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qosYesterday evening I went to a Half Price Books in a neighborhood I usually don't visit. There I found a book called The Passion of Isis and Osiris: A Gateway to Transcendent Love, by Jean Houston. Given the startling way Isis broke into my meditation yesterday, and the issues I've been working with around sexuality and passion -- as well as the larger scope of my priestess work, it seemed less than a coincidence.
I started reading this morning, and while I'm still in the Introduction I'm feeling great satisfaction. Houston calls her work with myth and archetypes "sacred psychology" -- and it's very much in line with the way I interpret and process. I want to know more about it, beyond the scope of this book.
And there was this:
In its Jungian usage, "shadow" refers to the repressed and disavowed aspects of self. When these same shadow qualities are recognized and reconciled, there is often a movement toward greater maturity and depth of personality. Since time immemorial, myth and mythic knowing have served to balance shadow and light in individuals and in cultures, which has helped to prevent the exaltation of certain archetypal themes that, if played out unchecked and unorchestrated, could destroy the world.
Yes.
The bit about possibly destroying the world is a much larger scope than I think about, but certainly that is the ultimate consequence of destructive imbalances in individuals and cultures. This is my work, and on some level it always has been: the interpreting and healing and maturing of the soul through engagement with myth and archetype. This is the work which for me plays out in my relationships with Ereshkigal and Inanna and the energies they represent and help me to channel and balance. This is the process, the dance, that is implied by the name of this journal.
I started reading this morning, and while I'm still in the Introduction I'm feeling great satisfaction. Houston calls her work with myth and archetypes "sacred psychology" -- and it's very much in line with the way I interpret and process. I want to know more about it, beyond the scope of this book.
And there was this:
In its Jungian usage, "shadow" refers to the repressed and disavowed aspects of self. When these same shadow qualities are recognized and reconciled, there is often a movement toward greater maturity and depth of personality. Since time immemorial, myth and mythic knowing have served to balance shadow and light in individuals and in cultures, which has helped to prevent the exaltation of certain archetypal themes that, if played out unchecked and unorchestrated, could destroy the world.
Yes.
The bit about possibly destroying the world is a much larger scope than I think about, but certainly that is the ultimate consequence of destructive imbalances in individuals and cultures. This is my work, and on some level it always has been: the interpreting and healing and maturing of the soul through engagement with myth and archetype. This is the work which for me plays out in my relationships with Ereshkigal and Inanna and the energies they represent and help me to channel and balance. This is the process, the dance, that is implied by the name of this journal.
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