The search for meaning in cultural, artistic and dream imagery
From 11:35 p.m. EDT May 5, until dawn breaks on Sunday morning May 6, we’ll be able to enjoy the illumination of a Supermoon — so called because the moon’s orbit will bring it closer to Earth than at any other time in 2012 – which also makes it the biggest and brightest moon we’ll [...]
The Ancients knew: it’s the energy of our hearts, not our minds, that truly determines our way. Egyptians during the time of the pharohs believed the heart was the seat of intelligence and the will, the source of knowledge and the most essential part of the body. The Aztecs revered the heart as the body’s [...]
It is the eve of Easter weekend and the beginning of Passover. Although these two rites are observed for very different reasons, it’s interesting to note that each utilizes the symbolic associations of the egg — albeit in very different ways and for very different reasons. An egg is one of the six foods included [...]
This morning the Twittersphere sent me a link to a fascinating paper that examines the heroine’s journey as depicted in a series of 18 drawings and captions created by a 4-year-old-girl. That’s right — a 4-year-old girl! The drawings and Jungian/symbolic analysis were published a few years ago in The Journal of Jungian Theory and [...]
I just wanted to take a minute to pass along a couple points of interest I found on the Web. The first is a link to a video library of excerpts from several workshops devoted to Jungian-based theories. Each video is less than 10 minutes (transcripts for some of them are available for purchase), but [...]
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 [...]
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