Halloween, Masks and Your Shadow: What’s Jung Got To Do With It?
by Effie Heotis, M.S.
"One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious".
Like a haunted house in a good horror movie, shadow work can be scary. However, it holds a key which can unlock our unconscious minds, allowing us to become more at peace with ourselves and with others in the process. The shadow, if not called on, is that scary thing that...
The Dream: The Vision of the Night
by Max Zeller
A classic in the field of dream analysis, The Dream: The Vision of the Night is a collection of essays, lectures, and vignettes by Max Zeller whose career included a law degree, a brief imprisonment in a Nazi Concentration Camp, study at the Jung Institute in Zurich, Switzerland, and thirty years of in-depth work as a Jungian analyst.
In the eighteen pieces of this collection, Zeller intersperses theoretical writings, compassionate and incisive case
Greetings -
Thanks for the invite to join, Bonnie! I am currently working on a vision tentatively called:
Integrating the New Mythology: A Poet-Crash Vision for the Planet
As a primer, please enjoy my interview with Bonnie
And these current pieces from PlanetShifter.com Magazine & openmythsource:
Mythologists, Mystics & Magicians in Transition: 18 Interviews from the PlanetShifter.com Magazine Reservoir 2010 – 2011. Source Directory #3
sound symbols, archetypes & the power of myth: an alchemic journ
Since the patriarchy is giving way to a new sense of equality and partnership between men and women, I don’t want to give you the impression that The Hunger Games is only about the new feminine Hera. It is also about the new masculine Hero. Uranus in Aries is waking us all up to a new sense of identity, a new sense that we are all the heroes and heras of our own destiny. And that destiny involves being there for each other, with respect and ingenuity.
I was going to us
‘The Last Wave’: The Archetypal Tidal Wave
Cathy Pagano
"There are times when people need stories more than they need nourishment, because the stories feed something deeper than the needs of the body."
Charles DeLint, The Onion Girl
The World is full of magic and mystery, if we will only believe. Life is arrayed in beauty and possibilities, if we will only see. Our imagination interprets the world for us. It's how we comm
The evolution of Jungian psychology owes a great deal to the work of Marion Woodman, a renowned analyst and author who is a pioneer in the understanding of the role of feminine principles in the healing of the human psyche. Her life and work are chronicled in Adam Greydon Reid's striking documentary Marion Woodman: Dancing in the Flames (Capri Films, 2010), which I highly recommend to anyone with an interest in depth psychology and to Woodman fans especially.
Through dynamic conversations with my
Filmgoers may have laughingly dismissed Godzilla, the Teenage Werewolf, and The Creature from the Black Lagoon in the 1950’s, but nobody laughs at the real-life monsters we see on television every day in the form of terrorists, genocidal dictators, and political leaders who incite divisiveness and spout nuclear threats. We get it. Dystopia is us. Our problems are caused by humanity’s psychological and spiritual ignorance, and they will not be resolved until enough individuals acquire more m
song for permaculture
https://youtu.be/3rKgtITE56U
willi paul – planetshifter.com media
Giger’s Harvest Tradition @ Root River
New Myth #79 by Mythologist Willi Paul
http://www.planetshifter.com/node/2343
"It’s time-off for Giger, 3 miles downstream at the old Stormgate summer McMansion, a food forest and berry batch is weighted with apples, peaches and blackberries. His rituals dance in a submerged dock; the fire pit and the river’s shoreline. All give face to the Harvest Tradition."
“Taking the Food Forest to City Hall” - International Permaculture Awareness Week. New Myth #78. Vision by Willi Paul, Planetshifter.com Media
http://www.planetshifter.com/node/2341
“Sound Archetypes and the Four Seasons”
Children’s Video and Documentation
by Willi Paul, Planetshifter.com Media (+PDF)
The MARGARET BENTLEY STORY
On June 14, 2015 on CBC Radio, the host stated: “The devil is in the details” and this phrase got my attention, so I listened on. The content was not about the politics of earth religions – getting rid of the Old Testament, raising up Marcion’s views or finding fault with the RC Pope; the topic presented was entitled: “IN the PRESENCE of a SPOON.”
This is the gist of a true story, the pure angst and medical moral dilemma of Margaret Bentley. Margaret is an 83 year old
"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
I had the pleasure of interviewing author Jean Benedict Raffa about her book “Healing the sacred Divide”. You can watch it on the Mindfunda YouTube-channel. Jean is a keynote speaker at the annual co
One of the many phrases that will stay with me from this week at Women's Future First 2014 Congress is that of Joanna Macy: sustaining the gaze. Even though what we see in the world is frightening and enraging, it is so important we witness (not deny) what mankind has perpetrated upon our planet and to feel, to let ourselves have open hearts to Earth and her many inhabitants.
This conference is focusing on drafting of a Bill of Rights for Water. Joanna addressed three practices that have conseque
Play is the highest form of research.– Albert Einstein
If it is important even for our survival on the planet to relearn re-entering the Mystery of the Present, what serves this end?
This question is one I contemplate this season as the dark comes before 5 in the evening and stays well past 7 in the morning. Mystery crackles in the fire I build in the wood stove, glows in the candlelight on the altar, sparkles in the Christmas tree bulbs we put on the little blue spruce we brought in for its sec
In my story of how after nine months of some pretty intense psychotherapy my patient and I decided to end our therapeutic relationship for a more emotionally and spiritually honest coupling that leveled the playing field, even in its telling, I break a taboo. The publication of my account of what it has been like for my husband and me to live with this history for twenty-four years has elicited the predicted ire and scorn from parts of the psychological community.
The evolution of a therapy relat
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| Honoring the Thinning Veil, Glastonbury, 2010 |
Each year the San Francisco Jung Institute celebrates Ancestors’ Day around the time of the Day of the Dead. Analysts, candidates, and interns gather and remember those in our Institute community who have passed the threshold into the Beyond.
This last Sunday we especially honored Donald Sandner, an analyst who passed suddenly on Easter Sunday 1997. In part two, to be posted later this week, I will talk more about Don.
We began the day by watching
Some topics are so controversial we cannot discuss them. Jane Davenport Platko’s In the Tracks of the Unseen: Memoirs of a Jungian Analyst brings one of those topics into full view: when the doctor and patient fall in love.
While we psychoanalysts and psychotherapists have thorough discussions as to why these kinds of relationships are problematic, we seldom have open discussions about what happens when they seem to work. Those who have entered such relationships rightfully fear judgement.
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| Barbara Holifield |
On February 22, 2014, the C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco will offer the first of a series of eco-psychology seminars and workshops on the environment crisis. These workshops will be from differing perspectives but of one piece: the necessary crisis of consciousness in earth changes and what we can/must do. In this first workshop, Indwelling: Our Human Participation in the Dream of the Earth, analysts Barbara Holifield and Carol McRae will lead participants into active im
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