February 2012 eNewsletter
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Read MoreThe Ancestors Speak: Hillman on Symptom of Calling
“To change how we see things takes falling in love. The same becomes altogether different. Like love, a shift of sight can be redemptive – not in the religious sense of saving the soul for heaven, but in a more pragmatic sense. As at a redemptive center, you get something
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 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 MoreThe feeling function
We know certain things: that power and fear are cast out by love, that relationships cannot advance without frankness and integrity, that a man must have honor, that self-deception leads to catastrophe. James Hillman OPUS Archives and Research Center. James Hillman Collection, Box 130
Read MoreUnderworld is psyche…
“When we use the word underworld,we are referring to a wholly psychic perspective, where one’s entire mode of being has been desubstantialized, killed of natural life, and yet is in every shape and sense and size the exact replica of natural life. The underworld of Ba of E
Read MoreHillman on America and the Shift of Ages
Part 2 of James Hillman’s interview with Pythia Peay on the Huffington Post is available. In it he touches on some important themes worth pondering including the ability to take a classical stance to the chaos of the times and look backwards upon what is decaying as opposed to s
Read MoreOn psychological creativity
“Creative imagination that bespeaks the imaginal realm results from vitality and passion. It is born in blood from the awakened, not the dreaming, psyche. True imagining is neither an introverted retreat to fantasy nor a manic extroverted notion of creativity as physical product
Read MoreJames Hillman on political polarization
James Hillman is on the Huffington Post! In an interview titled “Jungian Analyst Explains the Psychology of Political Polarization”, Hillman discusses the minds polarizing movement, the either/or set up that leads to ideological thinking and Hillman says “But this is
Read MoreAlchemy, Psyche and Chaos
“Obscurity of expression is natural to the psyche. Prime example, our dreams; mere glimmerings. Saving the psyche’s phenomena calls for an alchemical method of chaos, a method which indulges the soul’s surprising beauty and inventive freedom, and speak both of the ps
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