Before you go further, please be sure you are applying for membership with YOUR REAL NAME, FIRST AND LAST, or if you are signing up as an organization, publisher, or project, list the organization name here; then list the name of the contact person in the next question.
Belvedere California
What are your main areas of interest?
Jungian Psychology, Archetypal Psychology, Mythology, Ecopsychology, Somatic Psychology
If you are signing up as an Individual Member, do you have a degree in Depth Psychology?
M.A., PhD
If so, from what institution?
Pacifica Graduate Institute
Are you a licensed or clinical therapist?
Yes
Please share a little about yourself by way of introduction. What draws you to Depth Psychology and what are you looking for from this community?
Psyche has brought me here. Looking for community and like-minded people. Referred by Lindsey Beaven.
Do you belong to any other online Psychology-related communities or orgs? If so, which?
No
Comments
Hi Astrid,
Thank you for your comment.
I am so sorry to learn that you yourself has lost your son by sudden death.
I can’t imagine the devastating pain that you as a mother experience, but it must be horrible.
I think that you are very brave to not to try to escape these terrible feelings of pain, but instead tried to confront them, in order to learn from these pains and try to give them a place IN yourself – come to peace with them – what doesn’t mean trying to get rid of them, which of course is impossible.
To me it seems, in the way that you confronted yourself with these most terrible circumstances that one can think of, that you have experienced and are experiencing feelings that are not common to experience.
For us humans comes the question “Why at this tremendous Price” ??
I think that no human can answer that question, because we still are “blind”.
One thing I know – LOVE is not just Love, but to me “something” that is alive, like it is learned here in this course by Jung with his experiences – Love is as “real” as our fellow humans are real.
And with that, for someone who can “see” a little bit of the phenomenon on the other plain(s), Love is not something static, but it can “grow”.
At this age I am still amazed and fascinated about the ability of its growth – marvelously it has the ability of “expanding”, like the Universe – and although I don’t know, to me it seems it has no end.
I and my wife consider ourselves really blessed that we are allowed to experience Love in this way, because it is so precious.
I agree with you as you wrote : “Our dead are not dead, they live in another place. When we sit quietly with them, they speak to us”.
Said all this, I think that you and I are privileged that we have “discovered” this course and I am convinced that it will supply us with many answers.
I am wishing you a fine Sunday, with feelings of Harmony – Ric.
Hello Astrid,
Welcome to the group.
I am a newcomer like you.
It seems to me that your dissertation on mothers who lost their sons to sudden death must have been not the easiest one.
In my view it meant that you had to dive deep into blackness of feelings of pain due to the loss, grief, and guilt to name some feelings that you have tried to experience in order to describe the shock that one must be in.
Sharing your valuable experiences and insights can mean a lot for me and I presume also for the other members of the group.
Last but not least, I think it also very meaningful to read that “Psyche” brought you to the group.
Ric.
I am pleased to be included in a forum of like-minded people who continue to en-soul the world.