[youtube id=”biVJgIW8k_o”] I wrote “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” at my mother’s house in Warrington. I was thinking about the Chinese I Ching, the Book of Changes… The Eastern concept is that whatever happens is all meant to be, and that there’s no such thing as coincidence – every little item that’s going down…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pacX-FTc6Vk It is a pleasure to listen to the I Ching set to music. This is an original song from The Piper at the Break of Dawn, the ground-breaking first album of Pink Floyd. One has to wonder just how much the I Ching influenced the 60’s….. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VZQorlta_0[/youtube] All movement is…
I threw the I Ching yesterday Said there might be some thunder at the well Peace and quiet’s been avoiding me For so long it seems like living hell Bob Dylan, Bootleg version of Idiot Wind A lot of people tell me they enjoy that album. It’s hard for me to relate to that. I…
A reader wrote to me after seeing the post about Richard Wilhelm and the I Ching about an interview with Joseph Campbell, where he mentioned Bob Dylan’s role in saving the Bollingen Foundation… (Dylan apparently also introduced the Beatles to marijuana, but that is another story.) “Or the time [Joseph Campbell] said that Bob Dylan…
Jacob left Beersheba, and went toward Haran. He came to the place and stayed there that night, because the sun had set. Taking one of the stones of the place, he put it under his head and lay down in that place to sleep. And he dreamed that there was a ladder set up on…
It is always heartwarming to see Jungian viewpoints on the web. Pythia Peay contributes frequent Jungian related posts on the Huffington Post. Here she interviews John Beebe, the foremost Jungian analyst who comments about film: The Huffington Post Pythia Peay Author and writer on spirituality, psychology and the American psyche February 22, 2011 Academy Awards…
“This is a man who isn’t afraid of looking at the dark side or saying things that are unpopular or politically incorrect.” Tracey Cleantis Psychology Today James Hillman: Follow Your Uncertainty February 22, 2011 One of the more articulate quasi- and post Jungians is James Hillman, founder of Archeytpal Psychology. One of his more provocative…
“What entanglement (and quantum theory in general) does do is remind us is that the real world is much stranger than we imagine.” Brian Clegg The Strange World of Quantum Entanglement by Paul Comstock March 30th, 2007 California Literary Review Interview with Brian Clegg Brian Clegg received a physics degree from Cambridge University and is…
One of the best writers about the world of Jungian thought is Murray Stein. He has written a number of excellent books: The Principle of Individuation Jung’s Map of the Soul Jungian Analysis Jung’s Treatment of Christianity In Midlife Practicing Wholeness Transformation Emergence of the Self Solar Conscience Lunar Conscience In the biography section of…