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Robert Johnson: Balancing Heaven and Earth: A Memoir of Visions, Dreams, and Realizations

  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…

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The Dream of Jacob’s Ladder: “The ladder symbolized a continuous, constant connection with the divine powers of the unconscious.”

 [soliloquy id=”7072″] Marie Louise von Franz Interprets the Dream of Jacob’s Ladder   The Bible references more than 100 dreams or visions. The dream of Jacob’s Ladder is one of the better known dreams, and one of the most frequently depicted dreams in the art world. Jacob left Beersheba, and went toward Haran. He came…

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C.G. Jung: “Love is a force of destiny whose power reaches from heaven to hell.”

Dante and Beatrice gaze upon the highest heavens; from Gustave Doré’s illustrations to the Divine Comedy Carl Jung, on Love and Destiny “Love is a force of destiny whose power reaches from heaven to hell. We must, I think, understand love in this way if we are to do any sort of justice to the…