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Sophiacycles @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 24d

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 · 1h

The psyche uses depression to get our attention, to show that something is profoundly wrong. Once we understand its therapeutic value and follow its Ariadne string through our private labyrinth, then depression can even seem a friend of sorts.~James Hollis

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Sophiacycles @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 3h

Asked what enlightenment was, a contemporary Zen master once said: “Small moments, many times".~Tracy Cochran

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Sophiacycles @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 6h

Individuation is not linear but a circumambulation of the self; a spiral journey towards wholeness where the head and heart work together; a life-long process of integrating the opposite, bringing split-off parts into more holistic personality. ~ Karin Syrett, 𝘈 𝘗𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘛𝘪𝘮𝘦

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Sophiacycles @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 7h

The loss of feminine energy, with its warm vitality, is not difficult to document. It is evident in our culture's mythic traditions, in our linguistic poverty, in our lack of feeling for human relationships, and finally in our hunger for meaning.~Robert A. Johnson

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Sophiacycles @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 9h

“The world will be destroyed by two things, it seems to me: greed and violence.”
— Things Hidden, Richard Rohr

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Sophiacycles @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 11h

"The bully hates the nerd because their intelligence may be his own area of weakness. This is the dynamic of scapegoating – the innocent is blamed for the crime in order to protect the guilty; one is chosen to be taken in place of ourselves. When we project, we psychologically and emotionally invest something of ourselves in an outer person who then bears that quality for us."~Gary Bobroff, Carl Jung: Knowledge in a Nutshell

Sophiacycles @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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

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Sophiacycles @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 1d

"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 · 2d

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 · 2d

[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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

"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 · 3d

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 · 3d

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 · 3d

"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 · 3d

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 · 4d

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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