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Sophiacycles @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 20d

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 · 5h

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 · 9h

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 · 12h

I don't think he would argue with that.

Sophiacycles @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 12h

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 · 13h

"[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 · 16h

[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 · 1d

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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Sophiacycles @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 1d

The first half of life we serve society—engagement. The second half of life we turn inward—disengagement.

A Joseph Campbell Companion
Joseph Campbell

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Sophiacycles @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 1d

Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life. This is what makes us human. But it comes with a costly price: the wound of mortality. Our existence is forever shadowed by the knowledge that we will grow, blossom, and, inevitably, diminish and die. ― Irvin D. Yalom

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Sophiacycles @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 1d

"I do not, of course, deny that many neuroses have a traumatic origin; I simply contest the notion that all neuroses are of this nature and arise without exception from some crucial experience of childhood." ~CG Jung, Modern Man in Search of a Soul

Sophiacycles @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 1d

“Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.” ― Anne Carson (Translator), 𝘎𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘧 𝘓𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘴: 𝘍𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘣𝘺 𝘌𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘱𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘴

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Sophiacycles @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 1d

Watching the breath trains you to watch the mind, to observe the flow instead of reacting to it.

The Trauma of Everyday Life
Mark Epstein

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Sophiacycles @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 2d

"The unconverted ego wants one thing and one thing only: control—and it wants it now. It never wants to change, in fact, it hates change." ~Richard Rohr, 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘏𝘪𝘥𝘥𝘦𝘯

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Sophiacycles @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 2d

Jung believes that when the gods fall from heaven, when the symbols pale, they don’t just go away or disappear. They are reborn, as it were, as turbulent forces in the psyche. When religion collapses, we discover the unconscious and open the Pandora’s box of the inner life.~David Tacey

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Sophiacycles @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 2d

My friends, it is wise to nourish the soul, otherwise you will breed dragons and devils in your heart.
— The Red Book, C. G. Jung

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Sophiacycles @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 2d

"A calling may be postponed, avoided, intermittently missed. It may also possess you completely. Whatever; eventually it will out. It makes its claim. The daimon does not go away." ~James Hillman, The Soul's Code

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Sophiacycles @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 3d

The poet is a performer.
Poets are public property.
Science can’t reach them.
Poetry is secret.
None of us know where we came from.
~Victor Bockris

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Sophiacycles @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 3d

As the Taoists said way back in the Axial Age, to expect certainty from religion is immature and unrealistic. It was a sign of an undeveloped spirituality, a childish viewpoint. There is no certainty. The Taoists found a great freedom in not being certain about things.~Karen Armstrong

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Sophiacycles @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 3d

The story of the hero, as set forth in the myths, is the history of this self-emancipation of the ego, struggling to free itself from the power of the unconscious and to hold its own against overwhelming odds." ~Erich Neumann, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘖𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘏𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘤𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴

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Sophiacycles @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 3d

It has become clear to me that aging itself does not bring wisdom. It often brings regression to childishness, dependency & bitterness over lost opportunities. Only those who are still intellectually, emotionally, spiritually growing inherit the richness of aging.~James Hollis

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Sophiacycles @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 3d

"If the New Age is to begin to offer anything substantial to the reordering of life on earth, we Peter Pans have to land on terra firma and begin the hard work of transformation-first in our own lives, then in the world in front of us here and now, not in some distant past or uncertain future. To paraphrase the Buddhist sage: "Do you want to change the world? Then park your mountain bike, get a job and start sweeping the street in front of your door."~John Babbs, New Age Fundamentalism

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Sophiacycles @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 4d

Whatever problem, question, or confusion we have, whatever seems impossible in our lives—if we go toward it, see it, feel it, make a relationship with it, use it—becomes our path." ~John Welwood, 𝘛𝘰𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘢 𝘗𝘴𝘺𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘈𝘸𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨

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Sophiacycles @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 4d

Jung said, write the truth, and expect to be misunderstood, and take the consequences. That was what he had been doing all his life. People feared truth.~Claire Myers Owens, in 𝘊𝘎 𝘑𝘶𝘯𝘨 𝘚𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨

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Sophiacycles @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 4d

"If one investigates all the possible ways in which a person can orient his life, then one comes to this conclusion: In the end, a person orients his life either toward having or toward being." ~Erich Fromm, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘳𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘉𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨

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Sophiacycles @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 4d