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Baba Yaga and the Challenge of Darkness. Or, I Love the Smell of Manflesh in the Morning
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2015-10-29T19:45:46.000Z
2015-10-29T19:45:46.000Z
Lisa Marchiano
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<div><p><em>“Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster… for when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you.”</em></p><p>― Friedrich Nietzsche</p><p><a href="https://babayagashutdotorg.files.wordpress.com/2015/10/baba-yaga.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="https://babayagashutdotorg.files.wordpress.com/2015/10/baba-yaga.jpg?w=656&width=236" width="236" class="align-left" alt="baba-yaga.jpg?w=656&width=236" /></a>Just in time for Halloween, I wanted to write about my most favorite fairy tale character for whom this blog is named, Baba Yaga. If you do not know her, you should. She makes several important appearances in Russian folklore, most notably in<em>Vasilissa the Beautiful</em>.</p><p>Baba Yaga is a fearsome, bloodthirsty hag. She rides through the Russian forest in a mortar, pushing herself along with a pestle. Her hut stands on chicken legs, and can turn around at will. A fence surrounds her house made out of human bones, and on every fence post stands a skull with glowing eyes. She is “eats people as one eats chickens.” She is an embodiment of archetypal evil.</p><p>And yet, she is also ambiguous. In <em>Vasilissa the Beautiful</em>, we learn that Baba Yaga controls the coming and the waning of the day. She has access to powerful, elemental magic which she can choose to bestow on ordinary mortals if they prove their worth. It is she who holds the secret to overcoming the terrible situation faced by the heroine in the tale, and it is she who possesses the colt that Ivan will need to defeat Koshchei the Deathless.</p><p><a href="https://babayagashutdotorg.files.wordpress.com/2015/10/kali.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="https://babayagashutdotorg.files.wordpress.com/2015/10/kali.jpg?w=656&width=190" width="190" class="align-right" alt="kali.jpg?w=656&width=190" /></a>She is more than a witch. She is a great nature goddess, possessing the power of both life and death like nature herself. She is an image of the Divine Feminine, that which is capable of ruthless destruction and loving nurturing. She is the folklore equivalent of other bivalent goddesses such as Kali. In this sense, it isn’t correct to categorize Baba Yaga as evil, any more than it would be to describe nature itself with this word. Nature is amoral, sometimes fantastically destructive and cruel, and other times just as life-giving and nurturing. Jung explores this theme in his famous essay “Answer to Job.” In it, he makes the case that Yahweh is unconscious, and therefore amoral. “This is I, the creator of all the ungovernable, ruthless forces of Nature, which are not subject to any ethical laws. I, too, am an amoral force of Nature, a purely phenomenal personality that cannot see its own back.” Evil can only exist where there is consciousness.</p><p>Baba Yaga’s grotesqueness and power are illustrative of the problem of dealing with these dark, primordial psychic contents. All of us contain this kernel of darkness. We manage to hide it away from ourselves for the most part, remaining naïve to our own capacity for evil and destruction. What happens when we do confront it? Sometimes, it can destroy us, overwhelming us and turning us into the very monster we sought to overcome. This is a story of the ego’s hubris, the imperial belief that it can colonize and rule over the contents of the unconscious. When consciousness does not approach the archetypal energies within the collective unconscious with sufficient humility, it will be vulnerable to being devoured or corrupted by the darkness therein.</p><div class="jetpack-video-wrapper"></div><p>Here, I invite you to watch this delicious award winning short film by my very talented friend Dr. Jamieson Ridenhour called <em><a href="http://www.jamiesonridenhour.com/house-of-the-yaga.html" target="_blank">The House of the Yaga</a></em>. It illustrates what can happen when the ego confronts the heart of darkness. It contains the wonderful artwork of <a href="http://www.alilarock.com/" target="_blank">Ali LaRock</a>.</p><p></p><p><a href="https://babayagashutdotorg.files.wordpress.com/2015/10/kurtz.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="https://babayagashutdotorg.files.wordpress.com/2015/10/kurtz.jpg?w=656&width=284" width="284" class="align-left" alt="kurtz.jpg?w=656&width=284" /></a>Ridenhour’s take on what happens when we stare into the abyss is similar to Franics Ford Coppola’s. In <em>Apocolypse Now</em>, Captain Willard is assigned the mission to infiltrate the compound of Col. Kurtz who has gone “insane” and set himself up deep in the jungle as a self-styled demi-god. Willard is to confront this evil and terminate it. Of course, whether Kurtz is actually insane or making rational choices in the midst of an insane war is an open question. He has stared into the abyss and seen the truth about our capacity for evil that the rest of us would be happy not to know about. His ability to confront this darkness is what has given him power over his tribal followers, what leads Dennis Hopper’s character to praise him as a “genius.” Kurtz has left aside the trappings of human morality that is valued by consciousness, and lives a life of archetypal evil. Now Willard confronts the same horror. Like Natasha in Ridenhour’s short, the risk is that he will become the successor to the evil he set out to conquer.</p><p><a href="https://babayagashutdotorg.files.wordpress.com/2015/10/larock-yaga.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="https://babayagashutdotorg.files.wordpress.com/2015/10/larock-yaga.jpg?w=382&h=208&width=382" width="382" class="align-right" alt="larock-yaga.jpg?w=382&h=208&width=382" /></a>Baba Yaga is in image of nature herself, capable of great destruction and great creativity. Kurtz and Natasha, however, are human. When a mortal psyche encounters an archetypal force too intimately, it is destroyed. Semele is immolated immediately upon Zeus revealing his true form to her. The ego cannot survive a direct confrontation with the Divine. Such a direct experience is de-humanizing in all senses of the word. Kurtz and Natasha both are robbed of their humanity as a result of their contact with darkness. What they share in common that makes them susceptible to total corruption is hubris. Kurtz has declared himself emancipated from the rules of society. Natasha’s decision to stop and enjoy the soup is naively over-confident.</p><p>Vasilissa’s journey into the depths and her confrontation with archetypal evil go very differently, however. She has a correct attitude toward the unconscious – she is humble before it. She is able to use her wits and her mother’s blessing to serve Baba Yaga well, and she does not presume too much upon her. (This is revealed in her being careful not to ask too many questions of the witch.) In the end, Baba Yaga grants her the light she had come to seek. The witch gives Vasilissa a glowing skull and bids her to take it home to her cruel step mother. Baba Yaga is helpful to the heroine. This ambiguous psychic energy is serving the ego here in the interest of individuation. The secret boon that Baba Yaga has to offer Vasilissa is a knowledge of dark things – anger, aggression, and even violence. These are shadowy contents that we must come to terms with and even integrate if we are to grow beyond our innocence complex and claim our own authority.</p><p>Baba Yaga is hideously ugly. She has a prodigious appetite. She does not care if she is liked or admired. She is fully authentic in her witchiness. Many older women feel liberated as they age from having to be “nice” or “pretty.” They can be cantankerous and ugly if it pleases them, and this brings with it a kind of freedom and authority. Baba Yaga is able to give the young woman in her care the gift of fiery rage that can protect. When Vasilissa is almost back home to her cruel step-mother, she thinks to herself that they must have found some light already, and throws the skull into the hedge, but it speaks to her, and tells her very directly to bring it inside. When she does so, the eyes of the skull burn up the evil step mother and step sisters who treated Vasilissa so cruelly earlier in the story. Returning home, Vasilissa was about to slip back into her former “nice girl” role, forgetting the dark secrets she learned during her apprenticeship to the goddess. She was going to throw away the aggression Baba Yaga had encouraged her to own. Fortunately for her, she did not do so. As a result, she was able to continue on her individuation journey.