Hartney Bay, Cordova In moving to Alaska and Cordova in the late 70’s, I had the good fortune to find a cabin for $50 a month; it had no electricity or running water, but it had a magnificent view looking for twenty miles up Prince William Sound. It was outside of town, in…
Carl Jung — The artist gives up free will… Every creative person is a duality or a synthesis of contradictory aptitudes. On the one side he is a human being with a personal life, while on the other side he is an impersonal, creative process… The artist is not a person endowed with free will…
Alexander-Louis Laloir: Jacob Wrestling with the Angel, 1865 Unfortunately there can be no doubt that man is, on the whole, less good than he imagines himself or wants to be. Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual’s conscious life, the blacker and denser it is. If an…
The reality of evil and its incompatibility with good cleave the opposites asunder and lead inexorably to the crucifixion and suspension of everything that lives. Since ‘the soul is by nature Christian’ this result is bound to come as infallibly as it did in the life of Jesus: we all have to be ‘crucified…
The Tablet of Shamash, 900 B.C. Carl Jung, on the symbolism of the Cross It seems to have been one of the most original intuitions of man that the right form to express the source of mana would be the cross…. It is an absolute irrational fact to me that vital energy should have anything…
[soliloquy id=”7486″] C. G. Jung talks about Stones Many people cannot refrain from picking up stones of a slightly unusual color or shape and keeping them, …. without knowing why they do. It is as if the stone held a mystery in it…
C.G. Jung on The Symbolic Life You see, man is in need of a symbolic life – badly in need. We only live banal, ordinary, rational, or irrational things . . . but we have no symbolic life. Where do we live symbolically? Nowhere except where we participate in the ritual…
I was sledding with my friends at night. I started to slide down the hill but my sled started going faster and faster. I was going so fast that I realized I was approaching the speed of light. I looked up at that point and I saw the stars. They were being refracted into colors…
[soliloquy id=”6935″] Quotes from Paul Klee Everything vanishes around me, and works are born as if out of the void. Ripe, graphic fruits fall off; My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will. . —————————————- Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it…