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Touch The Ground
“Many creative people start their creativity with terrific depressions…if they can anticipate them by playing, need not have the depression…
— Marie-Louise von Franz
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Q: What happens when we don’t completely use the body?
W: We are disconnected from the soul, from the purpose of our lives.
Life is a matter of incarnation — the soul is an entity with which we must live in our human body. The problem is that an excess of people in our culture tries to skip that part and go straight to the Spirit’s plan.
Superspirituality is a real danger, but usually the body begins to scream. People can develop symptoms and addictions. So they start running it down into the ground again.
The anorexic men I’m working with are much worse off than women, because they are highly incarnated spirits, who hardly touch the ground. They are magnificent people, but they don’t want to be incarnated….Many people don’t want to be human.
— Marion Woodman
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Writing has so much to give, so much to teach, so many surprises. That thing you had to force yourself to do — the actual act of writing — turns out to be the best part. It’s like discovering that while you thought you needed the tea ceremony for the caffeine, what…