</p><p>Whether our own encounter with shadow contents leads us to being devoured, burned up, or dehumanized will depend on many factors. In little ways, each may happen to us at different times. To grow fully into whom we were meant to be, we will have to confront these contents.</p><p><a href="https://babayagashutdotorg.files.wordpress.com/2015/10/yaga-stew.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="https://babayagashutdotorg.files.wordpress.com/2015/10/yaga-stew.jpg?w=450&h=338&width=300" width="300" class="align-left" alt="yaga-stew.jpg?w=450&h=338&width=300" /></a>The dark corners in the soul will forever hold great fascination for us. They inspire fear, horror, but also curiosity and even delight as we enjoy being scared or violating taboos. Titrating our exposure to darkness can help us take in healing doses of it. Allow me to offer another way to enjoy the darkness this Halloween, a special recipe for <a href="http://pastrychefonline.com/2011/10/03/yaga-stew-a-very-special-multi-media-monday-edition-of-sunday-suppers/" target="_blank">Yaga Stew</a> created especially for Ridenhour’s short by chef <a href="http://pastrychefonline.com/" target="_blank">Jenni Field</a>. Be warned! Ingest with caution — and an attitude of appropriate humility toward the dark places in the psyche.</p></div>
Jung, Steiner, and Evolution of Consciousness
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2014-10-27T15:43:19.000Z
2014-10-27T15:43:19.000Z
Patricia Damery
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<div><p><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}9142448876,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="300" src="{{#staticFileLink}}9142448876,original{{/staticFileLink}}" class="align-right" alt="9142448876?profile=original" /></a>A recent seminar on Jung and Steiner and their contributions to an evolution of consciousness, held at the C. G. Jung Institute in San Francisco, was well attended by individuals schooled in both camps. This seems to be happening more and more: finding the common ground of these two men's great works.</p><p>Although contemporaries, Carl Jung and Rudolf Steiner never met. And although they did not have much good to say about the other, they shared a common philosophical ancestor, Wolfgang von Goethe. (Rumor has it that Jung may have shared more than a philosophical lineage as his grandfather may have been an illegitimate offspring of Goethe's!) Both men studied Goethe's book length poem <em>Faust</em> as teenagers, Jung at the suggestion of his mother, and Steiner encouraged by a teacher who was editing <em>Faust</em> at the time. Goethe's work presents an alternative approach to the natural world and the psyche, from the mechanistic way that has developed since Descartes. It reflects an approach that perceives the whole as <em>a living substance</em>, whether that be the human psyche or the flower growing along the roadside. Goethe developed techniques to communicate with <em>the living substance</em> of a plant, techniques which quiet the mind and require the use of imagination, love, and receptiveness.</p><p>Both Jung and Steiner developed their approaches based on this communication with <em>the living substance</em>, but for Jung, it was with the unconscious, and for Steiner, with the living Spirit, whether that be human or other spirits.</p><p>Is there a wisdom in these two men's teachings being kept separate for the most part these 100 years? Steiner was esoteric, being fiery and airy; Jung sought refuge from judgment in "the scientific" and was more earthy. Is it possible these last years have afforded a development of these men's ideas, and now we are in a time of purifying the good thinking of both men from the dogmatism that has also developed? Any philosophy is also a biography of a man's soul. To the extent that this is true for analytical psychology (Jung) and anthroposophy (Steiner), perhaps we are in a time critical for a distillation of their works, purifying them of the impurities of personalities and the aberration of dogmatism that comes from followers.</p><p>Is the common ground of these men's works a kind of feminine holding, of sorts, marrying an esoteric way of soul development back into a consciousness grounded in psychological development? To what end might this come? —dissolving back into the ethers fixed beliefs about our known disciplines and seeing what re-emerges? Will Goethe's respectful approach to <em>living substance</em>, a guiding force in both men's works, be a healing essence that remains?</p></div>
Gathering the Light: A Jungian View of Meditation
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2011-10-15T20:59:05.000Z
2011-10-15T20:59:05.000Z
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<div><div style="clear:both;text-align:center;" class="separator"><a style="clear:left;float:left;margin-bottom:1em;margin-right:1em;" href="http://fisherkingpress.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=90"><img width="135" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-MXdYQXGE0Z8/Tpnw-fXPQ3I/AAAAAAAAAsA/qVNddRxitVI/s200/9781926715551.jpg" height="200" border="0" alt="9781926715551.jpg" /></a></div><div><img width="1" style="border:none;margin:0px;padding:0px;" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=wwwmalcolmclc-20&l=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=1926715551" height="1" border="0" alt="ir?t=wwwmalcolmclc-20&l=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=1926715551" />Another New Fisher King Press Jungian psychological publication!</div><p></p><b><i><a href="http://fisherkingpress.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=90">Gathering the Light: A Jungian View of Meditation</a></i></b><br /><br />by V. Walter Odajnyk<br /><br />Foreword by Thomas Moore<br /><br />Publication Date Dec 10, 2011 - <a href="http://fisherkingpress.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=90">Advance Orders</a> Welcomed. Also available from the Pacifica Graduate Institute Bookstore.<br /><br />Originally published by Shambhala in 1993, <i><a target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/Gathering-Light-V-Walter-Odajnyk/dp/1926715551?ie=UTF8&tag=wwwmalcolmclc-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969">Gathering the Light</a><img width="1" style="border:none;margin:0px;padding:0px;" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=wwwmalcolmclc-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=1926715551" height="1" border="0" alt="ir?t=wwwmalcolmclc-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=1926715551" /></i> is a significant contribution to Jungian psychology and to research concerning the relationship between psychological and spiritual development.<br /><br />Gathering the Light remains a groundbreaking work that integrates Jungian psychology, alchemy, and the practice of meditation. It is one of very few, if not the only Jungian book that demonstrates that the alchemical opus is not only an analogy of the individuation process, but also a depiction of various experiential stages encountered in the course of meditation.<br /><br /><i><a href="http://fisherkingpress.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=90">Gathering the Light</a></i> compares Western and Eastern images of the goal of alchemy and of meditation practice; it offers a psychological interpretation of the Zen Ox Herding pictures; it argues that in essence both psychological and spiritual development consists of the withdrawal of projections; and the appendix offers a critique of Wilber’s mistaken view of Jung’s conception of archetypes and provides a critical review of Thomas Cleary’s translation of <i>The Secret of the Golden Flower</i>.<br /><br />About the Author<br />V. Walter Odajnyk, Ph.D. is a Jungian analyst, and serves as a Core Faculty member and is the Research Coordinator for Pacifica Graduate Institute's Mythological Studies Program.<br /><br />Product Details<br />* Paperback: 264 pages<br />* Publisher: Fisher King Press (Dec 2011)<br />* Language: English<br />* ISBN-10: 1926715551<br />* ISBN-13: 978-1926715551<br /><br /><a style="clear:right;display:inline;float:right;margin-bottom:1em;margin-left:1em;" href="http://www.fisherkingpress.com/"><br /><img name="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393483198773291202" style="display:block;height:100px;margin-bottom:10px;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;margin-top:0px;width:110px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_66tG-ibjAoU/StmAZLTraMI/AAAAAAAAASs/kmBy84VNLJ8/s200/fkplogo110x100.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393483198773291202" border="0" alt="fkplogo110x100.jpg" /></a>Fisher King Press publishes an eclectic mix of worthy books including Jungian Psychological Perspectives, Cutting-Edge Fiction, and a growing list of alternative titles.<br /><ul><li>International Shipping.</li><li>Credit Cards Accepted.</li><li>Phone Orders Welcomed. Toll free in the US & Canada: 1-800-228-9316 International +1-831-238-7799 skype: fisher_king_press</li></ul></div>
