If you have difficulty being taken seriously by others and feel that you do not carry sufficient authority in their eyes, this thought by Marie-Louise von Franz is for you: “People who have integrated a large part of their own darkness possess an invisible authority, as if they had acquired weight and power, and others […]
Feelings
"Since so much of what we know depends on our feelings, to be immersed in vague and vaguely perceived feelings is to be enveloped by an obscure world... The liberated person, instead of hiding from his feelings, uses them as a guide interpreting the world in which he lives." David Viscount
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“There is, so to speak, a “cold” kind of evil and a “hot” kind of evil. The hot evil is carried, no matter whether by demons or by human beings, by an unquenched emotional affect underneath, like a suffocated fire burning and smoldering all the time, and this kind of repressed affect is highly infectious. […]
For quite some time I have been postponing the presentation of Liz Greene’s work on the types of psychic defenses from her book Limitations and Boundaries: The Horoscope and Personality Defenses. Around election day, however, I decided to publish at least the anal type of defenses, because the way people vote in political elections is […]
16.11.2024
The Stonecutter, a parable
A popular parable that is a wonderful story about the nature of desire (I will comment on this below). “Once upon a time, there was a stonemason. Every day, he would go to the mountain to cut stones. While he worked, he sang to himself, for though he was a poor man, he did not […]
23.11.2022
The Dual Attitude Toward the Unconscious
“You see, the power of the animus consists, as a rule, in the possession of a woman’s feeling; that is, when she is not responsible for her feeling, when she does not look out for it consciously, the animus eats it; and then he becomes powerful and may devour her or any other innocent prey.”— […]
There was once a great warrior. Though quite old, he was still able to defeat any opponent. His reputation spread far and wide throughout the country, and many students gathered to study under him. One day a young warrior of ill fame arrived in the village. He was determined to be the first person to […]
20.02.2020
Where is the real power
“Buddha was once threatened with death by a bandit called Angulimal. ‘In that case, be good and fulfill my dying wish,’ said the Buddha, ‘cut down the branch of this tree.’” One slash of the sword and – voila! “Now what?” the bandit asked. “Take it back,” said the Buddha. The bandit laughed. “You must […]
15.03.2019
C.G.Jung on loneliness
For people on the path of individuation, a sense of loneliness is inevitable. If they understand the psychological meaning of such a difficult experience, they will be able to use it for its true purpose: as a means of separation from others—a path toward freedom, psychic maturity, and emotional independence. In his autobiography, Memories, Dreams, […]
At last, I came across something truly valuable regarding the problem of procrastination—a problem that each of us knows to one degree or another. It can range from mild stress and anxiety to genuine agony at the thought that time is passing while, for some reason, we are not doing what we want or need […]
18.04.2015
In the eye of the beholder
“Fear is in the eye of the beholder. (Don’t let that be you.)”
29.03.2015
Fritz Riemann, “Basic Forms of Fear”
I haven’t recommended a book in a while, but a recent conversation with a client gave me the perfect reason to do so. The book is Basic Forms of Fear by Fritz Riemann. While many may have already read it, it was first published in 1961, I still want to highlight it because it remains […]
According to Osho, “There are two ways to disassociate yourself from false identities. You are not what you have been thinking, feeling, imagining, projecting. What you are is simply the fact of being aware. Whatsoever happens, you remain just the awareness. You are awareness – that identity cannot be broken. That identity cannot be negated. All else […]
