See Part 1 here. We tend to be binary creatures. Do we like “this” or “that”? Is “this” the safest way or is “that”? Our brains learn through binary processes, and our ego tends to process this way as well. Polarity. Are we included or excluded, cool or a dork, healthy or ill? On…
Part 1 of 2 written for the Jung Society of Utah Active Imagination & The Transcendent Function: These are big concepts with whole books written about them. Jung and others have given us the gift of articulating them throughout their life work, explicating meaning and filling out the picture of these concepts. I like…
Whacked in the Face by Life. I fell off my bike. I have never fallen like this in my life as an active person and it has brought me face to face with my vulnerability. Literally. My face into the blacktop – feet still on the pedals, bike between my legs vulnerability. Face-to-face with my…
Habits of Being. I am a couple of weeks into having Tuesday nights without the seasonal modules. The first week or so I found myself rattling around…not quite knowing what to ‘do’ with myself, feeling I was supposed to be somewhere! Ha! What a creature of habit I am. I have been working Tuesday nights…
Let’s first define the Imaginal: Henry Corbin post dated Carl Jung, and coined the term Imaginal from his work as an interpreter of Islamic thought and poetry. Corbin describes the Imaginal Realm (mundus imaginalis) as holding images, stories, dream figures, embodied imagery and movements that come to us from some dimension beyond our rational intellectual…
SPRING Happy Spring Equinox to you! The middle point, equal space between the shortest and longest days of the year…we are moving out of the darkness and into the light. Hope returns, potential bursts forth, rebirth is all around! So why do so many of us feel TIRED?! The season change does that to…