Category: The Art of Inner Work
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The Art of Inner Work -XX-
“For the alchemist the one primarily in need of redemption is not man, but the deity who is lost and sleeping in matter. Only as a secondary consideration does he hope that some benefit may accrue to himself from the transformed substance as the panacea, the medicina catholica, just as it may to the imperfect […]
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The Art of Inner Work -VI-
“Out of psyche-pathos-logos came the meaning of suffering of the soul, or the soul’s suffering of meaning.” ~ James Hillman, Revisioning Psychology The Soul’s “suffering of meaning”. Out of ‘what’ do we make soul? Not through literal personalistic outer ‘therapies’, nor through infantile spiritual transcendence without shadow. Instead, through the medium of fantastic spontaneous bizarre […]
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The Art of Inner Work -V-
5/7/22 Last but not least, one has to know the motifs of creation myths if one ever analyzes a creative personality. To analyze creative people is a great problem because often such people think they are neurotic or in a neurotic crisis, and show every sign of this, but when you look at their dream […]
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The Art of Inner Work ~IV~
You can never arrive at the animus unless you see the shadow, unless you see your own inferior sides. When you see your shadow, you can detach from the anima or the animus, but as long as you don’t see it you have not a ghost of a chance. ~ Carl Jung, Visions Seminar, p. […]
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The Art of Inner Work –III–
4/27/22 “To give a body and a perfect form to one’s thought, this – and only this – is to be an artist.” ~ Jacques-Louis David (1748–1825) [Art: Jacques-Louis David, Leónidas at Thermopylae, 1814 AD]
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The Art of Inner Work ~I~
What is it I shall do? Tell you more about my inner matters? Shall I overcome the daimon of my interior? Is it the hundred-headed dragon? I have to bid silence to all these voices that want to hinder me, that want to block the way with painful mockery. Otherwise I won’t cut through. Is […]