[These were the responses to “”How do I apply Jungian concepts to the Mideast Conflict?” on Facebook on July 20, 2014:] VR: Apply love, not concepts. JM: I believe the practice of compassion is helpful. Breathing in the pain and and suffering, breathing out healing golden light JH: The projection of the shadow on to…
Coping with the times we are in: The Dark Mountain Project “The Dark Mountain Project is a network of writers, artists and thinkers who have stopped believing the stories our civilization tells itself. We see that the world is entering an age of ecological collapse, material contraction and social and political unravelling, and we…
“The mandala symbolizes, by its central point, the ultimate unity of all archetypes as well as the multiplicity of the phenomenal world, and is therefore the empirical equivalent of the metaphysical concept of a unus mundus. The alchemical equivalent is the lapis and its synonyms, in particular the Microcosm.” C.G Jung Mysterium Coniunctionis Page 463…
I will try to explain the term “individuation” as simply as possible. By it I mean the psychological process that makes of a human being an “individual”-a unique, indivisible unit or “whole man.” from a lecture at the Eranos Meeting at Ascona The Meaning of Individuation Prometheus bound Amphoriskos C6th B.C., Vatican City Museums What…
Crossing the River Styx Joachim Patinir 1521 Transitions as Liminal and Archetypal Situations From a lecture delivered by Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D. at the Mythic Journeys Conference June 2004, Atlanta, Georgia The fourth step is the first time that Psyche will end up accomplishing the task herself. As her very last task, Aphrodite commands that…
The River Styx Luca Giordano 1684-1686. Fresco in the Palazzo Medici-Riccardi From: The Golden Asse by Lucius Apuleius Adlington’s translation, 1566 THE FIFTH BOOKE THE TWENTY-SECOND CHAPTER The most pleasant and delectable tale of the marriage of Cupid and Psyches … Then Venus spake unto Psyches againe saying: Seest thou the toppe of yonder great…
The Book of Changes is one of the most influential books in the history of civilization. Its importance is relatively unrecognized in the West. Personally, I think has a book of “divination”, as an oracle, it need to be considered very skeptically. Synchronicity is not so easy. However, as a book of wisdom, as a…
“What entanglement (and quantum theory in general) does do is remind us is that the real world is much stranger than we imagine.” Brian Clegg The Strange World of Quantum Entanglement by Paul Comstock March 30th, 2007 California Literary Review Interview with Brian Clegg Brian Clegg received a physics degree from Cambridge University and is…
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge. Aion (1951). CW…