The archetype of spirit in the shape of a man, hobgoblin, or animal always appears in a situation where insight, understanding, good advice, determination, planning, etc., are needed but cannot be mustered on one’s own resources. The archetype compensates this state of spiritual deficiency by contents designed to fill the gap. “The Phenomenology of…
Archetypes are complexes of experience that come upon us like fate, and their effects are felt in our most personal life. “The ‘squaring of the circle’ is one of the many archetypal motifs which form the basic patterns of our dreams and fantasies. But it is distinguished by the fact that it is one of…
Triads of gods appear very early, at the primitive level. The archaic triads in the religions of antiquity and of the East are too numerous to be mentioned here. Arrangement in triads is an archetype in the history of religion, which in all probability formed the basis of the Christian Trinity – C G Jung,…
Continuing along the theme of creating your own Red Book, Bomomo is a program that generates essentially random images, though you can guide the process somewhat. This is not too different than some aspects of life. One cannot even choose the colors in this program, but they do evolve and change all the time. Again,…
Detail of an illustration of a solar barge on page 55 of Carl Jung’s The Red Book. Translated, the complete text on the page reads: One word that was never spoken. One light that was never lit up. An unparalleled confusion. And a road without end. According to translator Sonu Shamdasani, the solar barge “was…