The path to independence requires sacrificing the comfort of childhood ties. True growth begins when we confront the unconscious and break free from the "infantile surroundings" that hold us back. #JungianPsychology

The animus/anima often carries what we fear to embrace in ourselves—boldness, surrender, or decisive action. Projection keeps us safe, but integration sets us free. The call to wholeness demands courage. #Jung #ShadowWork

Life calls us to independence, yet the conscious mind often clings to the familiar. To fulfill our destiny, we must gather the libido—the energy of life—and step into the unknown. The psyche thrives in the struggle. #JungianPsychology

Hidden in the depths of the unconscious lies the "treasure hard to attain"—a shimmering pearl of transformation. Do you dare to seek what the psyche conceals? #Jung #Individuation

The hero’s battle is not with dragons, but with the shadows of the parents—the father who blocks, the mother who consumes. To be reborn, one must face both. Are you ready to fight? #HeroJourney #Jung

The hero is both seeker and treasure, father and child. In the unification of archetypes lies the secret of the self. Are you the hero of your own myth? #Individuation #Jung

Psychologically you develop in a spiral, you always come over the same point where you have been before, but it is never exactly the same, it is either above or below. ~CG Jung, 𝘚𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘳 𝘰𝘯 𝘋𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮 𝘈𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘺𝘴𝘪𝘴

Iain McGilchrist on how attention is a creative act.

Artists and Creation. CG Jung, Nietzsche's Zarathustra.

“…so long as the individual does it, the nation also does it…” Carl Jung, The Psychology of the Unconscious Processes

There is and can be no self-knowledge based on theoretical assumptions, for the object of this knowledge is an individual—a relative exception and an irregular phenomenon. Carl Jung

Hell of a passage from James Hollis on 'the best way for women to understand the life of the typical man'.

Modern man is free to despise mythologies and theologies but that will not prevent his continuing to feed upon decayed myths and degraded images. Mircea Eliade

Why do people across cultures tell the same myths and dream the same symbols? Because beneath our personal experiences lies the collective unconscious: a universal, inherited layer of the psyche where archetypes shape our thoughts, dreams, and myths across time and culture.

The soul is not a static essence but a living force, quick, twinkling, and ever changing. Like a butterfly, the anima lures us into life, setting traps and illusions to pull us from inertia into experience. Without her, man would rot in idleness. #CarlJung

The anima is not the soul of dogma but an archetype, a primal force shaping our moods, impulses, and spontaneous life. It is not something we create. It exists a priori, a hidden presence guiding the currents of the unconscious. #CarlJung

Let us be very clear when we speak of this. It [the active imagination] is the organ that permits the transmutation of internal spiritual states into external states, into vision-events symbolizing with those internal states. Henry Corbin

The majority of science is conceptually flawed, does not reproduce, is not useful, or worse: the product of fraud. Multiple empirical and theoretical analyses show this rate is upwards of 50% Easy to stand up for your salary, harder to stand up for science My latest (see link)