Friday, July 27, 2007
Sunday, July 22, 2007
The Way of the Heart
Jung In Ireland: Andrew Harvey was set to give a lecture entitled "The Way of the Heart" but became ill and had to cancel.
Instead, each of the presenters expressed a take on the topic. Here are some of my notes.
Jan Bauer:
Connect through the shadow. If we try to be perfect, we're invulnerable, not touchable. We become humanized through our errors and imperfections. When there is a chink in the wall our friends fly in to help us.
We connect through light as well as paradox of light and shadow in our sometimes silly and sacred humanity.
It would be wonderful to be able to accept our whole shadow, all the faux pas, and own them, even if someone were to recite them.
Dr. Tom Lavin:
Listen within. His dreams revealed he needed a heart bypass. He was able to have that done in time to save his life.
All the archetypes are within. We need the tension of opposites, such as comedy and tragedy. Full life is able to embrace what the self gives today.
You can own the fact that you live and live deeply.
Dr. Maureen Concannon: The Irish way of the heart. Neart is divine energy that pervades everything.
(I googled neart and it also listed it as strength, strength in unity.)
Sowen (Irish for spirits) are in costume, not speaking. Can't be recognized. You could be dancing with a spirit.
"Only when we are alone can we find the other present in us." She mentioned or recited the Prayer of St. Francis.
Rumi: "There is a light beyond..."
Dr. Aryeh Maidenbaum:
"Who looks outside dreams,
Who looks within, awakens.
~Jung
Sometimes the only thing worse than changing is not changing. (Brendan Kenneally)
"Only that which changes is true." ~Jung
You have to be open to change to have a real life.
Death and the midlife crisis. Aryeh gave a fascinating talk that was personal as well as psychological but like much of this conference, you truly had to be there for the experience.
He spoke about similarities documented between death and the midlife crisis. My notes weren't clear so I took this from andropause.org/uk/articles:
by Jean Coleman, MSc Consultant Clinical Psychologist
In 1965 Elliot Jacques, coined the phrase "midlife crisis," in his article: Death and the Midlife Crisis. Journal of Psycho-Analysis 46.
Jacques maintained that the pattern of midlife crisis is often seen in the lives of writers, composers and artists. Their early work flows easily from pen, brush, chisel or whatever. In the second half of life, things progress more slowly and with more of a struggle; but the results are more meaningful, stronger, in many peoples eyes, they are greater works of art.
Shakespeare’s earlier works had a lighter, often more comedic style; but it is his later works of tragedy that have the deeper messages. So also with musicians and other artists. Jaques would maintain that the great work of Bach, Constable and Goya emerged in mid-life.
Jacques studied ‘some 310 painters, composers, poets, writers and sculptors of undoubted greatness or genius’. In this study, he found a tendency for creativity either to cease, sometimes the person actually died, or subsequent works were changed in nature. The quality of work is no longer a spontaneous expression but becomes a ‘sculpted creativity’.
There is no longer a need for obsessional attempts at perfection, because inevitable imperfection is no longer felt as bitter persecuting failure. Out of this mature resignation comes the serenity in the work of genius, true serenity, serenity which transcends imperfection by accepting it.’
Levinson (1976) also comments on the link between resolution of the crisis and continuing effective creativity, ‘Men such as Freud, Jung, Eugene O’Neill, Frank Lloyd Wright, Goya and Ghandi went through a profound crisis at around 40 and made tremendous creative gains through it. There are also men like Dylan Thomas and F. Scott Fitzgerald who could not manage this crisis and who destroyed themselves in it.
A study of 310 important creative people (Mozart, Rodin, etc.) indicated that they had a marked tendency toward crisis in midlife.
Aryeh ended with a quote from the Talmud:
If I am not for myself, who will be?
If I am only for myself, who am I?
If not now, when?
Guy Corneau:
Led a powerful heart meditation. You had to be there!
Noirin Ni Riain:
My notes aren't clear. Brigit: The Happy Heart is True
The Developing Mind, by Dan Siegal, power of relationships to heal.
Sunset: Take a moment for consciousness. Sun rise is the new day. Make your own ritual and make time for it every day.
Instead, each of the presenters expressed a take on the topic. Here are some of my notes.
