"Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be breakthrough." —Psychologist R. D. Laing. crazy (adj.)1570s, "diseased, sickly," from craze + -y (2). Meaning "full of cracks or flaws" is from 1580s; that of "unsound mind," or behaving so, is from 1610s. If by defining someone as crazy, we mean they're cracked, the cracks might …
Category: Archetypal Psychology
Feyerabend and the Transition to the Dream State
Don DeGracia blogs at Plane Talk, a fantastic blog featuring his works, studies and experiences in consciousness studies, metaphysics, Raja Yoga, the philosophy of science, lucid dreaming, OBE and much more. He is well-versed in everything from astrology to history. He generously shares his talents and experience giving free access to his e-books. He has …
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Alchemy Class Notes – Session Eleven
"The Suffering of Salt, Toward a Substantial Psychology," is the title of chapter three of James Hillman's book, Alchemical Psychology, and the starting point for the first class of year two of the Jung Platform's online course. Hosts Patricia Berry and Robert Bosnak focus the discussion on the notions of salt, commonality and substance. I am beginning to see an increased …
‘Alone with the Alone’: Henry Corbin and Visionary Experience
With limited time for writing this week, I am happily reblogging a post from “Conversations with Don Machinga” on Henri Corbin, the Imaginal realm and its parallels to ayahuasca visions.
Happy 2015. Enjoy!
Here’s an excerpt:
“Corbin is very interested, to put it mildly, in this intermediate world, which he calls ‘the Imaginal World’ – he never uses the word ‘imaginary’ as it suggests this world is not real. He says this is: “the world of Idea-Images, of archetypal figures [like our visions of Madre Ayahuasca and other plant spirits], of subtile substances, of “immaterial matter”…where the spiritual takes body and the body becomes spiritual.” It is a world in which symbols show their inner meaning.”
Ayahuma by Javier Iglesias Algora. Found at: http://www.gnosick.com/archivos/635
Nearly everyone drinking ayahuasca wants to have, and generally likes to have, visions – unless they are of hell. Certainly some of my most powerful moments with the medicine have been when I have been vouchsafed some form of revelatory vision, penetrating the veil of consensus-based reality that most of us slumber in.
However, as my good friend – who is a respected and very experienced Western medicine man with over fifteen years of experience of working with ayahuasca – says: “If people come to me looking for visions, I tell them to go elsewhere. The point is the cura.” What he is getting at is that within the particular tradition of Shipibo medicine that he has trained in (there are a number of different traditions even within one ethnic group like the Shipibo), the point is to heal people, not…
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Revolution
Once upon a time, some men believed that the sun revolved around them. Then one day, here and there, some very brave men decided they wanted to know how true we could be. Why would the sun, so precious to life, participating in the very gift of our life, revolve around us? Our big Lion King, …
Theoria 