The Archetypal Theatre Company: Toni Wolff and Emma Jung
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2011-04-11T05:00:00.000Z
2011-04-11T05:00:00.000Z
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<div><p><a target="_blank" style="clear:right;float:right;margin-bottom:1em;margin-left:1em;" href="http://www.amazon.com/Out-Shadows-Story-Toni-Wolff/dp/0981393942?ie=UTF8&tag=wwwmalcolmclc-20&link_code=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969"><img width="135" src="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=0981393942&tag=wwwmalcolmclc-20" height="200" alt="Out of the Shadows: A Story of Toni Wolff and Emma Jung" /></a><img width="1" style="border:none;margin:0px;padding:0px;" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=wwwmalcolmclc-20&l=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0981393942" height="1" border="0" alt="ir?t=wwwmalcolmclc-20&l=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0981393942" /><strong>Benefit for The C. G. Jung Society of New Orleans</strong><br /><strong>"Out of the Shadows: A Story of Toni Wolff and Emma Jung"</strong><br /> Produced by The Archetypal Theater Company<br />Friday, May 20, 2011<br />7:30 pm<br />Tickets: $35 per person<br />$60 per couple<br />$100 for 4<br />For Locations and Reservations,<br />contact 985-892-1534 or <a href="mailto:romeroce4@aol.com">romeroce4@aol.com</a></p><p> </p><p><strong>Too Far to Travel: Order the Book from <a target="_blank" href="http://fisherkingpress.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=7_22&products_id=34">Fisher King Press</a></strong><br /> <br /> Join us for an evening that includes the Southern premiere of Elizabeth Clark-Stern's play, "Out of the Shadows: A Story of Toni Wolff and Emma Jung," presented by the Jung Society and produced by The Archetypal Theater Company. The play opens in 1910, as Sigmund Freud and his heir-apparent, Carl Jung, are changing the way we think about the mind and human nature. Jung's 26-year-old wife, Emma, a mother of four, aspires to help her husband develop the new science of psychology, but when 22-year-old Toni Wolff enters the heart of this world as Jung's patient, her curious mind and devotion to Jung threaten Emma's aspirations. Toni and Emma's rivalry for Jung's heart and mind is passionate, yet, with the doors to the university barred to women of the Swiss aristocracy, they also find shared experience. As Toni and Emma explore both their antagonism and common ground, they struggle to know the essence of the enemy, the "Other," as well as the power and depth of their own natures. "Out of the Shadows" follows Toni and Emma's relationship over forty years while charting the parallel course of the field of psychology and some of its major players.<br /><br />For locations and reservations, contact 985-892-1534 or <a href="mailto:romeroce4@aol.com">romeroce4@aol.com</a>.<br /><br /></p><a style="clear:right;display:inline;float:right;margin-bottom:1em;margin-left:1em;" href="http://www.fisherkingpress.com/"><img style="display:block;height:100px;margin-bottom:10px;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;margin-top:0px;width:110px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_66tG-ibjAoU/StmAZLTraMI/AAAAAAAAASs/kmBy84VNLJ8/s200/fkplogo110x100.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393483198773291202" border="0" name="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393483198773291202" alt="fkplogo110x100.jpg" /></a>Fisher King Press publishes an eclectic mix of worthy books including Jungian Psychological Perspectives, Cutting Edge Fiction, and a growing list of alternative titles.<br /><ul><li>International Shipping.</li><li>Credit Cards Accepted.</li><li>Phone Orders Welcomed. Toll free in the US & Canada: 1-800-228-9316 International +1-831-238-7799 skype: fisher_king_press</li></ul></div>
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2011-10-02T04:30:00.000Z
2011-10-02T04:30:00.000Z
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Deep Blues and Unitary Reality
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2011-09-18T05:32:07.000Z
2011-09-18T05:32:07.000Z
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<div><p><a href="http://fisherkingpress.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=10&products_id=87" target="_blank"><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-YBDJmI8nBAc/TkDwFVlc-OI/AAAAAAAAArE/Zz_qAjP-B3c/s1600/9781926715520_2in.jpg" style="padding:2px;" class="align-left" alt="9781926715520_2in.jpg" /></a><span style="font-style:italic;"><a target="_blank" href="http://fisherkingpress.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=87"></a></span></p><p>Fisher King Press Presents</p><p><span style="font-style:italic;"><a target="_blank" href="http://fisherkingpress.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=87">Deep Blues:</a> <a target="_blank" href="http://fisherkingpress.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=87">Human Soundscapes for the Archetypal Journey</a></span></p><blockquote>by Mark Winborn</blockquote><blockquote>Deep Blues explores the archetypal journey of the human psyche through an examination of the blues as a musical genre. The genesis, history, and thematic patterns of the blues are examined from an archetypal perspective and various analytic theories – especially the interaction between Erich Neumann’s concept of unitary reality and the blues experience. Mythological and shamanistic parallels are used to provide a deeper understanding of the role of the bluesman, the blues performance, and the innate healing potential of the music. Universal aspects of human experience and transcendence are revealed through the creative medium of the blues. The atmosphere of Deep Blues is enhanced by the black and white photographs of Tom Smith which capture striking blues performances in the Maxwell Street section of Chicago. Jungian analysts, therapists and psychoanalytic practitioners with an interest in the interaction between creative expression and human experience should find Deep Blues a worthy contribution. Deep Blues also appeals to ethnomusicologists and enthusiasts of all forms of music. <br /></blockquote><blockquote><blockquote>In his ever-fascinating book, Dr. Mark Winborn goes where few authors on the blues have ever gone: into the profoundly psychological implications of the genre. A Jungian by training, Winborn argues convincingly how the blues communicates for reasons that extend to the symbolic language of the unconscious. His results are sure to inspire future research in not just the blues but in other areas of traditional culture and the creative act. <br />—Dr. William L. Ellis, Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, Vermont Ethnomusicologist - Musician - Music Critic</blockquote><blockquote>Just like a fine bluesman, Winborn ‘riffs’ on the various psychological aspects of his topic: the genesis of the sound, the unitary reality created in playing and listening to the blues, its archetypal manifestations and healing potential, and the influence of the personality of performer and performance. As he states, ‘the blues belongs among the great arts because of its extraordinary capacity to embrace, embody, and transcend the opposites, especially as they become manifest in the experience of tragedy and suffering.’ Using original lyrics throughout, Winborn invites us to reimagine the power of the blues in its ability to deepen our own soulfulness. <br />—August J. Cwik, Psy.D., Jungian Analyst & Musician</blockquote>Mark Winborn, PhD, NCPsyA is a Jungian Psychoanalyst and Clinical Psychologist. He is a training and supervising analyst of the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts. Dr. Winborn maintains a private practice in Memphis, Tennessee where he is also currently the Training Coordinator for the Memphis Jungian Seminar.</blockquote><blockquote><div><div><a href="http://fisherkingpress.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=10&products_id=87" target="_blank"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-jNruNFa9xpg/TkDwMVoRc7I/AAAAAAAAArI/eDIWgIauiRM/s1600/9781926715520_3in.jpg" style="padding:2px;" class="align-left" alt="9781926715520_3in.jpg" /></a></div></div></blockquote><p>Order Deep Blues from the <a target="_blank" href="http://fisherkingpress.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=87">Fisher King Press Online Bookstore</a></p><a href="http://www.fisherkingpress.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_66tG-ibjAoU/StmAZLTraMI/AAAAAAAAASs/kmBy84VNLJ8/s200/fkplogo110x100.jpg" style="padding:2px;" class="align-right" alt="fkplogo110x100.jpg" /></a>Fisher King Press publishes an eclectic mix of worthy books including Jungian Psychological Perspectives, Cutting-Edge Fiction, and a growing list of alternative titles.<br /><ul><li>International Shipping.</li><li>Credit Cards Accepted.</li><li>Phone Orders Welcomed. </li><li>Toll free in the US & Canada: 1-800-228-9316</li><li>International +1-831-238-7799 </li><li>skype: fisher_king_press</li></ul></div>
Out of the Shadows Performance at Mars Hill Graduate School in Seattle
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2011-04-11T05:30:00.000Z
2011-04-11T05:30:00.000Z
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<div><p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Out-Shadows-Story-Toni-Wolff/dp/0981393942?ie=UTF8&tag=wwwmalcolmclc-20&link_code=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969" style="clear:left;float:left;margin-bottom:1em;margin-right:1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="Out of the Shadows: A Story of Toni Wolff and Emma Jung" height="200" src="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=0981393942&tag=wwwmalcolmclc-20" width="135" /></a><strong>Mars Hill Graduate School and Elizabeth Clark Stern present:</strong><br /> <strong>OUT OF THE SHADOWS<img border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=wwwmalcolmclc-20&l=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0981393942" style="border:none;margin:0px;padding:0px;" width="1" alt="ir?t=wwwmalcolmclc-20&l=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0981393942" /></strong><br /><strong>A Play By Elizabeth Clark Stern</strong><br /><br />Performance is May 7, 2011 (time and directions below)<br /><br />The year is 1910. The work of Sigmund Freud, and his heir-apparent, Carl Jung, are transforming the way the world thinks about human nature and the inner recesses of the mind. It is a time of experimentation, expansion, and new frontiers of intellectual power. Into the heart of this world steps a 22 year old woman, a new patient of the now famous analyst, Carl Jung. Toni Wolff brings a new voice into this creative vortex that also includes Jung’s wife, Emma. The three of them form an unconventional triangle where the women compete for the role of Jung’s intellectual muse with more passion than they care about who shares his bed.<br /><br />Who were these women to each other? We know that both were intellectual, independent, self-educated, at a time when Swiss women did not attend university. They were arguably quite hungry for another woman to talk to about ideas.<br /><br />The play also explores the nature of Emma’s clandestine correspondence with Sigmund Freud, the separate relationship each woman had with C.G. Jung, and how this informed the women’s connection to each other. The themes of this story are endemic to our modern world: the nature of power, the complexity of relationships, oppression, betrayal, corruption, and redemption.<br /><br />Saturday, May 7, 2011 Doors open 7:30pm and Curtain at 8pm<br /><a href="http://mhgs.edu/conferences/Lectures-and-Campus-Events/Out-of-the-Shadows">Mars Hill Graduate School</a><br />$8 Student/$12 General - Pay at the Door<br /><a href="http://mhgs.edu/contact">Directions</a><br /><br /><b>Too Far to Travel: Purchase Copies of this fine play from the publisher at the</b> <a href="http://fisherkingpress.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=7_22&products_id=34"><b>Fisher King Press</b></a> <b>Online Bookstore.</b><br /><br />ELIZABETH CLARK STERN BIO<br />Elizabeth Clark-Stern is a psychotherapist in private practice in Seattle, WA. Before embracing this beloved work, she worked as a professional writer and actor. Her produced plays and teleplays include All I Could See From Where I Stood, Help Wanted and Nana Sophia's Oasis. Out of the Shadows began as an independent study at Antioch University. Revised some years later, the International Association of Analytical Psychologists invited the original production to be performed at the International Jungian Congress in South Africa in 2007.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.fisherkingpress.com/" style="clear:right;display:inline;float:right;margin-bottom:1em;margin-left:1em;"><img name="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393483198773291202" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393483198773291202" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_66tG-ibjAoU/StmAZLTraMI/AAAAAAAAASs/kmBy84VNLJ8/s200/fkplogo110x100.jpg" style="display:block;height:100px;margin-bottom:10px;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;margin-top:0px;width:110px;" alt="fkplogo110x100.jpg" /></a>Fisher King Press publishes an eclectic mix of worthy books including Jungian Psychological Perspectives, Cutting Edge Fiction, and a growing list of alternative titles.</p><p> </p><ul><li>International Shipping.</li><li>Credit Cards Accepted.</li><li>Phone Orders Welcomed. Toll free in the US & Canada: 1-800-228-9316 International +1-831-238-7799 skype: fisher_king_press</li></ul></div>
Deep Blues: Human Soundscapes for the Archetypal Journey
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2011-03-31T16:00:00.000Z
2011-03-31T16:00:00.000Z
Mark Winborn
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<div><p>I recently signed a contract with Fisher King Press to publish a book titled "Deep Blues: Human Soundscapes for the Archetypal Journey." The book is a psychological interpretation of blues music utilizing ideas from Analytical Psychology and Psychoanalysis. Estimated shipping date is Sept. 1st, 2011. It will be available through Fisher King (fisherkingreview.com), Amazon, and Barnes & Noble.</p><p><i> </i></p><p><i>Deep Blues</i> explores the archetypal journey of the human psyche through an examination of the blues as a musical genre. The genesis, history, and thematic patterns of the blues are examined from an archetypal perspective and various analytic theories. Mythological and shamanistic parallels are used to provide a deeper understanding of the role of the bluesman, the blues performance, and the innate healing potential of the blues. Universal aspects of human experience and transcendence are revealed through the creative medium of the blues. The atmosphere of <i>Deep Blues</i> is enhanced by the black and white photographs of Tom Smith which capture striking blues performances in the Maxwell Street section of Chicago. Jungian analysts, therapists and psychoanalytic practitioners with an interest in the interaction between creative expression and human experience should find <i>Deep Blues</i> satisfying. <i>Deep Blues</i> should also appeal to enthusiasts of music, ethnomusicology, and the blues. </p><p> </p><p align="center"><u>About the Author</u></p><p>Mark Winborn, PhD, NCPsyA is a Jungian Psychoanalyst and Clinical Psychologist. He is a training and supervising analyst of the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts and is also affiliated with the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis and the International Association for Analytical Psychology. Dr. Winborn maintains a private practice in Memphis, Tennessee where he is also currently the Training Coordinator for the Memphis Jungian Seminar – a training seminar of the IRSJA. </p></div>
jungbook, Deep Blues, Suspended Animation, Go West Young Lady . . .
