A well-written autobiography that captures a life well-lived, in a Jungian way: From a review by Stephen Morrisey: Robert Johnson’s Balancing Heaven and Earth is a memoir and celebration of the inner life, the world of dreams, active imagination, and mystical vision. Johnson writes, “I sometimes wonder if all suffering is a vision…
Aurora near Fairbanks, Alaska “Every country or people has its own angel, just as the earth has a soul.” Letters II Page 432 Meredith Sabini: The Earth has a Soul
Every man should have his own plot of land. To own land is important psychologically and there is no substitute for it. We need nourishment for our psyche. It is impossible to find nourishment in urban tenements without a patch of green or a blossoming tree. I derive a great deal of pleasure…
From Michael Meier’s Atalanta Fugiens Epigram 36 The Stone that is Mercury, is cast upon the Earth, exalted on Mountains, resides in the Air, and is nourished in the Waters.Discourse 36: All persons that have once heard of the name or power of the Stone, unless they are altogether incredulous, ask presently where it may…
“Chaos at the Heart of Orion”; NASA title of Hubble photograph from Hesiod: Theogony 8th Century BCHail, children of Zeus!… Tell how at the first gods and earth came to be, and rivers, and the boundless sea with its raging swell, and the gleaming stars, and the wide heaven above, and the gods who were…
From Wikipedia:Uranus In the Olympian creation myth, as Hesiod tells it in the Theogony, Uranus came every night to cover the earth and mate with Gaia, but he hated the children she bore him. Hesiod named their first six sons and six daughters the Titans, the three one-hundred-armed giants the Hecatonchires, and the one-eyed giants…
Psyche and Cupid Simon Vouet (1627) 1566 Translation of from Apuleius. (Lots of formal and old English, but nevertheless the original English translation — Alas, poore Psyche) From Mr. Marassa’s Greek Mythology Course (More fun than the Wikipedia article below) This is the Wikipedia version of the myth: Envious and…