It has a been a bit of a puzzle to me why I have been so consistently drawn to working on the Stone Sanctuary for the last three years. In the next few weeks, I hope to explore the symbolism of stones and the psychological process of working with stones. The work above is the…
[soliloquy id=”8143″] “Working the surface of a stone is an attempt to understand the internal energy of the stone.” “A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories.” “The reason why the stone is red is its iron content, which is also why our blood is red.” Andy Goldsworthy
Artist: Anne Diggory — Descents Water is heavy silver over stone. Water is heavy silver over stone’s Refusal. It does not fall. It fills. It flows Every crevice, every fault of the stone, Every hollow. River does not run. River presses its heavy silver self Down into stone and stone refuses. What runs,…
When you dream of a savage bull, or a lion, or a wolf pursuing you, this means: it wants to come to you. You would like to split it off, you experience it as something alien, but it just becomes all the more dangerous. . . The best stance would be: ‘Please, come…
Image: Thanks-Giving Square, Dallas Joseph Campbell Reflects about Easter Symbolism What has always been basic to Easter, or resurrection, is crucifixion. If you want resurrection, you must have crucifixion. Too many interpretations of the Crucifixion have failed to emphasize that relationship and emphasize instead the calamity of the event. If you emphasize the…
The Tablet of Shamash, 900 B.C. Carl Jung, on the symbolism of the Cross It seems to have been one of the most original intuitions of man that the right form to express the source of mana would be the cross…. It is an absolute irrational fact to me that vital energy should have anything…
Theophanes the Cretan: Jesus in Golgotha The Symbolism of the Cross Edward Edinger suggests: “To take up one’s own cross would mean to accept and consciously realize one’s own particular pattern of wholeness.” This invariably involves being suspended between successive pairs of opposites (like a veritable crucifixion), with its attendant suffering, and repeated…
C.G. Jung, On the meaning of the crucifixion Nobody who finds himself on the road to wholeness can escape that characteristic suspension which is the meaning of crucifixion. For he will infallibly run into things that thwart and “cross” him: First, the thing he has no wish to be (the shadow): Second, the thing he…
[soliloquy id=”7486″] C. G. Jung talks about Stones Many people cannot refrain from picking up stones of a slightly unusual color or shape and keeping them, …. without knowing why they do. It is as if the stone held a mystery in it…