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Certainly witchcraft has very little to do with magic as people generally understand it. It has an awful lot to do with taking responsibility for yourself and taking responsibility also for the less able people and, up to a certain point, guarding your society. This is based on how witchcraft really was, I suspect. The witch was the village herbalist, the midwife, the person who knew things. She would sit up with the dying, lay out the corpses, deliver the newborn. Witches tended to be needed when human beings were meeting the dangerous edges of their lives, the places where there is no map. They don't mess around with tinkly spells; they get their hands dirty. Terry Pratchett
November 14, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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"Many times I’ve had patients come in and say, “I’m so upset with myself. I thought I was past this or that. I thought this was behind me. And yesterday it came rushing back to me, and I fell into the same old place, or I was drowning in that old emotion.” They berate themselves by thinking, Life is just a linear process, and I must get beyond this issue. __But it’s not linear. It’s more circular, maybe spiral. We circle back on these things over and over and over.__" (James Hollis, A Life of Meaning)
November 10, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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Mass infections are greater than man. And man is their victim. He shouts and parades and pretends that he is the leader, but really he is their victim. They are the uprush of earthly and spiritual forces from the depth of the psyche. Turn the eye of consciousness within to see what is there. Let us see what we can do in small ways. If I have planted a cabbage right, then I have served the world in that place. I do not know what more I can do. Examine the spirits that speak in you. Become critical. The modern man must be fully conscious of the terrific dangers that lie in mass movements. Listen to what the unconscious say.[CG Jung]C.G. Jung Speaking
November 6, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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November 3, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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"Sometimes, as a therapist, I’ve asked people to put a garish sign on the door of their refrigerator or wherever else to confront some compulsive greed that they have, that says “That which I’m seeking I cannot find in here.” I’ve often asked people to look at the obsession and ask, “What is it really about?” __Greeds are never about what they’re about, whether its food, money, power, sex. They’re always ultimately about spiritual issues driven by fear, loneliness, emptiness, general anxieties, the absence of meaning.__" (James Hollis, A Life of Meaning)
October 26, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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A sin is a psychological mistake in which the orient of an image or a life situation is not meticulously obeyed. The Way of the Image Yoram Kaufmann
October 23, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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"The eminent philosopher of consciousness Thomas Nagel shocked his colleagues a few years back when he published a book explaining why he did not believe the standard reductionist account of the world, which says everything can be explained entirely through materialistic causes. __Nagel is not a theist but says simply that the disenchanted “just dead stuff” view of reality is no longer credible. According to Nagel, the more we learn about the nature of reality, the more reason we have to believe that the mind is an inherent part of it.__" ~Rod Dreher, Living in Wonder
October 20, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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The unconverted ego wants one thing and one thing only: control—and it wants it now. It never wants to change, in fact, it hates change. Things Hidden Richard Rohr
October 15, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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When one reads poetry that is “all on the page,” one is alone. When poetry is spoken, particularly when the larynx is opened and the voice can come from the midriff, people feel in company, in joy, in community. Depths of grief are reached, and flights of inspiration. So it might be well to let your own voice sound when coming upon a poem that particularly strikes you or one that seems remote and cold on the page.Robert BlyThe Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart
October 15, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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“The discipline of poetry is in overhearing yourself say difficult truths from which it is impossible to retreat. In a sense, all poems are good; all poems are an emblem of courage and the attempt to say the unsayable. Yet only a few are able to speak to something universal yet personal and distinct at the same time; to create a door through which others can walk, into territory that previously seemed unobtainable, in the passage of a few short lines.David Whyte
October 14, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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From: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘓𝘪𝘧𝘦, W. A. Mathieu.
THE GREATEST DIFFERENCE between music and written words: the difference between air and paper. All ears that hear can hear music when it is in the air. Music spreads in spherical waves and laps every shore. But the page you now hold no one else is holding. Between you and me these words are a paper rope. We feel the little tugs. You feel me speaking and I feel you reading and listening to me, and then to yourself. Together we are alone, isolated. Right at this moment, no one else is writing what I'm writing. No one but you is reading this line, this very word. These private myster- ies circumscribe the two of us in one little boat. You and I. Your eyes and mine. I love your eyes. From: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘓𝘪𝘧𝘦, W. A. Mathieu.
October 14, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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October 14, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Projection is the way the psyche reaches out to someone or something new. Jung says that “everyone creates for himself a series of more or less imaginary relationships based essentially on projection.” Every new relationship—whether with a person, an object, or an idea—in some way involves projection.The Shadow’s GiftRobin Robertson
October 13, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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October 13, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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“The world will be destroyed by two things, it seems to me: greed and violence.” — Things Hidden, Richard Rohr
October 12, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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"The bully hates the nerd because their intelligence may be his own area of weakness. This is the dynamic of scapegoating – the innocent is blamed for the crime in order to protect the guilty; one is chosen to be taken in place of ourselves. When we project, we psychologically and emotionally invest something of ourselves in an outer person who then bears that quality for us."~Gary Bobroff, Carl Jung: Knowledge in a Nutshell
October 12, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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As soon as uncomfortable emotions come up, we train ourselves in breathing them in and dropping the story line. Comfortable With Uncertainty Pema Chodron
October 11, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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"The vital thing that Jung has  discovered for us is that we have lost our sense of soul because we have lost our respect for symbols; our  modern mind is trained that symbols are illusion. We say, “It is only your imagination,” not realizing that all the  missing parts of ourselves that we long for, the “lost lane into heaven,” are constantly mediated to us in the  forgotten language of the soul: the symbols and images that emanate through dream and imagination."~Robert A. Johnson, We
October 11, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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Water and fire are the great opposites... if you get to the middle of the bridge that unites the opposites, you cannot cross it if you don't know your own opposite. That is why you cannot be changed in analysis if you don't know your shadow, if you don't know that all your ideals have a very seamy underside. Without that awareness, you can't cross into a new life. There's no transition without a confrontation of the opposites.|Marie Louise von Franz, Archetypal Patterns in Fairy Tales
October 8, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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The first half of life we serve society—engagement. The second half of life we turn inward—disengagement. A Joseph Campbell Companion Joseph Campbell
October 8, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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Watching the breath trains you to watch the mind, to observe the flow instead of reacting to it. The Trauma of Everyday Life Mark Epstein
October 7, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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My friends, it is wise to nourish the soul, otherwise you will breed dragons and devils in your heart. — The Red Book, C. G. Jung
October 6, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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"If the New Age is to begin to offer anything substantial to the reordering of life on earth, we Peter Pans have to land on terra firma and begin the hard work of transformation-first in our own lives, then in the world in front of us here and now, not in some distant past or uncertain future. To paraphrase the Buddhist sage: "Do you want to change the world? Then park your mountain bike, get a job and start sweeping the street in front of your door."~John Babbs, New Age Fundamentalism
October 5, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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If we don’t learn to mythologize our lives, inevitably we will pathologize them. On the Threshold of Transformation Richard Rohr
October 4, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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[T]he antidote for loneliness is to embrace loneliness. [T]he acceptance of our periodic descent into the underworld moves us toward that enlargement of the soul, that embrace of the polarities of life which we call wisdom. Courage is not the absence of fear. It is the perception that some things are more important to us than what we fear. An old saying has it that religion is for those who are afraid of going to Hell; spirituality is for those who have been there. What we call a complex is a splinter mythology, an emotionally charged image, an implicit thought or motif, a fragmented world view that binds us to the norms of an earlier experience No influences are more pervasive, or determinative, than those of which one is unaware.
October 3, 2025 at 5:41 PM