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Boundary and Identity in Irish Myth
Photo: Dunguaire Castle, Kinvara, Ireland, by Matteo Paonessa on Unsplash By examining various stories from the Irish mythic tradition we can gain some insight into the structure of both the normal and neurotic psyche, and into the significance of boundaries in the creation of a true sense of identity, in line…
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Redeeming the Feminine: Symbols from the Jewish Kabbalah
Mandala mosaic, Masada, Israel (c.37 BCE) “The feminine principle brings up the healing compensation by becoming active” Marie-Louise von Franz (1999)The Kabbalah is the Jewish mystical tradition that traces its roots back to the BCE era. It is considered the compendium of the divine nature of the universe and our…
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The Passionate Body: AIDS and Archetype
The unapproachable intensity of early death tied to physical passions: this is the archetypal narrative of the experience of HIV/AIDS as it exists in the ego, in the imagination, in the body, and in politics. The passionate body is a generating focus – the body that desires, that is erotic…
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Seven Sermons to the Dead
Alan Mulhern discusses Jung's mystical and Gnostic text, published privately and anonymously as being "written by Basilides of Alexandria, the city where East and West meet." The text also forms the final part of the Red Book. Alan has recorded a short podcast about the Seven Sermons. This may be a…
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Synchronicity and Humility
Photo by Paweł Czerwiński on UnsplashThis event is FREE! Register “The humility, in which we remember again and again, how little we know about man , ourselves, a humility which has been acquired through sadness and despair, is in my view one of the basic values, assets of depth psychology.”…
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Soul and Contemporary Civilisation
Confronted today by an unprecedented destructive impact of civilisation upon its so-called environment – in fact upon the very conditions of life - the question arises whether this crisis results from the very core of the human psyche or if it results more particularly from its Western impulses. The Mural…
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The Archetype of the Binarius and the prehistory of the computer
The binary thinking of computer technology is omnipresent in the contemporary world and has deeply embedded itself in the modern psyche, but it has perhaps not been given due consideration at the archetypal and imaginal level. At the time when Francis Bacon first conceived the seed idea of the computer…
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Brush, with Death
Register for this Webinar Charles Zeltzer writes: "Each one of us, as we age, encounters death in increasingly intimate ways. Six years ago I endured a heart attack — an acute and dangerous event that was a powerful psychological and spiritual encounter with my mortality. Prior to the attack I…
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Humility and Psychiatry, thoughts from a psychotherapist
Humility is often portrayed in a religious context as an ideal quality. It has something of an aspirational character; a saintly quality impossible to achieve. For psychotherapy to be effective the humility of the analyst may often be the essential element - something allowing them to acknowledge to themselves their similarities…
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Who Can Teach Us how to Die?
Who can teach us how to die, not just physically but ‘to our natural self’ so that we can be reborn to our spiritual self? Patrick Hederman writes: "Such, as I see it, is the purpose of the mid-life crisis and also the ‘usefulness’ of spiritual vision. The second self…