Jung Currents
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A comprehensive website devoted to Carl Jung. Author Steve Parker, a clinical psychologist has taught numerous Jungian seminars, and helped start the C. G. Jung Society of Northern Alaska over ten years ago.
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“The soul, too, according to tradition, has a round form. As the Monk of Heisterbach says, it is not only “like to the sphere of the moon, but is furnished on all sides with eyes” (ex omni parte oculata)… His remark refers in all probability to certain parapsychological phenomena, the “globes of light” or globular luminosities which ..read more
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C.G. Jung: On Snakes and Instinct This is what happens to the hero Chiwantopel, who personifies Miss Miller’s otherworldliness: he falls foul of the green snake. Green is the colour of the vegetation numen (“ green is life’s golden tree”), and the snake is the representative of the world of instinct, especially of those vital ..read more
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It is through the concept of soul that trauma and transcendence find a meaingingful connection Donald Kalsched Glimpses through the Veil I general, Jungian psychology neglects the importance of trauma and working with trauma. remember reading Kalsched’s Inner World of Trauma on a beach in Hawaii and crying. Kalsched is extremely helpful on putting a ..read more
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Edinger is out and out brilliant. Here are some excerpts from this cosmic book: History and anthropology teach us that a human society cannot long survive unless its members are psychologically contained within a central living myth. Such a myth provides the individual with a reason for being The breakdown of a central myth is ..read more
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C.G. Jung, On the Soul and Dreams “I must learn the dregs of my thought, my dreams, are the speech of my soul. I must carry them in my heart, and go back and forth over them in my mind, like the words of the person dearest to me. Dreams are the guiding words of ..read more
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C.G. Jung: “The spiral in psychology means that when you make a spiral you always come over the same point where you have been before, but never really the same, it is above or below, inside, outside, so it means growth. “ (Dream Analysis, Parts II & III. 1929) First Image: Paul Klee, The Beginning ..read more
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Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty (1970) is one of the most well known examples of “Land Art”. It took about two weeks and two tries to get in place, moving 6000 tons of basalt with heavy equipment. One could perhaps see it as a culturally collective symbol of the emergence of the feminine. However, I would ..read more