“To become a person does not necessarily mean to be well adjusted, well adapted, approved of by others. It means to become who you are. We are meant to become more eccentric, more peculiar, more odd. We are not meant just to fit in. We are here to be different. We are here to be the individual.”
James Hollis, Through the Dark Wood Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life
Using a projective dream method we might ask ourselves at any image, “if this were my dream, what might it mean?”
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Psyche's cinema - short films
“But art and ideas come out of the passion and torment of experience: it is impossible to have a real relationship to the first if See more
Psyche's cinema - short films
Whenever the collective unconscious becomes a living experience & is brought to bear upon the conscious outlook of an age, this event is a creative See more
Psyche's cinema - short films
Changes to oven manuals after Hansel and Gretel's adventure. #fairytales (Image - actual manual for the new oven we just purchased) See more
Psyche's cinema - short films
Good art wounds as well as delights. It must, because our defenses against the truth are wound so tightly around us. But as art chips See more
Psyche's cinema - short films
“The role of the artist I now understood as that of revealing through the world-surfaces the implicit forms of the soul, and the great agent See more
Psyche's cinema - short films
Our inner world is reality, reality even more real than the apparent world; to call fantasy or fairy tale what merely seems illogical means that See more
Psyche's cinema - short films
Myths, therefore, express vital, instinctive knowledge, and when one trusts in this knowledge, then one is healthy. This has nothing at all to do with See more
Psyche's cinema - short films
Through all the ages poets and artists have often been prophets, because their work, or the material for it, comes to them from the same See more
Psyche's cinema - short films
The object isn’t to make art, it’s to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable. ~ Robert Henri [in The Creative Act, Rick See more
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Creativeness presupposes a tremendous capacity for being genuine, for letting go, for being spontaneous—for if one cannot be spontaneous one cannot really be creative—therefore most See more
Psyche's cinema - short films
There is another reality, the genuine one, which we lose sight of. This other reality is always sending us hints, which without art, we can’t See more
Psyche's cinema - short films
Fantasy is probably the oldest literary device for talking about reality.
~Ursula K. Le Guinn
Still from Laura's film, Gnarly Inside
Psyche's cinema - short films
[O]ne of the greatest losses we have is the loss of a symbolic life, a life informed by mythology in the most noble sense of See more
Psyche's cinema - short films
Read myths. They teach you that you can turn inward, and you begin to get the message of the symbols. Read other people’s myths because See more
Psyche's cinema - short films
A fundamental tenet of archetypal psychology is the interchangeability of mythology and psychology, that mythology is a psychology of antiquity and that psychology is a See more
Sources of inspiration: Living Myth Podcast ——- This Jungian Life Podcast
