Tag: jung
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The Art of Integration -XIV-
In Greek, arctos, the word for “bear,” takes the feminine article. It is the animal of the mother goddess Artemis in Greek mythology, and according to medieval writers is also the animal of the Virgin Mary. In a matriarchal situation naturally it would be an aspect of the animus and, in general, have a more
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Morning Mindfulness -XXXVII-
5/20/22 PODCAST: “Vocation: Answering The Call” (This Jungian Life) PODCAST: “Homesickness: Longing and Belonging” (This Jungian Life, 5/19/22)
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The Art of Analyis -I-
5/14/22 “The fundamental error persists in the public that there are definite answers, “solutions,” or views which need only be uttered in order to spread the necessary light. But the most beautiful truth — as history has shown a thousand times over— is of no use at all unless it has become the innermost experience
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The Art of Intuition ~IV~
4/18/22 A fair number of scientific discoveries have been made by intuition rather than by the thinking intellect. The intellect as such is a strangely sterile function, if it is not accompanied by the function of Ahnung. Intuition can perceive in a quite “illegitimate” way. ~ Carl Jung, “Consciousness and the Unconscious” in ETH Lectures,
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Lessons Learned ~XIV~
4/16/22 The unconscious is not a demonic monster but a morally, aesthetically and intellectually indifferent natural being. It only becomes hazardous when our conscious attitude towards it is hopelessly wrong. To the extent that we repress, the dangerousness of the unconscious increases. But at the moment when the patient begins to assimilate the unconscious contents,
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The Art of Individuation ~XLI~
4/13/22 Who knows the way to the eternally fruitful climes of the soul? You seek the way through mere appearances, you study books and give ear to all kinds of opinion. What good is all that? There is only one way and that is your way. ~ Carl Jung, The Red Book, p. 231 [Art:
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Lessons Learned ~XIII~
Dear Herr N., Nobody can set right a mismanaged life with a few words. But there is no pit you cannot climb out of provided you make the right effort at the right place. When one is in a mess like you are, one has no right any more to worry about the idiocy of
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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
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The Art of Individuation ~XXXIX~
March 22, 2022 “Sometimes our path can run parallel to another’s for a time and then diverge further on – better that others feel betrayed than betraying the call of our hearts. When we’re focused on pleasing others, or pandering to their insecurities, we may succumb to emotional blackmail and our energy is diverted from
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The Hero’s Journey ~XIII~
It is the hero, really, who is swallowed by the dragon yet always reappears, having destroyed the dragon from within. That tiny thing, that unique individual, that Self, is small as the point of a needle; yet, because it is so small, is also greater than great. ~ Carl Jung, Visions Seminar, p 358-359
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Moderation & Containment -VI~
Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible. ~ C.G. Jung
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Morning Mindfulness XXIV
“Where your fear is, there is your task.” ~ C.G. Jung [Art: Molly Gur]