Jan Bauer:
Connect through the shadow. If we try to be perfect, we're invulnerable, not touchable. We become humanized through our errors and imperfections. When there is a chink in the wall our friends fly in to help us.
We connect through light as well as paradox of light and shadow in our sometimes silly and sacred humanity.
It would be wonderful to be able to accept our whole shadow, all the faux pas, and own them, even if someone were to recite them.
Dr. Tom Lavin:
Listen within. His dreams revealed he needed a heart bypass. He was able to have that done in time to save his life.
All the archetypes are within. We need the tension of opposites, such as comedy and tragedy. Full life is able to embrace what the self gives today.
You can own the fact that you live and live deeply.
Dr. Maureen Concannon: The Irish way of the heart. Neart is divine energy that pervades everything.
(I googled neart and it also listed it as strength, strength in unity.)
Sowen (Irish for spirits) are in costume, not speaking. Can't be recognized. You could be dancing with a spirit.
"Only when we are alone can we find the other present in us." She mentioned or recited the Prayer of St. Francis.
Rumi: "There is a light beyond..."
Dr. Aryeh Maidenbaum:
"Who looks outside dreams,
Who looks within, awakens.
~Jung
Sometimes the only thing worse than changing is not changing. (Brendan Kenneally)
"Only that which changes is true." ~Jung
You have to be open to change to have a real life.
Death and the midlife crisis. Aryeh gave a fascinating talk that was personal as well as psychological but like much of this conference, you truly had to be there for the experience.
He spoke about similarities documented between death and the midlife crisis. My notes weren't clear so I took this from andropause.org/uk/articles:
by Jean Coleman, MSc Consultant Clinical Psychologist
In 1965 Elliot Jacques, coined the phrase "midlife crisis," in his article: Death and the Midlife Crisis. Journal of Psycho-Analysis 46.
Jacques maintained that the pattern of midlife crisis is often seen in the lives of writers, composers and artists. Their early work flows easily from pen, brush, chisel or whatever. In the second half of life, things progress more slowly and with more of a struggle; but the results are more meaningful, stronger, in many peoples eyes, they are greater works of art.
Shakespeare’s earlier works had a lighter, often more comedic style; but it is his later works of tragedy that have the deeper messages. So also with musicians and other artists. Jaques would maintain that the great work of Bach, Constable and Goya emerged in mid-life.
Jacques studied ‘some 310 painters, composers, poets, writers and sculptors of undoubted greatness or genius’. In this study, he found a tendency for creativity either to cease, sometimes the person actually died, or subsequent works were changed in nature. The quality of work is no longer a spontaneous expression but becomes a ‘sculpted creativity’.
There is no longer a need for obsessional attempts at perfection, because inevitable imperfection is no longer felt as bitter persecuting failure. Out of this mature resignation comes the serenity in the work of genius, true serenity, serenity which transcends imperfection by accepting it.’
Levinson (1976) also comments on the link between resolution of the crisis and continuing effective creativity, ‘Men such as Freud, Jung, Eugene O’Neill, Frank Lloyd Wright, Goya and Ghandi went through a profound crisis at around 40 and made tremendous creative gains through it. There are also men like Dylan Thomas and F. Scott Fitzgerald who could not manage this crisis and who destroyed themselves in it.
A study of 310 important creative people (Mozart, Rodin, etc.) indicated that they had a marked tendency toward crisis in midlife.
Aryeh ended with a quote from the Talmud:
If I am not for myself, who will be?
If I am only for myself, who am I?
If not now, when?
Guy Corneau:
Led a powerful heart meditation. You had to be there!
Noirin Ni Riain:
My notes aren't clear. Brigit: The Happy Heart is True
The Developing Mind, by Dan Siegal, power of relationships to heal.
Sunset: Take a moment for consciousness. Sun rise is the new day. Make your own ritual and make time for it every day.
Astrological Psychology
Jung took many of his innovative ideas from astrology (typology, for instance). Archetypal figures are the planets. Venus has been the Goddess of Love since the ancients.
Jung's daughter Grette said that her father put her in the role of home/mother. At 15 she became gravely ill. Jung came to see her and actually saw her and listened to her.
