Class nine of the Jung Platform's course on James Hillman's book Alchemical Psychology, presented by Robert Bosnak and Patricia Berry, technically ends this first season of classes, which took us through the first chapter, Rudiments. Class Ten, notes to follow soon, begins the next chapter, The Suffering of Salt. Robbie likens the work of alchemy …
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Soul-making
Souls can be, among other things, lost, saved, non-existent, or hearty, but do we make soul? If so, what does that mean? What then, is soul? Perhaps as it should be, I have puzzled for years at James Hillman's use of the term "soul-making." Now days, ideas about soul are sometimes dismissed as archaic. So if we are to understand a …
Class Notes – Session Eight
Session Eight of the Jung Platform's online class on James Hillman's book, "Alchemical Psychology," moves the work from forge to stove, in which the use of glass vessels for heating the material make alchemy both possible and psychological. "Glass also separates observer from observed. It is the material of distancing, separating events from life by …
Class Notes – Session Seven
In the seventh session of the Jung Platform's class on James Hillman's book, Alchemical Psychology, the discussion moves to the nature of the material, the vessel used for containment and the necessity of the "separatio," of essence from the material. In psychological work this distinction is at the heart of the work, whether in a …
My Native Language is Image
Recently, I have begun to keep a dream journal, again. As in the keeping of past dream journals, the very act of writing seems to stimulate the remembrance of more dreams, and I wonder if by attending to them, the door to the nightworld perspective widens, bringing with it richness and complexity, scrambling the sensibilities of the dayworld experience. In …
Theoria 