Depth Psychology Alliance2024-03-29T05:43:18Zhttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/group/a-red-book-of-one-s-own/forum/topics/feed/allFollow-up on the coursehttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/group/a-red-book-of-one-s-own/forum/topics/follow-up-on-the-course2016-07-07T22:10:43.000Z2016-07-07T22:10:43.000ZBonnie Brighthttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/members/BonnieBright<div><p><span>Hi everyone,</span></p>
<div>Hope this finds you in a good space and integrating the powerful work you have done in the Red Book course with Nina. I encourage you to continue with the dialogue and art as a regular practice—I’m sure many of you are already doing that as a way to keep the momentum, reflection, and enlivenment that has awakened within you going in your own soul.</div>
<div><b>I wanted to share three things:</b></div>
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<div><b>1. COOL APP:</b> I discovered what I think is a pretty cool app on my iPhone called “Silk” that allows you to draw and come up with some pretty stunning “art.” As I don’t have formal training in art and sometimes have difficulty executing with traditional materials, this as been really great for me—especially trying to catch dream moods through color and feeling. I have been using it almost every day and find it extremely conducive to contemplation and play. It has different color palettes to choose from and comes with mellow music that plays while you draw. I think I paid $1.99 for it. Here are some of my designs</div>
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<div><b>2. FORUM:</b> We will leave the online Forum up through September 1 so you can continue to make posts there, interact, or just browse previous posts: <a href="http://www.depthpsychologyalliance.com/group/a-red-book-of-one-s-own">http://www.depthpsychologyalliance.com/group/a-red-book-of-one-s-own</a></div>
<div><b>3. SURVEY</b>: Huge thanks to those who completed the survey for the course. We REALLY appreciate your feedback, so if you haven’t had a chance to do it yet, please consider doing it by July 15. It shouldn’t take more than 5 minutes. Here’s the link: <a href="http://survey.constantcontact.com/survey/a07ecw8o8vfiq2twzja/start">http://survey.constantcontact.com/survey/a07ecw8o8vfiq2twzja/start</a></div>
<div>Thanks very much. I’m so grateful to be associated with all of you in your quest to do good work and look forward to seeing you in future Depth Psychology Alliance programs.</div>
<div>—Bonnie</div></div>Video replay week 4, plus course evaluation and link to 2015 interview with Nina and Bonniehttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/group/a-red-book-of-one-s-own/forum/topics/video-replay-week-4-plus-course-evaluation-and-link-to-2015-inter2016-06-30T23:34:20.000Z2016-06-30T23:34:20.000ZBonnie Brighthttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/members/BonnieBright<div><p>Hello everyone. The <a href="https://vimeo.com/172972340" target="_blank">video replay is posted here</a> (password Philemon). Please watch all replays by August 30 as they may not be available after that date.</p>
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<p>Also, we really hope you will take a few minutes and <strong>fill out a course evaluation</strong> no matter your level of participation in the course. Every voice counts to help us improve our offerings for future courses.</p>
<p>In case you haven't had a chance to listen<strong>, we've included a link at the end of the survey to the interview Nina and Bonnie did together last Fall, "Taking Responsibility for One’s Creative Life"</strong> where we discuss the relationship between art and psychology and the impetus behind taking responsibility to be creative.</p>
<p><a href="http://survey.constantcontact.com/survey/a07ecw8o8vfiq2twzja/start" target="_blank">Click here for the survey</a></p></div>Poem for class 4https://depthpsychologyalliance.com/group/a-red-book-of-one-s-own/forum/topics/poem-for-class-42016-06-30T01:08:07.000Z2016-06-30T01:08:07.000ZLaura Smith-Rivahttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/members/LauraSmithRiva<div><p align="left">Once more you have found me,</p>
<p align="left">We bear the scars of our encounters,</p>
<p align="left">skin flayed, heart bruised, soul ache.</p>
<p align="left">But you touch me now,</p>
<p align="left">and desire blooms</p>
<p align="left">like Cereus in the night</p>
<p align="left">lips whispering past</p>
<p align="left">shared breath catching.</p>
<p align="left">Through life times</p>
<p align="left">we tumble.</p></div>Homework week # 4https://depthpsychologyalliance.com/group/a-red-book-of-one-s-own/forum/topics/homework-week-42016-06-27T01:12:25.000Z2016-06-27T01:12:25.000ZNina S. Rosshttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/members/NinaSRoss<div><p>Notes:</p>
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<p>Barn's burnt down, now I can see the moon.</p>
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<p>Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. Rumi</p>
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<p>Via negativa. In depth psychology, we "build" down, not up. Dreams are a work on the ego. We learn a non-literal, non-egoic perspective on ourselves and life.</p>
