Strike the Egg and Pierce it with a Fiery Sword! Atalanta Fugiens Emblem VIII Epigram 8 There is a bird in the world, more sublime than all, Let it be your only care to find its egg. The albumen softly surrounds the golden yolk, Attack it cautiously with a fiery sword, (as…
Animals almost invariably represent instincts when we meet them in dreams…. Each animal represents a different instinct or, if you prefer it, another aspect of instinct. The Cat, Dog and Horse Lectures, 1954; Page 55 Barbara Hannah Image: Detail of Henri Rousseau’s “The Dream”
Seven Paintings and Quotations of Frida Kahlo I paint flowers so they will not die. I don’t paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through…
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Carl Jung at Bollingen “I pump the water from the well. I chop the wood and cook the food. These simple acts make man simple; and how difficult it is to be simple!” from: Memories, Dreams, Reflections Before enlightenment chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment chop wood, carry water. Zen Proverb Carl…
Image: Gobekli Tepe Sometimes when working on the Stone Sanctuary and in considerable doubt about why I am doing what I am doing, I think of Max Zeller’s dream. In 1949, Zeller, who had spent time in a concentration camp and latter became a Jungian analyst, told Jung this dream: A temple of vast dimensions was in the…
Reflections on fire It is a wonderful alchemical pleasure to sit inside the cabin with a fire in the woodstove, and look to the outside world and see a fire on the stone altar. The dual fires reminds me of the alchemical axiom from the Emerald Tablet, “As above, so below.” The…
For reasons known only to my unconscious, it somehow felt that it would be a good idea do the inside of the cabin in stone. As I was slowly fitting the fractured stones together, I suddenly recalled the story of the Three Little Pigs; I thought, “Perhaps after trauma one wants to build a…
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 —…