MY PARENTS ARE NOT ‘MY’ PARENTS I was about five years old when one day at lunch father spoke about his ‘manager’. I was always interested in everything the grown-ups talked about, and so I asked straight away, ‘Father, who is this manager?’ ‘The Director is the top man in the office,’ he answered. ‘All…
Undermining the Tendency to Pathologize Spirit Possession Analytical psychology does not differentiate between the many cultural or nthropological variations of ‘spiritual’ experience. Instead it conflates all transcendent phenomena – such as spirit possession and mystical experience – into one general kind of psychological experience. It refers to this experience as ‘dissociation’, or being in a…
Metamorphosis in Animals: The Transformations of the Individual and the Tуpе The transformations undergone by certain animals in the course of their es have provided human expression with some of its oldest images. From the immemorial the metamorphosis of the caterpillar into a butterfly has served as a metaphor for intimations of higher being. And…
Gerhard Dorn, On the Spagyric Art On the Propositions of Johannes Trithemius concerning the Spagyric Art ‘The unary is not itself a number, but it is from the unary that every number arises’- Johannes Trithemius. Before the waters of the universal abyss described in the Book of Genesis were divided, they were one. It is…