Tag: Symbolic Perception

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This perspective invites us to behold the events of daily life with the same symbolic eye we bring to the pillow. By analyzing modern events, personal stories, and “symbol-images” (Symbolbild), we look past literal surfaces to the underlying mythic patterns. This practice counteracts modern rationality, allowing us to perceive the world as a living landscape of meaning where personal experience meets the timeless themes of legends and fairy tales.

  • Light for the Dark Path

    Light for the Dark Path

    We need art and music, poetry, literature and film, all that evokes the beauty, terror, dread, doubt and ecstasy of descent. They are light for the dark path.

  • Ritual and Symbol

    Ritual and Symbol

    Symbols are objects, emblems, or language representing our relationship to persons, to the universe, to the sacred. They are concrete realities communicating universal truths.

  • The Blessing

    The Blessing

    People who have been blessed carry the weight of that blessing with them their entire lives and have something of substance to pass on to others.

  • In Search of Salted Shrimp

    In Search of Salted Shrimp

    I’m glad I can have an experience of being an outsider, because it’s humbling and hilarious, and one has to be bold to find what one needs in the place where one’s own culture is not king.

  • What Not to Wear

    What Not to Wear

    After all this time, a pattern has emerged, and out of that pattern, a truth: We dress the way we want other people to treat us.

  • Let Your Light So Shine

    Let Your Light So Shine

    Some sort of clarity wanted to break forth in me, a spirit of truth where cloudy, unclean elements formerly prevailed.

  • In Knots

    In Knots

    Through the loss of three of our members and the theft of my billfold, our Jungian seminar was learning how to interpret a series of surprising events as waking dreams.

  • A Calling of Wolves

    A Calling of Wolves

    When extraordinary events occur, they’re like a calling of wolves outside the window, calling us to pay attention. The whole thrust of Freud and Jung is the idea of making things conscious.

  • I Believe in the Fall

    I Believe in the Fall

    I’ve realized something unexpected: wisdom is a resource—for me. It doesn’t always translate, persuade, or prevent when shared. But like a patient investment, wisdom accrues value over time—available to anyone willing to engage in reflection and growth.