Carl Jung: The shadow includes a demonic dynamism

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William Blake: The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed in Sun

<<There’s no doubt that we all have both sides (the shadow and bright side) in us, the fact is we must try not to ignore the unwilling one and give our best to know it. the great heroes are they who have no fear to acknowledge them both >>

Jung: On the demonic dynamism of the Shadow in mass movements…

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Collected Works Volume 7 – Two Essays on Analytical Psychology Quote Shadow

It is a frightening thought that man also has a shadow side to him, consisting not just of little weaknesses and foibles, but of a positively demonic dynamism.

The individual seldom knows anything of this; to him, as an individual, it is incredible that he should ever in any circumstances go beyond himself.

But let these harmless creatures form a mass, and there emerges a raging monster, and each individual is only one tiny cell in the monster’s body so that for better or worse he must accompany it on its bloody rampages and even assist it to the utmost.

Having a dark suspicion of these grim possibilities, the man turns a blind eye to the shadow-side of human nature.

Blindly he strives against the salutary dogma of original sin, which is yet so prodigiously true.

Yes, he even hesitates to admit the conflict of which he is so painfully aware.

 

Collected Works  

Two Essays on Analytical Psychology

 

 Page 35

‘My light,” says Jung’s anima, “is not of this world.” C.G. Jung, Red Book

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How can Words sounds so beautiful! Marie Louise von Franz. an incredible woman ❤

By Craig Nelson: C.G. Jung & Wholeness

 

the anima, speaking in vision: I am the flower of the field, the lily of the valley, I am the mother of fair love, knowledge & sacred hope. I am very beautiful without taint. I am the law in the priest, the word in the prophet, the counsel in the sage. I can kill and bring to life, and there is no one who can deliver anything out of my hand.

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Superstitions You Might Find in Atonement TN

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Saturday, November 10, 2018

The amazing Sue Vincent recently hosted me at her Daily Echo blog.  We were talking about superstitions and I shared some from my youth.  I had a great time at Sue’s and I hope you’ll click over to visit her.

I expect the townsfolk in fictional Atonement, TN would tend to be superstitious.  How could they be otherwise with all the strange goings on and supernatural beings?

The first writing advice I heard was something I took to heart ― Write what you know.  When I wrote Atonement, Tennessee I followed that guidance and created a fictional southern town where the urban fantasy takes place.  Of course, the second novel, Atonement in Bloom, is also set there.

I made it a very small, rural town so some of the manners and personalities I grew up with would not seem out of place.  The townsfolk…

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#writing #music: #TheWho

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A rare gift comes to the writer when the story and its mixed tape of music ka-chunk and transform. No longer is the music merely the writer’s atmosphere, her source of ambience while storytelling. Oh no. The music is the heroine. The music is the villain. The music is the tension. The music is the scene.

Quadrophenia_(album)This happened to me during 2010’s National Novel Writing Month when I first began drafting Fallen Princeborn: Stolen. At the time I was only using instrumental music for storytelling, while  music like The Who’s Quadropheniahelped me survive the piles of grading in my dropbox. The month had barely started, so I was early in the story of Charlotte and her sister leaving their abusive family in the Dakotas for Wisconsin. Their coach bus breaks down in the middle of nowhere. Another peculiar bus appears with far-too-friendly good Samaritans, and despite Charlotte’s suspicions…

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An #Author #Interview with @Celine_Kiernan, Part 1: #writing & #worldbuilding in #fantasy #fiction with a little help from #history

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199_Celine_webBorn in Dublin, Ireland, 1967, Celine has spent the majority of her working life in the film business, and her career as a classical feature character animator spanned over seventeen years, before she became a full-time writer. I am honored to spend this week and next sharing her thoughts on world-building, research, character, audience, and hooks.

First, let’s talk about the imagination behind the worlds. I see on your biography you spent years in film and animation. What drew you to visual storytelling as a profession before written storytelling? How does your work as an animator influence the way you write today?