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2011-03-31T06:16:13.000Z
2011-03-31T06:16:13.000Z
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<div><b>Now on the Fisher King Review:</b><br /><br /><b>jungbook</b> . . . No, it's not another one of those online social clubs where you have to befriend family, friends, colleagues, or anyone else for that matter. <b>You don't even have to sign in!</b> <a href="http://www.jungbook.com/">Read more</a> . . .<br /><br /><b><i>Deep Blues: Human Soundscapes for the Archetypal Journey</i></b> by Mark Winborn. Deep Blues explores the archetypal journey of the human psyche through an examination of the blues as a musical genre. The genesis, history, and thematic patterns of the blues are examined from an archetypal perspective and various analytic theories. Mythological and shamanistic parallels are used to provide a deeper understanding of the role of the bluesman, the blues performance, and the innate healing potential of the blues. <a href="http://www.fisherkingreview.com/2011/03/fisher-king-is-jigging-in-deep-blues.html">Read more</a> . . .<br /><br /><b>Suspended Animation and The Spirit of Active Imagination</b>. <a href="http://www.fisherkingreview.com/2011/03/suspended-animation-and-spirit-of.html">Read more</a> . . .<br /><br /><b>Go West Young Lady!</b> Love – Sex – Naiveté – Family – Values – Commitment – Betrayal . . . Patricia Damery weaves a seductive tale about life’s insoluble contradictions. A Midwestern farm girl leaves the confines of her family heritage and is transformed by life’s vicissitudes. Snake stories, symbols of transformation, are cleverly intertwined in this highly entertaining novel as Angela, the heroine, undergoes numerous rights of passages, and comes to terms with life - her life – exactly where, when, and how it unfolds. Highly recommended, Snakes is deeply rooted in Mother Earth—and Soul. <a href="http://www.fisherkingreview.com/2011/03/go-west-young-lady-news-release.html">Read more</a> . . .<br /><br /><b>Spring Book Sale</b> at the New Fisher King Press Online Bookstore. Many titles are marked down 20% or more and you can receive an <b>additional 10% off</b> the total cost of your order during checkout by using the following redemption code: <b>loyalty</b> Shop at the <a href="http://www.fisherkingpress.com/">Fisher King Press Online Bookstore</a><br /><br /><a style="clear:right;display:inline;float:right;margin-bottom:1em;margin-left:1em;" href="http://www.fisherkingpress.com/"><img style="display:block;height:100px;margin-bottom:10px;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;margin-top:0px;width:110px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_66tG-ibjAoU/StmAZLTraMI/AAAAAAAAASs/kmBy84VNLJ8/s200/fkplogo110x100.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393483198773291202" border="0" name="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393483198773291202" alt="fkplogo110x100.jpg" /></a>Fisher King Press publishes an eclectic mix of worthy books including Jungian Psychological Perspectives, Cutting Edge Fiction, and a growing list of alternative titles.<br /><ul><li>We Ship Worldwide.</li><li>Credit Cards Accepted.</li><li>Phone Orders Welcomed. Toll free in the US & Canada: 1-800-228-9316 International +1-831-238-7799 skype: fisher_king_press</li></ul></div>
When the Moon Casts a Woman Off
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2010-07-06T04:30:00.000Z
2010-07-06T04:30:00.000Z
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<div><div style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:x-small;">article by Naomi Ruth Lowinsky</span></div><br /><blockquote><i>The moon and then</i><br /> <i>the Pleiades</i><br /><i>go down</i><br /><br /><i>The night is now</i><br /><i>half-gone; youth</i><br /><i>goes; I am</i><i><br /></i> <br /><i>in bed alone</i><br />—Sappho (1)</blockquote><br /><b>When the Moon Casts a Woman Off</b><br /><br />The muse is erotic. This is well known to the men who adore her. For me, her erotic nature can show up unexpectedly, as it did in India, or as it did during that powerful transition in a woman’s life—menopause. <br /><br />When the moon has cast a woman off, and she is running hot and cold in a confusion of purposes, body and soul fighting over the terms of their engagement, she may find herself lost, wandering about in a flat landscape, emptied of the drama of her cycles, unfamiliar to herself. When her soul, having lived in all the female places, isn’t sure where she lives anymore; when her mind loses track of itself and falls through the cracks in the floor of her brain; when her spirit is short of breath, confused by the weather, by sudden surges of heat that lack any erotic purpose; and her womb that has been telling time, keeping her in tune with the sea and its tides, goes silent, keeping its secrets inside; she may find herself thrown back to what called her before her first blood flowered, as though soul, mind, spirit, need to root themselves again in her beginnings; her life needs to come full circle. For me, that circle brings me back to a reverie about my early sexual stirrings, and a fantasy about Sappho.<br /><br />Sappho. Have you heard of Sappho? She lived 2600 years ago, in a time when the division between the erotic and the sacred had not yet hardened, when a young woman’s education included the arts of love as well as of poetry, dance and music. How is it she suddenly fills me with her presence, as though I’ve always known her; as though I can remember my time with her as a young woman on Lesbos: the temple to Aphrodite, the meadows with flowers we maidens wove into one another’s hair; what we sang around the altar in the moonlight; as though Sappho was my teacher, my priestess, my wild older woman crush.<br /><br />How can I claim to remember Sappho? She is a revered ancestor in my poetic lineage. But all we have of her poems are fragments, all we can gather of her life are glimpses, pottery shards, passages in Longinus and Demetrius. Yet even those fragments, those glimpses, give us a lot. They say she is a great lyric poet, perhaps the greatest of all time. They say that she, like Socrates, taught the young. The aristocrats of 5th century B.C. Greece, sent their daughters to Sappho, to her thiasos, where she initiated them into the mysteries of love; taught them ritual, poetry, dance, officiated at their weddings.<br /><br />The Greeks did not divide sexuality up as do we. Young women learned love, their bodily and emotional responses, from other women. Some of them went on to marry men and live what we call heterosexual lives. Others stayed in the temple, as priestesses. Some, it is clear from Sappho’s work, preferred to stay with women. <br /><br />As Judy Grahn points out in a powerful evocation of Sappho in her book of essays, The Highest Apple, Sappho was born into a now lost lineage of women poets that stretched behind her for a thousand years.(2) She lived in changing times. Already by her time, Greek women were oppressed and controlled by the patriarchy; they could not own property; they belonged to their husbands. But on Lesbos, in Sappho’s thiasos, we catch a glimpse of a world where, in Grahn’s words “women were central to themselves.” I long to have access to such wholeness of female being, such authority of voice and image.<br /><br /><blockquote>I took my lyre and said:<br /> Come now, my heavenly<br />tortoise shell: become<br />a speaking instrument(3)</blockquote><br />Would I could be such a speaking instrument. Would I could summon such elegance and clarity. In Sappho female flesh becomes word. Her poems are personal, embodied, full of desire and of sensuous physical detail: descriptions of beautiful clothes, advise on what flowers a girl should wear in her hair. They are luminous. <br /><br />H.D. brought Sapphic lucidity back into the language, describes Sappho’s poetry as: “containing fire and light and warmth, yet in its essence differing from all these, as if the brittle crescent-moon gave heat to us, or some splendid scintillating star turned warm suddenly in our hand like a jewel, sent by the beloved.”