Out of that meeting, she was freed of the mothering role and became an astrologer.
Grette also mentioned that the children did not like Toni Wolf. They wrecked her hat. (related in a private interview with Dr. Maureen Concannon.)
Dr. Concannon insists that we are terrified of the powerful feminine. She does not refer to leaders such as Margaret Thatcher, whom she characterized as a man in drag.
Horrific murders and wars, she said, are the result of having lost contact with the feminine archetype of the great mother.
Currently we're experiencing the manifestation of the dark goddess. (My notes from this lecture are spotty.
Dr. Concannon's flow was a bit hard to follow. She seemed to be in the midst of her own transformation and admitted that she could not follow her usual highly prepared and rational style.
Regarding the dark night of the soul, she quotes Scott Fitzgerald: "It's 3:00 in the morning 24 hours a day."
Christianity in Ireland: The druids became priests (so there was no war) but they kept the idea of a feminine deity. The white deer is the druid.
Three branches of Irish Christianity. (A bit spotty here) Bridit's kept ancient traditions of Ireland. Druids involve nature rituals. (Brigit's day is February 1st.
How the Irish Saved Civilization (during the dark ages, peace reigned in Ireland) Druids created a Christianity of peace and druidic knowledge.
Early Irish Christianity is based on the Coptic Christians and connected strongly with the land.
From Noirin ni Riaian:
Brigit is the patron of healing, poetry and smiths craft. Imbolc is her season.
Where is the center of the world? Where you stand.
February 1 is Brigid's day
February 2 is Christian Fest of Mary (Candle mass)
February 3rd - Blaise - (?) Feast for blessings of your throat?
Brigid was born on the threshold - The threshold is a place of possibility.
The Crone was once the lover to all the Kings of Ireland. Hills are rocks that fell from her apron.
Jung's daughter Grette said that her father put her in the role of home/mother. At 15 she became gravely ill. Jung came to see her and actually saw her and listened to her.
Out of that meeting, she was freed of the mothering role and became an astrologer.
Grette also mentioned that the children did not like Toni Wolf. They wrecked her hat. (related in a private interview with Dr. Maureen Concannon.)
Dr. Concannon insists that we are terrified of the powerful feminine. She does not refer to leaders such as Margaret Thatcher, whom she characterized as a man in drag.
Horrific murders and wars, she said, are the result of having lost contact with the feminine archetype of the great mother.
Currently we're experiencing the manifestation of the dark goddess. (My notes from this lecture are spotty.
Dr. Concannon's flow was a bit hard to follow. She seemed to be in the midst of her own transformation and admitted that she could not follow her usual highly prepared and rational style.
Regarding the dark night of the soul, she quotes Scott Fitzgerald: "It's 3:00 in the morning 24 hours a day."
Christianity in Ireland: The druids became priests (so there was no war) but they kept the idea of a feminine deity. The white deer is the druid.
Three branches of Irish Christianity. (A bit spotty here) Bridit's kept ancient traditions of Ireland. Druids involve nature rituals. (Brigit's day is February 1st.
How the Irish Saved Civilization (during the dark ages, peace reigned in Ireland) Druids created a Christianity of peace and druidic knowledge.
Early Irish Christianity is based on the Coptic Christians and connected strongly with the land.
From Noirin ni Riaian:
Brigit is the patron of healing, poetry and smiths craft. Imbolc is her season.
Where is the center of the world? Where you stand.
February 1 is Brigid's day
February 2 is Christian Fest of Mary (Candle mass)
February 3rd - Blaise - (?) Feast for blessings of your throat?
Brigid was born on the threshold - The threshold is a place of possibility.
The Crone was once the lover to all the Kings of Ireland. Hills are rocks that fell from her apron.
Sunday, June 24, 2007
Growing Into Real Power
Growing Into Real Power: When Living Itself Becomes A Friend
Notes from Dr. Maureen Concannon's lecture - 2007 Jung In Ireland Conference
When an archetype (such as the goddess) is withdrawn from the collective consciousness, it becomes hidden in our unconscious and we become afraid of it.
The goddess stood for things we're now afraid of. For instance, she rules over death (death is generally a tabu subject.)
