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…
In the hills above Fairbanks, the frostline goes down about four feet in the winter, so septic systems have to be buried more than four feet. a bit of a daunting task. In researching how to replace an aging septic system last year, I learned that we live on “fractured schist.” This geological underlayment is a continual poetic and…
Not only is it a mystery to me of why the Stone Sanctuary needs to be built, but it is also it is also a mystery as to how my hands find the stones that fit. There is no conscious process of choosing to look for a stone with certain dimensions and angles —…
It has a been a bit of a puzzle to me why I have been so consistently drawn to working on the Stone Sanctuary for the last three years. In the next few weeks, I hope to explore the symbolism of stones and the psychological process of working with stones. The work above is the…
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…
[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…
(On the Jung-Hearted Facebook site, these were the response to the question of July 14: “How does a person integrate a personal complex into their life instead of projecting it onto others?): DO: Art. Create art. RP: Choose to see it as a ‘lesson’ in ‘self-discovery’… RN: Any exaggerated feelings I have for another,…
[soliloquy id=”8195″] The urge to individuation gathers together what is scattered. Carl Jung Collected Works 11 All loose stone was at one time part of the living earth. In walling, I bring stone back together, even if artificially and only temporarily, and reunite it with the earth. Walling puts back what has come…
[soliloquy id=”8172″] The stone symbolized something permanent that can never be lost or dissolved, something eternal that some have compared to the mystical experience of God within one’s own soul. It symbolizes what is perhaps the simplest and deepest experience, the experience of something eternal that man can have in those moments when he feels…