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Paul McCartney: “Scrambled Eggs… Oh my darling you’ve got lovely legs.”

  The Dream of Paul McCartney that led to Yesterday The Beatles were in London in 1965 filming Help! and McCartney was staying in a small attic room of his family’s house on Wimpole Street. One morning, in a dream he heard a classical string ensemble playing, and, as McCartney tells it: I woke up…

Jung: Alchemy and Nigredo

(This is from a sister website, www.heartcurrents.com) As mentioned in yesterday’s post about the adaptive strategy of depression, the Jungian metaphor for the journey is that of the “nigredo”, the first stage of alchemy. Although the excerpt below is primarily about the encounter with the psychological shadow that needs to be dealt with, it is…