4,500 B.C.: Horse-riding warriors (Kurgens) from the Russian Steppes moved west. Unlike their intrusion into the rest of Europe, they didn't enter Ireland until 600 B.C. This gave Ireland 4,000 years longer than the rest of Europe to remain a nature and matriarchal society.
The Law of Nature: Respect and honor what you have or it will be taken from you. Ireland has a pact with the goddess. If Ireland wars, or disrespects the land, the goddess divorces him and pestilence falls. This has been true throughout Irish history.
Disease in the earth is in us too. (This is also the shamanic viewpoint that Alberto Villoldo discusses in his books, and in the lecture I attended in New Mexico. If we stay in balance with nature, we ultimately remain in balance within.)
Ireland is currently highly prosperous and the agreement with the goddess is being forgotten.
Fairies and little people: in 600 B.C. they took everything underground. But now everything underground is coming back up. Leprechauns were not formerly considered small.
At one time children used to be birthed in the open, in stone circles under the sky so they could connect with the sky.
So much we can't do until midlife because we're not at that point of integration.
(Part II to follow)
Notes from Dr. Maureen Concannon's lecture - 2007 Jung In Ireland Conference
When an archetype (such as the goddess) is withdrawn from the collective consciousness, it becomes hidden in our unconscious and we become afraid of it.
The goddess stood for things we're now afraid of. For instance, she rules over death (death is generally a tabu subject.)
4,500 B.C.: Horse-riding warriors (Kurgens) from the Russian Steppes moved west. Unlike their intrusion into the rest of Europe, they didn't enter Ireland until 600 B.C. This gave Ireland 4,000 years longer than the rest of Europe to remain a nature and matriarchal society.
The Law of Nature: Respect and honor what you have or it will be taken from you. Ireland has a pact with the goddess. If Ireland wars, or disrespects the land, the goddess divorces him and pestilence falls. This has been true throughout Irish history.
Disease in the earth is in us too. (This is also the shamanic viewpoint that Alberto Villoldo discusses in his books, and in the lecture I attended in New Mexico. If we stay in balance with nature, we ultimately remain in balance within.)
Ireland is currently highly prosperous and the agreement with the goddess is being forgotten.
Fairies and little people: in 600 B.C. they took everything underground. But now everything underground is coming back up. Leprechauns were not formerly considered small.
At one time children used to be birthed in the open, in stone circles under the sky so they could connect with the sky.
So much we can't do until midlife because we're not at that point of integration.
(Part II to follow)
Saturday, June 23, 2007
Listen With the Ear of the Heart
Theosony: A Time For Listening Obediently to the Sounds of the Ear of the Heart
Dr. Noirin Ni Riain
The human ear never sleeps. It provides 90% of sensory energy to the brain. Within 135 days of impregnation, bones in your ears are almost fully formed. You hear sounds inside and outside the womb.
We hear in all directions all the time. We hear in darkness. There are 7 primary colors and 30,000 nerve fibers. The earth is vibrating in b flat.
Your voice is only known to you as its linked between the Eustachian tube and inner ear. Hearing is the Cinderella of the senses. The eye is always favored. Ear muffs are rare but sunglasses are generally assumed.
Why the neglect? Some say it's patriarchy. Women are better hearers than men. Our ears look like little fetuses.
We live in an eye-centered world. Martin Luther said, "We must put our ears where our eyes are."
"Listen with the ear of the heart." St Benedict
How does one hear the sound of the divine in mid-life and beyond? (Mid-life commencing by age 35)
No human being is deaf to the sound of god.
Listening anew is the work at midlife. Listen with the ear of the psyche.
Meister Eckhart said, "We hear without sound."
There is the archetype of the monk in each of us.
Theosony is a neologism for voice of God, silence of God. (Neologism like brunch equals breakfast and lunch.)
H-ear-t. Midlife is a time for clairaudient listening. It is a time to shake off what is bad and dead in us.
Dr. Noirin Ni Riain
The human ear never sleeps. It provides 90% of sensory energy to the brain. Within 135 days of impregnation, bones in your ears are almost fully formed. You hear sounds inside and outside the womb.
We hear in all directions all the time. We hear in darkness. There are 7 primary colors and 30,000 nerve fibers. The earth is vibrating in b flat.
