Depth Psychology and Spirit-Animal Guides

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. . . Modern depth psychology indicates that the penetration of this deep layer of consciousness, where the mind reaches into its origins in the natural world, tends to be auto-symbolically imaged by liminal hybrids—part human and part animal creatures, representing man’s rapprochement with his nature and even nature in general and . . . → Read More: Depth Psychology and Spirit-Animal Guides

Shamanism and the Cave of Forgotten Dreams

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The Cave of Forgotten Dreams is a documentary film by Werner Herzog about the Chauvet Cave in southern France. The film is shot entirely in 3-D. The cave was discovered in 1994 with hundreds of cave paintings dating from the Paleolithic age, around 30,000 years . . . → Read More: Shamanism and the Cave of Forgotten Dreams

Myths & Dreams Contain Personified Archetypes

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Now, typically, all these archetypes come out personified in myths and dreams. We personify the mystery of the universe as God. The ego becomes the hero or heroine figure. The unconscious self becomes the wise man or woman. The shadow becomes personified, too, as a kind of Mephistophelian figure. Evidently, the . . . → Read More: Myths & Dreams Contain Personified Archetypes

Initiation – the Road of Trials on the Hero’s Journey

Initiation – Road of Trials on the Hero's Journey

There can be no question: the psychological dangers through which earlier generations were guided by the symbols and spiritual exercises of their mythological and religious inheritance, we today (in so far as we are unbelievers, or, if believers, in so far as our inherited beliefs . . . → Read More: Initiation – the Road of Trials on the Hero’s Journey