Subpersonalities And The Fire Within

Artem Chebokha

“I like to imagine a person’s psyche to be like a boardinghouse full of characters. The ones who show up regularly and who habitually follow the house rules may not have met other long-term residents who stay behind closed doors, or who only appear at night. An adequate theory of character must make room for character actors, for the stuntmen and animal handlers, for all the figures who play bit parts and produce unexpected acts.

— James Hillman

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Dreams never become really important for anyone until they are recorded — actually written down, and over a period of time. The unconscious mind is like a teacher: If you don’t pay attention, the teacher will assume you are not really interested, and you’ll get little or nothing from the dream self.

~Edgar Cayce

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Reviews of Catafalque, by Peter Kingsley:

“Here at last is the true Jung: the Jung who those who dare to call themselves Jungians have forgotten and betrayed, a Jung who often is far too frightening to be understood.

— Maggy Anthony

“Jung, the alchemists, the Gnostics, Empedocles, Parmenides emerge from history as links in a golden chain through which wisdom, philosophy and science have been given and kept alive in the West…