Sunday, June 23, 2002

NYC bookstores off the beaten track
"Am I causing someone else to feel pain which I should actually be dealing with myself?" --What Evil Means to Us
The Spirit of Jung
From Psychology to Psychosophy
"The image... is inhabited in its depths by a god and has telos. The image's movement expresses the telos, a kind of manifestation of the god within, and it is followed, not interpreted, with varying skill in the analytical process... the image, although it is a snapshot of a personally inflected archetypal process, is not static. '…the image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy….a vortex, from which and through which and into which, ideas are constantly rushing...'" "As electric media proliferate, whole societies at a time become discarnate, detached from mere bodily or physical 'reality' and relieved of any allegiance to or a sense of responsibility for it...The alteration of human identity by new service environments of information has left whole populations without personal or community values..." --Cyberwork: The Archetypal Imagination in New Realms of Ensoulment
"Active Imagination places us at the threshold between our everyday sort of awareness and the dream world. If we can bring a degree of alertness and openness to the threshold, the dream world will reach out to meet us."