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Sophiacycles @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 23d

What if the Jung we teach is the safe half? Catafalque (Peter Kingsley) urges a return to the Red Book, descent, and a living cosmos—both/and: scholarship + soul. youtu.be/1Pwzsvlpr28?... via
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Peter Kingsley's Catafalque: the radical Jung we keep hiding

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Sophiacycles @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 6h

The conscious mind allows itself to be trained like a parrot, but the unconscious does not--which is why St. Augustine thanked God for not making him responsible for his dreams. ~CG Jung, 𝘗𝘴𝘺𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘈𝘭𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘮𝘺

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Sophiacycles @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 8h

Jung recounts that his intense study of mythologies forced him to conclude that without a myth, a human “is like one uprooted, having no true link either with the past, or with the ancestral life which continues within him, or yet with contemporary human society.”~Lance Owens

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Sophiacycles @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 15h

To be psychologically free is to be confident in our own inner world, responsible for our own strengths and weaknesses, consciously loving ourselves and, therefore, able to love others. Dreams guide us in that direction, however crooked the path may be.~Marion Woodman

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Sophiacycles @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 15h

As soon as uncomfortable emotions come up, we train ourselves in breathing them in and dropping the story line.

Comfortable With Uncertainty
Pema Chodron

Sophiacycles @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 19h

I am aware that ‘mana’, ‘daimon’, and ‘God’ are synonyms for the unconscious...A creative person has little power over his own life. He is not free. He is captive and driven by his daimon.~CG Jung, 𝘔𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴, 𝘋𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮𝘴, 𝘙𝘦𝘧𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴

Sophiacycles @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 20h

I found it in the collection of essays edited by Connie Zweig, Meeting the Shadow.

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Sophiacycles @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 20h

"The vital thing that Jung has discovered for us is that we have lost our sense of soul because we have lost our respect for symbols; our modern mind is trained that symbols are illusion. We say, “It is only your imagination,” not realizing that all the missing parts of ourselves that we long for, the “lost lane into heaven,” are constantly mediated to us in the forgotten language of the soul: the symbols and images that emanate through dream and imagination."~Robert A. Johnson, We

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Sophiacycles @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 1d

Jung represents human consciousness as something like a field, a magnetic field, so to speak. As soon as a content enters the field of consciousness, it falls into a web of associations.~Marie-Louise von Franz, Creation Myths

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Sophiacycles @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 1d

[S]ometimes it is the asking of the question that opens doors, rather than the determined search for an unambiguous answer.~Liz Greene

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Sophiacycles @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 1d

I say it again: we make things holy by the kind of attention we give them. In a time when we are begging for a new story, it may be the stories we need are supporting us right now, if only we would lower our gaze.~Martin Shaw, Smokehole

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Sophiacycles @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 1d

The unconscious cannot be conscious; the moon has its dark side, the sun goes down and cannot shine everywhere at once, and even God has two hands. Attention and focus require some things to be out of the field of vision, to remain in the dark. One cannot look both ways.~James Hillman

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Sophiacycles @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 1d

Non-attachment is not complacency. The philosophy of non-attachment is based in the understanding that holding on too tightly to those things, which in any case are always going to be slipping through our fingers, hurts and gives us rope burn.~Lama Surya Das

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Sophiacycles @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 1d

What are we doing, we psychotherapists? We are trying to heal the suffering of the human mind, of the human psyche or the human soul, and religions deal with the same problem. ~CG Jung, CW 18

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Sophiacycles @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 1d

"The shadow disguises itself in our projections, when we react intensely to a trait in others that we fail to see in ourselves." ~Connie Zweig and Steven Wolf, Romancing the Shadow

Sophiacycles @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 2d

Perfection is inhuman. Human beings are not perfect. What evokes our love - and I mean love, not lust--is the imperfection of the human being. So, when the imperfection of the real person peaks through, say, 'This is a challenge to my compassion.~ Joseph Campbell

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Sophiacycles @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 2d

Depth psychology demonstrated that we do not have just one will, consciously controlled, but many motivational centers that move us often unconsciously and that may at times work at cross-purposes,~Keiron Le Grice

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Sophiacycles @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 2d

"Mythology may, in a real sense, be defined as other people's religion. And religion may, in a real sense, be understood as a popular misunderstanding of mythology." ~Joseph Campbell, Thou Art That

Sophiacycles @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 2d

I have found that fate is as liquid and elusive a word as love. Plato thought they were the same…. Novalis wrote that fate and soul are two names for the same principle. Man's oldest image of fate is the image of a woman.~Liz Greene

Sophiacycles @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 3d

There’s a rule, either you do spiritual practices, or the unconscious will force you to act them out in pseudo-ritual ways. I really believe that a lot of the addictions and compulsive behaviors are unconscious rituals.~Robert Moore, Facing the Dragon

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Sophiacycles @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 3d

Whenever we pluck the fruit of creativity from the golden tree our other hand plucks the fruit of destruction. Our resistance to this insight is very high! We would love to have creativity without destruction, but that is not possible." ~Robert A. Johnson, Owning Your Own Shadow

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Sophiacycles @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 3d

I don't think he would argue with that.

Sophiacycles @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 3d

Water and fire are the great opposites... if you get to the middle of the bridge that unites the opposites, you cannot cross it if you don't know your own opposite. That is why you cannot be changed in analysis if you don't know your shadow, if you don't know that all your ideals have a very seamy underside. Without that awareness, you can't cross into a new life. There's no transition without a confrontation of the opposites.|Marie Louise von Franz, Archetypal Patterns in Fairy Tales

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Sophiacycles @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 3d

"[P]eople come in to analysis because part of them wants, or needs, to know more about themselves, this is not the whole story—there is also a side, sometimes a very powerful one, which would rather not know and which feels quite comfortable with the way things are." ~Yoram Kaufmann

Sophiacycles @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 3d

[W]e must seek our gods within, and, in seeking them, find instead ourselves and our fates. Something happens when a connection is made between an outer event and an inner image." ~Liz Greene

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Sophiacycles @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 4d

I don’t use soul in a religious sense but rather the way psychologists Carl Jung and James Hillman and the Romantic poets like Keats, Wordsworth, and Blake use it: to speak of the experience of depth in our lives.~Francis Weller, The Wild Edge of Sorrow

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