New in the archives! Marion Woodman Rare and Special DVDs
We are very lucky. Principia Productions has generously given us access to a set of limited edition DVDs that they produced on Marion Woodman, and these are now a part of her collection here at Opus. “Marion Woodman and the Conscious Feminine” captures over 9 hours of conversation bet
Read MoreCall for Submissions: Depth Insights Scholarly E-zine!
The deadline for the next issue of Depth Insights scholarly online e-zine is July 15. Start now to finesse your submission! Depth Insights is a semi-annual online scholarly e-zine for the depth and Jungian psychology community. Submissions are open to anyone, and the selection process
Read MoreThe Heart Has Reasons Showing Tonight!
Don’t forget! Opus is screening the documentary, The Heart Has Reasons, featuring James Hillman and Ginette Paris, tonight!!! Join us from 6:30 to 9:00 (check in begins at 6:00 pm), tonight, May 18th, for this provocative film exploring the many-chambered heart and its roles pl
Read MoreMyth 101 – Laozi
Myth 101 – Laozi or Lao Tzu, philosopher of ancient China and author of the Tao Te Ching. He is one of the Three Pure Ones who are the Gods of the Taoist pantheon. Inspired to find a balance in the rush and quickening that seems to mark our personal and collective lives, a few words f
Read MoreMyth 101: The Battering Ram and the Spiral Tendency
The Ram’s horns are so often associated with a powerful and vigorous vitality displayed in the image of the Ram, who has become a rich symbol for, among many things, power and/or sexual, creative energy. Similar to Pan, the goat-god, the zodiacal sign of Aries, or Amun-Re, Egypt
Read MoreThe Ancestor’s Speak: James Hillman on the Circus Clown
“We follow the clown into the circus by entering a perspective of rebellion against the dayworld order; rebel without cause or violence. Turning topsy-turvy, we deliteralize every physical law and social convention in the smallest things that we take for granted. Through
Read MoreMyth 101: The Duende
From out of the alchemically green-gold valleys and hillsides of Andalusia, Spain, comes the myth and aesthetic experience of the duende. From “duen de casa” or, Master of the House, the duende is reminiscent of the Trickster, said to bring havoc and interruption when the home is upen
Read MoreQuote from the Archive: The Ancestors Speak
“Money is a psychic reality… devilishly divine.… To find the soul of modern man or woman, begin by searching into those irreducible embarrassing facts of the money complex, that crazy crab scuttling across the floors of silent seas.” James Hillman, City and Sou
Read MoreMarion Woodman on ritual
“We have lost our containers; chaos threatens. Without rituals to make a firm demarcation between the profane and sacred, between what is us and what is not us, we tend to identify with archetypal patterns of being – hero, Father, Mother, etc. We forget that we are individ
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