Alice O. Howell: FIRE Light, Life, Love Dear Friend, T oday is a cold winter’s day, so to write of fire might be I heartwarming. In Hinduism they speak of the three gunas, three ways in which energy manifests itself: Tamas: slowly, inertly, fixedly. Rajas: actively, powerfully. Sattva: delicately, mutably In the Upanishads it is… Alice O. Howell: FIRE Light, Life, Love

Marie-Louise von Franz: The Mother as Fate The archetypes of the collective unconscious are not a theoretical construct but an experiential reality with the power of destiny. Many people seem unable to see this, perhaps because they identify themselves with their impulses. They think they are living, and do not realize that to a large… Marie-Louise von Franz: The Mother as Fate

Mircea Eliade: Profane Duration and Sacred Time For religious man time too, like space, is neither homogeneous nor continuous. On the one hand there are the intervals of a sacred time, the time of festivals (by far the greater part of which are periodical). On the other there is profane time, ordinary temporal duration, in… Mircea Eliade: Profane Duration and Sacred Time

Marie-Louise von Franz: The Problem of Evil in Fairy Tales Most Fairy Tales hinge on the struggle between good and evil. As Max Lüthi said in his excellent work on the subject, fairy-tale style is characterized first and foremost by a simple, unshaded opposition between black and white, good and evil. Within the hero himself… Marie-Louise von Franz: The Problem of Evil in Fairy Tales

Sonu Shamdasani, From complex psychology to the Jungian School From the 1940s onwards, a number of training societies and institutes bearing Jung’s name began to develop from the network of nonprofessional analytical psychology clubs in various countries. While he had a strong sense of the possibility of a discipline of complex psychology, he expressed skepticism… Sonu Shamdasani, From complex psychology to the Jungian School