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A Robert Romanyshyn Workshop, Orpheus, and the Thunderclap
What struck me most during the workshop, and what I have since revisited in reading his work, is Romanyshyn’s ability to remain faithful to both scholarship and soul. He does not reduce myth to symbol, or psychology to a set of tools or techniques. Instead, he invites us into a relationship with psyche, with image, with story.
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Jun 237 min read


Spiritual Ecology and Psychotherapy: Listening to the Earth
What if the ecological crisis is not only environmental, but spiritual? A therapist and artist reflects on Spiritual Ecology and the sacred call of the Earth.
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Jun 136 min read


The Philosophers Secret Fire - A history of the imagination by Patrick Harpur
Imagination is the ground of reality. What a treasure trove this book is. "It must be understood that Imagination in the poetic,...
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May 131 min read


Lost Knowledge Of The Imagination - Gary Lachman
Important writing on imagination, by Gary Lachman . This book describes the various ways in which imagination has been (mis)understood,...
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May 32 min read


Alchemy & Mysticism - A journey through art
I love this Taschen volume. I see in these pages evidence that even when partly instructional or diagrammatic, to approach the opus...
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Apr 241 min read


Act And Image - The Emergence Of Symbolic Imagination, Warren Colman
An exploration of material becoming living presence in the art object. Jungian Analyst Warren Colman explores the formation of...
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Apr 235 min read


"James Hillman was an artist of psychology."
This is the opening sentence of Thomas Moore's prologue. I thought that this book would make a good first post as I begin to describe...
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Apr 102 min read


Carl Jung on the permeability of Psyche
In this quote Jung is describing his experience of the tower he constructed at Bollingen on the shore of lake Zurich. This suggests that...
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Apr 92 min read


The Wisdom of Not Knowing: Reflections on Jung and the Soul of Therapy
The First Encounter I discovered the work of Carl Jung during my mid-late teens, when I plucked this text from a shelf in a local book...
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Apr 96 min read


In Celebration Of Cecil Collins
"Images arise from the fountainhead of human life--the heart, the solar centre from ancient memories in the blood, and from the polarity...
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Apr 82 min read
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