Author Archives: Chris
The Way of the Animal Powers (“Cave of Forgotten Dreams”)
One of the main aims of these Mythfire posts is to suggest that much of what we think we know and believe to be true is connected not so much to “truth” and “knowledge” per se but rather to our … Continue reading
Posted in Art/Creativity, Cinema, Depth Psychology, Myth
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The Royal Wedding (“Coniunctio & Wholeness”)
One of the central concepts in analytical psychology is that of the coniunctio, a Latin term meaning conjunction or union. In essence the idea is this: instead of striving to achieve some elevated form of perfection, i.e. in our personality, … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Depth Psychology, Fundamentalism/Literalism, Myth
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The Power of Synchronicity (“Mind-Releasing & Community-Building”)
When Swiss psychiatrist C.G. Jung wrote his 1952 essay “Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle” he provided several examples of the experiences he called synchronicities. Sometimes also referred to as “meaningful coincidence” or “acausal parallelism” synchronicity generally involves three ingredients: a) … Continue reading
Posted in Depth Psychology, Dreams, Synchronicity
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The Individual & Community (“The Interpretation of a Dream”)
On the morning of September 13, 2005, Deborah Louis woke up in her Texas home dreaming of an image. She reached for her pen and jotted it down, later transferring it to her computer. She also wrote down a … Continue reading
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The Interpretation of Dreams (“In the Aftermath of Tucson V”)
“And certainly we should take care not to make the intellect our god…” [1] Readers familiar with the phenomenon of dreams and dreaming may be forgiven if they immediately assume that this post’s title was inspired by Sigmund Freud’s trailblazing … Continue reading
Posted in Depth Psychology, Dreams, Tucson, Violence
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