Marie-Louise von Franz presented a Romanian folktale in her book (1999) The Cat: A Tale of Feminine Redemption (1999) The enchanted cat gives the hero a nut, which when cracked contains smaller seeds of maize, wheat, and a weed. Within the last of these magic nesting objects is a treasure of fine linen cloth. In [...]
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Cracking Open and Finding Help Within.
Posted in Dreams, Marie-Louise von Franz, Psychology, tagged Healing, The Feminine on October 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Sailing the Divine
Posted in Carl Jung, Marie-Louise von Franz, Spirituality, tagged Alchemy, Divine Intelligence, Dreams, Gnostic, Healing, Indigenous, Self, Sweat Lodge, The Feminine on October 11, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Healing comes from the Great Mystery, the Divine, the Spirit, That of which we are not conscious (the Unconscious). Healing comes on its own and when it wishes. Those of us who work with this Power must wait patiently and accompany our friends and relatives on their individual paths. We wait for a vision, a [...]
Inception and the Unconscious
Posted in Carl Jung, Marie-Louise von Franz, Movie Reviews, psyche, Terroism, tagged Inception on July 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Inception is a teaching tool regarding dreams, paradox, and projection. It’s plot reflects a Freudian standpoint toward the subconscious. It is “ego centric”. Although diping into the unpredictable realm of dreams, the ego is the hero of the plot. He grows through encountering himself and others, through the struggle with the unconscious, but not in the way the wizard grows, through relationship with the Unconscious.
Death as my Advisor
Posted in Carl Jung, Dreams, Marie-Louise von Franz, Psychology, Synchronicity, tagged Dreamwork, Grandmothers and Aunties, Healing, Self, Spirituality, Synchronicity, Wisdom on April 30, 2010 | 3 Comments »
I recently found a book published in 1982 called Dreambody: The Body’s Role in Revealing the Self by Arnold Mindell. The introduction is by my “Godmother” Auntie Maude of the Dream World. I say that because of several dreams in which I am in my Auntie Maude’s home and there is a picture of her [...]
The Search for the Grail
Posted in Initiation, Joseph Campbell, Marie-Louise von Franz, men's issues, Psychology, Spirituality, Theosophical Society, tagged Feeling, Men's Movement, Mystery, Myths, Old Catholic Church, Spirituality, Wisdom on December 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Grail, symbol of the archetypal feminine, occurs in tales of Parzifal and other Knights of the Round Table. Marie-Louise von Franz, Jungian psychotherapist, is quoted on the archetype of the Great Mother, regression, and rebirth motifs. The ego struggles to maintain consciousness like the hero battling a monster. Personal events mirror these mythic images.
The Self
Posted in Carl Jung, gnostic wisdom, Marie-Louise von Franz, psyche, Psychology, Spirituality, Theosophical Society, Uncategorized, tagged Divine Intelligence, God, Grandmothers and Aunties, Psychology, Self, Spirituality, The Matrix, Wisdom on December 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Self is our image of god, resulting from cultural context and inner neuro-psychic structure. In the process of maturing as an individual, we often experience numinous, magical, mind blowing events, which can expand us into wholeness or drive us mad. We are summoned from within to encounter our depths.
