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Reading The Red Book (42) – Seven Sermons to the Dead
“… what they rejected will be most valuable to them.” Philemon’s words uttered after the sixth sermon to the dead We have now reached the sixth Sermon to the Dead, which you will find in the third section of The Red … Continue reading
Posted in The Red Book by C.G. Jung, Uncategorized
Tagged alchemy, archetypes, C.G. Jung, daimon, depth psychology, Dove, enantiodromia, feminine, goddess, Liber Novus, light of nature, masculine, matter, Mercurius, Paracelsus, psyche, Septem Sermones, Seven Sermons to the Dead, snake, Socrates, Soul, spirit, symbolism, symbols, The Red Book
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The Spellbinding Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao
“The Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, looked like something out of an alien hallucination—a swirling collage of warped metallic forms that appeared to have been propped up against one another in an almost random way. Stretching into the distance, the … Continue reading
Posted in Guggenheim, Bilbao, Museum
Tagged archetypes, architecture, art, Bilbao, Frank O. Gehry, Guggenheim, modern art, Museum, symbolism, symbols
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The Three Black Madonnas of the Basque Country
In the north of Spain lies a mysterious Basque country with its language Euskera, which has no relation to any other language in the world. The people of that region are descendants of the oldest indigenous population of Europe. Some … Continue reading
Posted in Black Madonna
Tagged archetypes, Black Madonna, Camino, Camino de Santiago, Euskera, goddess, Guadalupe, Irun, pilgrimage, San Sebastian, Spain, symbolism, symbols, witchcraft
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Symbolism of Walls
“Our love was born outside the walls, in the wind, in the night, in the earth, and that’s why the clay and the flower, the mud and the roots know your name” Pablo Neruda, “Epithalamium”, translated by Donald D. Walsh … Continue reading
Durga
I. “Salutations to Thee, O giver of blessings! Dark Virgin, observant of the vow of chastity, Whose form is beauteous as that of the rising sun, And Thy face as that of the full moon; … Thy body is like … Continue reading
Posted in Durga, Uncategorized
Tagged archetypes, conch, death, demons, Durga, Durga Puja, eight arms, fortress, Great Goddess, Hindu myth, India, invincible, Kali, Lakshmi, lotus, mace, Mahisha, rebirth, regeneration, Saraswati, seed, sword, symbolism, symbols, Time, trident, universal goddess, War
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Wheat and War
“Verily, verily, I say unto you, еxcept a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.”(John 12: 24) Out of the numberless reasons why we are all so … Continue reading
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Tagged archetypes, death, Demeter, Eleusinian Mysteries, life, sacrifice, symbolism, symbols, Ukraine, Ukrainian flag, War, wheat
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Reading The Red Book (41) – Seven Sermons to the Dead
We have now reached the fifth Sermon to the Dead, which you will find in the third section of The Red Book called Scrutinies. At the dawn of civilization Greece was inhabited by Pelasgians, who are viewed as the indigenous, … Continue reading
Posted in The Red Book by C.G. Jung
Tagged archetypes, Basilides, C.G. Jung, creation, Eros, Eurynome, Gnosticism, Liber Novus, logos, Ophione, Pelasgians, Philemon, Seven Sermons to the Dead, sexuality, Shakti, Shiva, Soul, symbolism, symbols, trident, Ukraine
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Frida Kahlo’s Symbolism of Life
Frida Kahlo stands today for much more than art; she is a symbol and an icon of feminism, a heroine of the disability rights movement, anti-racism movements and LGBT communities. Her boundless creativity drew no lines between life and art; … Continue reading
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Tagged accident, archetypes, art, Casa Azul, death, Diego Rivera, ex-votos, fashion, feminism, fertility, frida kahlo, healthabortion, infertility, jewellery, life, miscarriage, pain, painting, religion, retablos, suffering, symbolism, symbols, Tehuana
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Reading The Red Book (40) – The Seven Sermons to the Dead
“One, two, three, but where, my dear Timaeus, is the fourth?” Plato, “Timaeus” We have now reached the fourth Sermon to the Dead, in which the dead demand of Philemon: “Speak to us about Gods and devils, accursed one.” The … Continue reading
Posted in The Red Book by C.G. Jung
Tagged archetypes, C.G. Jung, devil, Eros, four, Greek myth, Leviticus, Liber Novus, Pan, Philemon, psyche, quaternio, Satan, scapegoat, scapegoating, Septem Sermones, Seven Sermons to the Dead, Soul, symbolism, symbols, The Red Book, unconscious
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Black Madonna: An Icon of Mystery
“There is a grave aura about many of the Black Virgins, an expression of utter solitude so intense that the child on her knees or in the embrace of her left arm seems strangely appended. She sits, solitary, weighted, at … Continue reading
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Tagged alchemy, archetypes, black, Black Madonna, blackness, C.G. Jung, chaosorder, Christianity, creation, Dark Feminine, Dark Virgin, depth psychology, earth, enlightenment, feminine, God, goddess, matter, mysticism, nature, nigredo, religion, Soul, symbolism, symbols, transformation, transmutation, Trinity
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