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<p>Creation/destruction.</p>
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<p>Where in your life is destruction taking place? What aspect of you is being worked on?</p>
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<p>Make an artpiece, write a story, etc.</p>
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<p>Thanks everyone!</p>
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<p>Nina</p></div>Poem from 6-22-2016https://depthpsychologyalliance.com/group/a-red-book-of-one-s-own/forum/topics/poem-from-6-22-20162016-06-23T19:02:21.000Z2016-06-23T19:02:21.000ZLynn Gordonhttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/members/LynnGordon<div><p align="center">BREAKING SURFACE</p>
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<p align="center">Let no one keep you from your journey,</p>
<p align="center">no rabbi or priest, no mother</p>
<p align="center">who wants you to dig for treasures</p>
<p align="center">she misplaced, no father</p>
<p align="center">who won’t let one life be enough,</p>
<p align="center">no lover who measures their worth</p>
<p align="center">by what you might give up,</p>
<p align="center">no voice that tells you in the night</p>
<p align="center">it can’t be done.</p>
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<p align="center">Let nothing dissuade you</p>
<p align="center">from seeing what you see</p>
<p align="center">or feeling the winds that make you</p>
<p align="center">want to dance alone</p>
<p align="center">or go where no one</p>
<p align="center">has yet to go.</p>
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<p align="center">You are the only explorer.</p>
<p align="center">Your heart, the unreadable compass.</p>
<p align="center">Your soul, the shore of a promise</p>
<p align="center">too great to be ignored.</p>
<p align="center">~ Mark Nepo</p>
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<p><font face="Calibri">(from “the Self-Acceptance Project” (2016))</font></p>
<p><font face="Calibri"> </font><font face="Calibri">Mark uses the term genius- we all have a genius – original definition of this term is “attendant spirit.” He writes the poem is about a “commitment to stay in our relationship with our attendant spirit.” Not to do so is “more damaging than any worldly rejection we could meet.”</font></p>
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<p><font face="Calibri"> </font><font face="Calibri">And from <a href="http://www.personaltransformation.com/james_hillman.html">http://www.personaltransformation.com/james_hillman.html</a>:</font></p>
<p><font face="Calibri"> </font><font face="Calibri">Hillman: That's true. Daimon is an earlier word than demon. It became Christianized as demon because Christian theology doesn't approve of those figures who speak to us as inner voices and so forth. The Greek word was daimon, the Roman word was genius, and the Christian word is guardian angel. They are all a little bit different, yet each expresses something that you are, that you have, that is not the same as the personality you think you are.</font></p>
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<p>I watched the recording of the meeting last week and was very excited to see the art! I only wished that I could linger over it longer, and really take it in. So I though I'd create this place for us to post and share our visual work. My art primary take place in a bound sketch book -- my visual journal. Attached are two view of the same piece. This is still a work in progress, incorporating images from several dreams. I've yet to dialog with these figures...</p>
<p>Looking forward to seeing your art here on the forum. Warmly, Annie</p><p class="attachment"><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/9142592269?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jaguar_flap.down_small.jpg</a></p><p class="attachment"><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/9142592475?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jaguar_flap.open.jpg</a></p></div>DH Lawrtence quote from week #1https://depthpsychologyalliance.com/group/a-red-book-of-one-s-own/forum/topics/dh-lawrtence-quote-from-week-12016-06-19T01:14:43.000Z2016-06-19T01:14:43.000ZNina S. Rosshttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/members/NinaSRoss<div><p>We are not free when we are doing just what we like. We are only free when we are doing what the deepest self likes. And there is getting down to the deepest self. It takes some diving.</p>
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<p>I hope that you're all engaged fruitfully with your dreams, questions, and images.</p>
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<p>Best, Nina</p></div>Homework for week # 3https://depthpsychologyalliance.com/group/a-red-book-of-one-s-own/forum/topics/homework-for-week-32016-06-16T01:12:58.000Z2016-06-16T01:12:58.000ZNina S. Rosshttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/members/NinaSRoss<div><p>Please dialogue with a dream figure or a figure from one of your art pieces. After doing the dialogue, please either make a piece of art, or write about your dialogue. Enjoy.... Nina</p></div>Thanks and Acknowledgmentshttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/group/a-red-book-of-one-s-own/forum/topics/thanks-and-acknowledgments2016-06-13T23:20:55.000Z2016-06-13T23:20:55.000ZNina S. Rosshttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/members/NinaSRoss<div><p>Hi Everyone,</p>
