marion woodman - DIALOGUE - Depth Psychology Alliance2024-03-29T13:05:02Zhttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/forum/topics/feed/tag/marion+woodmanGreat article: Marion Woodman and the Search for the Conscious Feminine, by Patty de Llosahttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/forum/topics/great-article-marion-woodman-and-the-search-for-the-conscious-fem2016-02-09T23:25:45.000Z2016-02-09T23:25:45.000ZBonnie Brighthttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/members/BonnieBright<div><p>Sharing a wonderful article on one of the great pioneers in depth psychology, Jungian Marion Woodman. Covered in the article: The Sacred Feminine, <span>Loss of Soul and Hope of Consciousness, <span>The Conscious Feminine as a State of Being, </span></span>Rule of Power or Rule of Love?</p>
<p>(Huge thanks to my depth sister, Kelly Carlin, for sharing this on Facebook.)</p>
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<h1 class="entry-title"><span>Marion Woodman and the Search for the Conscious Feminine, by Patty de Llosa</span></h1>
<div class="entry-meta"><span class="date">January 29, 2016</span><span class="author">By <a class="entry-author-link" href="http://parabola.org/author/pllosa/" title="View all posts by Patty de Llosa" rel="author"><span>Patty de Llosa</span></a></span></div>
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<div class="entry-content"><div id="attachment_3824" class="wp-caption alignleft"><a href="http://parabola.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/DF-de-Llosa01.jpg" rel="attachment wp-att-3824" class="fancybox image"><img class="wp-image-3824" src="http://parabola.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/DF-de-Llosa01.jpg" alt="Marion Woodman" width="350" height="377"/></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Marion Woodman</p>
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<p><em>“The true feminine is the receptacle of love. The true masculine is the spirit that goes into the eternal unknown in search of meaning. The great container, the Self, is paradoxically both male and female and contains both. If these are projected onto the outside world, transcendence ceases to exist. The Self—the inner wholeness—is petrified. Without the true masculine spirit and the true feminine love within, no inner life exists…. To be free is to break the stone images and allow life and love to flow.”</em></p>
<p>—Marion Woodman, <em>Addiction to Perfection: The Still Unravished Bride</em><span class="font-size-1">1</span></p>
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<span class="wpsdc-drop-cap">J</span>ungian analyst Marion Woodman believes that centuries of “patriarchal thinking” have stripped the soul from our inner and outer lives and placed the world in grave danger. In talks, workshops, and BodySoul Rhythms intensives in Canada, the United States, and Europe, she has urged us to engage with the unconscious energy that erupts beneath the surface of our best intentions, sending us where we may not want to go. Her message is articulated in such books as <em>Addiction to Perfection</em>, <em>The Pregnant Virgin</em>, <em>The Ravaged Bridegroom</em>, <em>Conscious Femininity</em>, <em>Leaving My Father’s House</em>, and <em>Dancing in the Flames</em>. She is also famed for her practical work connecting the human body to soul and spirit.</div>
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<div class="entry-content">As she explains in <em>Conscious Femininity</em>, “To feminine consciousness, the spiritual and the physical are two aspects of one totality. Spirit confirms body, articulates body’s wisdom…. ‘As above so below’ translates into ‘as in the head, so in the belly’; the two are simultaneously present, not dialogically opposed.”<span>2</span><p></p>
<p>I first encountered Woodman’s work in my early fifties when her second book, <em>Addiction to Perfection: The Still Unravished Bride</em>, had just been published. Intrigued by the title, I brought it with me on what was supposed to be an idyllic summer vacation by a lake in Maine. Her message, that it’s easier to work at being better than you are than to be who you are, forced me to admit for the first time to a demanding witch and a helpless Ophelia lurking in my depths. Thus began a thirty-year journey into a nether world of psyche in search of the conscious feminine—the heart energy that holds presence. (By feminine and masculine, Woodman means not gender but an energy as ancient as that of the Taoist yin and yang or the Hindu Shakti and Shiva.)</p>
