Béa Gonzalez
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Béa Gonzalez—-Author. Reader.
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Consciousness is a very recent acquisition of nature, and it is still in an "experimental” state. It is frail, menaced by specific dangers, and easily injured. ~CG Jung, Man and his Symbols
January 6, 2026 at 4:48 PM
Consciousness is a very recent acquisition of nature, and it is still in an "experimental” state. It is frail, menaced by specific dangers, and easily injured. ~CG Jung, Man and his Symbols
Jung was right. There is a collective unconscious. Joseph Campbell was right. Myths and legends do constitute the fabric of the self. The soul judges a story’s truth by how closely it comports to the narrative templates that are part of our psyche from birth.~Steven Pressfield
January 6, 2026 at 4:41 PM
Jung was right. There is a collective unconscious. Joseph Campbell was right. Myths and legends do constitute the fabric of the self. The soul judges a story’s truth by how closely it comports to the narrative templates that are part of our psyche from birth.~Steven Pressfield
A calling may be postponed, avoided, intermittently missed. It may also possess you completely. Whatever; eventually it will out. It makes its claim. The daimon does not go away.~ James Hillman, The Soul’s Code
January 6, 2026 at 2:00 PM
A calling may be postponed, avoided, intermittently missed. It may also possess you completely. Whatever; eventually it will out. It makes its claim. The daimon does not go away.~ James Hillman, The Soul’s Code
[H]uman beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them to give birth to themselves.~Gabriel García Márquez
January 5, 2026 at 11:45 PM
[H]uman beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them to give birth to themselves.~Gabriel García Márquez
Any time you identify a wasteland element in your life—illness, boredom, lethargy, alienation, emptiness, loss, addiction, failure, anger, or outrage—it is time to take a journey. You can be called to the quest by such dissatisfaction or simply by a desire for adventure.~Carol Pearson
January 5, 2026 at 8:04 PM
Any time you identify a wasteland element in your life—illness, boredom, lethargy, alienation, emptiness, loss, addiction, failure, anger, or outrage—it is time to take a journey. You can be called to the quest by such dissatisfaction or simply by a desire for adventure.~Carol Pearson
Doubt is unsettling to the ego, and those who are drawn to ideologies that promise the dispelling of doubt by proffering certainties will never grow. In seeking certainty they are courting the death of the soul.~James Hollis
January 5, 2026 at 5:03 PM
Doubt is unsettling to the ego, and those who are drawn to ideologies that promise the dispelling of doubt by proffering certainties will never grow. In seeking certainty they are courting the death of the soul.~James Hollis
Jung wrote of the fact that, in favorable cases, some people seem to outgrow a problem that would destroy others. They gain a new level of consciousness, as it were, from which they can see even the worst problem in a totally different light. ~Barbara Hannah
January 5, 2026 at 3:02 PM
Jung wrote of the fact that, in favorable cases, some people seem to outgrow a problem that would destroy others. They gain a new level of consciousness, as it were, from which they can see even the worst problem in a totally different light. ~Barbara Hannah
A man likes to believe he is the master of his soul. But as long as he is unable to control his moods and emotions or be conscious of the myriad secret ways in which unconscious factors insinuate themselves into his arrangements and decisions, he is certainly not his own master.~CG Jung
January 5, 2026 at 1:01 PM
A man likes to believe he is the master of his soul. But as long as he is unable to control his moods and emotions or be conscious of the myriad secret ways in which unconscious factors insinuate themselves into his arrangements and decisions, he is certainly not his own master.~CG Jung
There is nothing outside of yourself that can ever enable you to get better, stronger, richer, quicker, or smarter. Everything is within. Everything exists. Seek nothing outside of yourself. — Miyamoto Musashi
January 4, 2026 at 11:17 PM
There is nothing outside of yourself that can ever enable you to get better, stronger, richer, quicker, or smarter. Everything is within. Everything exists. Seek nothing outside of yourself. — Miyamoto Musashi
And two more book recommendations:
January 4, 2026 at 10:49 PM
And two more book recommendations:
My book recommendations for 2026:
January 4, 2026 at 10:49 PM
My book recommendations for 2026:
It seems that it is the purpose of evolution now to replace an image of perfection with the concept of completeness or wholeness. Perfection suggests something all pure, with no blemishes, dark spots or questionable areas. Wholeness includes the darkness.~Robert A. Johnson
January 4, 2026 at 9:13 PM
It seems that it is the purpose of evolution now to replace an image of perfection with the concept of completeness or wholeness. Perfection suggests something all pure, with no blemishes, dark spots or questionable areas. Wholeness includes the darkness.~Robert A. Johnson
