Susanne van Doorn commented on Susanne van Doorn's blog post Jim Morrison, rider on the storm?
"@Debra King: I think Jim was captured by the archetypical energy of Odin. One of Odin's most 
characteristic features was self sarifage. He sacrifaced his eye for the wisdom to safe the world,
he sacrifaced himself hanging from the tree of the world…"
May 14, 2015
Susanne van Doorn commented on Susanne van Doorn's blog post Jim Morrison, rider on the storm?
"Alexander: thanks for sharing, this is really interesting. i am a big fan of Hillman and his wisdom. Jim Morrison was completly unbalanced. Where Odin, the father god, sacrificed his right eye to gain the wisdom to safe the world, Jim got stuck in…"
May 12, 2015
Susanne van Doorn commented on Susanne van Doorn's blog post Jim Morrison, rider on the storm?
"Thanks @Debra King I like the poem. Jim really was a poet and the relationship between Odin as father of poetry is eminent."
May 12, 2015
"The message is unmistakable our own healing proceeds from that overlap of what we call good and evil, light and dark. It is not that  the light element alone does the healing, the place where  light and dark begin to touch is where miracles arise. This middle place is the mandorla" Robert A. Johnson


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Jim Morrison, rider on the storm?



I was re-reading Well of remembrance this weekend. In 1994 Ralph Metzner wrote this magnificent book. It tells you about how the mythology of Europe got integrated in America. You learn about Odin. Odin/Wotan was not only the one-eyed wanderer. He was a shaman. A changeling. He understood the energies of nature and could tape into its source. Traveling…

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