Reading this for my internship and it’s right up my alley.
Q : Is there anything you can say about creativity? About being a woman and creativity? At this stage of life?
Marie Louise von Franz : Well, I think creativity is a mystery. You don’t own it. It is an active potency in you. In antiquity they would say it’s a demon haunting you. My creativity has been like that. Whenever I didn’t want to be creating, my dreams got really nasty. I HAD to create. When I was creating – my dreams became cooperative – I create for the sake of my unconscious.
Q & A with Marie Louise von Franz on her 70th birthday, from “Psychological Perspectives“
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If you comprehend the darkness, it seizes you. It comes over you like the night with black shadows and countless shimmering stars. Silence and peace come over you if you begin to comprehend the darkness. Only he who does not comprehend the darkness fears the night.
Through comprehending the dark, the nocturnal, the abyssal in you, you become utterly simple. And you prepare to sleep through the millennia like everyone else, and you sleep down into the womb of the millennia, and your walls resound with ancient temple chants. Since the simple is what always was. Peace and blue night spread over you while you dream in the grave of the millennia.
Carl Jung (via bookofchanges)
An ethical fraternity, with its mythical Nothing, not infused by any archaic-infantile driving force, is a pure vacuum and can never evoke in man the slightest trace of that age-old animal power which drives the migrating bird across the sea…
Myth is the revelation of a divine life in man. It is not we who invent myth, rather it speaks to us as a Word of God.
Carl Jung
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I have spent more than half a century in investigating natural symbols, and I have come to the conclusion that dreams and their symbols are not stupid or meaningless. On the contrary, dreams provide the most interesting information for those who take the trouble to understand their symbols. The results, it is true, have little to do with such worldly concerns as buying and selling. But the meaning of life is not exhaustively explained by one’s business life, nor is the deep desire of the human heart answered by a bank account.
Carl G. Jung, Man and his Symbols
There are no longer any gods whom we can invoke to help us. The great religions of the world suffer from anemia, because the helpful numina have fled from the woods, rivers, and mountains, and from animals, and the god-men have disappeared underground into the unconscious. There we fool ourselves that they lead an ignominious existence among the relics of our past. Our present lives are dominated by the goddess Reason, who is our greatest and most tragic illusion. By the aid of reason, so we assure ourselves, we have “conquered nature.”
Carl G. Jung, Man and his Symbols
If a man knows more than others, he
becomes lonely. But loneliness is not necessarily inimical to
companionship, for no one is more sensitive to companionship than
the lonely man, and companionship thrives only when each
individual remembers his individuality and does not identify himself
with others.
Carl Jung, “Memories, Dreams, Reflections”
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The most important question in order to see into and behind,
to weigh the value of all that lives:
Wooooooooor aieeeee th’ soooooooool?
Where is the soul? … If you don’t go out in the woods, nothing will ever happen and your life will never begin. “Don’t go out in the woods, don’t go out,” they said. “Why not? Why should I not go out in the woods tonight?” she asked. “A big wolf lives there who eats humans such as you. Don’t go out in the woods, don’t go out. We mean it.” Naturally she went out. She went out in the woods anyway, and of course she met the wolf, just as they had warned her. “See, we told you,” they crowed. “This is my life, not a fairy tale, you dolts,” she said. “I have to go to the woods, and I have to meet the wolf, or else my life will never begin.” – Clarissa Pinkola Estes (at Notting Hill)
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SECOND WIVES CLUB
Saturday 28th December 2019, 3-5pm
For all wives, fiancées and girlfriends of partners with ex-wives, ex-girlfriends, widowed, separated, divorced, still married, children and step children alike.
The archetype of the evil stepmother is rife within fairytales and yet we are living in a society with a 50% divorce rate. Break ups happen, people change and people frequently start a new relationship after a commitment to a previous partner. It’s most often complicated but when the intricacies are ignored and unprocessed the dark side of the archetype unravels with a great force. This wounds the new relationship, creates a breeding ground for codependency, and is harmful to the children involved.
So what is the place of the stepmother or second wife? How can she take her seat next to the throne of her king as the true queen. What is the place of the ex-partner in your partner’s life, and in yours? Stories teach us that history will repeat itself, that the mother is the madonna and the new girlfriend is the whore or that the stepmother figure is the evil queen. This translates in the psyche to worry, envy and fear and leaves the new relationship in vast comparison to the old. When children are involved it leaves them internalising a split of the feminine. If the ex-partner hasn’t worked on herself and moved on there are many envious attacks one needs to learn to protect oneself from.
This group will be a place where the fairytale of the heroine within the stepmother or second wife comes alive. We will journey with archetypal stories as well as discuss very real life issues such as: * The price of scorn
* How the previous relationship still has an impact
* Finances
* Boundaries
* Affairs and secrecy
* Responsibility and sacrifices
* Building healthy relationships with the kids
* Time sharing and pace
* Competition, comparison, envy and jealousy * Not repeating the same mistakes
* Insecurities
* Roles * Anxieties and traps
* Trust
* Building a solid, loving and supportive long term relationship
For more information send us a message or go to https://nursethesoul.com/second-wives-club/. (at Notting Hill)
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