From the monthly archives:
It’s a difficult thing to risk. I’m not talking gambling, but those things that are most essential, like soul tasks…
Misconceptions seem to congregate around such risks like a garland of confusion. There is nothing to say. One must stand firm in the acceptance that the two form a wholeness: risk and misconception.
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When I was locked into the work of the poet Charles Olson back in the mid-90’s (it was he that provided my gateway to Jung’s writings), there was a phrase that arose from both his reading and his dreams which found its way into his last work: “that which exists through itself is called meaning.”
These days, perhaps more keenly then when delving into the Olson archive, I recognize how the symbolic realm is both autonomous, or existing of its own accord, while simultaneously generating language, or perhaps, proto-language. Symbols are glyphic. It’s their way of being.
And in our turning to the symbolic realm, we encounter what we collectively seek…the meaningful.
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from Herring Cove, with Cape Ann on the horizon
We had a spectacular day at Herring Cove beach, that westward facing beach that forms the knuckles of Cape Cod.
Painting, beach combing, reading and this audio recording filled our day.
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Peppered through the later texts of Jung are references from the alchemist Dorn. The most useful is in many ways the most elusive, for each time I come upon certain insights it seems like a new discovery, though I’ve marked them wildly on each previous read as if that former self had stumbled across some lost treasure.
Chapter One of the Mysterium Coniunctionis ends thus:
“O wondrous efficacy of the fount, which maketh one of two and peace between enemies! The fount of love can make mind out of spirit and soul, but this maketh one man of mind and body.”
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Image by Edward Dullard via Flickr
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