The Cosmic Egg According to the worshipers of Visnu, the cosmic egg (also known as the golden womb) emerges from the world ocean at the beginning of the ever-recurring cycle of creation as a result of the friction produced by wind and water. Visnu then enters the cosmic egg and, after a period of…
C.G. Jung on The Symbolic Life You see, man is in need of a symbolic life – badly in need. We only live banal, ordinary, rational, or irrational things . . . but we have no symbolic life. Where do we live symbolically? Nowhere except where we participate in the ritual…
The Incantation in the Red Book Set the egg before you, the God in his beginning. And behold it. And incubate it with the magical warmth of your gaze. Christmas has come. The God is in the egg. I have prepared a rug for my God, an expensive red rug from the land…
“According to legend, an egg will only balance on its end on the Vernal Equinox” Source: BBC.com C.G Jung on Egg Symbolism: The egg is a germ of life with a lofty symbolical significance. It is not just a cosmogonic symbol — it is also a “philosophical one”. As the former…
William Blake: Book of Job Job: The Visions of the Night Amid disquieting thoughts from the visions of the night, When deep sleep falls on men, Dread came upon me, and trembling, And made all my bones shake. Then a spirit passed by my face; The hair of my flesh bristled up. …
[soliloquy id=”7072″] Marie Louise von Franz Interprets the Dream of Jacob’s Ladder The Bible references more than 100 dreams or visions. The dream of Jacob’s Ladder is one of the better known dreams, and one of the most frequently depicted dreams in the art world. Jacob left Beersheba, and went toward Haran. He came…
(From Wikipedia:) According to the Confession of St. Patrick, at the age of just sixteen Patrick was captured by a group of Irish pirates. The raiders brought Patrick to Ireland where he was enslaved and held captive for six years. Patrick writes in The Confession that the time he spent in captivity was critical to…
I was sledding with my friends at night. I started to slide down the hill but my sled started going faster and faster. I was going so fast that I realized I was approaching the speed of light. I looked up at that point and I saw the stars. They were being refracted into colors…
Jung talks about Pisces, The Fishes, and the Fish Above all it is the connections with the Age of the Fishes which are attested by the fish symbol, either contemporaneously with the gospels themselves (“fishers of men”, fishermen as the first disciples, miracle of loaves and fishes) or immediately afterwards in the post-apostolic…