An Interview with the Center for Jungian Studies of South Florida
The following is the transcript of an interview I had yesterday with Teresa Oster, MS, MSW. She’s a board member of The Center for Jungian Studies of South Florida where I’ll be doing a presentation on...
View ArticleHow Does Love Emerge?
Creative works which make such powerful impressions that we never forget them hold valuable lessons because they always depict the themes of our soul’s journey, usually in symbols that become deeply...
View ArticleSex, Suffering, Shadow, and Alchemical Transformation
The secret of alchemy was in fact the transcendent function, the transformation of personality through the blending and fusion of the noble with the base components, of the differentiated with the...
View ArticleCult of Personality Vs. Kali: Who Will Win?
In an early post from 2011 titled Qaddafi Vs. Kali: Who Will Win?, I wrote that the film Avatar highlights the differences between the heroic and immature ego. Avatar’s hero, Corporal Jake Sully,...
View ArticleThe Joy of Being a Woman in Her Seventies, by Mary Pipher
Happy New Year to my dear reader friends. Thank you for following Matrignosis. May the new year bring you increasing health, prosperity, joy, and wisdom. Today a friend sent me this wonderful article...
View ArticleSacred Laws Of Psyche: The Connection Between Psyche and Psychoid
A few years back I wrote a post about eight sacred laws of the psyche and how our lack of understanding of them is responsible for the mess our world is in today. In this post and a few to follow,...
View ArticleSacred Laws of Psyche: The Connection Between Duality and Oneness
“One of the toughest roots of all evil is unconsciousness…” (Carl Jung, CW, Vol. 11, par. 291.) So far in this series I’ve discussed two sacred laws of the psyche. The Law of Correspondence says the...
View ArticleSacred Laws of Psyche: The Connection Between Entropy and Social Learning
“The increase of disorder or entropy is what distinguishes the past from the future, giving a direction to time.” Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time Last week I addressed Oneness, an ideal state...
View ArticleSacred Laws of Psyche: Circles of Change
My last post was about how resisting growth and change perpetuates disorder and chaos. The result is entropy, the inevitable decline of life and civilization. Here I’d like to explore how conscious...
View ArticleSacred Laws of the Psyche: The Law of Love, Part II
Love “bears all things” and “endures all things’* (i Cor. 13:7). These words say all there is to be said; nothing can be added to them. For we are in the deepest sense the victims and the instruments...
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