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Soul Family

David Price
4 min readAug 12, 2024

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Greg Spalenka

He who wants to permanently “go higher” has to count on that one day he will feel vertigo.

What is vertigo? Fear of falling ?

But why do we also get vertigo in a gazebo equipped with a secure fence? The vertigo is something different from the fear of falling.

Vertigo means that the depth that opens before us draws us in, seduces us, awakens in us the desire to fall, from which we defend ourselves, in fright.

~ Milan Kundera

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Every person gathers around them their own “soul family”, a group of people not created by chance or for selfish motives, but through a deeper, more essential interest or involvement: ‘mutual identification’.

While purely projection-based relationships are characterized by fascination and magical addiction, this type of relationship, through the Self, has something strictly objective, strangely transpersonal about it. It creates a feeling of “being together” immediately and out of time.

In this world created by the Self we meet all the many to whom we belong, whose hearts we touch; here “there is no distance, but immediate presence”.

~ Von Franz

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The question of muse, of guru, is different from a community of friends who inspire each other, who…

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David Price
David Price

Written by David Price

I write about creativity, loving, language learning and psycho/spirituality. I’m a longtime painter and reader.

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