Mary Antonia Wood, PhD
@talismancreative.bsky.social
The Archetypal Artist: Reimagining Creativity & the Call to Create (Routledge 2022) | Chair, Depth Psychology & Creativity at Pacifica Grad. Institute | Artist, writer & artist's mentor | talismanmentoring.com | www.instagram.com/talisman_creative
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This is an amazing essay on empathy and/against AI.
New preprint: Empathy, Thick and Thin
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
It is perhaps foolhardy to attempt to say something new about a topic as widely studied as empathy. I tried anyway! 1/
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
It is perhaps foolhardy to attempt to say something new about a topic as widely studied as empathy. I tried anyway! 1/
December 13, 2025 at 3:52 PM
This is an amazing essay on empathy and/against AI.
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Naomi Klein looks to the Surrealists for tips on fighting fascism. They were willing to look into the abyss of so-called civilisation, admit to “pessimism all along the line”, and wrench from that darkness a poetics of revolutionary change.
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Surrealism Against Fascism • EQUATOR
A century ago, artists who survived the trenches captured humanity’s capacity for destruction. What can they teach us about confronting the far-right in a new age of genocide?
www.equator.org
November 26, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Naomi Klein looks to the Surrealists for tips on fighting fascism. They were willing to look into the abyss of so-called civilisation, admit to “pessimism all along the line”, and wrench from that darkness a poetics of revolutionary change.
www.equator.org/articles/sur... @equatormag.bsky.social
www.equator.org/articles/sur... @equatormag.bsky.social
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Oldie but a goodie
In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write to a famous author & ask for advice.
KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond.
His reply was a doozy.
KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond.
His reply was a doozy.
November 11, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Oldie but a goodie
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‘One discovers the light in darkness, that is what darkness is for; but everything in our lives depends on how we bear the light.’
— James Baldwin
Jimmy, in a Massachusetts classroom,
about a year before he joined the ancestors:
— James Baldwin
Jimmy, in a Massachusetts classroom,
about a year before he joined the ancestors:
November 15, 2024 at 6:48 PM
‘One discovers the light in darkness, that is what darkness is for; but everything in our lives depends on how we bear the light.’
— James Baldwin
Jimmy, in a Massachusetts classroom,
about a year before he joined the ancestors:
— James Baldwin
Jimmy, in a Massachusetts classroom,
about a year before he joined the ancestors:
The Spring issue of Insights is out now! I'm so pleased to have my work featured on the cover, and to have been interviewed about my thoughts on the "Anima," the archetype of life itself, and the theme of the issue. issuu.com/kknightpgi/d...
April 23, 2025 at 2:52 PM
The Spring issue of Insights is out now! I'm so pleased to have my work featured on the cover, and to have been interviewed about my thoughts on the "Anima," the archetype of life itself, and the theme of the issue. issuu.com/kknightpgi/d...
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A PROPHECY
‘Mammon and Self in Malice blent, Struck down by arm omnipotent,
Pierced by the venom of it's own desires, Writhes in a cloud of darkness and expires’
Text and image: William Thomas Horton, the Way of the Soul, 1910
‘Mammon and Self in Malice blent, Struck down by arm omnipotent,
Pierced by the venom of it's own desires, Writhes in a cloud of darkness and expires’
Text and image: William Thomas Horton, the Way of the Soul, 1910
April 8, 2025 at 2:12 AM
A PROPHECY
‘Mammon and Self in Malice blent, Struck down by arm omnipotent,
Pierced by the venom of it's own desires, Writhes in a cloud of darkness and expires’
Text and image: William Thomas Horton, the Way of the Soul, 1910
‘Mammon and Self in Malice blent, Struck down by arm omnipotent,
Pierced by the venom of it's own desires, Writhes in a cloud of darkness and expires’
Text and image: William Thomas Horton, the Way of the Soul, 1910
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Frida Kahlo, 1935 by photographer and best friend Lucienne Bloch, who said of this day..“We went to a Spanish restaurant and had a kind of strong stuff like Vodka..... We acted most crazy. It was a fine afternoon and cheered Frida up.” #WomensArt
April 3, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Frida Kahlo, 1935 by photographer and best friend Lucienne Bloch, who said of this day..“We went to a Spanish restaurant and had a kind of strong stuff like Vodka..... We acted most crazy. It was a fine afternoon and cheered Frida up.” #WomensArt
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"But some bonuses, like morning, / like right now."
