If you missed it and are interested, you'll find my notes on Session One here. After the second class on James Hillman's, Alchemical Psychology, I find myself at odds. Something seems to be missing. The hosts, Patricia Berry and Robert Bosnak, engaged in a wonderful discussion about the nature of the vessel and the use of heat …
Tag: Metaphor
Ta’wil and the Ideas of Henry Corbin
"Ta’wil, the archetypal act of hermeneutics, that primary human activity overseen by Hermes who carries messages between the gods and mortals, is life lived at its highest pitch of intensity. It is the archaic and primordial experience of enacting meaning in the world. It is life lived in the full blaze of reality." Tom Cheetham …
Our Lady of the Well
"Language is originally and essentially nothing but a system of signs or symbols, which denote real occurrences, or their echo in the human soul." Carl Jung, Psychology of the Unconscious In the midst of reading Jung's Red Book, the idea of words and language and their relationship to the underlying wordless reality has begun to haunt me. …
For A Dancer
One of the most beautiful, yet saddest songs about death that I have ever heard is Jackson Browne's For a Dancer. Maybe you've heard it? In my teens, friends and I loved JB's album, "Late for the Sky," in which the studio version of For a Dancer can be found on. My friend Regina, who …
Theoria 