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…
Theophanes the Cretan: Jesus in Golgotha The Symbolism of the Cross Edward Edinger suggests: “To take up one’s own cross would mean to accept and consciously realize one’s own particular pattern of wholeness.” This invariably involves being suspended between successive pairs of opposites (like a veritable crucifixion), with its attendant suffering, and repeated…
C.G. Jung, On the meaning of the crucifixion Nobody who finds himself on the road to wholeness can escape that characteristic suspension which is the meaning of crucifixion. For he will infallibly run into things that thwart and “cross” him: First, the thing he has no wish to be (the shadow): Second, the thing he…
[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…
“There is a crack in everything God has made.” Ralph Waldo Emerson “The crack is where the light gets in.” Leonard Cohen “Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light.” Groucho Marx “Only the wounded physician heals.” C.G. Jung ———————————————————————————————- A plain confession of the in-working of the All, and of its…
[soliloquy id=”7398″] Ensos and the Ouroboros “The alchemists, who in their own way knew more about the nature of the individuation process than we moderns do, expressed this paradox through the symbol of the Ouroboros, the snake that eats its own tail. The Ouroboros has been said to have a meaning of infinity or…
Mary Magdalene, Red Eggs and Easter Legend recounts that after the resurrection of Jesus, Mary Magdalene travelled to visit the Emperor Tiberius in Rome and greeted him with: “Christ has risen”, whereupon he pointed to an egg on his table and quipped, “Christ has no more risen than that egg is red.” The egg,…
Magritte: Key to Dreams Understanding the Symbolism of Eggs in Dreams In coming across Michael Cornwall’s excellent post about how Jung utilized emotion as a key in understanding the dream, I somehow got to wondering how Internet dream sites interpreted dreams of eggs. In general, one has to be very careful of…
Jung: Following the Emotion in the Dream “Jung discovered that when we remember a dream, the key to really getting the greatest understanding is to first focus in on the exact emotion we feel in the dream.” Depth Psychologist Michael Cornwall provided this story of one of the critical insights about dreams that…