"Ideas that we do not know we have, have us. Psychology's job, it seems to me, is to see the subjective, archetypal factor in our sight, before or while looking at facts and events. Other sciences have to pretend to being objective, to be describing things as they are; psychology fortunately is always bound by …
Anima, Soul, Psyche
Being that has soul is living being. Soul is the living thing in man, that which lives of itself and causes life.... With her cunning play of illusions the soul lures into life the inertness of matter that does not want to live. She makes us believe incredible things, that life may be lived. She …
Anima Rising
"I've got a head full of quandary And a mighty, mighty thirst" Joni Mitchell "We think we can congratulate ourselves on having already reached such a pinnacle of clarity, imagining that we have left all these phantasmal gods far behind. But what we have left behind are only verbal spectres, not the psychic facts that …
Divine
To divine something is to appeal to the gods for their power of knowing. To use that power to foretell the future is called "divination." In Giambattista Vico's classic book New Science, he associates the modern sense of God as divine, meaning "blessed" or "holy," back to the pre-Christian or pagan sense of having supernatural powers of …
Polyphony
"Songbirds sing. That is fact, not metaphor. They sing, and in the forest every morning, when a dozen or a hundred or a thousand individuals of six or ten or twenty different species sing at once, that is polyphonic music." When I first read these words in Robert Bringhurst's book, Everywhere Being is Dancing, it reminded me …
Theoria 