Consciousness should defend its reason The Archetypes and The Collective Unconscious (Collected Works of C.G. Jung Vol.9 Part 1) Consciousness should defend its reason and protect itself, and the chaotic life of the unconscious should be given the chance of having its way too–as much of it as we can stand. This means open conflict…
Marion Woodman If we are blindly living out an archetype, we are not containing our own life. If we are blindly living out an archetype, we are not containing our own life. We are possessed, and possession acts as a magnet on unconscious people in our environment. Everyday life becomes a dangerous world where illusion…
Tantric Yoga in the Dream of a Child. Children’s Dreams: Notes from the Seminar Given in 1936-1940 (Philemon Foundation Series) I think there is a very elaborate parallel in Tantric Yoga. This visualizing yoga knows seven mandalas, situated one above the other, which correspond to certain body parts, and which are successively to be awakened…
Marion Woodman: From infancy, children have been programmed to perform. Standing alone today demands even more courage and strength than it did in former cultures. Rather than living from their own needs and feelings, they learn to assess situations in order to please others. Without an inner core of certainty grounded in their own musculature,…
There are the winged demons, bats in the belfry Carl Jung Depth Psychology Facebook Group Problem of the Puer Aeternus, The Speaking in spatial terms, if we are objective we have to admit that there is a field of the unconscious both above and below us. This same duality applies to the symbolism of…