Below are some spontaneous thoughts on the Grimm version of the fairy tale, The Girl Without Hands. I’m finding the tale very therapeutic right now. This is not a definitive analysis. I’m approaching the text like a dream and my reactions are dream-like, alternating between treating this tale as parts…
Category: Symbolic Thinking
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Brothers Grimm – The Girl Without Hands – Part 2
Below are some spontaneous thoughts on the Grimm version of the fairy tale, The Girl Without Hands. I’m finding the tale very therapeutic right now. This is not a definitive analysis. I’m approaching the text like a dream and my reactions are dream-like, alternating between treating this tale as parts…
fairy tales
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The Girl Without Hands – Fairy Tale Medicine
Below are some spontaneous thoughts on the Grimm version of the fairy tale, The Girl Without Hands. I’m finding the tale very therapeutic right now. This is not a definitive analysis. I’m approaching the text like a dream and my reactions are dream-like, alternating between treating this tale as parts…
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Spiritual Bypassing, Shadow and Ego in Pluribus
Without contraries (that is, without a tension of opposites) there is no progression, or life, [William] Blake tells us, as though anticipating Jung’s model of psychic dynamics and, in particular, his concept of the psyche’s transcendent function.~Ann Yeoman SPOILERS BELOW! Spiritual Bypassing, Shadow and Ego in Pluribus I’ve been thinking…
Jung at Church
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Dreams Stars Religion
I continue to attend Mass at a nearby Catholic community. I’m surprised to see how the ritual itself works on me from week to week. Most weeks I’m also grateful to recognize depth psychological themes in the readings. The preaching of priests and laity is lovely but almost every week…
Jung at Church
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Daily miracles of inner life
Learning from Joseph Campbell, Carl Jung, and others, I remind myself that holy texts describe what is always happening in our lives. I’m thinking about this reading heard at Church today. Mary and Joseph are told that Jesus is the guy. The guy to save the world. (Does every parent…