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  • I have posted this poem as a blog piece but thought it might also be appropriate to post here without the rest of the commentary. If this is not what belongs to this group, please let me know. At the table

    When I sit at the able and the cutlery and glasses gleam
    When the napkins are folded white
    When the chair scrapes the floor just right
    And my skirt rustles on the seat
    Neither brocade nor velvet, nor cotton or silk
    But a soft and pliant fabric
    Like the wished for comfort of the soul
    In love with God
    That is when I know I will have found you

    To earn a seat at that table
    Requires the silence of the self
    Quiet as a proverbial mouse
    All potentia, possible movement, thought, desire
    All probable outcomes
    Held as softly as a breath before beauty
    Suspended in time until the hand reaches out
    And issues the invitation

    Come, sit at my table
    On the right side of the hand of God

    And you, my friends, will have already gathered
    Each sitting at the place of honor
    For there are no contradictions
    At the table God sets
    For those who seek
    The narrow path
  • The Red Book readers edition can be found through Amazon and most bookstores currently. It is the Red Book without the pictures and much of the commentary. As to posting art, it would seem that starting a Discussion Forum (top of group screen) related to one posted work would be a way of centering discussion just on one work at a time. Just put the name of the work as the topic and copy the work into the first comments. I think that might work.

  • Leslie, What is the Red Book readers edition? I would love to read about Jung and art.

    Also, as far as posting art, where would it be a good place to post art that we can discuss. I hope to have it all in a book one day. I will keep you all posted.

  • Hi Roberta,

    Yes maybe you're right it would be more appropriate to dialogue in length about works of art, thoughts, etc. in the discussion forum. I've been reading the Red Book readers edition with the introduction by Sonu Shamdasani. Absolutely fascinating insight into Jung and art. I hope to post a discussion in the forum in the coming weeks.

  • Hi Leslie, Thank you. Yes, it's on paper.

    Barbara, I also, like Ed, look forward to your sharing pieces here as well.

    Anyone, Moderators: I am wondering, should art be posted on the "comment wall" or "discussion area? I am thinking, if we are to discuss art, it will be more fluid from the discussion standpoint.

  • Barbara,

    Intriguing summary of your works-to-come. My interest is a multi-media approach. Will have fun discussing your art as it comes. 

  • I am currently working on a paper on expressive creativity for healing of trauma to create personal and social change - a Jungian approach. I am using my dreams and photography and Photoshop to express and interpret the symbolism in the dream. I hope to have some work to share with people on this list in the very near future.

    Barb

  •  Glad to see someone posting new artwork here! Interesting painting Roberta.

     Given the depth of field it looks as if you're working on paper?

    Les

  • I joined primarily because I'm working on a Docorate at Saybrook and I needed to cite a "Website" as one of my resources. I've been a subscriber of the Jung Journal for 15 + years. As I told the current poetry editor ( thier first) I'm not particularly interested in the verse I have read. I haven't the time or interst in submitting work at this juncture. Though as an artist I write endlessly. I find the computer ( I don't write on the computer all my ideas are written by hand) stiltitifying ( I can't spell). Addtionally the way the computer cuts, line breaks, formatting etc is like a knife through my heart. I think of mellarme or Stevens ( his secrarary typed all his work) or Stan Rice ( didn't do a whole bunch of editing) .  ED tying her poems together in little packets. Now that's a buzy bee ! My hands feel imprisoned by the keyboard. Like a medevail torture ( there is an image of dismeberment). In any case I got a liitle of my German anarchist energy out. I love art. all kinds. Those statues at the Chicago Art Instutue where bought by pork belly baron's money. It makes no difference to me. Enjoy your art and I look forward to seeing others work. Though most likely I won't share much of my own ( I don't have the time and the computer again is an impedement for me)......all the best,  Jeff

  • My Mother Donna Rahn was a wonderful artist. My 4 year old brother on the steps of the Chicago Art institute seeing a naked Greeks Statue: " Mom, thier naked" to which my Mother replied, " That's Art".

     

    I find Facebook and all these web pages destroys line breaks, dashs, demension etc. Just think it might have taken another Emily Dickinson another 50 years to get her poetry published if there had been internet.

     

    My Architect

    In a dream I'm running through a courtyard made of stone. stairs resemble those of a great University, library, museum... or church.

    Like a small child I'm skipping through columns under arches and jumping down stairs.

    I'm aware of a time before time. a place where man can learn.
    a place where man can build on the past.

    not cast aside ancient architecture
    or archetypes but also
    discover new in-
    spiration......

     
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Reconnecting with the Source of Artistic Expression

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