Gender

Male

Location

Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca

Which of the following best describes your proposed membership status? If you are signing up with your first and last name, please choose "Individual." Please do NOT choose one of the other options unless you are creating a profile page with a business or organization name

Individual

What are your main areas of interest?

Jungian Psychology, Archetypal Psychology, Mythology, Art or Art Therapy, Dreamwork, Shamanism, Breathwork

If you are signing up as an Individual Member, do you have a degree in Depth Psychology?

No

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?

Hi, I'm William James from London, England currently living in Puerto Escondido, Mexico. My interest in depth psychology stems from my desire to resolve the traumas within myself in order that I may then take that ability and assist others competently in healing also. Healing and self development has been perpetual for me since childhood, I've recently had some experiences that have taught me if you are able to engage yourself or another with raising and revealing trauma, it is essential to know what to do to complete the healing because otherwise more damage can be done. For this specific reason I am in this moment seeking courses to study. At this point my awareness of Carl Jung's ideas are, the shadow, the collective unconscious, archetypes. I know Carl Jung's work is where I can find something I need. When I was 20 years old, following the breakup of my first Love, a friend of mine was going to see a psychic medium and she invited me. It was an interesting experience and certainly genuine. It helped me to begin finding the closure within myself necessary. When I got home, I sat in front of a piece of paper, placed both hands on it, focused, breathed and thought of my love for Poppy. I drew a flower, that flower became a design for a building and like most things, I took it so far then left it and forgot about it essentially. I'd come across Carl Jung before, I had his books downloaded on my computer but had never read them. Maybe 2 or 3 years after drawing the flower, I'm on google image search for some reason and there is an image of a crop circle, the image was the exact same image I drew when I focused on my Love for Poppy. Turns out the image is the flower of life. I then learned about the concept of the collective unconscious. That was a profound moment that led me to know Jung has an understanding of something that I want to understand just as much. I draw without thinking, when I draw. It's the way that comes naturally to me. These drawings enable me to see the future and the past, but it's more than that, that doesn't even explain it properly, makes it sound a little meh, I'd do better to show what I mean rather than type it and that's only possible if you look at my art and let me explain it. In 2020 I met Jenny, we shared the deepest love I've ever experienced. She's also an Artist and she told me what I am doing is Surrealist Automatism. I learn so much from these drawings and things can be revealed 4 years after they have been drawn upon reflection, and the information revealed can only come once it's ready to come and will be reflected by actual humans in reality. What I mean is, in 2016 I drew something, I also wrote lyrics that had no connection on the surface to this image created, in 2020 I met Jenny and then it turned out this image was her, I would love to discuss the symbolism with someone and see if what I see without training is what you see. It shows me her Mom's control over her, it speaks to the balancing of our masculine and feminine aspects, polarities, there is much more in there, it reveals a lot to me. Sounds a little weird but I imagine this is an environment where maybe its not weird and maybe you actually have a way better understanding of what I'm relating to here and have something to say, if so please reach out! What do I want from this community? Healing. Knowledge. Support. I want to study so that I can have a toolkit to deal with the things that I'm naturally aware of, awareness is one thing but I need to understand how to resolve and I want to get deeper, some Jungian concepts are fixed within me but there is no solid foundation of knowledge or study behind it, I want that. Thank you.