#2 – Life & Death: Death, Rebirth, Afterlife

“The soul, the anima/animus, establishes the relationship to the unconscious. In a certain sense this is also a relationship to the collectivity of the dead; for the unconscious corresponds to the mythic land of the dead, the land of the ancestors. If, therefore, one has a fantasy of the soul vanishing, this means that it …

Life & Death series, post 1: Life

“The meaning of my existence is that life has addressed a question to me. Or, conversely, I myself am a question which is addressed to the world, and I must communicate my answer, for otherwise I am dependent upon the world’s answer. That is a supra-personal life task, which I accomplish only by effort and …

Religion Post #8: Religion Archetypes & the Soul

Equilibrium: is a religio- careful consideration of ever-present unconscious forces which we neglect at our peril.   The individual's decision not to belong to a church doesn't necessarily denote an anti-Christian attitude; it may be exactly the reverse: a reconsideration of the kingdom of GOD in the human heart. Atenc, in the words of St. Augustine. "The mystcium pascheite" is accomplished "in interioribus a superioribus suis." …

Religion #7: C.G.Jung: Alchemy & Religion

Superstition only appears in such people if they are pathological, not if they can keep their balance. It then takes the form of fear of “Going Mad” for everything that the modern man can’t define it regards as insane. Archetypal contents of the collective unconscious can often assume grotesque and horrible forms in dreams and …

Religion #6: Cultural Diversion

This is another chapter in the Religion series, influenced by the works of C.G. Jung. Below, he expresses the importance of the self in nature and mythology, and how the modern world has separated us from our inner truth of the unconsciousness, to which this truth can still be found in primitive cultures. “The emotional …