Magritte Quotations: We are surrounded by curtains. We only perceive the world behind a curtain of semblance. At the same time, an object needs to be covered in order to be recognized at all. ———————————————– Visible things can be invisible. However, our powers of thought grasp both the visible and the invisible –…
Jung Describes His Process of Drawing Mandalas I sketched every morning in a notebook a small circular drawing, a mandala, which seemed to correspond to my inner situation at the time. With the help of these drawings I could observe my psychic transformations from day to day. . .. Only gradually did I discover…
Continuing on the theme of musical references to the I Ching, The Band was one of the best bands of the sixties. End of argument. She reads the leaves and she leads the life That she learned so well from the old wives It’s so strange to arrange it, you know I wouldn’t change…
James Joyce with Ezra Pound, Ford Madox Ford, and John Quinn, ca. 1923. Like every true prophet, the artist is the unwitting mouth-piece of the psychic secrets of his time, and is often as unconscious as a sleep walker. Carl Jung, in his essay on Ulysses James Joyce’s Ulysses is frequently considered one of the…
Zdzisław Beksiński The Shadow cannot be eliminated. It is the ever-present dark brother or sister. Whenever we fail to see where it stands, there is likely to be trouble afoot. For then it is certain to be standing behind us. he adequate question therefore never is: Have I a shadow problem? Have I negative…