The Rejected Feminine

Richard McInnis, This is a close-up view of the inner core of M8 — The Lagoon Nebula. She resides at around 4,000 lights years away in the Sagittarius constellation.

One of the main functions of organized religion is to protect people against a direct experience of God.

— Jung

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The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

— Marcus Aurelius

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To be a gentle mover in a swiftly spinning world.

To be present. To extract the poetry. To only entertain the real. To listen. To seek the genuine.

To stand inside of the stretch, the momentum, the tall discomfort of change, the knowing that you don’t need to rush the practice, or ever fake or force a thing.

To believe in rhythm and movement. To trust in the river, the song, the stillness, the storm, and the seed.

This is my religion.

~ Victoria Erickson

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Jung had an instinct to think that what was wrong in life, what made her torn, incomplete, was because the female had been rejected, made crazy, made crazy by a world of men. Rejected by a male dominated world.

And when he let go and landed in the depths of what he came to call the collective unconscious, all this rejected female faced him.