"The deepest core of life is poetry and symbol." - Dane Rudhyar
Like Symbol Reader on Facebook
-
-
Recent Posts
Categories
Archives
Meta
Tag Archives: Carl Jung
Reading The Red Book (34)
“We need magic to be able to receive or invoke the messenger and the communication of the incomprehensible.” C.G. Jung, The Red Book, Liber Secundus, chapter XXI We have reached the final twenty-first chapter of Liber Secundus – the second … Continue reading
Posted in The Red Book by C.G. Jung
Tagged analytical psychology, archetypes, Baucis, C.G. Jung, Carl Jung, chariot, depth psychology, doubt, Faust, kingfisher, Liber Novus, magic, magician, Philemon, psyche, reason, Satan, serpent, Soul, symbolism, symbols, the dead, The Red Book, the unconscious, unreason, unreasonable, wisdom
5 Comments
Reading The Red Book (30)
“I feel the things that were and that will be. Behind the ordinary the eternal abyss yawns. The earth gives me back what it hid.” Liber Secundus, chapter XVII Chapter XVII of Liber Secundus, the second part of The Red … Continue reading
Posted in The Red Book by C.G. Jung
Tagged analytical psychology, Aquarius, archetypes, astrology, Atman, Atmavictu, Bollingen, breath, Carl Jung, Christ, dragon, gift, Hermes, Holy Grail, kabiri, lapis philosophorum, Leo, Liber Novus, Mercury, opposites, Parsifal, philosopher’s stone, pleroma, polarization, psyche, Saturn, shadow, Soul, stone, symbolism, symbols, talent, Telesphoros, The Red Book, Wagner
5 Comments
Women’s Wisdom: Hildegard of Bingen
Hildegard of Bingen, a twelfth-century German Benedictine abbess, was a mystic, a healer and an intellectual, whose achievements are hard to believe if we realize that she lived in the times, when women had very limited opportunities. In the so-called … Continue reading
Posted in Hildegard of Bingen
Tagged alchemy, archetypes, Blue, canticles, Carl Jung, cosmic tree, egg, Gothic, green, High Middle Ages, Hildegard of Bingen, love, Middle Ages, mysticism, psyche, Soul, symbolism, symbols, universe, viriditas
14 Comments
Reading The Red Book (25)
“I know your shadow and mine, that follows and comes with us, and only waits for the hour of twilight when he will strangle you and me with all the daimons of the night.” “The Red Book,” chapter XII “Hell” … Continue reading
Posted in The Red Book by C.G. Jung
Tagged analytical psychology, anima, archetypes, C.G. Jung, Carl Jung, depth psychology, evil, evil eye, good, Liber Novus, psyche, shadow, Soul, symbolism, symbols, the eye, The Red Book
5 Comments
Symbolism of the Wetlands
“I enter a swamp as a sacred place, a sanctum sanctorum. … My temple is the swamp.” *** “Hope and the future for me are not in lawns and cultivated fields, not in towns and cities, but in the impervious … Continue reading
Posted in The Marsh
Tagged alligator, ancient Egypt, archetypes, Carl Jung, crocodile, Field of Reeds, goddess, Great Mother, James Hollis, London, marsh, marshes, moor, New Orleans, Nile, Pan, paradise, Paris, Soul, swamp, swamps, symbolism, symbols, Syrinx, Thoreau, unconscious, Venice
12 Comments
Reading The Red Book (19)
I. “… opening The Red Book seems to be opening the mouth of the dead.” James Hillman in James Hillman and Sonu Shamdasani, “Lament of the Dead: Psychology After Jung’s Red Book” II. “We need the coldness of death to … Continue reading
Hermes in the Forest of Symbols
I. “…Hermesian reading is an open, in-depth reading, one that lays bare the metalanguages for us, that is to say, the structures of signs and correspondences that only symbolism and myth make it possible to conserve and transmit. To read, … Continue reading
Posted in Hermes, Uncategorized
Tagged Adocentyn, alchemy, archetypes, Argus, Botticelli, C.G. Jung, caduceus, Carl Jung, Corpus Hermeticum, crossroads, dead, esotericism, Faivre, God, Greek myth, Greek mythology, guide, herma, hermaion, Hermes, Hermes Trismegistus, Hermetica, hermeticism, Hermopolis, magic, Marcilio Ficino, Mercury, messenger, myth, mythology, peacock, Picatrix, Primavera, psychopompos, Soul, symbolism, symbols, Thoth, Zeus
6 Comments
Reading The Red Book (16)
“In Paris, on a day that stayed morning until dusk, in a Paris like – in a Paris which – (save me, sacred folly of description!) in a garden by a stone cathedral (not built, no, rather played upon a … Continue reading
Posted in The Red Book by C.G. Jung, Uncategorized
Tagged archetypes, becoming, being, C.G. Jung, Carl Jung, Dionysos, fate, individuation, instinct, Liber Novus, symbolism, symbols, The Red Book, tramp, zoe
3 Comments
Persephone, Lady of the Mysteries
“Drive your cart and your plow over the bones of the dead.” William Blake, Proverbs of Hell Is one even allowed to talk about the gods of the underworld? For Rudolf Otto, a twentieth-century theologian, the holy or the numinous … Continue reading
Posted in Persephone, Uncategorized
Tagged abaton, analytical psychology, archetypes, C.G. Jung, Cancer, Capricorn, Carl Jung, cave, dark moon, Demeter, Demetra George, Dionysos, dismemberment, Eleusinian Mysteries, Eleusis, grain, Greek mythology, mysteries, myth, mythology, Orpheus, Orphism, Persephone, Peter Kingsley, pomegranate, Porphyry, religion, sacred, solstitial gate, sphinx, symbolism, symbols, well, Zeus
13 Comments