The final class of the 2014 Winter semester of the Jung Platform's course, hosted by Patricia Berry and Robert Bosnak, takes us into the third chapter of James Hillman's book Alchemical Psychology, titled, The Suffering of Salt, and begins with the topic, "Toward a Substantial Psychology." Salt, although understood by Hillman as metaphorical, to the alchemists …
Tag: Embodiment
Let There Be Dark
As more and more of us, in an increasingly sleep-deprived world lose touch with our dreams, I continue to wonder what it is we are losing. Dr. Rubin Naiman sees our difficulties with sleep and dreaming, driven by "unrelenting motion": "We live in a world of unrelenting motion, a world that discourages slowing and stopping, a world that has lost …
Break on Through
"I found an island in your arms Country in your eyes Arms that chain Eyes that lie Break on through to the other side" Jim Morrison Oftentimes it is said that ideas are less important and that action is better; what counts then is what is done or made manifest. The favored status of action, an idea …