#Jungian

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[jareckiworld]

Henryk Waniek — Roundabout (The Circle) [oil on canvas, 1989]

[astrolocherry]

"Whoever speaks in primordial images speaks with a thousand voices; they enthral and overpower.....

They transmute our personal destiny into the destiny of mankind, and evoke in us all those beneficent forces that ever and anon have enabled humanity to find a refuge from every peril and to outlive the longest night."

Carl G Jung

[divine-nonchalance]

The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do is to withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others.

Carl Jung

[yourspiritguide-quotes]

People will do anything,

No matter how absurd,

To avoid facing their own souls

- Carl Jung

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DR. BERNARD T. HAYES

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[shisasan]

Last night, I dreamt I was on a sinking boat in the ocean, everyone running to evacuate, only to wake up this morning to a tsunami emergency alert on my phone, sparked by the Taiwan earthquake, urging evacuation.

[bmtalbott]

So long as you feel the human contact, the atmosphere of mutual confidence, there is no danger; and even if you have to face the terrors of insanity, or the shadowy menace of suicide, there is still that area of human faith, that certainty of understanding and of being understood, no matter how black the night.

- Carl Jung, CW 17, Para 181

[noosphe-re]

Philemon and other figures of my fantasies brought home to me the crucial insight that there are things in the psyche which I do not produce, but which produce themselves and have their own life. Philemon represented a force which was not myself. In my fantasies I held conversations with him, and he said things which I had not consciously thought. For I observed clearly that it was he who spoke, not I. He said I treated thoughts as if I generated them myself, but in his view thoughts were like animals in the forest, or people in a room, or birds in the air, and added, "If you should see people in a room, you would not think that you had made those people, or that you were responsible for them." It was he who taught me psychic objectivity, the reality of the psyche. Through him the distinction was clarified between myself and the object of my thought. He confronted me in an objective manner, and I understood that there is something in me which can say things that I do not know and do not intend, things which may even be directed against me.

C.G. Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections

[macrolit]

A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror.

Carl Jung

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[jareckiworld]

Henryk Waniek — "Jachin and Boaz" Two Pillars before the Temple of Solomon (oil on canvas, 1988)

[astrolocherry]

The Star Signs are the Pageantry of Archetypal Signatures doctrines of personal history intoned in sacred mythologies From the beginning of life until the very last breath Most treasured and cherished stories for the sky to reflect An entry into healing portals, heirlooms of teachings, Conserved by civilisations that would rise and fall by dreamers and seekers who also heard the call A divine distillery of vibrational memories To have and to hold for descendants over centuries Cherry

[uptoolateart]

Fairytales - All of us are our own Prince Charming

A few years ago, I attended this workshop about storytelling and the ancient legends of Great Britain (where I live), and the host said that as a society we are suffering from a ‘crisis of metaphor’. What he meant was that we tend to take things too literally and therefore miss symbolic significance.

An area where I see this happen over and over again is our interpretation of fairytales - namely, this idea of a princess being saved by a prince, and the modern notion that it teaches little girls they need a man to rescue them.

This is valid, but only because we fail to teach little girls (and boys!) the true meaning of such tales. In fact, the most well-known fairytales date back not just centuries but millennia, because they contain elements of older myths. For instance, the three fairy godmothers in Sleeping Beauty are the three fates found in Norse and Greek mythology - who also appear as the three witches in Macbeth. The notion of an apple of temptation in Snow White, too, has its origins in ancient Greek legend - not to speak of its allusion to the Garden of Eden.

The reason such tales have persisted in popular culture for so long is that they speak to something deep inside us, and this goes well beyond just promoting the idea of a girl needing a man to save her. For this reason, there are books out there psychoanalysing classic tales as if they were dreams, from both a Freudian and a Jungian perspective. We also got taught to analyse stories in this manner in my English degree, once upon a time.

As a brief example, I’ll return to Sleeping Beauty. As a little girl, she's hidden away and protected from all eyes, especially men’s eyes, as if trying to keep her young forever. Her parents refuse to allow her to touch that magic spindle, which is a symbol for puberty and awakening sexuality. I mean...a needle, and a bloom of blood?? However, this growth is inevitable. Despite how much they try to keep her from being exposed to the outside world, Aurora finds the spindle anyway and falls into a deep sleep.

This sleep not only affects her but the whole kingdom. Everyone goes unconscious, other than the witch / dragon. The prince then has to fight through thorns to reach the princess and defeat the dragon. A crucial question is: why would he do this? Surely there are easier princesses to win! And if we look at the Disney rendition, he literally just saw Aurora talking to squirrels and owls and immediately fell in love with her, instead of thinking she was a bit odd. All of this tells us we can’t take it literally.

The dragon and thorns are the internal defensive measures to try to keep out the prince, who represents everything that was being repressed - the awakening moment that will bring Aurora into the adult world the parents and fairies were so keen to hold her back from. In this sense, we can say that the witch and the prince are both other aspects of the princess. In other words, there is no girl in need of saving by a man. The man is part of the young woman. She is saving herself. There is no kiss to wake her up magically - this is symbolic of her emotional awakening and transition into adulthood. This is why she is named Aurora, a reference to the dawn.

We can look at every popular fairytale in this way and see that each character is an archetype. Each of us, male or female, holds all these archetypes within us. So, fairytales are not merely stories but ways of symbolically exploring growth experiences and journeys we all go through. In this way, even a little boy hearing one of these tales can relate to the princess. Every boy is the princess and prince - every girl is the princess and prince.

What is key is making sure that the symbolism is strong. Don’t explain all of this to young kids and ruin the magic. But as our children grow and begin to be aware of the symbols, we can explore it with them and teach them that each and every one of them has the power within to be their own Prince Charming and free themselves from any 'evil spell'.

[mistsdancer]

“The container, which begins as ego, has to be flexible enough to expand with divine energy. It is the instrument through which divinity manifests. It has to know that it is the instrument of the divine; it is not the God or Goddess. It has to humble enough to return to its human dimensions.”

- Leaving my father’s house: a journey to conscious femininity 

[analysisroulette]

We've got shadow games, shadow selves, and not a shadow of a doubt that this pairing was like cheese and fine wine. Duck dives deep into Yu-Gi-Oh lore to confirm what we always suspected: this show is weird.