“Be quiet, you old witch! You have no right to ask questions of a hero. Bring something to eat and drink, or I’ll cut off your ears and chop off your head, and sand will pour out of your backside!” This is what Ivan—the hero of the Russian fairy tale “The Tsar Maiden”—says to Baba […]
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01.12.2013
Impatience as the Anima Trick
One of the challenges in the stage of calcination — the psychological work with the element of fire and our strong passions – is learning to contain frustration when things do not unfold as quickly as we would like. Life in a material body comes with limitations, not only in space, but also in time, […]
The Transformation of Thinking During Calcination For those who are passing through the fire of calcination—the purification of our desiring nature through suffering—there is something else of great importance that needs to be understood. The primary object of transformation at this first stage of spiritual transformation is thinking itself. In other words, at the core […]
This article is a continuation of the previous one on “The Abduction of Persephone,” in which the “abduction,” from the perspective of the ego, appears as a descent into the underworld, but from the perspective of the Spirit is exactly the opposite—a rite of initiation into the depths of the unconscious. It is an encounter […]
12.11.2013
The Myth of Persephone and the Underworld
And they told us that love was supposed to be a joyful experience For the sake of “fairness,” the sun that illuminates the opposing ways of dealing with painful emotions now casts its other ray as well. Understandably, this ray is the exact opposite of unleashing the storm outward, as suggested in the previous article. […]
08.11.2013
The storms that wake us up
Very often, women are crucified within themselves—torn between showing their feelings to the men who anger them or holding those feelings in. Unfortunately, there is no single right answer. Both are true. Both are rays of a “just sun” that is fair precisely because it shines in both directions. Today, I am sharing only one […]
16.10.2013
The Archetypal Root of Projections
This article is a continuation of the previous publications Images of Light, The Snow Queen and the Devil’s Mirror, and From Nigredo to Albedo, in which I explore the spiritual dimension of human projections. What this piece adds to this vital topic is an understanding of their archetypal foundation and how the process of their […]
The essential principle of synchronicity is that events occur simultaneously inside and outside of us, and that these events are meaningfully related. Synchronicity is an expression of a coincidence in time of contents with the same meaning, manifested in different forms—psychic and material. As Jungian analysts say, there is no clear boundary between matter and […]
09.09.2013
The Snow Queen and the Devil’s Mirror
“Now then! We will begin. When the story is done you shall know a great deal more than you do know. He was a terribly bad hobgoblin, a goblin of the very wickedest sort and, in fact, he was the devil himself.” Hans Christian Andersen “The Snow Queen” So begins Hans Christian Andersen’s story of […]
Human perception is not only a psychological, but a spiritual phenomenon. In the way our eyes look, a secret is hidden. The withdrawal of projections is something more than looking within ourselves for the things that irritate us or attract us in other people—it is the way we purify the spirit from our primal passions. […]
29.08.2013
The Devil’s Last Attack
And if, from a spiritual perspective, despair contains a hidden blessing, then at times emerging from its depths may carry a danger of its own. I hesitated for quite a while before deciding whether to share this insight into the dynamics of inner processes—an insight that also comes from Jungian analysis, and more specifically […]
27.08.2013
A New Light Born Out of Darkness
“Coniunctio takes place in the underworld; it happens in the dark, when there is no light left at all. When you are completely desperate and consciousness has gone, something is born — in the deepest depression, in the deepest despair, a new personality is born. When you are at the very end of your strength, […]
