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…
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…
From the Red Book, Page 55 (translation of text above image:) One word that was never spoken. One light that was never lit up. An unparalleled confusion. And a road without end. Footnote 128, on Page 55: The solar barge is a common motif in ancient Egypt. The barge was seen as the…
C.G. Jung: “Fishing is an intuitive attempt to “catch” unconscious contents (fishes).” [A young woman dreams:] I came to the bank of a broad, flowing river. I couldn’t see much at first, only water, earth and rock. I threw the pages with my notes into the water, with the feeling that I was giving something…
The Dream of Paul McCartney that led to Yesterday The Beatles were in London in 1965 filming Help! and McCartney was staying in a small attic room of his family’s house on Wimpole Street. One morning, in a dream he heard a classical string ensemble playing, and, as McCartney tells it: I woke up…
[soliloquy id=”6935″] Quotes from Paul Klee Everything vanishes around me, and works are born as if out of the void. Ripe, graphic fruits fall off; My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will. . —————————————- Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it…
C.G. Jung: “‘Fishes and snakes are favourite symbols for describing psychic happenings or experiences that suddenly dart out of the unconscious.” Paul Klee The Golden Fish C.G. Jung on Fish Symbolism The serpent is an equivalent of the fish. The consensus of opinion interpreted the Redeemer equally as a fish and a serpent; he is…
C.G. Jung: The Principle of Understanding Dreams Symbolically It is a well-known fact that one of the principles of analytic psychology is that the dream images are to be understood symbolically; that is to say, that they are not to be taken literally just as they are presented in sleep, but that behind them a…