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<p>Thank you so much for posting your dialogues. They are rich, thoughtful, and deep. I so appreciate your yearnings and questions.</p>
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<p>What surprised you, I wonder, in your dialogues? What is prompting you, at this point, to move ahead with, or, to drop away from, i your life?</p>
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<p>We will share some ideas and our daimon homework on Wednesday.</p>
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<p>See you then!</p>
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<p>Nina</p></div>Dialogue with my Soulhttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/group/a-red-book-of-one-s-own/forum/topics/dialogue-with-my-soul2016-06-13T18:17:57.000Z2016-06-13T18:17:57.000ZCedar Mosshttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/members/CedarMoss<div><p class="p1"></p>
<p class="p2"><span class="s1">Sorry for some non caps and typos i am experimenting with the dictation system</span></p>
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<p class="p2"><span class="s1">I call to my own true soul</span></p>
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<p class="p2"><span class="s1">Me: I call to my own True Soul That which is the essence of me. I called to you embedded in my cells and I call to you above and beyond me.</span></p>
<p class="p2"><span class="s1">I called to you to communicate with me here on this page and through this pen.</span></p>
<p class="p2"><span class="s1">Soul: I am– I am–sometimes that's all you need. But you are asking for more than that. I bring to use the best of what you have to offer.</span></p>
<p class="p2"><span class="s1">Me: I am in awe of the life I get to live and I wonder how can I best show up for it.</span></p>
<p class="p2"><span class="s1">Soul: you know, create beauty wherever you go and give it away.</span></p>
<p class="p2"><span class="s1">Me: I got lost funny how how the strands go.</span></p>
<p class="p2"><span class="s1">Soul: follow them cedar follow the Strand it will lead you.</span></p>
<p class="p2"><span class="s1">Me: okay –I thought of places in Camp to create beauty, then of the camp site for retreat, and then of Pauline seeing only pastors. I have rage in me about the explosiveness and narrowness of Christians also of my longing to lead people on their retreats and facilitate the retreats.</span></p>
<p class="p2"><span class="s1">Soul: okay stop there cedar what happens then?</span></p>
<p class="p2"><span class="s1">Me: I think I gave up the idea, kind of shutdown.</span></p>
<p class="p2"><span class="s1">Soul: why Cedar why do you shut down the ideas that have pulled you since you got here?</span></p>
<p class="p2"><span class="s1">Me: I don't know I guess I doubt– My capacity and my ability to listen clearly to your call. I believe you have direction for me is that true?</span></p>
<p class="p2"><span class="s1">Soul: no and yes both. I have my own soul longing and I fill your heart with it.</span></p>
<p class="p2"><span class="s1">Me: what do you long for?</span></p>
<p class="p2"><span class="s1">Soul: ask your heart.</span></p>
<p class="p2"><span class="s1">Me: I long to open myself and others to the creative flow of our souls, spirit, planet. </span></p>
<p class="p2"><span class="s1">Soul: don't go global yet Cedar.</span></p>
<p class="p2"><span class="s1">Me: my heart weeps and longs to be a healer and artist. Yes yes , heal people, trees, land, myself.</span></p>
<p class="p2"><span class="s1">Soul: no Cedar, let that go you've done so much and will continue to do your own work. But you're longing on your heart that I planted there of my own deep longing is to live love, is to heal.</span></p>
<p class="p2"><span class="s1">Me: what about create beauty wherever you go and give it away?</span></p>
<p class="p2"><span class="s1">Soul you heal through art, through touch and talk.</span></p>
<p class="p2"><span class="s1">Me: In grass Valley will it open for me a healer. can I train with Doug and Carla too?</span></p>
<p class="p2"><span class="s1">Pause</span></p>
<p class="p2"><span class="s1">Soul: cedar Trail follow it again.</span></p>
<p class="p2"><span class="s1">Me: I think of how I want to do healing– wonder if maybe I should do that here but I haven't. So hope the way will open in grass Valley. Then wonder if–oh the trail took off thinking of timing and when to move there–then if I could also learn from Doug with G and T and also from Carla. So that's the trail.</span></p>
<p class="p2"><span class="s1">Soul: there a door there? yes yes yes. There is a reason you often see them in your future. There is a way ahead for you and it is light and you have been nourished for the road ahead while here. And you have nurished this land and yes create beauty and</span></p>
<p class="p2"><span class="s1">Me: and what soul?</span></p>
<p class="p2"><span class="s1">Soul: the longing Cedar the longing. Taking people by the hand into nature, wilderness. </span></p>