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From the moment I could hold a pencil I was always either drawing or writing. In terms of satisfaction, I don’t think there’s a dividing line between the two disciplines for me. But at different stages in my life…

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Inanna at the Ground of Being

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“The destroying of the huluppu tree meant that human beings could no longer count on Inanna and the World Tree to maintain the cycle of life and death. Instead, they were now facing a terrifying, linear world.”

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Do ya have a furnace that needs fanning?

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‘Fanning the Furnace’ Guided Imagery Meditation Chi Kung

Tan Tien Breathing is also known as Fanning the Furnace Breathing, Lower Heaven Breathing, or Field of Elixir Breathing. These names refer to a type of ages-old guided imagery chi kung (chi kung/qigong means breathing in congruence with effort or in time with movement). The most common title that I’ve come to utilize is Fanning the (sparkling) Furnace.

In this tradition (Tao Chan/Ming Chia), it is said that there are two tan tien points/portals. With regard to the ‘real’ tan tien, it is located just behind the navel/CV-8 acupoint (also known as the sea of chi). This point is approximately two and one-half inches (two and one-half cun – e.g., personal thumb-widths – per one’s own body mapping) above the ‘curculatory’ tan tien/CV-5 acupoint (CV is the common abbreviation for the central vessel in acupressure/TCM/traditional Chinese medicine theory).

The real tan…

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Carl Jung on Aion, the Serpent, Mercurius

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I’ve been always fascinated by the Serpent in the old testament; as a messenger or signpost for getting knowledge., opening the secret doors. here Dr Jung explains it in a wonderful way.
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Life, Work and Legacy of #Carl Jung

For the Naassenes Paradise was a quaternity parallel with the Moses quaternio and of similar meaning.

Its fourfold nature consisted of the four rivers, Pison, Gihon, Hiddekel, and Phrat.

The serpent in Genesis is an illustration of the personified tree numen; hence it is traditionally represented in or coiled around the tree.

It is the tree’s voice, which persuades Eve—in Luther’s version—that “it would be good to eat of the tree, and pleasant to behold that it is a lusty tree.”

In the fairytale of “The Spirit in the Bottle,” Mercurius can likewise be interpreted as a tree numen.

In the Ripley “Scrowle” Mercurius appears as a snake in the shape of a Melusina descending from the top of the Philosophical Tree (“tree of knowledge”).

The tree stands for the development and phases of the transformation process, and its fruits or flowers signify the consummation of the work.

In the fairytale, Mercurius is hidden in the roots of a great oak-tree, i.e., in the earth.

For it is in the interior of the earth that the Mercurial serpent dwells. ~Carl Jung, CW 9, Aion, Page 235, Para 372.

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The Valkyries: Norse Mythology

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This month of November one of my focus will be on Folklore Heroines.

What better way to start off this month with these feisty warrior spirits?

The Valkyries in Norse mythology are female divine shield-maidens. The name means choosers of the slain. They transport the dead warriors to Valhalla Odin’s hall and the other half are transported to Freyja’s hall Fólkvangr.

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Source & Reference:

The Poetic Edda. American-Scandinavian Foundation. Bellows, Henry Adams (1923)

“Freya” (1882) by Carl Emil Doepler in Public Domain

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Why Myth? IV… Stuart France

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‘Gilgamesh is among the greatest things that can ever happen to a person.’
– Rainer Maria Rilke.

Those of you with an eagle eye will have realised that next year’s Silent Eye, Spring Workshop has a mythological theme.

It is based upon The Epic of Gilgamesh which is a story worked up into its present form over four thousand years ago.

Prior to its re-incarnation as an epic poem it existed as five independant mythological episodes, which, as we traditionally split our April Workshops into five ritual dramas tends to suit our purposes rather well.

But why do we insist on revisiting the past in this way?

It is our contention that drama as we now have it derives from sacred drama as practised in the mystery temples of old where it was used to develop the psyche of the neophyte and initiate them into the sacred and secret…

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