“During the night, Jacob arose, took his two wives, his two maidservants, and his eleven sons, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok. He sent them across the stream, along with all his possessions. Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him until daybreak. When the man saw that he could not overpower […]
Depression
"Depression is like a prism. If you turn it on one side,
you see disease. If you turn it the other way, you see a key to
a door leading to a very mysterious and divine place."
LIZ GREENE
you see disease. If you turn it the other way, you see a key to
a door leading to a very mysterious and divine place."
LIZ GREENE
- Alchemy
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- Carl Gustav Jung
- Collective unconscious
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- Lessons of Love
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- Michael Tamura
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- The Destroyer Archetype
“And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?” Gospel of Matthew 27:46Gospel of Mark 15:34 During Holy Week, I felt the impulse to share my reflections on the words “My God, my God, […]
04.10.2015
Depression and the Loss of Feeling
“A person can be deeply depressed and entirely unaware of their feelings… The definition of clinical depression includes a person’s refusal to acknowledge that they are deeply despairing. Many depressed people usually do not know that they are unhappy, because they cannot articulate their misery; instead, they display the symptoms of depression. They drift about, […]
04.03.2015
New Birth: Making the Darkness Conscious
Suffering is an inseparable part of the processes of spiritual transformation. The radical changes that take place in the deepest layers of our psyche exceed the mind’s capacity to grasp the scale of what is happening within us. Even when we believe we understand what is at stake, the birth of the new Self remains […]
I continue to feel tempted to add my own comments to what I have read in Gopi Krishna’s book. I believe that this book has fully succeeded in achieving its author’s aims, namely to provide autobiographical material capable of provoking further discussion and research on this profoundly important subject: the spontaneous awakening of kundalini as […]
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 […]
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, […]
04.06.2013
The Devouring Lion and Desire
Or what is found at the bottom of depression Here’s something else from Jung’s analytical psychology, which for me lately has been the most valuable resource for understanding how to take care of the soul (the path of individuation). In this article, I examine the relationship between depressive states and the archetype of the Self […]
16.05.2013
The Third Kind of Suffering in Buddhism
I think that if I had known this back then, I would have spared myself a great deal of anguish. I am referring to the third kind of suffering spoken of in Buddhism—the so-called “all-pervasive suffering.” Because I was definitely suffering, and with a depth greater than anything I had experienced up to that point, […]
20.10.2012
Michael Tamura on the Manifest God
I do not know whether you are familiar with this state in which earthly life feels so heavy that you would gladly leave your body, if it were not for your sense of duty and your determination not to give up. It is a state in which the outer world has no pull at all, […]
10.10.2012
Osho on Not Deciding in the Night
Below is Osho’s response to a man who says he is having difficult relationships with his girlfriend and is wondering whether to continue the relationship or not. “Don’t be in a hurry, because what happens is that the mind has light moments and dark moments, day moments and night moments. When it is a day […]
