via Jung on Alchemy (8): the Coniunctio – part 2 – the White Stone
Month: February 2018
Let the Ring-Bearer Decide (Or, What the Oncologist told the Patient)
StandardGifts from the Sea by Molly Remer
“Island living has been a lens through which to examine my own life…I must keep my lens when I go back… I must remember to see with island eyes. The shells will remind me; they must be my island eyes.”
–Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift from the Sea
Each winter, we travel with our family to a small island in the Gulf Coast outside of Alabama and spend a month living on the beach. There is something about being on an island that quite literally transports you into another world. The sensation of stepping out, stepping off, and stepping into is palpable as we cross the bridge to the island 
and settle into the slow, quiet rhythm of island life, guided by the tides, the moon, and the rising and setting of the sun. Our sleep and waking schedules change. Our priorities shift. Our to-do lists become very short. While we…
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Lorenzo Pasinelli (1629 – 1700, Italian)
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A Sybil Inspired By A Putto – The Budrioli Sybil
A Sybil
A Sybil
Artemisia
Roman Charity
Judith With The Head Of Holofernes
The Penitent Mary Magdalen
The Penitent Mary Magdalen
Cleopatra
Hercules At Crossroads
Pan And Euridice
Diana And Nymphs
Sleeping Cupid In A Landscape
Venus And Two Cupids
The Shot and The Fatalist – When Fiction turns into Reality
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Elegant Mystery has shared several images of Leonora Carrington’s surrealist artwork, and the short documentary film about this amazing woman’s life.
What a wonderful, inspired, and deeply moving story!
Leonora Carrington’s story gives one example of what happens when a gifted imagination and artistry that’s ahead of its time meets the straight edges and mores of Victorian and early Industrialist worldviews and stringent expectations.
Her story also explores themes of home and exile, feeling like one doesn’t ‘fit in’, and shows the power of finding one’s tribe and kindreds, love and friendship, and a community that embraces and celebrates unusual gifts … and unusual people.
See the Elegant Mystery post here. (Thank you for sharing this!)
And find the short documentary film — rich with the wonderful surrealist paintings and a truly amazing story – here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxEF1bjgt5Q
It’s well worth watching.
Big Love,
Featured Image Credit: The Magical…
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Because tonight I am weak
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Satellites of eyes orbit my dreams, cellophane specters inhabit this space of detachment. Here tongues are no longer foreign and truth is the language I hold to my lips. Without fear my mind dances gently into the compulsory night that folds into hours of illusion.
My mind slips slowly
into the subtle night that
folds softly into hours.
These veiled eyes close in the
hollow silence,
this holy sanctuary of solitude
where there is no fear
of battle.
Melancholy is my sentry.
Follow us into
my chasm of insecurities,
I will not turn away
because tonight I am weak.
art by Lu Jianjun
Guest Post: Achilles’ Violent Shouting by Tom Hillman
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Berlin Decadence
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Otto Dix-Metropolis-1927-1928 In 1937 the reigning National Socialist party held an exhibition of Degenerate Art (Die Ausstellung “Entartete Kunst) in the Institute of Archaeology in the Hofgarten Munich, featuring Modernist, Expressionist, Dada and New Objectivity work by Grosz, Nolde, Klee, Ernst, Schwitters and others considered decadent by the regime. It was a huge success attracting over a million visitors in its first six weeks before going on tour nationally. Considerably less successful was the concurrent exhibition of Great German Art (Große Deutsche Kunstausstellung) of approved Nazi art that was meant to serve as a contrast and counterpoint to the Degenerate Art. Even Hitler and Goebbels, failed artist and novelist respectively, thought the works on display at the Great German Art Exhibition were weak, however puerility has never got in the way of good propaganda and it allowed Hitler to rail against cultural disintegration and declare war on the…
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