“In the imaginative universe, the opposites unite, creating a magical third, which transcends ordinary consciousness. Fundamentally, Jung's commitment to the processes of transformation and the creation of a new psychic center, which he termed the self, place him in the imaginative world of the alchemist.”
― Jung and the Alchemical Imagination
― Jung and the Alchemical Imagination
“Like Corbin, Jung understands the importance of naming. He knows that unnamed experiences tend to remain unconscious. Correctly naming an experience is tremendously important. Jung says that when you give an experience a wrong name “you qualify it, you put it in prison, into a drawer or a cage, and you can no longer handle it because that name is all wrong.”30 A right name can save us from “disintegration, demons and chaos.”
― Embrace of the Daimon: Healing through the Subtle Energy Body: Jungian Psychology & the Dark Feminine
― Embrace of the Daimon: Healing through the Subtle Energy Body: Jungian Psychology & the Dark Feminine
“Perhaps everything terrible in us is, in its deepest being, something helpless needing our help. — Rainer Maria Rilke”
― Feeding Your Demons: Ancient Wisdom for Resolving Inner Conflict
― Feeding Your Demons: Ancient Wisdom for Resolving Inner Conflict
“If life has a base that it stands upon … then my [life] without a doubt stands upon this memory. It is of lying half asleep, half awake, in bed in the nursery of St. Ives. It is of hearing the waves … breaking, one, two, one, two, behind a yellow blind. It is of hearing the blind draw its little acorn across the floor as the wind blew the blind out. It is of lying and hearing … and feeling, it is almost impossible that I should be here … —Virginia Woolf, “A Sketch of the Past”
― The Soul's Code: In Search of Character and Calling
― The Soul's Code: In Search of Character and Calling
“The Nature of Visionary Fancy or Imagination is very little Known & the Eternal nature & permanence of its ever Existent Images is considered as less permanent than the things of Vegetative and Generative Nature.... This World of Imagination is the World of Eternity. It is the Divine bosom into which we shall all go after the death of the Vegetated body. . . . There Exist in that Eternal World the Permanent Realities of Every Thing which we see reflected in this Vegetable Glass of Nature.”
― Embrace of the Daimon: Healing through the Subtle Energy Body: Jungian Psychology & the Dark Feminine
― Embrace of the Daimon: Healing through the Subtle Energy Body: Jungian Psychology & the Dark Feminine
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