an early version of The Birds..

"You should know, dear son, that the course of nature is turned about, so that without invocation [e.g., of the familiaris] and

without spiritual exaltation you can see certain fugitive spirits condensed in the air

in the shape of divers monsters, beasts and men, which move like the clouds hither and thither."

thanks to all of you CoSo #cats people i get all the vicarious lived experience of having a feline companion. 👌🏽✌🏽🖖🙏🏻

good morning ✌🏽🙏🏻🖖

it's #Teddy time. such soft fur just lovely to snuggle your face into. and those sweet petal ears😘

the circle of life for an aeon, a civilization, an era.

and lawyers😏

"there have always been people who, not satisfied with the dominants of conscious life,

set forth-under cover and by devious routes, to their destruction or salvation-

to seek direct experience of the eternal roots, and, following the lure of the restless unconscious psyche, find themselves in the wilderness

where, like Jesus, they come up against the son of darkness, the avtiumon pneuma."

i.e., the evil spirit, The Shadow, who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of Homo sapiens.🤨

why you can't argue religion.

"People have dwelt far too long on the fundamentally sterile question of whether the assertions of faith are true or not.

Quite apart from the impossibility of ever proving or refuting the truth of a metaphysical assertion, the very existence of the assertion is a self-evident fact that needs no further proof,

and when a consensus gentium allies itself thereto, then the validity of the statement is proved to just that extent."

Jung, Religion&Alchemy

more🔽

almost noon🙏🏻✌🏽🖖

time for some #Teddy❤️

peeking out, and digging in😋

good grief, CB, JUNG has diagnosed MAGA cultism‼️

"In an outward form of religion where all the emphasis is on the outward figure

(hence where we are dealing with a more or less complete projection),

the archetype is identical with externalized ideas but remains unconscious as a psychic factor.

When an unconscious content is replaced by a projected image to that extent,

it is cut off from all participation in and influence on the conscious mind."
🔽

"The demand made by the imitatio Christi

that we should follow the ideal and seek to become like it

ought logically to have the result of developing and exalting the inner man.

In actual fact, however, the ideal has been turned by superficial and formalistically-minded believers into an external object of worship

it is precisely this veneration for the object that prevents it from reaching down into the depths of the soul and transforming it into a wholeness in keeping with the ideal."

it's cactus blooming time.

here's the TOC.

"what is more, he could look back on a long tradition which contained not a few testimonies of such as had achieved the marvellous result.?

Finally the matter was not entirely without promise, since a number of useful discoveries did occasionally emerge as by-products of his labours in the lab-oratory.

As the forerunner of chemistry alchemy had a sufficient raison d'être."

here's an image of the then current notion of the way things are meant to be.

good morning 🙏🏻✌🏽🖖

exploring Jung on Alchemy, once again from the IA:

"those who dreamed of flying and whose successors made the dream come true after all.

Nor should we underestimate the sense of satisfaction born of the enterprise, the adventure, the quaerere (seeking), and the invenire (finding).

This always lasts as long as the methods employed seem sensible. There was nothing at that time to convince the alchemist of the senselessness of his chemical operations;

🔽

#Teddy sleeping, not a care in the world ❤️❤️❤️

opossum nightly food foraging adventure.

here's #Teddy on the hunt for his favourite Royal Sugar Bee apples. he disdains royal gala🙄

this video gets dark in places as they follow his progress to his goal😍

i planted some seeds from some royal gala apples.

looks like one took

just watched Twelve Monkeys, again after many years. Terry Gilliam, man😬
prophetic.

and here's some sweetness to combat the doom.

not my friends' #Teddy, but sweet crocs 😍

"An Archetype is an inner guide, which presents us with the deep structure for our experience, motivation and meaning. "

they serve to project gestalts, constellations of meaning that form our lived experience.

"They aid us on our own unique life’s journey or pilgrimage. They help us to discover our personal motivations and what gives our lives, brands and business their unique meaning.

They invoke a variety of responses that decide how we think and act."

"Accepting the fact that we contain the potential for vile and inhuman behaviour can be a humbling experience

that teaches us tolerance, compassion, and empathy;

when we know that the archetypal evil lives within ourselves,

we are far less apt to point an accusatory finger at someone else."

"These influences are nothing but unconscious, introspective perceptions of the activity of the collective unconscious. Just as the constellations were projected into the heavens, similar figures were projected into legends and fairy tales or upon historical persons."