~Marion Woodman, The Pregnant Virgin, Introduction Introduction: Frog Conjunctions since feeling is first who pays any attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you; then laugh, leaning back in my arms for life’s not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis. —e.e. cummings. The Pregnant Virgin is a study in…
Raymond or, Life and Death by Oliver Lodge THIS book is named after my son who was killed in the War. It is divided into three parts. In the first part some idea of the kind of life lived and the spirit shown by any number of youths, fully engaged in civil occupations, who joined…
Jordan Peterson, Maps of Meaning The Architecture of Belief, Preface Preface DESCENSUS AD INFEROS Something we cannot see protects us from something we do not understand. The thing we cannot see is culture, in its intrapsychic or internal manifestation. The thing we do not understand is the chaos that gave rise to culture. If the…
Rudolf Bernoulli – Spiritual Development as Reflected in Alchemy and Related Disciplines 1. The Basic Elements of Alchemy A number of important alchemical manuscripts are preserved in the Vienna Staatsbibliothek. Among them I once found one entitled “The Garden Where the Task Is Found.” The content of this manuscript was not accessible to me. I…