I leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain. One always finds one’s burden again. But Sisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods and raises rocks. He too concludes that all is well. This universe henceforth without a master seems to him neither sterile nor futile. Each atom of that…
(from the Red Book) Carl Jung, on “The Resurrection of the Christ Within” What is important and meaningful to my life is that I shall live as fully as possible to fulfill the divine will within me. This task gives me so much to do that I have no time or any other….
Stan Marlan: Regulating the Alchemical Heat When I was working on understanding the images that had been drawn after a severe heart attack, my wife gave me a copy of Stan Marlan’s “The Black Sun; The Alchemy and the Art of Darkness.” It had been meant for my birthday, but hid itself for…
Proximity to the Pole One of the wonderful conceptual pleasures in living on the edge of Fairbanks, Alaska is its wilderness proximity to the North Pole For us to get to the North Pole from our house in the hills above Fairbanks, there is only one road to cross — after hiking about…
Knud Rasmsussen translates “the Greenland Eskimo Kilime”: All songs come to man when he is alone in the great solitude. They come to him in the wake of tears, of tears that spring from the deep recesses of the heart or they come to him suddenly accompanied by joy and laughter which wells up…
The classic documentary about the Inuit, filmed in 1922 —(The mascot for the University of Alaska-Fairbanks is “Nanooks,” i.e, polar bears. Very magical and iconic creatures) From Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanook_of_the_North
Jung: On Water Symbolism… When one has awoken from Muladhara, one goes into the water, which represents the unconscious where one faces the Leviathan/Crocodile from the depths which are ones own demons. The Leviathan is the biggest and most fearsome creature of the watery depths. (but it represents the same animal as the…
Michelle Franton — an artist from Australia — and I started corresponding after she came across an image I had drawn of Kayaking the Unconscious She talked about how her paintings are “irrational”. I asked Michelle to comment on this fish painting of hers: The fish appeared during the painting of one of…
Completion: The Red Egg Rises When the heart attack had me nine years ago, I had no idea of the long journey that was about to unfold. There is no absolutely way I would have chosen to have go through this ordeal, yet from it emerged a much deeper connection with life…