Politicizing Magic BABA YAGA Once there lived a peasant and his wife and they had a daughter. The wife died. The husband married again, and had a daughter with the new wife. The wife conceived a dislike for her stepdaughter and made the girl’s life miserable. The peasant thought and thought and finally drove his…
Epilogue: the “optional” unconscious by Sonu Shamdasani In the course of the nineteenth century, concepts of consciousness underwent a transformation as competing concepts of unconscious mental functioning were developed in philosophy, physiology, biology, and psychology and psychical research in Europe and the United States. The papers in this volume have mainly traced trajectories of concepts…
An Archetypal Approach to Death Dreams and Ghosts, Rhine succeeded in showing that every human being has the faculty for paranormal perceptions. Parapsychological experiences are as much part of life as are intuitions, dreams and hunches. But the degree of that gift differs greatly among individuals. With that we may embark on the Beobachter letters,…
Active Imagination : Hugh de St. Victor’s Conversation with His Anima An Early-Twelfth Century Example of Active Imagination Hugh de St. Victor’s Conversation with His Anima Before we begin with our material, I would like to make it clear that I will be concerned with this text only from the standpoint of active imagination. I…