<p class="p2"><span class="s1">Me: I better get my place ready for this retreatant. </span></p>
<p class="p2"><span class="s1">Soul: not yet. Cedar, the longing….</span></p>
<p class="p2"><span class="s1">Me: my greatest longing now is to do my own art my own art.</span></p>
<p class="p2"><span class="s1">Soul: bingo yes. I – your soul–fill your heart with my own true longing follow the trails often it's my only way of communicating. Follow the trail of your heart.</span></p>
<p class="p2"><span class="s1">Me: thank you, so is there more you would like to say?</span></p>
<p class="p2"><span class="s1">Soul: Watch the spontaneous pulls. </span></p>
<p class="p2"><span class="s1">Me: art feels like the pull more than healing these days. </span></p>
<p class="p2"><span class="s1">Soul: yes yes but the weaving will come and delight you.</span></p>
<p class="p2"><span class="s1">Me: thank you I honor the link</span></p>
<p class="p2"><span class="s1">Soul: most important– I am– I am– I am</span></p></div>Video Replay of Week 1 is Postedhttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/group/a-red-book-of-one-s-own/forum/topics/video-replay-of-week-1-is-posted2016-06-09T19:22:03.000Z2016-06-09T19:22:03.000ZBonnie Brighthttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/members/BonnieBright<div><p>Hi everyone.</p>
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<li><strong>The video replay is now online.</strong> You can <a href="https://vimeo.com/depthpsychology/redbook-ninaross-pt1" target="_blank">access it here</a> using the password LiberNovus (which most of you probably know, is another name for the Red Book). Remember, this is for participants of this course only, so please do not share or forward the video in any way.<br/><br/></li>
<li><strong>We will try to get the replay posted the next day after each session</strong>. It takes linear time to move the video from Jeremy's computer where it gets recorded, to a dropbox, and from there onto Vimeo where you can stream it using the password once it processes, so we will do the best we can to make it timely so you can access it soon after each live session.<br/><br/></li>
<li><strong>I know there was some confusion</strong> for some of you getting on the call yesterday due to an incorrect link that went out in the initial registration process. My apologies: there are a lot of moving parts to setting up the course and registration, and it was done months ago, so it's difficult to track what happened. Luckily, those of you in the group here had the correct link and ultimately almost everyone was able to get on, even if a few minutes late. The access info will stay the same for future weeks, so please use the info from yesterday's call (same as posted above here in the group forum) for the remaining sessions</li>
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<p>Finally, I'm sorry I am unable to join you all live for the course due to a conflict, but Nina and Jeremy are both wonderfully gifted at their respective roles, and I am here for any questions related to logistics or questions if you have them. Enjoy the course: it promises to be so rich.</p>
<p>—Bonnie Bright</p></div>A Wild Synchronicityhttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/group/a-red-book-of-one-s-own/forum/topics/a-wild-synchronicity2016-06-09T02:20:58.000Z2016-06-09T02:20:58.000ZLaura Smith-Rivahttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/members/LauraSmithRiva<div><p>In a wild synchronicity, I went on FB a few minutes ago and saw that a bunch of my dream-inspired artwork was published on The Global Question magazine. It's called Call of the Wild in Dream. The magazine editor had approached me several months ago, perhaps even close to a year ago and asked me to submit something which I did. I never heard anything more but then tonight I saw that he had published it! I couldn't help but share it here with you...it was so exciting to see it and then to read all that I had written so long ago that I didn't even remember it!</p>
<p>Anyway...here is a link <a href="http://www.the-global-question.com/820-2/" target="_blank">The Global Question</a></p></div>Dialogue: The Me and the Soulhttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/group/a-red-book-of-one-s-own/forum/topics/dialogue-the-me-and-the-soul2016-06-09T01:35:33.000Z2016-06-09T01:35:33.000ZLaura Smith-Rivahttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/members/LauraSmithRiva<div><p align="left">As I wrote my dialogue, several dream moments/images arose. I am including a small montage from my journal of images which were created from some of these moments (in the past, prior to this class...I listed the titles below my writing). I have a new one that I am working on now from a recent dream, which I hope to share before the end of the class! Thanks for letting me share.</p>
<p align="left">DIALOGUE</p>
<p align="left"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;">Me: Ahhh, my soul. How I have longed to call you mine. To feel you as gold in my heart, to be blinded by your glory. To see and feel in color and texture and tingle.</span></p>
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<p align="left"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;">Soul: Do you believe I have belonged to someone else?</span></p>
