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Psyche's Cinema
@psychescinema.bsky.social
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Forever student of Drama + Psyche. Creating homemade stopmotion comedies #films #plays 4 personal & collective transformation. Co-host of #podcast The Laughing Mystics https://tinyurl.com/ym3unytp #CGJung #MLVonFranz #JCampbell 🌊🌊
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I create stop motion short films through a Jungian lens. Groups and individuals use my films for active imagination, and innerwork. My films are like dreams. They are based on fairy tales and thus have the wisdom of those tales. psychescinema.com
“The beauty of our system is that it isolates everybody. Each person is sitting alone in front of the tube, you know. It's very hard to have ideas or thoughts under those circumstances. You can't fight the world alone.”
― Noam Chomsky, 1992 doc "Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media")
dedicated people who are willing to look at problems honestly, to look at them without illusions, and to go to work chipping away at them, with no guarantee of success — in fact, with a need for a rather high tolerance for failure along the way, and plenty of disappointments.”
― Noam Chomsky
“If you look at history, even recent history, you see that there is indeed progress. . . . Over time, the cycle is clearly, generally upwards. And it doesn't happen by laws of nature. And it doesn't happen by social laws. . . . It happens as a result of hard work by
I think this is even more true now.
“It is quite possible--overwhelmingly probable, one might guess--that we will always learn more about human life and personality from novels than from scientific psychology”
― Noam Chomsky
Language and Problems of Knowledge: The Managua Lectures (1988)
"One study published earlier this year found that for every 1 percent increase in unemployment in the U.S., opioid overdose death rates rose by nearly 4 percent."
That's bad news.
The power of stories lies in their ability to access the deep layers of the psyche, providing a mirror to our inner world.
– Marie-Louise Von Franz
Large peaceful gathering Grant Park Chicago No Kings rally earlier today.
The Cat is a Romanian fairy tale of a princess turned into a cat. She must remain in that form until an emperor's son will cut off her head. "Von Franz unravels symbols - ringing bells, golden apples, somersaults, leading to redemption & union of opposites.
New Episode Friday! We ask ourselves: what posture do we take in the world and what is the best "posture" to fight evil or unconsciousness? And much more! Find us on your favorite platform.
pod.link/1799776273
Nashville peeps! I'm heading out your way to watch our recent film, Dumpling, at the Tennesee International film festival! Excited. Here's the 8 minute film. Lots of juicy depth psychological images.
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The images we eat are as important as the food we eat.
Marion Woodman
“Only by discovering and loving the goddess lost within our rejected body can we hear our own authentic voice.”

— Jungian analyst Marion Woodman
Sculpture found at an ancient archaeological site in near Baghdad and is associated with the Samarra culture. 6000-5800 BCE.
Sometimes you just need to see a cow in space. Oak Park, Illinois
New episode Friday!
We ask ourselves: "What is my faith around “being healed?” We talk about the bubbles we travel in - economic, spiritual, political. We drift into the deep waters of the Adam and Eve story, and much more!
pod.link/1799776273
The Laughing Mystics: An unorthodox journey through the liturgical year
Listen to wherever you get your podcasts!
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"Do not be discouraged. The Holy Spirit is not asleep."
Thomas Merton in a letter to Daniel Berrigan, Feb. 1964
Excellent article. Is the end-game a return to another civil war, blue states withholding their taxes and seceding? I don't want my Illinois taxes supporting this raid on my city.
Hey Nashville peeps!
Just bought my flight for your #filmfestival. So excited to be an official selection. If you're in the area, the complete (awesome looking) schedule can be found here. www.tiiff.org/tiiff-2025-s...
New episode Friday! We ask ourselves (and you) this question: "What is my unique calling, how am I to serve the world?" We explore the words of the prophet Habakkuk and Marci offers a metaphor of faith and flying a kite, and much more! pod.link/1799776273
A nap is one of life's greatest blessings.
“As wave is driven by wave And each, pursued, pursues the wave ahead, So time flies on and follows, flies, and follows, Always, for ever and new. What was before Is left behind; what never was is now; And every passing moment is renewed.” #bookchatweekly
― Ovid, Metamorphoses
Many miraculous happenings occur at the castle of the Fisher King, including visions of the Holy Grail, and magical platters that produce whatever food one desires. What food would you choose?