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The One Divine Highway
I looked at the following aims and ideals of Self-Realization Fellowship as set forth by Paramahansa Yogananda, its founder, and realized how deeply I identify with all of them and how I have always wanted to make number 3 my … Continue reading
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Tagged consciousness, God, higher Self, self realization, Self-Realization Fellowship, spirituality, unity, wholeness, Yogananda
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Archetype Lupus and Astronomy – the Sirius Case
Originally posted on stOttilien:
This is an extension of the last post: the archetype of the wolf. I am a hobby astronomer and fond of its older sister Astrology. So lets look to the Wolf from that perspective. The wolf…
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Posts in Threes (2). Where Eternity Closes Its Eyes
Glory Window, Thanksgiving Square Chapel in Dallas, Texas I have seen three blog posts in the last week that seem to touch on the same phenomenon or which seem to have sprung from the same source of wisdom. The first … Continue reading
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Tagged archetypes, movement, poetry, Spiral, spirituality, stillness, symbolism, symbols, tao, Upanishads
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Heart Sutra For the Balsamic Moon
Allow your judgments their own silent, undisturbed development, which, like all progress, must come from deep within and cannot be forced or hastened. Everything is gestation and then birthing. To let each impression and each embryo of a feeling come … Continue reading
Posted in The Balsamic Moon
Tagged astrology, balsamic moon, cycles of nature, Dana Gerhardt, Ecclesiastes, gestation, Grimm brothers, growth, hair symbolism, individuation, lunation, lunation phases, moon cycles, Rapunzel, Rudhyar, Soul, spirituality, symbolism, the feminine, the heart sutra, transition
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Images of the Zodiac: Contemplating Taurus
Posted in Johfra Bosschart
Tagged archetypes, art, Buddha, Freud, Johfra Bosschart, Krishnamurti, libido, Mars, myth, mythology, psychoanalysis, Shakespeare, spirituality, spring, symbolism, symbols, Taurus, The Tempest, Venus, Zodiac
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Posts in Pairs (1). Out of Many One.
As an ever curious Gemini woman (with Mercury, the messenger of the gods and their intermediary, in conjunction with my Sun) I am always on the lookout for connections, links and associations. I have been paying attention to quite a … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston tragedy, C.G. Jung, dismemberment, diversity, Egyptian mythology, healing, isis, Osiris, terrorism, unity, wholeness
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The Crossroads of Time
The Selkie, via here The song featured below captured my mood today with the dark skies and decisively non-Spring weather. Loreena McKennitt’s voice just wraps around me and carries me far away. She was born in Canada but her music … Continue reading
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Tagged archetypes, Celtic mythology, Celts, impossible love, Irish folklore, Irish myth, Loreena McKennitt, mythology, Neil Jordan, Ondine, selkie, spirituality, symbolism, symbols, the sea
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Dragons and Princesses
Fear of the Inexplicable But fear of the inexplicable has not alone impoverished the existence of the individual; the relationship between one human being and another has also been cramped by it, as though it had been lifted out of … Continue reading
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Tagged Fear of the Inexplicable, inspiration, life, poetry, Reiner Maria Rilke
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The Fountain or Death as the Road to Awe
The Fountain by Darren Aronofsky is by far the most powerful symbolic movie I have seen in the last few years. Watching it is always like being transported into another reality; the music, the powerful images and the three interwoven … Continue reading
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