March 17, 2025 at 4:07 PM
"But some bonuses, like morning, / like right now."
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“Το die before you die, no longer to live on the surface of yourself: this is what Parmenides is pointing to. It demands tremendous courage. The journey he describes changes your body; it alters every cell. Mythologically it's the journey of the hero.”
PETER KINGSLEY
Art: Miriam Eme
PETER KINGSLEY
Art: Miriam Eme
March 16, 2025 at 2:48 PM
“Το die before you die, no longer to live on the surface of yourself: this is what Parmenides is pointing to. It demands tremendous courage. The journey he describes changes your body; it alters every cell. Mythologically it's the journey of the hero.”
PETER KINGSLEY
Art: Miriam Eme
PETER KINGSLEY
Art: Miriam Eme
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This is a dynamic global organization!
💥This stellar bi-annual #conference is back!!
“The Creative Psyche & Arts-Based Research”
Where: Association of Jungian Analysts Centre, London and online
When: June 14-15
Keynote: Prof. Susan Rowland @susanrowland.bsky.social
Conference webpage: labrc.co.uk/2025/03/02/the…
“The Creative Psyche & Arts-Based Research”
Where: Association of Jungian Analysts Centre, London and online
When: June 14-15
Keynote: Prof. Susan Rowland @susanrowland.bsky.social
Conference webpage: labrc.co.uk/2025/03/02/the…
March 12, 2025 at 9:15 PM
This is a dynamic global organization!
Taking a moment to marvel at the bigger picture–the much bigger picture...
February 20, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Taking a moment to marvel at the bigger picture–the much bigger picture...
"I get deeply tired because everything touches me. I am never indifferent. Indifference & passivity are impossible to me." ~Anaïs Nin, Journals, Vol. II~ (Nin speaks for all those, especially artists and makers, whose deep attention and sincere caring are non-negotiable.)
February 10, 2025 at 10:43 PM
"I get deeply tired because everything touches me. I am never indifferent. Indifference & passivity are impossible to me." ~Anaïs Nin, Journals, Vol. II~ (Nin speaks for all those, especially artists and makers, whose deep attention and sincere caring are non-negotiable.)
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Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde
Hero.
Hero.
January 22, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde
Hero.
Hero.
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Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde to Trump: "I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now. There are gay, lesbian, and transgender people in Democratic, Republican, and independent families, some who fear for their lives ... and the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals"
January 21, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde to Trump: "I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now. There are gay, lesbian, and transgender people in Democratic, Republican, and independent families, some who fear for their lives ... and the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals"
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Tuesday the Trump fascist WH starts mass immigrant deportations in Chicago. I'm an immigrant & human rights lawyer. Here I cover:
•7 Calls to action to protect our immigrant neighbors
•Debunking 6 common anti-immigrant claims
•Answering 4 FAQs on dealing with ICE
www.qasimrashid.com/p/trumps-mas...
•7 Calls to action to protect our immigrant neighbors
•Debunking 6 common anti-immigrant claims
•Answering 4 FAQs on dealing with ICE
www.qasimrashid.com/p/trumps-mas...
Trump's Mass Anti-Immigrant Raids to Begin
Here are action items to protect your immigrant neighbors, answers to common FAQs, and insights to debunk anti-immigrant propaganda
www.qasimrashid.com
January 19, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Tuesday the Trump fascist WH starts mass immigrant deportations in Chicago. I'm an immigrant & human rights lawyer. Here I cover:
•7 Calls to action to protect our immigrant neighbors
•Debunking 6 common anti-immigrant claims
•Answering 4 FAQs on dealing with ICE
www.qasimrashid.com/p/trumps-mas...
•7 Calls to action to protect our immigrant neighbors
•Debunking 6 common anti-immigrant claims
•Answering 4 FAQs on dealing with ICE
www.qasimrashid.com/p/trumps-mas...
