Sunday, June 23, 2002
"Am I causing someone else to feel pain which I should actually be dealing with myself?" --What Evil Means to Us
"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."
Saturday, June 22, 2002
Thursday, June 13, 2002
"Persons who have gone through the purging process of the descent through the circles of hell seem to emerge from the experience with remarkably similar viewpoints... One interesting quality of the enlightened is that they seem to have acausal or nonrational thought patterns... The enlightened mind simply has at its disposal increased areas of awareness.. In the language of psychology we can say that the enlightened person understands the influence of unconscious mental contents on conscious behavior..." --Zen and the Art of Imitating the Ineffable
"At a certain time in the life of many individuals, generally toward the middle years but at times as early as the middle twenties, a sense of discouragement prevails. The individual feels he will never be able to create. He must give up. Often, on closer examination, we recognize that persons of this type have been handicapped by a grandiose image of themselves... Early in life they conceived of a grandiose self that would live up to great ambitions and expectations... with the passage of time the person realizes that he will not accomplish these great deeds: he then considers himself a failure, and lives the rest of his days in a state of renunciation..." --From Procrustes to Proteus: Disempowerment, Actualization, and Empowerment
"Sandplay has an accelerating history. It goes back to an early decade of this century when H.G. Wells wrote about his observing his two sons playing on the floor with miniature figures and his realizing that they were working out their problems with each other and with other members of the family. Twenty years later Margaret Lowenfeld, child psychiatrist in London, was looking for a method to help children express the "inexpressible." She recalled reading about Wellsâ experience with his two sons and so she added miniatures to the shelves of the play room of her clinic. The first child to see them took them to the sandbox in the room and started to play with them in the sand. And thus it was a child who "invented" what Lowenfeld came to identify as the World Technique..." --Sandplay
"Dora Kalff’s Sandplay Therapy understood the potential of the technique to produce images that connect to both personal and transpersonal aspects of the Unconscious. She expanded the power of the tool as an instrument for healing, growth, and transformation... she called her nonverbal, and non-interpretative variation: “Sandplay Therapy.” She appreciated the technique not only as a tool for bringing up Unconscious contents that could become conscous through interpretation, but as a tool for individuation." --ISTA
"Carl Jung was a major figure in the on-going struggle by the Illuminati social engineers to control the minds of humankind. He devoted much time to developing ways to change the belief structure of the masses "which gave us the Renaissance." Jung lectured at the Children of the Sun center, at Ascona, Italy, a learning center for Illuminati offspring. He provided a safehouse for Lenin and Trotsky there. Jung lectured to Mary Mellon, who later founded the Bollingen Center in America; this center spawned several cults... The above comments would suggest that Russia is a willing co-conspirator in the Illuminati's global social engineering project, but in actuality, a hidden agenda may be involved..." --Religious Mind-Control Cults
"Rabbi Jechiel Meir of Gostynin had attended the Festival of Weeks with his teacher at Kozk. On his return home, his father-in-law asked him, "Well, was the Law received in a different spirit where you were than elsewhere?" "Certainly!" came the reply. "How do you mean?" asked his father-in-law. "How would you here understand, for example, the commandment 'Thou shalt not steal'?" asked Rabbi Jechiel in return. "Well, naturally," replied his father-in-law, "one may not steal from one's neightbor." But Rabbi Jechiel responded: "In Kozk they interpret it as follows: 'One may not steal from oneself!'" --The Nose Knows Values: Character and the Daimonic in Education by David Miller
Wednesday, June 12, 2002
"Generally speaking shamans have good reason to be leery of psychology, which historically has dismissed shamans as schizophrenics, epileptics, and hysterics. Jung, who at least does not pathologize shamanism, nevertheless seems to denigrate it when he says that shamanism works out of a 'primitive mentality' which sees the psyche as 'outside the body,' whereas we denizens of the 20th Century West have no choice but to view the psyche as 'inside.' What separates shamanism and psychotherapy, in short, is a clash of metaphysics. Mainstream psychotherapy--including much that is Jungian--locates the real 'inside' and constructs a topography of drives, instincts, archetypes, complexes, and the like to explain our experience as the result of 'interior dynamics.' Meanwhile shamanism locates the real 'outside' and maps a greater cosmos comprised of a Lower World, Middle World, Upper World, and the entities that live in them, in order to explain our experience in terms of 'exterior dynamics'." --Taking Directions from the Spirit by John Ryan Haule
"In 1925, at the age of 50, Jung visited the Taos Pueblo in New Mexico... Ochwiay Biano, the chief, shared that his Pueblo people felt whites were 'mad,' uneasy and restless, always wanting something. Jung inquired further about why he thought they were mad. The chief replied that white people say they think with their heads - a sign of illness in his tribe. 'Why of course,' said Jung,'what do you think with?' Ochwiay Biano indicated his heart. Jung reported falling into a 'long meditation,' in which he grasped for the first time how deeply colonialism had effected his character and psyche..." --Individuation, Seeing-through, and Liberation: Depth Psychology and Colonialism
Ariyon Deborah Salt
The International Association for Analytical Psychology
The C.G. Jung Foundation for Analytical Psychology
The Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts
The New York Centre for Jungian Studies
The C. G. Jung Center of New York
The C.G. Jung Institute of New York
Jung Society of Atlanta
The Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism
The Groundworks Institute
Re•Vision
TCG
Archetypical Psychology
Metaphysical Perspective
David Ulansey
Quadrant: The Journal of Contemporary Jungian Thought
Inner City Books: Studies in Jungian Psychology by Jungian Analysts
Analytical Psychology Books
Spring Publications
Chiron Publications
Daimon Publishers
Karnac Books
Chthonios Books
Jung Lexicon
"Jung's radical view of mental illness, specifically schizophrenia, as primarily psychogenic, had the important clinical application of viewing psychological symptoms not just as evidence of pathology to be cured (as Freud thought), but as meaningful personal communications, potentially capable of being understood through psychotherapy, and of being accepted and integrated, thus ridding the symptoms of their numinous power. This view surely underpins the Jungian analytic goal of individuation. It is also very seriously at risk in mainstream psychiatry today, with its increasingly genetic or biochemically-based view of the aetiology of mental illness, its emphasis on drug treatments as 'cure' and its demand for brief models of therapy, again judged by swiftness of symptom relief. While post-Jungian medical research has established that there are undoubtedly biochemical and genetic contributing factors to much psychopathology... again I would argue that this is only a partial, incomplete way of understanding the workings of the psyche." --Metaphor, mysticism and madness
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