For reasons known only to my unconscious, it somehow felt that it would be a good idea do the inside of the cabin in stone. As I was slowly fitting the fractured stones together, I suddenly recalled the story of the Three Little Pigs; I thought, “Perhaps after trauma one wants to build a…
After I gave a talk to cardiac patients about the Stone Sanctuary, an older woman in the audience came up to me crying, saying “I had a heart attack ten years ago, and suddenly I had to start carving stone, and have been carving stone ever since. I had no idea why…” In the ten…
Consciousness, no matter how extensive it may be, must always remain the smaller circle within the greater circle of the unconscious, an island surrounded by the sea; and, like the sea itself, the unconscious yields an endless and self-replenishing abundance of living creatures, a wealth beyond our fathoming. Â Â Psychology of the…
Water is the commonest symbol for the unconscious. The lake in the valley is the unconscious, which lies, as it were, underneath consciousness, so that it is often referred to as the “subconscious,” usually with the pejorative connotation of an inferior consciousness. Water is the “valley spirit,” the water dragon of Tao, whose…
“Our unconscious, on the other hand, hides living water, spirit that has become nature, and that is why it is disturbed.  Heaven has become for us the cosmic space of the physicists, and the divine empyrean a fair memory of things that once were. But ‘the heart glows,’ and a secret unrest gnaws at the…
“In addition to our immediate consciousness, which is of a thoroughly personal nature and which we believe to be the only empirical psyche (even if we tack on the personal unconscious as an appendix), there exists a second psychic system of a collective, universal, and impersonal nature which is identical in all individuals. This collective…
Would you sacrifice an eye to the external world so that you could have an eye to the internal world and the Collective Unconscious? In Norse mythology, MÃmisbrunnr (Old Norse “MÃmir’s well”)is a well associated with the being MÃmir, located beneath the world tree Yggdrasil. The god Odin once placed one of his eyes within…