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<p align="left"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;">Me: No, but I had shunned you to the basement and I did not even know until one day, in a vision, I found you there. A skittering, pale girl. Shell-shocked. And I lifted you from that dark place.</span></p>
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<p align="left"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;">Soul: And now you are waiting?</span></p>
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<p align="left"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;">Me: What do you mean waiting? Waiting for what?</span></p>
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<p align="left"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;">Soul: When I arose from the dark basement, I yearned to be free and yet still you hold me back.</span></p>
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<p align="left"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;">Me: What do you mean, gypsy? When you stole from me? When you were too precocious? Too wild, taking to much, needing attention? Do you not need to be tempered? Should I let you simply fly free? Ungrounded? Untethered?</span></p>
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<p align="left"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;">Soul: Do you presume morality? To know what is best for yourself? For your soul?</span></p>
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<p align="left"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;">Me: If not me, then who? Mustn't I be responsible, caring, humble? Am I not learning the lessons of life?</span></p>
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<p align="left"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;">Soul: I care nothing for these things you speak of. Perhaps you have learned the lessons too well.</span></p>
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<p align="left"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;">Me: How then should I be?</span></p>
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<p align="left"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;">And then my soul spoke.</span></p>
<p align="left"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;">You must come empty-handed. If you are a fisherman, you must come with no fish. If you are a tailor, you must come naked. If you are a carpenter or farmer, you must put down your tools and come with your rough hewn hands extended. If you are a nurse, you must come infirmed and feeble. If you are mother, you must come childless. You must come as you are. Show yourself. You must come with nothing in order to receive. You must truly know that you are lost before you might be found.</span></p>
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<p align="left"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;">I felt the deep pain of loss. Of all that I have thought I have known. All I have believed about myself and my family and the world-side life I was stumbling through. I felt the loss of childhood abandonment, abuse, love withheld, addiction, betrayals and hurts. All of the why's and shoulds and the should nots. It was as if I was in a foreign city, where I knew no one, did not hold currency, bereft of family or people, my face pressed into smooth stone and dust. Feelings unidentified, longing, need... Anguish flowed through my body. The pain of gratitude in hearing the gypsy's words. And the pain of grief, love remembered. I became overwhelmed. I could not speak.</span></p>
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<p align="left"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;">My soul, seeing me thus, spoke again:</span></p>
<p align="left"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;">You must descend the mountain and when you arrive at the high cliff, you must jump. When you enter the water, you must breath. When the fire kindles in the wood, you must burn. When they take you down into the depths, you must fall into the darkness and know that I am there. When Ole Georgie creeps, whispering doom, you must know that I too am there. When you walk the moss-covered stone halls of your heart, you must listen for the rush of blood, alive! as it fills the holy grail that is you. When the snake rises, you must let him bite you. You must take in the venom. You must die. When the Goddess comes and offers you porridge, you must dip your bread and stand in the flames of her fire. You must face her when she slips her steel blade into your heart, opening you. And when the red handed potter shows you the beautiful vessel he has made, you must know that this is you, ready to receive. When you are asked to sing your song, let yourself be sung. Like Mozart and red flowers, let the silence be broken.</span></p>
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<p align="left"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;">Painting titles clockwise from top left: Mozart and Red Flowers, Girl in Basement, Snake Rising, The Piano</span></p>
