archetypes

  • New TV AntiHeroes as archetypes of the American nightmare

    This seems right to me. The dark heroes or antiheroes of TV–and I would go back to The Sopranos for the beginning of this–represent the fundamental fear of the “middle class” losing everything in one fell swoop. Life becomes about… Continue reading

  • Animal Spirits: The Bee | Through the Peacock’s Eyes

    Another timely consideration of a spiritum animalem from Julianne Victoria at Through the Peacock’s Eyes The term “busy bee” is no accident. Bees symbolize industriousness, concentration, activity, busy-ness, group communication, and family and social networks. They tell us very busy times… Continue reading

  • Jesse Bransford / Work

    Just some fabulous esoteric art works over at Jesse Bransford’s page from the I:MAGE exhibit. This space must be protected. Not from evil, but from confusion, from the distortion of the quotidian. This is not normal. Rules are being changed,… Continue reading

    Jesse Bransford / Work
  • Esoteric Symbols: The Tarot in Yeats, Eliot, and Kafka

    Esoteric Symbols: The Tarot in Yeats, Eliot, and Kafka June Leavitt University Press of America, Jan 1, 2007 157 pages In this pioneering scholarly work on occult symbols in literature, the reader is offered a vivid look into how W.B. Yeats,… Continue reading

  • Mysterium Magnum

    Another of Jakob Böhme’s ciphers of the mysterium magnum appearing in his Theosophische Wercke (1682). The All Seeing Eye beholds the Phoenix Reborn. This is the Psyche/Soul transcending the encircling lifeworld. The break in the Ouroboros is the Nothing betwixt… Continue reading

  • Soul Spelunker: Images Are Prior To Experience

    Our lives are living metaphors. We all have a story. We all have a vault of images from which our particular world is fashioned. Our story is created by the archetypes, but it is up to us to bring it… Continue reading

  • 3quarksdaily: Active Imagination

    In many ways, Jung has aged worse than Papa Freud. His world now seems quaint and naïve in its lack of suspicion and irony, in its insistence on treating symbols as universal, in its belief that all peoples are telling… Continue reading