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The Rupture of the Mother Line and the Cost of Becoming Real
I’m feeling very grateful for this article.
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Peacock’s Cry of Soul’s Splendour
I.“A Sufi legend, likely of Persian origin, suggests that god created spirit in the form of a peacock. Shown its own divine image in a mirror, the peacock was seized with awe and drops of sweat fell from which all … Continue reading
Posted in The Peacock
Tagged alchemy, archetypes, Carl Gustav Jung, cauda pavonis, depth psychology, peacock, peacock's cry, peacock’s tail, Soul, symbolism, symbols, Venus, Wallace Stevens
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Notes on Good and Evil
I. “Without Contraries is no progression. Attraction and Repulsion, Reason and Energy, Love and Hate, are necessary to Human existence. From these contraries spring what the religious call Good & Evil. Good is the passive that obeys Reason. Evil is … Continue reading
Phaethon’s Gorgeous Death: Geminid Meteor Shower
“Phaethon [struck by Zeus from the chariot of the Sun], flames ravaging his auburn hair, falls headlong down, a streaming trail of light, as sometimes through the cloudless vault of night a star, though never falling, seems to fall.” Ovid, … Continue reading
Posted in Phaethon, The Geminids
Tagged Atlantis, C.G. Jung, comet, depth psychology, ego inflation, geminid meteor shower, Greek myth, Greek mythology, Phaethon, Sri Aurobindo, the Self
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A Thunderous Epiphany: How Symbols Are Created
“Symbols throw us across a spiritual abyss. When contemplating a sacred work of art, it may feel as if a great divide separated us from the Holy hidden in images. Then, our vision expands, and the image becomes transparent to … Continue reading
Posted in Quotations, The Symbol
Tagged archetypes, art, depth psychology, etymology, images, numinosum, numinous, sacred art, symbolism, symbols
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The Original Madonna: Early Neolithic Goddess
“Of course the Man was wild too. He was dreadfully wild. He didn’t even begin to be tame till he met the Woman, and she told him that she did not like living in his wild ways. She picked out … Continue reading
Posted in Marija Gimbutas
Tagged archaeology, archetypes, depth psychology, folklore, goddess, Marija Gimbutas, matriarchy, mythology, Neolithic, Neolithic goddess, Old Europe, patriarchy, symbolism, symbols
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The Divine Furor of the Soul: On Marsilio Ficino
“The soul is the greatest of all miracles in nature. All other things beneath God are always one single being, but the soul is all things together…Therefore it may rightly be called the centre of nature, the middle term of … Continue reading
Posted in Genius, Marsilio Ficino, Psyche
Tagged alchemy, archetypes, depth psychology, Genius, Marsilio Ficino, Mercurius, psyche, Soul, spirit, symbolism, symbols
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Foggy Breath of Life
“THE BREATHING” by Denise Levertov An absolute patience. Trees stand up to their knees in fog. The fog slowly flows uphill. White cobwebs, the grass leaning where deer have looked for apples. The woods from brook to where the top … Continue reading
Symbols and Rites
1. “At the dawn of history, the whole world – animate and inanimate, natural and supernatural – was interpreted symbolically. Life, death and rebirth were in constant close proximity, and these unceasing transformations were explained through stories and symbols: the passage … Continue reading
Posted in The Symbol
Tagged acrhetypes, depth psychology, rites, rituals, symbolism, symbols
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November 22, 1963
Originally posted on poemimage:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17LZ1XqubyU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdTtcl3HxnU I used excerpts from my mother’s journal(s) in some of the poetry. The Super 8 footage is from Kashmir & Europe in the 1960s courtesy T. Nanavati. I remember watching the family black and…
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