<p>Woodman herself experienced a radical turnaround at age fifty, quitting her job as a Canadian high-school English teacher and fleeing to India in search of help for illness and pain. The daughter of a United Church minister, she was both shocked and inspired by a culture whose psychic and spiritual energy were so different from her own. She then embarked on a Jungian analysis in England, and finally trained to become an analyst at the Jung Institute in Zurich..... (<a href="http://parabola.org/2016/01/29/marion-woodman-and-the-search-for-the-conscious-feminine-by-patty-de-llosa/" target="_blank">CLICK HERE to read the full article on Parabola</a>)</p>
</div></div>Depth Discussion: What surprising revelations have dreams provided to you? Week of 9-5-13https://depthpsychologyalliance.com/forum/topics/depth-discussion-what-surprising-revelations-have-dreams-provided2013-09-06T00:38:37.000Z2013-09-06T00:38:37.000ZDepth Alliance Boardhttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/members/DepthAllianceBoard<div><p>Won't you weigh in with your experience? ...</p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2868852499?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2868852499?profile=original" width="600" class="align-full" style="padding: 5px;"/></a></p></div>Marion Woodman Documentary "Dancing in the Flames" - full versionhttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/forum/topics/marion-woodman-documentary-dancing-in-the-flames-full-version2014-08-25T06:07:24.000Z2014-08-25T06:07:24.000ZBonnie Brighthttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/members/BonnieBright<div><p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2868851838?profile=original" target="_self"><img width="400" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2868851838?profile=RESIZE_480x480" width="400" class="align-right"/></a></p>
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<p>Marion Woodman's "Dancing in the Flames" (with Andrew Harvey) is currently available in full on CultureUnplugged.com (an amazing site that features full-length documentaries for free if you aren't familar with it). </p>
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<div class="movie-info-container"><b>Director:</b> <span class="movie-director">Adam Reid</span> | <b>Producer:</b> <span class="movie-producer">Robin Crumley</span><br/><b>Genre:</b> <span class="movie-genre"><a href="http://www.cultureunplugged.com/documentaries/watch-online/filmedia/films.php#view=thumb&page=1&genreId=10">Documentary</a></span> | <b>Produced In:</b> <span class="movie-year">2009</span> | <b>Story Teller's Country:</b> <span class="storyteller-country"><a href="http://www.cultureunplugged.com/documentaries/watch-online/filmedia/storyTellers.php?view=grid&listType=country&country=US">United States</a></span><div class="movie-tags"><b>Tags: </b><span class="x-value"><a href="http://www.cultureunplugged.com/documentaries/watch-online/filmedia/films.php#view=thumb&page=1&tags=americas">Americas</a>, <a href="http://www.cultureunplugged.com/documentaries/watch-online/filmedia/films.php#view=thumb&page=1&tags=canada">Canada</a>, <a href="http://www.cultureunplugged.com/documentaries/watch-online/filmedia/films.php#view=thumb&page=1&tags=consciousness">Consciousness</a>, <a href="http://www.cultureunplugged.com/documentaries/watch-online/filmedia/films.php#view=thumb&page=1&tags=divine">Divine</a>, <a href="http://www.cultureunplugged.com/documentaries/watch-online/filmedia/films.php#view=thumb&page=1&tags=spiritual%20awareness">Spiritual Awareness</a>, <a href="http://www.cultureunplugged.com/documentaries/watch-online/filmedia/films.php#view=thumb&page=1&tags=transcendent%20visions">Transcendent Visions</a></span></div>
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<p><b>Synopsis:</b> <span class="movie-synopsis">Dancing in the Flames is a brilliant and intimate documentary into the life of Jungian Analyst, Marion Woodman, who is known for her ground breaking work as a teacher and author on feminine psychology and addiction. We are taken into a metaphoric representation of the unconscious imagery that Marion discusses so passionately and, in doing so, are invited to examine our own lives. Brilliant mystic and author Andrew Harvey interviews Marion as she explains the mysteries of her soul’s journey and reveals a series of psychological ‘deaths’ and ‘rebirths’ that have formed the consciousness into which she has evolved. The film presents a philosophy of dynamic opposites, the bridging of seeming contradictions. Life and death, love and grief, courage and submission are not at loggerheads for her—they’re part of a harmonious whole. By embracing these opposites we come into the totality of human experience.</span></p>