<p align="left"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><a target="_self" href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2868855915?profile=original"><img class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2868855915?profile=original" width="404"/></a></span></p><p class="attachment"><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/9142594096?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener">for red book class.jpg</a></p></div>Hillman on the Daimonhttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/group/a-red-book-of-one-s-own/forum/topics/hillman-on-the-daimon2016-06-09T01:05:06.000Z2016-06-09T01:05:06.000ZLaura Smith-Rivahttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/members/LauraSmithRiva<div><p>“Each life is formed by its unique image, an image that is the essence of that life and calls it to a destiny. As the force of fate, this image acts as a personal daimon, an accompanying guide who remembers your calling.</p>
<p>The daimon motivates. It protects. It invents and persists with stubborn fidelity. It resists compromising reasonableness and often forces deviance and oddity upon its keeper, especially when neglected or opposed. It offers comfort and can pull you into its shell, but it cannot abide innocence. It can make the body ill. It is out of step with time, finding all sorts of faults, gaps, and knots in the flow of life – and it prefers them. It has affinities with myth, since it is itself a mythical being and thinks in mythical patterns.</p>
<div>It has much to do with feelings of uniqueness, of grandeur and with the restlessness of the heart, its impatience, its dissatisfaction, its yearning. It needs its share of beauty. It wants to be seen, witnessed, accorded recognition, particularly by the person who is its caretaker. Metaphoric images are its first unlearned language, which provides the poetic basis of mind, making possible communication between all people and all things by means of metaphors.” – by James Hillman</div></div>Introductionshttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/group/a-red-book-of-one-s-own/forum/topics/introductions2016-06-08T23:09:03.000Z2016-06-08T23:09:03.000ZBonnie Brighthttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/members/BonnieBright<div><p>Hi everyone. I thought I saw a post from Nina come through about introducing ourselves in the group forum here, but now I can't find it--so I'll repost to save her some time (Hope that's OK, Nina!)</p>
<p>I want to encourage everyone to just take one minute to hit "Reply" to this post and write a sentence or a few about your interest in the course, any experience you might have reading the actual Red Book, or sharing something that's emerged out of your previous work using depth methods. Then, for future discussion and sharing, you can start a new discussion with a new title/subject line at any time</p></div>Homeworkhttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/group/a-red-book-of-one-s-own/forum/topics/homework2016-06-08T19:03:12.000Z2016-06-08T19:03:12.000ZNina S. Rosshttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/members/NinaSRoss<div><p>Welcome to the course! I'm so pleased that you will be with us to explore this deep and rich material.</p>
<p>Here in this written group forum, you can write notes to each other and with me, and share anything you like about the course. You can always get here using the following direct link--or scroll down any Alliance page and click the Red Book "Group Forum Access" shortcut icon on the right hand side:<br/> <a href="http://www.depthpsychologyalliance.com/group/a-red-book-of-one-s-own?xg_source=msg_wel_group">http://www.depthpsychologyalliance.com/group/a-red-book-of-one-s-own?xg_source=msg_wel_group</a></p>
<p>The Red Book is an enormous undertaking, and it is not our intention to study it here in our 4 weeks together. Unless you personally want to pick up parts and see what Jung had to say.</p>
<p>What I will be offering is themes from the Red Book that each week, you will be invited to journal, dialogue, and make art about. During our 2 hrs together each week we will talk about, share, and look at any art or writing that you want to have witnessed by the group. Please remember, because I won't be lecturing, except for some intro to the Red Book on the first night, it really matters and will be as juicy as all of you are willing to be in your sharings.</p>
<p>One our first night meeting, after I talk about the Red Book and introduce myself and the course, I would like all of you to introduce yourselves and say what brings you to the course now. Then, we will share our homework.</p>
<p><strong>SO, here is the homework for the first night:</strong></p>
<p>Just as Jung started the Red Book with a dialogue to his soul, I'd like you to do the same. There are two voices: me and Soul.</p>
<p>You can make dialogue about whatever it is you feel you need help from, guidance about, or any other questions that you need to ask of your Soul at this point.</p>
<p>My suggestion is that you spend 20 minutes uninterrupted time doing this, but, please, don't stop yourselves, write as long as you want to.</p>
<p>Whatever you're comfortable sharing about, we can have a nice safe container. It is important to note that although the material is psychogical in nature, this will not be a therapy group.</p>
<p>Please let me know if have further questions at this point.</p></div>