From the monthly archives:

February 2009

Lions and Tigers and Bears…

February 21, 2009

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One clear challenge with parenting is the instinct to protect when exposure to an experience could aid the development process for the child. Or to protect when it just isn’t needed. Behind this I sense some level of projected neurosis, but lets remain on the level of how it might play [...]

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Marking a new square

February 21, 2009

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Dream: A fire raging on the ground floor of a skyscraper and I’m in the fire department and rushing in with my unit. As we enter a balcony comes crashing down and it seems like some men were under there. We back out of the building quickly. Then watching four men [...]

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Crash Course in the Types of Consciousness

February 20, 2009

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Consciousness is our awareness. Jung taught of four functions of the ego, each engendering a distinct type of awareness. He also taught of a fifth function that will be dealt with at the end of the post.

Thinking: place yourself in an exam, one you’re well prepared for (no relying on any magical thinking [...]

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Hero, Demon : Man

February 20, 2009

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“The hero is a hero just because he sees resistance to the forbidden goal in all life’s difficulties and yet fights that resistance with the whole-hearted yearning that strives towards the treasure hard to attain, and perhaps unattainable – a yearning that paralyzes and kills the ordinary man.” ~ Carl Jung, [...]

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That little word “like”…

February 19, 2009

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“It is evident that this tendency to invent analogies deriving from feeling-toned contents has been of enormous significance for the development of the human mind. We are in thorough agreement with Steinthal when he says that a positively overwhelming importance attaches to the little word “like” in the history of human thought.” ~ [...]

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Makers of Symbols

February 19, 2009

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“…if a primitive tribe shows even the smallest traces of culture, we find that creative fantasy is continually engaged in producing analogies to instinctual processes in order to free the libido from sheer instinctuality by guiding it toward analogical ideas.” Carl Jung, Symbols of Transformation, par. 337
It was an interesting day [...]

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Solitude and Fasting

February 17, 2009

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“Solitude and fasting have from time immemorial been the best-known means of strengthening any meditation whose purpose is to open the door to the unconscious.” Carl Jung, Symbols of Transformation, par 519
So much is made of dieting in our culture. Does it ever really work? My slant is this: with dieting the ancient [...]

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The News Real: Queen, a Mummy, and the Church tips hat to Darwin

February 15, 2009

The News Real, initiating today, is a different look at the stories of the past week, with one eye cast toward the archetypes of the collective unconscious in an effort to glean some psychological insight from the stories unfolding around us. As Jung noted, “When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside [...]

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