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Carl Jung

Stress/Ease

September 30, 2009

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As The Red Book gets celebrated with its publication during the upcoming month, it feels appropriate to spend some time exploring the psychological concepts which were seeded in its pages.
Carl Jung spent a decade as he neared the end of his life writing his masterpiece Mysterium Coniunctionis. The entire volume [...]

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She

September 25, 2009

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The concept is never the experience.  Often the theoretical approach  to the archetypes tends to posit a system, which like a house of cards, collapses without a foundation.
Art on the other hand gives the experience of the archetypes expression.  And the analytic encounter works from the archetypal contents manifesting in dreams.  [...]

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Wrestling with Synchronicity

September 22, 2009

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I’ve been plowing through the field Jung set out when trying to get a handle on synchronicity. It’s clearly a whole different way of looking at the world, not just an appendix super-added to explain away some seemingly unexplainable occurrences. Therefore he posits synchronicity as a principle.
Often a common [...]

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The view from above

September 11, 2009

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“The right way to wholeness is made up of fateful detours and wrong turnings.” Carl Jung
I know quite a few people who have been living life along one vector.  It’s as though the compulsion in that direction has no allowance for variance.  I’ve ridden vectors for extended periods as well.  It’s been my [...]

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It’s Sprouting Jung

September 9, 2009

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Two interesting events are occurring in the world that centers on the life and work of Carl Jung.  On October 7th, The the publication of by The Red Book by the Philemon Foundation has been long awaited . This pdf previews pages of this fascinating text. As the Foundation explains:
“While Jung [...]

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Intuition is more than a hunch

August 17, 2009

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“In so far as intuition is a “hunch” it is not a product of a voluntary act; it is rather an involuntary event, which depends on different external and internal circumstances instead of an act of judgment.  Intuition is more like sense perception…” Carl Jung, Symbols and the Interpretation of Dreams, [...]

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Getting past the shield

August 3, 2009

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“Projection is always an indirect process of becoming conscious – indirect because of the check exercised by the conscious mind, by the pressure of traditional or conventional ideas which take the place of real experience and prevent it from happening.” Carl Jung, Mysterium  Coniunctionis, par. 486
Our ideas as defense mechanisms that replace real [...]

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Picking Wild Blues

July 17, 2009

I went into my son’s room and woke him at 5:30 am this morning. The last two weeks of July are blueberry season in these hills.  Each day we will wake early and head out with jars to pick at sunrise. The nearby forest preserve lands surrounding Crystal Lake are the home of thousands of [...]

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The Role of the Artist

July 15, 2009

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I often joked when visiting a certain southeastern Connecticut city that the arts community there was made up of “posers.” I never really developed my position, though it was an intuition that I was certain of.  Then today I stumbled upon some clarity in the following passage:
“The normal man can follow the [...]

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…Soul Adventurer

July 9, 2009

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When following one’s dreams quickly the reality sinks in that the whole show has a director beyond our conscious control.   The image of entering into the forest or the dark wood, as in Dante, is a fitting analogy.  Surprises await at every turn.
While much of the attention in popular culture given [...]

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