The search for meaning in cultural, artistic and dream imagery
Did you really want to know How we were just so Tangled up Twisted around Torn apart By the perfection of our sutric pose? Do you think it was your business to know Although I cannot fathom it as so Our assignations Our lover’s conversations My heart’s emancipation Long before you were my beau? Would [...]
Well fellow symbol watchers, it’s been a long time since my last post in March of 2010. It has been — and continues to be — one hell of a tumultuous and transformational year. I think some of us who are middle aged or older forget that new life is still within us — can [...]
If your curiosity has been peaked by my recent entries concerning synchronicity, then I recommend At the Heart of Matter Synchronicity and Jung’s Spiritual Testament. The book, by Zurich-trained Jungian analyst J. Gary Sparks, is an illuminating examination of the meaningful relationship that exists between our spiritual and physical realities. “At the Heart of Matter” has been out [...]
In my last entry, I wrote that “Jung and Tarot” author Sallie Nichols stresses the importance of trying to discover the meaning, not the magic, behind the synchronistic events we experience. Nichols suggests we ask ourselves a couple basic questions: “What in me needed this happening?” and “What lack (or potential) in me does this represent?” That seems like [...]
On July 3 I had this dream: I have come into an office during off hours to help out. There are six roses. I was supposed to take photos of each or all of them for the not-for-profit I was working at or volunteering for (this part is unclear). The roses are a deep, blood red, [...]
I’m reading Jung’s work, Synchronicity An Acausal Connecting Principal. In it, Jung defines the concept of synchronicity, provides examples of the phenomenon and gives some possible explanations as to how and why synchronicity occurs. I’m not through with the book yet, but I already feel I’m going to need a second reading if I hope to even begin [...]
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