(4)<br /><br />I wish I could study poetry with Sappho; learn to speak from female passion as did Sappho; I wish I could be on as intimate terms with Aphrodite, know the altar, know the ritual. <br /><br /><blockquote>You know the place: then<br /> <br />Leave Crete and come to us<br />waiting where the grove is<br />pleasantest, by precincts<br /><br />sacred to you; incense<br />smokes on the altar, cold<br /><br />streams murmur through the<br />apple branches, a young<br /><br />rose thicket shades the ground<br />and quivering leaves pour<br /><br />down deep sleep; in meadows<br />where horses have grown sleek<br />among spring flowers, dill<br /><br />scents the air. Queen! Cyprian!<br />Fill our gold cups with love<br />stirred into clear nectar(5)</blockquote><br />But wait a minute. Is this the time to be invoking Aphrodite? At midlife, dealing with hot flashes and memory loss, struggling to keep track of many obligations, is this the time of life for Sappho to be stirring in me? Sappho who loved young women, sang of their beauty, taught them the erotic mysteries? Where was she when I needed her, when I had never heard of her, when I was a young woman, overcome by a confusion of passions? <br /><br />I came of age in a time when it was believed that young women should be sexually initiated by men. The ancient practice of a woman learning the responses of her body in the hands of an older woman, had been mostly forgotten. There was an archetype missing (still is, for the most part), one the Greeks knew well: the archetype of sacred sexuality. In my day, a young woman’s passion was dangerous; if she expressed it, terrible things could happen to her. There were names: clinical names, colloquial names. Nymphomaniac. Slut. There were dangerous consequences. Pregnancies. Illegal abortions. Doors slammed for life. Shutters closed on her sense of self.<br /><br />In the 1960s, some of us got wind of Sappho’s energy, without really knowing much about her. We saw that women had to learn to love women instead of only valuing our relationships with men. We formed circles of women and talked personally, about sex, our bodies, our passionate lives. In such a group, “consciousness raising” we called it, I remember wondering what menopause would be like. We asked an older woman some of us knew to write a letter about her experience. I can’t remember what she said. I do remember her tone, wise, funny, amazed and pleased to be asked. If I were to write such a letter now I’d have to say that nothing has prepared me for the power of change. It’s archetypal, like going through puberty, or becoming a mother. <br /><br />And then it occurs to me: no wonder I’m fantasizing about Sappho. It’s not just that she’s a priestess of Aphrodite; she’s a priestess who facilitates archetypal change, and she does it in the voice of a woman-centered woman. As Judy Grahn says, when we lose access to our ceremonial stories “we fall out of history . . . out of mythic time . . . out of poetry except as the objects of it . . . out of meaning into a kind of slavery, a no-world, a no-place . . . ” How then can we make sense of female initiation, profound bodily changes? We need Sappho. We need her to teach us the lore of the body, the creative process, the invocation of the divine. <br /><br />And I say to myself, why not try to invoke Sappho? What would it hurt? At worst she won’t come. At best, we’ll have an experience of the imagination. <br /><br /><b>The Tenth Muse</b><br /><br />Imagine that we knew Sappho when we were young. Imagine that we can remember the island in the middle of the blue Aegean, near Turkey as it was 2600 years ago, a landscape of olive trees and apple orchards. The scholar of Greek lyric poetry, C.M. Bowra, describes it thus: “an abundance of natural springs fills the valleys with plane trees and lush grass; in the spring the ground is covered with anemones, orchids and wild tulips.”(6) The poet Alcaeus, a contemporary of Sappho, describes her as: “violet-tressed, holy, sweetly smiling Sappho . . .” (7)<br /><br /><br /><blockquote><b>invocation</b><br /> <br />tell me, Sappho,<br />whose delicate fingers<br />wove the violets into your hair?<br />whose soft seashell ears burned <br />at your song?<br /><br />and would you take her back<br />after the years<br />she forgot you<br /><br />opened her body <br />to his song<br /><br />would you come to the tip<br />of her tongue<br />leap<br />to her image making <br />mind?<br /><br />would you send for her <br />the very chariot <br />that carried the goddess<br />she of the doves<br />and the smile that is<br />evening star?<br /><br />lady of Lesbos<br />we gather<br />pieces of you<br />out of the mouths <br />of buried vases<br /><br />i wish it were mine<br />to remember<br />how we danced<br />around the altar in full<br />moonlight<br />our tender young women feet <br />crushing the grass<br /><br />holy Sappho<br />make a place for me now<br />the moon is waning<br />we whom the tides<br />have released<br />long for a fragment<br />of you— (8)</blockquote><br />She’s come. Can you see her? She is so vivid, as though she’s always been here, just under the surface, energetic, curious, intense, showing off her dark skin in bright clothing. She’s wearing the purple and yellow outfit she described in a poem. Listen to her beloved Atthis:<br /><br /><blockquote>Sappho, if you will not get<br /> up and let us look at you<br />I shall never love you again!<br /><br />Get up, unleash your suppleness,<br />lift off your Chian nightdress<br />and, like a lily leaning into<br /><br />a spring, bathe in the water.<br />Cleis is bringing your best<br />purple frock and the yellow<br /><br />tunic down from the clothes chest;<br />you will have a cloak thrown over<br />you and flowers crowning your hair… (9)</blockquote><br />She stands before a white temple, the blue Aegean glowing behind her. She’s smiling at us. Sappho, speak to us!<br /><br /><i>You wonder where I’ve been. I say, where have you been? I’ve been here all along, the old voice of female poetry, glad to be released at last from all those tiresome, bookish discussions about me. You’ve read all that nonsense. Was I short and dark? Did I die for love? Was I married to a man called Kerkylas, a wealthy merchant, or was this an obscene pun in an Attic comedy, because Kerkylas can mean “prick from the Isle of Man”(10) Was I a love priestess? Did I have jealous fights with my rivals for love or for power? Finally you stopped reading all that scholarship that just chops me up into smaller fragments, fits me into small categories that break up my wholeness. How can you separate body from love from soul from ritual from poetry? It is only in what’s left of my work that you can know me, and in the imagination of poets. There are those in your time who know me. H.D. knows me, as:</i> <br /><i><br /></i> <br /><blockquote><i>an island, a country, a continent, a planet, a world of emotion, differing entirely from any present day imaginable world of emotion…</i><br /> <i>A song, a spirit, a white star that moves across the heaven to mark the end of a world epoch or to presage some coming glory.</i><br /><i>Yet she is embodied–terribly a human being, a woman, a personality as the most impersonal become when they confront their fellow beings.</i></blockquote><i><br /></i> <br /><i>Judy Grahn knows me, and traces her lesbian poetic lineage through H.D. and Emily Dickinson straight back to me. (11)</i><br /><i><br /></i> <br /><i>You can know me, not only as a particular poet of 6th c. B.C. Greece, but as the fragmented voice of woman, the ghost of the wholeness of woman that’s been ripped into shreds. What woman has written straight out of her body, her feeling, since I did, until now, in your time? My voice is the passion of woman for woman, the passion for the goddess. Every woman needs to know this passion, whether she sleeps with women or with men. Then she can express for herself what Freud found so mysterious: what a woman wants.