A depression can change only if we are able to endure and accept it. We can change nothing if we haven't accepted it. If we resist, it will only get worse. In accepting the depression, we are no longer able to hold the whole world responsible for it, and then it can change.~CG Jung
January 4, 2026 at 1:23 AM
A depression can change only if we are able to endure and accept it. We can change nothing if we haven't accepted it. If we resist, it will only get worse. In accepting the depression, we are no longer able to hold the whole world responsible for it, and then it can change.~CG Jung
[W]e’re living in a civilization that doesn’t understand metaphor. So, they tend to concretize everything, and not even know that that’s going on .~Marion Woodman
January 3, 2026 at 9:22 PM
[W]e’re living in a civilization that doesn’t understand metaphor. So, they tend to concretize everything, and not even know that that’s going on .~Marion Woodman
We know that every time a human being makes real progress in consciousness, makes this evolutionary jump toward a higher level of consciousness, the whole world for him has changed; relationships change and the outlook on the outer world and on his own situation changes.~Marie- Louise von Franz
January 3, 2026 at 5:21 PM
We know that every time a human being makes real progress in consciousness, makes this evolutionary jump toward a higher level of consciousness, the whole world for him has changed; relationships change and the outlook on the outer world and on his own situation changes.~Marie- Louise von Franz
To be creative, you have to know how to be receptive, Yin; you have to know how to be at home with the ambiguous, the random, the disordered. Specialists have a poor tolerance for poetry and ambiguity. ~William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light
January 3, 2026 at 1:20 PM
To be creative, you have to know how to be receptive, Yin; you have to know how to be at home with the ambiguous, the random, the disordered. Specialists have a poor tolerance for poetry and ambiguity. ~William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light
I believe I am not exaggerating when I say that modern man has suffered an almost fatal shock, psychologically speaking, and as a result has fallen into profound uncertainty.~CG Jung, The Spiritual Problem of Modern Man
January 3, 2026 at 12:52 AM
I believe I am not exaggerating when I say that modern man has suffered an almost fatal shock, psychologically speaking, and as a result has fallen into profound uncertainty.~CG Jung, The Spiritual Problem of Modern Man
"I am as afraid of normal people as I am of psychotics. More even of "normals"---because of the repression. It's the neurotics, as we tend to call them, I am most at home with."~James Hillman, Inter-Views
January 2, 2026 at 3:29 PM
"I am as afraid of normal people as I am of psychotics. More even of "normals"---because of the repression. It's the neurotics, as we tend to call them, I am most at home with."~James Hillman, Inter-Views
"Neurosis is what rises out of the conflict between our instinctual realities and our cultural claims upon us. As Freud pointed out so succinctly, the price of civilization is neurosis." ~James Hollis, A Life of Meaning
January 2, 2026 at 1:06 PM
"Neurosis is what rises out of the conflict between our instinctual realities and our cultural claims upon us. As Freud pointed out so succinctly, the price of civilization is neurosis." ~James Hollis, A Life of Meaning
!["Now, a person who is in touch with the unconscious tends to bring that out of other people. There are many people who are just going on a conscious level, but where you’ve developed the depth of the unconscious, you automatically bring that out in others, so you’re liable to get the full sweep of somebody’s unconscious complex. And that can be [devastating]." ~Marion Woodman, Listening to Our Deepest Wisdom [Sounds True]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xhrhppsyerx6xo2dskta4gm7/bafkreiargpzwcfyo37t46y553h6dlcil5kxsxhs2o55kan3d2t4lu7j2ka@jpeg)
[T]he worst and most pervasive (prejudice) is overt or implicit statistical thinking: “What I do makes no difference; I’m just one grain of sand among millions; my existence is a meaningless accident.” This mindset is direct and deadly poison for the soul.~ML von Franz
January 1, 2026 at 5:00 PM
[T]he worst and most pervasive (prejudice) is overt or implicit statistical thinking: “What I do makes no difference; I’m just one grain of sand among millions; my existence is a meaningless accident.” This mindset is direct and deadly poison for the soul.~ML von Franz
This book is fascinating. While people may (and do) disagree with some of
Shlain's takes on the differences between the hemispheres of the brain, this is still very much worth your time.
Shlain's takes on the differences between the hemispheres of the brain, this is still very much worth your time.
January 1, 2026 at 1:37 PM
This book is fascinating. While people may (and do) disagree with some of
Shlain's takes on the differences between the hemispheres of the brain, this is still very much worth your time.
Shlain's takes on the differences between the hemispheres of the brain, this is still very much worth your time.