Alchemical Psychology, Part II – Blue

A  look at James Hillman's book, Alchemical Psychology, the second stage. Part I, Colours, is here. The move from the morbidity of black is towards blue. Still a bit shadowy, but perhaps coming to us just as we are able to see in the dark, and is that which can only come from adding light, or …

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Colour My World, Alchemical Psychology, Part I – Black

One of my favorite James Hillman books is his, "Alchemical Psychology," which I have just recently read. The book is a fascinating tour of the alchemical process and its correlative psychological journey as told to us by the Alchemists of old. Yes, they weren't only interested in literally transforming substances, but about experiencing the transformation …

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Walkin’ the Dog

My husband and I live in a neighborhood where many of our neighbors are avid walkers, very old school, I know. Having lived here some ten years now, there are some familiar faces and even neighbors we have come to know, at least on a first-name basis. There is a man, who I have never …

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There Are Places…

The modern prejudice of looking inward, creating ourselves, as if we were a project to work on and to fix, risks losing what is beyond self: the world and our place in it. Ever felt lost? Me too. Maybe it is just that we are misplaced or that we don't live in place because our …

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