My impatient fate Approaches me, Stepping zealously On the air. It approaches me quietly, Without noise, It comes from The remote area. And I feel That in no time, It’ll open With its burning fingers The sacred, the whitest Door of mine. Tsira Gogeshvili "Original Sin is accounted for by the sin in the Originals. Humans …
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…and in the end
"The love you take is equal to the love you make." Lennon/McCartney These thoughts touch upon my belief about beliefs; the nature of belief, and aim at peering into what, rather than how, or why, we have and hold them, near and dear to our hearts, as endings are sometimes necessary ideas along the way. Along with …
The Next Chapter
To practice the living of one's life as "storied," it may first be necessary to experience the idea as a meaningful one. The beauty of stories, their telling and living is an art coming from more than the deciphering of meanings, moral lessons, endings, or truth - as influential as those things may be. As …
The Story So Far
Case history: our public, outer life, a collection of facts, figures, biography and stats. Soul history: the private interiority of identity, memory, feeling, reflections, dreams and beliefs. In his book, Healing Fiction, James Hillman says: "We can regard history from the viewpoint of soul. By carefully collating what happened, history digests events, moving them from …
Alchemy Class Notes – Session Ten
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 …
Theoria 