i'm having to visit a healthcare facility today😷

i'm also wearing Galadriel's light🙏🏻

"Learn therefore, O Mind, to practise sympathetic love in regard to thine own body,

restrain its vain appetites, that it may be apt with thee in all things.

To this end I shall labour, that it may drink
with thee from the fountain of strength.

Draw nigh, O Body, to
this fountain, with thy Mind thou may drink to satiety and
hereafter thirst no more after vanities.

O wondrous efficacy of this
fount, which can make mind out of spirit and soul, but this makes
one man of mind and body."

"In the Book of the Yellow Castle, it is proclaimed,

“In the square inch field of the square foot house, life can be regulated.”

This enigmatic statement refers to the heavenly heart, the dwelling place of the light."

the flesh and the spirit
in eternal embrace
blissfully exchanging energy

the sun,

the more is she darkened until,

at the conjunction of the new moon,

all her light is ‘emptied’

into the sun.

here's some when i'm on guard and the pole is slippery.🤣🤣🤣

squirrel update.

the weather is cooler, so i had to switch to peanut oil on the shepherd's hook because coconut oil tends to solidify and isn't slippery enough.

not wanting to attempt this in winter, i've ordered one of those baffles, which people say keeps the beasts away from the feeders.

🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

so the birds have a chance.

a useful chart.

"in Mysterium Coniunctionis,

Jung continues his work of
interpretation by examining in detail a number of texts taken
from the alchemical classics.

The scope of the book is indicated in its subtitle:

“An Inquiry into the Separation and Synthesis of Psychic Opposites in Alchemy."

This process,

summed up in the
trenchant formula solve et coagula—‘‘dissolve and coagulate"—

underlies the opus alchymicum and

may be symbolically under-
stood as the process of psychic integration."

#politics

"as the right tries to say there is no Project 2025 or that Project 2025 doesn’t represent Trump’s vision and Trump and Vance try to distance themselves from it or whatever else they try next, there is one key thing to keep in mind.

Hundreds of people on the right across dozens of organizations

are still hard at work in their offices, including many closely aligned with Trump,

were the people actually behind the 922-page Mandate for Leadership book that lays out their vision."

"the alchemists came to project even the highest value—God—into matter.

the highest value safely embedded in matter, a starting-point was given for the development of genuine chemistry on the one hand

and of the more recent philosophical materialism on the other, with all the psychological consequences that necessarily ensue when the picture of the world is shifted 180 degrees.

we should not underestimate its cultural importance for the Middle Ages. Today is the child of the Middle Ages."

"the unconscious, being unknown, is bound to coincide with itself everywhere:

lacking all recognizable qualities, no unconscious content can be distinguished from any other.

This is not a logical sophistry but a very real phenomenon of great practical importance,

for it affects the problems of identity and identification in social life,

which are based on the collective (and indiscriminable) nature of unconscious contents."

🔽🔽🔽continued

the wild opossum young'un is growing up, and she's lovely.😍

beautiful grey coat.

here's who terrifies Trumpsky.

more of the sparrow bathing party.

some sparrows bathing.

they love a communal splash around 😍

paying attention to how the unconscious surrounds us.

everything we see, hear, touch, smell, everything has been presented to "us" through unconscious processes.

we experience the results of countless complex and intricately aligned processes going on unconsciously.

heartbeat, digestion, healing, all unconscious. even breathing, most of the time.

our cocky consciousness
a cockleshell boat
on a vast and mostly unknown sea.
we pilot our vessels
over the great water
in hope.

Mythopoesis preserves an imaginal veracity that honors and unites historical facticity with inspired psychological reality.

No appeal to the outer world of concrete actualities is necessary.

Imaginal reality, beyond mere facts, Jungian and archetypal psychology maintains is as ontologically real as sense perceptions and ideas of the intellect."

on Entheogens🔽

"In short, Philemon’s paradoxical words suggest to Jung’s ego image

that the gulf
separating rationality and irrationality

can only be bridged transrationally,

which is to say mythopoetically, by means of images and symbols.

"Jung’s personal experiences of the numinosum include his overwhelming portentous fantasies of bloody catastrophe,

his descent into the imaginal realm,

his encounter with the Spirit of the Depths, the recovery of his soul,

and his communion with personified archetypal beings who presented themselves to Jung’s ego image as wholly other."

According to Jung (1929/1967),

“‘Psychic’ means physical and spiritual . . .

this ‘intermediate’ world . . . seems unclear and confused

because the concept of psychic reality is not yet current among us,

although it expresses life as it actually is”