“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 that fascinates them. Men have collected stones since the beginning of time and have apparently assumed that…
Clearly, Carl Jung makes people happy…. Click this link for more about Jung’s carving on his 75th Birthday Archetypal Symbolism in Possessing the Secret of Joy Southern Literary Journal Alice Walker’s fifth novel, Possessing the Secret of Joy (1992), marks a new beginning for an author/activist who explicitly appropriates Carl Jung’s archetypal patterns of the…
The Tower at Bollingen
In researching Telesphoros for yesterday’s post, this video of Jung (wait for about minute five) talking about the carving he did at 75 years old presented itself: Interview with Maud Oakes: Jung at Bollingen
Jung and the stone carving of Telesphorus In 1950, Jung carved this stone, partially in celebration of his 75th birthday. The translation: This is Telesphorus, who roams through the dark regions of this cosmos and glows like a star out of the depths. He points the way to the gates of the sun and to…
“I think that most people don’t get to live in these big cities where we have skyscrapers, beautiful cars, and beautiful people, so it’s this wish-fulfillment of getting to destroy these things.” Neal Moritz, the producer of Battle: Los Angeles. “If there was ever a truly apocalyptic era, it is ours…. What is unique about…
Jung’s first mandala “In the products of the unconscious we discover mandala symbols, that is, circular and quaternity figures which express wholeness, and whenever we wish to express wholeness, we employ just such figures. ” Memories, Dreams and Reflections “Most mandalas have an intuitive, irrational character and, through their symbolical…
Joel Biroco’s website about the Yijing is the place to start to understand its origins and and use. Not only is in informative, in-depth and well-organized, it is very aesthetically pleasing. Amazing place. The way a website should be.
If I ask the I Ching a question as though it were a book of wisdom, which it is, I generally say, “What do you have to say about this?” and then I just listen to what it says and see if some bells ring or not. There is no split between body & spirit….