One can only conclude that the unconscious tends to regard spirit and matter not merely as equivalent but as actually identical, and this in flagrant contrast to the intellectual one-sidedness of consciousness, which would sometimes like to spiritualize matter and at other times to materialize spirit. That the lapis or in our case the floating…
“The soul, too, according to tradition, has a round form. As the Monk of Heisterbach says, it is not only “like to the sphere of the moon, but is furnished on all sides with eyes” (ex omni parte oculata)… His remark refers in all probability to certain parapsychological phenomena, the “globes of light” or globular luminosities which,…
C.G. Jung: On Snakes and Instinct This is what happens to the hero Chiwantopel, who personifies Miss Miller’s otherworldliness: he falls foul of the green snake. Green is the colour of the vegetation numen (“ green is life’s golden tree”), and the snake is the representative of the world of instinct, especially of those vital…
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It is through the concept of soul that trauma and transcendence find a meaingingful connection Donald Kalsched Glimpses through the Veil I general, Jungian psychology neglects the importance of trauma and working with trauma. remember reading Kalsched’s Inner World of Trauma on a beach in Hawaii and crying. Kalsched is extremely helpful on putting a…
Edinger is out and out brilliant. Here are some excerpts from this cosmic book: History and anthropology teach us that a human society cannot long survive unless its members are psychologically contained within a central living myth. Such a myth provides the individual with a reason for being The breakdown of a central myth is…
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In my opinion, Edinger is second only to Marie Louise von Franz in elucidating Jung’s work. This is an example of one of his talks:
When Covid emerged, the C.G. Jung Club of Orange County started sponsored free Zoom talks. This was and is an incredible service: many of the talks are still available for free. https://www.junginoc.org/past-programs