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<p>You can <a href="http://www.cultureunplugged.com/documentary/watch-online/play/7972/Dancing-in-the-Flames" target="_blank">view Dancing in the Flames here</a></p>
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</div></div>Marion Woodman & Andrew Harvey: "Dancing In the Flames" - Watch Full Documentary Online - Limited Timehttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/forum/topics/marion-woodman-andrew-harvey-dancing-in-the-flames-watch-full-doc2014-05-21T22:56:06.000Z2014-05-21T22:56:06.000ZBonnie Brighthttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/members/BonnieBright<div><p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.cultureunplugged.com/documentary/watch-online/play/7972/Dancing-in-the-Flames"><img width="400" class="align-right" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2868852052?profile=RESIZE_480x480" width="400"/></a>Dancing in the Flames<br/>Director: Adam Reid | Producer: Robin Crumley<br/>Genre: Documentary | Produced In: 2009 | Story Teller's Country: United States</p>
<p><br/>Tags: Americas, Canada, Consciousness, Divine, Spiritual Awareness, Transcendent Visions</p>
<p><br/><strong>Synopsis:</strong> Dancing in the Flames is a brilliant and intimate documentary into the life of Jungian Analyst, Marion Woodman, who is known for her ground breaking work as a teacher and author on feminine psychology and addiction. We are taken into a metaphoric representation of the unconscious imagery that Marion discusses so passionately and, in doing so, are invited to examine our own lives.</p>
<p>Brilliant mystic and author Andrew Harvey interviews Marion as she explains the mysteries of her soul’s journey and reveals a series of psychological ‘deaths’ and ‘rebirths’ that have formed the consciousness into which she has evolved.</p>
<p>The film presents a philosophy of dynamic opposites, the bridging of seeming contradictions. Life and death, love and grief, courage and submission are not at loggerheads for her—they’re part of a harmonious whole. By embracing these opposites we come into the totality of human experience.</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.cultureunplugged.com/documentary/watch-online/play/7972/Dancing-in-the-Flames" target="_blank">Click here to access the documentary now</a></strong></p>
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<p>Also, <strong>if you want to learn more, there is a <a href="http://www.depthpsychologyalliance.com/profiles/blogs/marion-woodman-dancing-in-the" target="_blank">great blog post</a> about the film</strong> from Alliance member Melissa Chianta posted <a href="http://www.depthpsychologyalliance.com/profiles/blogs/marion-woodman-dancing-in-the" target="_blank">here</a></p></div>Confronting Death Mother: An Interview with Marion Woodmanhttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/forum/topics/confronting-death-mother-an-interview-with-marion-woodman2014-02-14T04:54:03.000Z2014-02-14T04:54:03.000ZBonnie Brighthttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/members/BonnieBright<div><p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2868852397?profile=original" target="_self"></a></p>
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<p>In this interview with one of the contemporary cultural icons of depth psychology, Marion Woodman the fierce, violent archetype of the Death Mother is rampant in our society right now....</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.academia.edu/1188306/Sieff_D.F._2009_Confronting_Death_Mother_An_interview_with_Marion_Woodman" target="_blank">Spring Journal, 81, 2009: Confronting Death Mother: An Interview with Marion Woodman</a></p></div>Join the Depth Discussion: Making Meaning of Mayhem —Week of August 1, 2013https://depthpsychologyalliance.com/forum/topics/join-the-depth-discussion-making-meaning-of-mayhem-week-of-august2013-08-02T00:20:28.000Z2013-08-02T00:20:28.000ZDepth Alliance Boardhttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/members/DepthAllianceBoard<div><p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2868852722?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2868852722?profile=original" width="577" class="align-center" style="padding: 12px;"/></a></p></div>