</i> <br /><i><br /></i> <br /><i>Why do you suppose you’ve been so consumed by poetry recently? It hasn’t occurred to you that I might have had something to do with that? For two millenia I was a sleepy spirit. But I’ve been right under the surface, waiting to be invoked. I have not been forgotten, but my poems, what has become of my poems? I wrote them down. I wanted them to last forever. It looked like they would. The Alexandrians published me a few centuries after my death. My work survived for a thousand years. I was known as the tenth muse, first among lyric poets, the queen of poetry. Once, everyone knew my poetry by heart. My words were ripe fruit on the tongue of every cultivated person. Now, all that’s left are fragments.</i><br /><i><br /></i> <br /><i>Don’t think because I’m a shade, I don’t mourn the loss of my work. Don’t think it doesn’t humiliate me, even in death, that my voice got torn to shreds of papyrus, that handwritten copies of my work were used to stuff a coffin, mummify a crocodile. Why did my books disappear? I have not been forgotten, but my poems are lost. I have not been forgotten, but for two thousand years who has written in my tradition? I have been quoted but the whole shape and luster of my work has been lost. Who has invoked me intimately, as I did Aphrodite, as you just did me? Why has it taken you so long? I’ve been knocking at the door of your consciousness most of your little life!</i> <br /><i><br /></i> <br /><i>Dead poets long to be read. We long for our living audience, for the poets we influence, the poems that carry on our tradition, bring it into new territory. Suddenly your time is full of women poets, as though a fire swept through old woods releasing seeds that haven’t sprouted for 2600 years! You’re waking me up, exciting me, calling on me to return.</i> <br /><i><br /></i> <br /><i>Now you want me to help you in this second rite of passage, in the Lesbos of your imagination. But I need your help. Events keep tearing you away from me. Important meetings. Conferences. Telephone calls. I say: come to Lesbos; make time for solitude; be alone with me. Imagine yourself in the grove of apple trees. The apples are reddening, growing ripe. The breeze in the trees has more to say to you than any group of colleagues. What do they know of your essence, your struggle to release your spirit from other people’s purposes? If I am to help you find the self you left behind, I need your full attention, your ear to my voice, your mind to the flow of images. Most of all I need your body!</i><br /><br />You want my body?<br /><br /><i>No, I’m not propositioning you, not in the usual sense. I’m a ghost, a spirit. What I want is words for your body’s experience, your desire, your longing. When young women came to me on Lesbos I prepared them for the changing of the gods in their bodies. I called down Aphrodite. I taught them the pleasure of their bodies, what flowers to wear in their hair, what would make the blood run hot under their soft skin. Here they were, young and so lovely, breasts just blossoming. How could I not fall in love? I who was teaching them to cultivate the goddess of love, to make her incarnate in their own flesh, was cultivating my own body of love.</i><br /><i><br /></i> <br /><i>I brought girls from childhood to womanhood, teaching them to sing and to dance, to cultivate the subtle play of blood and fire in their loins, the connection to their feet, to know what colors to wear, how a dress should drape.</i><br /><i><br /></i> <br /><i>If I had known you when you were young, you would have known your own beauty. You would have learned to express your own passion, in words. No matter how overcome with passion a woman may be, if she can make a poem of her experience—she retains herself—has made a vessel for herself. I did this time and again.</i><br /><br /><blockquote>He is a god in my eyes<br /> the man who is allowed<br />to sit beside you—he<br />who listens intimately<br />to the sweet murmur of <br />your voice, the enticing<br />laughter that makes my own<br />heart beat fast… (12)</blockquote><br /><i>Can you imagine how it is to love a young woman, train her in the erotic arts, and then have to officiate at her marriage? Making poems held me together, as making poems has been holding you together in the change of life. What you need is some of our ancient Greek love for our bodies. We did not suffer from that post Christian fear of the body which has caused the fragmentation of my voice. Nor had we any desire to “rise above” our bodies. We knew what you need to remember: the body is where the gods speak to us. Your body is speaking to you, in hot flashes, in memory lapses, in a deep disorientation from the moon. You need me to help you in this change of the gods. I need you to give poetic voice to the change.</i> <br /><br />There is something I don’t understand. Do you not know about the change? Didn’t women of your time live past menopause? <br /><br /><i>Of course. Women have always known about menopause. In the ancient world we had our secret rituals, we knew the herbal remedies, all the lore of the wise blood. But none of this was valued, or written down. And as the men took over, and women’s spiritual practices were deemed dangerous, witchcraft, you forgot what we once knew. It got lost, like the poems of the poets before me, lost like the mysteries of Eleusis, like the many forms of the goddess.</i> <br /><br /><a target="_blank" style="clear:left;float:left;margin-bottom:1em;margin-right:1em;" href="http://www.amazon.com/Sister-Below-When-Muse-Gets/dp/098103442X?ie=UTF8&tag=widgetsamazon-20&link_code=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969"><img src="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=098103442X&tag=widgetsamazon-20" alt="The Sister from Below: When the Muse Gets Her Way" /></a><img width="1" height="1" border="0" style="border:medium none;margin:0px;padding:0px;" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=widgetsamazon-20&l=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=098103442X" alt="ir?t=widgetsamazon-20&l=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=098103442X" /><br />The previous article is an excerpt from<br />The Sister From Below: When the Muse Gets Her Way<br />by Naomi Ruth Lowinsky<br /><br /><br />Naomi Lowinsky is the author of <a target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/Sister-Below-When-Muse-Gets/dp/098103442X?ie=UTF8&tag=widgetsamazon-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969">The Sister From Below: When the Muse Gets Her Way</a><img width="1" height="1" border="0" style="border:medium none;margin:0px;padding:0px;" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=widgetsamazon-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=098103442X" alt="ir?t=widgetsamazon-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=098103442X" />, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/Motherline-Every-Womans-Journey-Female/dp/0981034462?ie=UTF8&tag=widgetsamazon-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969">The Motherline: Every Woman's Journey to Find Her Female Roots</a><img width="1" height="1" border="0" style="border:medium none;margin:0px;padding:0px;" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=widgetsamazon-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0981034462" alt="ir?t=widgetsamazon-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0981034462" />, and the just published book of poems, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/Adagio-Lamentation-Naomi-Ruth-Lowinsky/dp/1926715055?ie=UTF8&tag=widgetsamazon-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969">Adagio and Lamentation</a><img width="1" height="1" border="0" style="border:medium none;margin:0px;padding:0px;" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=widgetsamazon-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=1926715055" alt="ir?t=widgetsamazon-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=1926715055" />. She has authored numerous prose essays, many of which have been published in Psychological Perspectives and The Jung Journal. Her two previous poetry collections, red clay is talking (2000) and <a target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/Crimes-Dreamer-Naomi-Ruth-Lowinsky/dp/0967022487?ie=UTF8&tag=widgetsamazon-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969">crimes of the dreamer</a><img width="1" height="1" border="0" style="border:medium none;margin:0px;padding:0px;" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=widgetsamazon-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0967022487" alt="ir?t=widgetsamazon-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0967022487" /> (2005) were published by Scarlet Tanager Books. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize three times and is the recent recipient of the Obama Millennium Poetry awarded for "Madelyn Dunham, Passing On.” Naomi is a Jungian analyst in private practice, poetry and fiction editor of Psychological Perspectives.<br /><br />Naomi’s publications are available from The Pacifica Graduate Institute Bookstore and directly from Fisher King Press. Phone orders welcomed, Credit Cards accepted. 1-800-228-9316 toll free in the US and Canada, International +1-831-238-7799.<br /><br />Below are links to download the FKP newsletter, current catalog, and price list/order form:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.fisherkingpress.com/newsletter.pdf">Fisher King Press Newsletter</a> <br /><a href="http://www.fisherkingpress.com/catalog.pdf">Fisher King Press Catalog of Publications</a> <br /><a href="http://www.fisherkingpress.com/pricelist.pdf">Fisher King Press Price List and Order Form</a> <br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:x-small;">(1) Sappho, Barnard trans., fragment #64.</span><br /><span style="font-size:x-small;">(2) Judy Grahn, The Highest Apple : Sappho and the Lesbian Poetic Tradition, p. 7.</span><br /><span style="font-size:x-small;">(3) Sappho, fragment #8.</span><br /><span style="font-size:x-small;">(4) Hilda.Doolittle. (H.D.), Notes on Thought and Vision and The Wise Sappho, pp. 57-58.</span><br /><span style="font-size:x-small;">(5) Sappho, fragment #37.</span><br /><span style="font-size:x-small;">(6) C.M. Bowra, Greek Lyric Poetry, p. 130.</span><br /><span style="font-size:x-small;">(7) Alcaeus, Greek Lyric Poetry, p. 239.</span><br /><span style="font-size:x-small;">(8) Lowinsky, unpublished poem.</span><br /><span style="font-size:x-small;">(9) Sappho, fragment #43.</span><br /><span style="font-size:x-small;">(10) Sappho, The Poems and Fragments of Sappho, translated by Jim Powell, p. 33.</span><br /><span style="font-size:x-small;">(11) H.D., The Wise Sappho, pp. 58-59.</span><br /><span style="font-size:x-small;">(12) Sappho, fragment #39.</span><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align:center;"><span style="font-size:x-small;">Copyright 2010 © Fisher King Press - Permission to reprint is granted.</span></div></div>
Toni Wolff Revisited - A Study in Opposites
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<div><a target="_blank" style="clear:left;float:left;margin-bottom:1em;margin-right:1em;" href="http://www.amazon.com/Four-Eternal-Women-Revisited-Opposites/dp/1926715314?ie=UTF8&tag=wwwmalcolmclc-20&link_code=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969"><img width="135" src="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=1926715314&tag=wwwmalcolmclc-20" height="200" alt="Four Eternal Women: Toni Wolff Revisited - A Study in Opposites" /></a><br /><b><i><a href="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=JZ2G8YPB6WWTC"><span style="color:#0b5394;">Four Eternal Women</span></a><span style="color:#0b5394;">: </span></i></b><br /><a target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/Four-Eternal-Women-Revisited-Opposites/dp/1926715314?ie=UTF8&tag=wwwmalcolmclc-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969"><b><i><span style="color:#0b5394;">Toni Wolff Revisited - A Study In Opposites</span></i></b></a><b><i><span style="color:#0b5394;"><img width="1" style="border:none;margin:0px;padding:0px;" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=wwwmalcolmclc-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=1926715314" height="1" border="0" alt="ir?t=wwwmalcolmclc-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=1926715314" /></span></i></b><br />By Mary Dian Molton and Lucy Anne Sikes<br />ISBN 978-1-926715-31-5<br />320 pages, Bibliography, Index<br /><br /><b>Shipping Feb 1, 2011 - <a href="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=JZ2G8YPB6WWTC"><span style="background-color:#cc0000;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;"> Order Now </span></span></a></b><br /><br />Toni Wolff was at first the patient, and later the friend, mistress for a time, long-term colleague and personal analyst of Swiss Psychiatrist Carl Jung. In addition to her work as the founder, leader and teacher for the Psychological Society in Zurich which led to the establishment of the world-renowned C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich/Kusnacht, she published a seminal but little known work called “Structural Forms of the Feminine Psyche” (“Der Psychologie”, Berne, 1951). This treatise, certainly one of the first studies in Analytical Psychology, has been the subject of the authors’ investigation, attention, research and study for the past twelve years. Toni Wolff’s original outline of her four archetypes barely filled fifteen pages of the journal, and was written in the academic style of professional journals of that period, sans illustration or commentary.<br /><br /><table style="float:right;margin-left:1em;text-align:right;" class="tr-caption-container" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align:center;"><a style="clear:right;margin-bottom:1em;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_66tG-ibjAoU/TSzg98BEt6I/AAAAAAAAAdc/5bpw2dL8oT0/s1600/Toni.jpg"><img width="138" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_66tG-ibjAoU/TSzg98BEt6I/AAAAAAAAAdc/5bpw2dL8oT0/s200/Toni.jpg" height="200" border="0" alt="Toni.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td style="text-align:center;" class="tr-caption">Toni Wolff circa 1920's</td></tr></tbody></table>While Wolff’s work has been mentioned in short form in the work of several writers, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/Four-Eternal-Women-Revisited-Opposites/dp/1926715314?ie=UTF8&tag=wwwmalcolmclc-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969"><i>Four Eternal Women</i></a><img width="1" style="border:none;margin:0px;padding:0px;" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=wwwmalcolmclc-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=1926715314" height="1" border="0" alt="ir?t=wwwmalcolmclc-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=1926715314" /> is the first full and serious archetypal delineation of her original thesis, and examines each of her four feminine archetypes from several perspectives: <br /><ul><li> Wolff's Own Words</li><li> An Overview of History and Myth</li><li> Familiar Characteristics</li><li> Lesser known (Shadow) Possibilities</li><li> Career Inclinations</li><li> Relationships to Men</li><li> Relationships to Children</li><li> Relationships to Each of the Other Types</li></ul>The tension of the opposites set up by Wolff’s own diagrammatic representation of these archetypes provided an additional dynamic to this study. Those who have followed Jung’s individuation path will recognize aspects of Jung’s Transcendent Function. All readers may well become personally sensitized to discover their own type preferences, and how some aspects of shadow may be present in their ‘opposite’ partner.<br /><br /><b>About the Authors</b><br /><br />Lucy Anne Sikes, MS, ARNP, is a Senior Diplomate Jungian Analyst and is an Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioner. She is in private practice of Analysis and Psychotherapy in Prairie Village, Kansas, close to Overland Park, Kansas and Kansas City, Missouri. She currently serves as a lecturer in Jungian Theory and Practice and is past Coordinator for the Kansas City - St Louis Training Seminar of the InterRegional Society of Jungian Analysts.<br /><br />After her retirement in 1983 from a full career as an educator and later an executive for the Public Broadcasting System, Mary Dian Molton began her Jungian studies and took an advanced degree in clinical social work. 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