The sacrificer and what is sacrificed are one and the same: it is always the Self. Only by sacrificing what we have can we know what we have. Real sacrifice is made with the same definiteness and lack of bargaining that is involved in throwing something away. We can do this only if we are…
You ask the black dog into your room and talk to him People who have a creative side and do not live it out are most disagreeable clients. They make a mountain out of a molehill, fuss about unnecessary things, are too passionately in love with somebody who is not worth so much attention, and…
Woman’s fear of the female Self, of the experience of the numinous archetypal Feminine, Woman’s fear of the female Self, of the experience of the numinous archetypal Feminine, becomes comprehensible when we get a glimpse – or even only a hint – of the profound otherness of female selfhood as contrasted to male selfhood. Precisely…
Erich Neumann: Yet in its struggle against this Mother Goddess Devaluation of the Earth, hostility towards the Earth, fear of the Earth: these are all from the psychological point of view the expression of a weak patriarchal consciousness that knows no other way to help itself than to withdraw violently from the fascinating and overwhelming…
We know this image of the redeemer serpent not only from Gnosis and from the Sabbataian myth, The archetypal image of the redeemer serpent is certainly placed here in opposition to the serpents of evil that battle with it. But why do they both have the same form if there is only oppositIOn between them?…