the client. This is that first dream of an artist who was unable to do any more work, as told to the author, Aldo Carotenuto: I am in a kind of limbo… An old woman…
It feels as if I still have part of me on the other side of the River Styx after the near- death experiences and heart attack, and that there is a wind from the Underworld that whistles through the wound and drives the stonework to bring me down to earth while creating a portal to…