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‘We just crossed the threshold into Octavia E. Butler’s future.
Time has caught up with her vision.’
—Lynell George @lynellgeorge.bsky.social
Author of the book,
a handful of earth
a handful of sky
the world of
Octavia E. Butler
And of this haunting piece, given the LA fires and Trump
🖊️July 2024:
Time has caught up with her vision.’
—Lynell George @lynellgeorge.bsky.social
Author of the book,
a handful of earth
a handful of sky
the world of
Octavia E. Butler
And of this haunting piece, given the LA fires and Trump
🖊️July 2024:
The Parable Is Now
Octavia E. Butler’s 1993 novel, Parable of the Sower, imagined a future in which California is inhospitable, weather is deadly, wealth disparities are vicious, and a presidential candidate may set the...
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January 12, 2025 at 5:06 PM
‘We just crossed the threshold into Octavia E. Butler’s future.
Time has caught up with her vision.’
—Lynell George @lynellgeorge.bsky.social
Author of the book,
a handful of earth
a handful of sky
the world of
Octavia E. Butler
And of this haunting piece, given the LA fires and Trump
🖊️July 2024:
Time has caught up with her vision.’
—Lynell George @lynellgeorge.bsky.social
Author of the book,
a handful of earth
a handful of sky
the world of
Octavia E. Butler
And of this haunting piece, given the LA fires and Trump
🖊️July 2024:
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SOPHIA, holy wisdom, sitting at the base of the tree of life, warns the alchemist who seeks the Philosopher's Stone that he will find it only with her help and never by studying books alone. We need to do the work not just read about it! I love the disapproving look.
Art: Jehan Perréal, 1516
Art: Jehan Perréal, 1516
December 22, 2024 at 8:55 AM
SOPHIA, holy wisdom, sitting at the base of the tree of life, warns the alchemist who seeks the Philosopher's Stone that he will find it only with her help and never by studying books alone. We need to do the work not just read about it! I love the disapproving look.
Art: Jehan Perréal, 1516
Art: Jehan Perréal, 1516
Freud, Jung, and other depth psychological thinkers, such as von Franz, show us exactly what we're up against: mass projection of a "hero-savior-strongman" archetype onto a psychopath, combined with the thrilling permission to release & glorify the most vile of human instincts–irresistible for many.
“In the decade since Donald Trump began to define American politics, critics have struggled to understand his massive appeal,” writes Elizabeth Bruenig. Who better to explain it than Freud? theatln.tc/NWLt2pxo
November 22, 2024 at 8:38 PM
Freud, Jung, and other depth psychological thinkers, such as von Franz, show us exactly what we're up against: mass projection of a "hero-savior-strongman" archetype onto a psychopath, combined with the thrilling permission to release & glorify the most vile of human instincts–irresistible for many.
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"Artists get called a lot of dreamy things. We're 'lighthouses,' we're 'visionaries,' we are 'soothers of the savage breast.' Maybe. But I think we're at our best when we're disruptors. When we rattle self-absorption and the lazy belief that my best interests are everybody's best interests."
November 21, 2024 at 1:42 AM
"Artists get called a lot of dreamy things. We're 'lighthouses,' we're 'visionaries,' we are 'soothers of the savage breast.' Maybe. But I think we're at our best when we're disruptors. When we rattle self-absorption and the lazy belief that my best interests are everybody's best interests."
"When modern tyrannies point out that artists . . . are the public enemy, they are right. But they also pay homage, through the artist, to an image of humankind that nothing, up until now, has had the power to destroy."~Albert Camus, 1957.
(Hello to new, and old, friends on Bluesky!)
(Hello to new, and old, friends on Bluesky!)
November 19, 2024 at 12:14 AM
"When modern tyrannies point out that artists . . . are the public enemy, they are right. But they also pay homage, through the artist, to an image of humankind that nothing, up until now, has had the power to destroy."~Albert Camus, 1957.
(Hello to new, and old, friends on Bluesky!)
(Hello to new, and old, friends on Bluesky!)