In our collective neurosis, we have disrupted the delicate balance of nature, and created phallic missiles of mass destruction. If we look at the English Romantic poets of the early nineteenth century, we see something very different going on. Essentially, their gifts made them outcasts from patriarchal society. Their genius opened them to the…
The rose bums in the fire of love, a love that pierces to the very heart of our own self-destruction and self-creation. Most of us try to let our bodies and psyches function instinctively, until we are ravaged by disease or neuroses. Then we realize that the body/psyche cannot function naturally in the concrete, concretized…
Within the center of every living thing dwells the soul of the world, the anima mundi. In the Seventies, people discussed the first two paradigms and tried to imagine what the next one would be like. Generally, they agreed that the new paradigm would be neither matriarchal nor patriarchal; it would be androgynous. Rather than…
We are always other to each other — soul meeting soul, the body awakened with joy. Pauli died in 1958 without completing his work in “micro-physics.” What his journey was demanding of him in his work with Jung and von Franz was not merely the masculine advancement of new hypotheses about the nature of matter,…
This is an idea that still underlies the mandala-symbols in modern dreams. A parallel conception is to be found in Plotinus, who lived a little later (c. 205-70). He says in the Enneads: “Self-knowledge reveals the fact that the sous natural movement is not in a straight line, unless indeed it have undergone some deviation.…