“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
When we read myths and fairy tales, if we let ourselves step into their world of poetry and imagination, we step out of the rational, See more
Psyche's cinema - short films
"First we must learn to think mythologically. Powerful things happen when we touch the thinking which myths, fairy tales, and our own dreams bring to See more
Psyche's cinema - short films
The fact that we have now relegated [fairy tales] to children shows a typical attitude—I could even call it a definition of our civilization—namely, that See more
Psyche's cinema - short films
What has endured through human history are the stories. They are amazing trees of sound that grow inside the human memory and are fed by See more
Psyche's cinema - short films
Where, in many fairy tales, do you meet the witch in a forest. For us her influence is strongest when we feel ostracized and full See more
Psyche's cinema - short films
“The most we can do is to dream the myth onwards and give it a modern dress. And whatever explanation or interpretation does to it, See more
Psyche's cinema - short films
The passage into mystery always refreshes. If, when we work, we can look once a day upon the face of mystery, then our labor satisfies. See more
Psyche's cinema - short films
Sometimes life just feels like this.... In the dark forest. Still from "The Linguist." You're invited to watch this 7 minute film, let us know See more
Psyche's cinema - short films
The Grimm tale, The Three Languages, invites us to consider times in our life when our logical brain said one thing, but a raw, instinctual See more
Psyche's cinema - short films
In our stop-motion film The Linguist, Daphne spends the first act trying desperately to please a demanding mother. Where in your life are you standing See more
Psyche's cinema - short films
I hadn’t been back in my studio for a LONG time. Finally today I was able to start filming again! But maybe the THRESHOLD GUARDIANS See more
Psyche's cinema - short films
Back in the studio with Rumpelstiltskin! He's kind of scary.
Psyche's cinema - short films
Classic fairy tales, deploying wonders and inspiring astonishment, depend on magic as causation; magic is part of the fabric of everyday reality, which is permeated See more
Psyche's cinema - short films
The original Grimm Brothers' tale of The Three Languages was written about a son and his demanding father. When I sat down to adapt it See more
Psyche's cinema - short films
Because the kind of fairy tale that expresses collective structures touch emotions more deeply, it stays better in one's memory. Also, this happens naturally in See more
Sources of inspiration: Living Myth Podcast ——- This Jungian Life Podcast