Your voice is only known to you as its linked between the Eustachian tube and inner ear. Hearing is the Cinderella of the senses. The eye is always favored. Ear muffs are rare but sunglasses are generally assumed.
Why the neglect? Some say it's patriarchy. Women are better hearers than men. Our ears look like little fetuses.
We live in an eye-centered world. Martin Luther said, "We must put our ears where our eyes are."
"Listen with the ear of the heart." St Benedict
How does one hear the sound of the divine in mid-life and beyond? (Mid-life commencing by age 35)
No human being is deaf to the sound of god.
Listening anew is the work at midlife. Listen with the ear of the psyche.
Meister Eckhart said, "We hear without sound."
There is the archetype of the monk in each of us.
Theosony is a neologism for voice of God, silence of God. (Neologism like brunch equals breakfast and lunch.)
H-ear-t. Midlife is a time for clairaudient listening. It is a time to shake off what is bad and dead in us.
Wednesday, June 6, 2007
Saturday, June 2, 2007
Beyond the Mask
Dr. Tom Lavin, “The Art of Growing Wiser”
Jung in Ireland 2007
In the second half of life, the body declines, but the soul rises. As elders we have the ability and responsibility to mentor others because we now know from experience that everything passes; this is something you don’t know when you’re younger.
Growing wiser is an art and there is an energy growing bestows. There’s no gold watch to commemorate this passage.
Art actually points beyond itself to a deep place of wonder that can literally take your breath away. It magnetizes the soul.
We need this sense of dream time and astonishment. Journeys allow us to maintain vibrant contact with the extraordinary. For our sanity we need to take journeys out of the ordinary, into the extraordinary and back again. This also infuses life with more passion.
Traditionally people’s biggest fears: there’s not enough, need to hold on, being alone, death.
The ancient wisdom of the Tao says we will always have enough, we can let go, we’re never alone, and dying is like coming home.
Dr. Lavin recommends Sages Tao Te Ching by Lao Tsu (Steven Mitchell translation). He opens it synchronistically, i.e., allowing the universe to guide him to the right page:
Today’s page: “The sage does not retire from life. The sage retires from unhappiness.”
Retirement, Dr. Lavin says, is about doing what we should always have been doing, living with joy. As the Tao says,” Retire from the strain of seeking security.”
Jung wrote The Stages of Life in which he mapped many of life’s crucial turning points.
One gift of Jungian psychology is that it guides us to gently turn at those points, and therefore keep moving and growing.
Rilke said: “I live my life in widening circles.” We have to take the time to grow wiser, to participate in active imagination, to experience liminal space. We can get stuck in certain stories and images and need to push to the next thing.
Dr. Lavin encourages us to read The Wisdom Paradox: How Your Mind Can Grow Stronger as Your Body Grows Older by Elkhonon Goldberg. (see book list below) He also cites an article from Time Magazine that tells us certain aspects of the brain only form after a particular age.
You can be wise and isolated but not lonely because you are partnered from within. Wisdom is a gift and the earliest forms were the feminine. We don’t have images for the deepest energies inside us.
As we’ve grown, we’ve also rejected parts of ourselves we’ve outgrown or never liked. Jungian psychology is inclusive and Dr. Lavin encourages us to let back in our rejected selves. They had virtues, even though we’re glad we’re not them any more.
“Forgive those selves that make mistakes and begin to like them.” This heals the struggle with the polar parts of our personalities.
We’re on a collective and a personal journey but the collective is all about mediocrity, fitting in, not standing out. It does not encourage individuation.
This may have come from Wendy Donniger’s lecture: It’s ironic but a lot of what we become happened as a result of suffering, yet as parents we want to protect our children from suffering. The world presents it to them anyway.
Check out these books and venues:
Sages Tao Te Ching
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1569246114?ie=UTF8&tag=wwwlorriekazc-20
The Wisdom Paradox: How Your Mind Can Grow Stronger As Your Body Grows Older
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1592401872?ie=UTF8&tag=wwwlorriekazc-20
"According to New York University neuropsychologist Elkhonon Goldberg, brains get better in key respects as they get older. Moreover, he argues in The Wisdom Paradox, people can do much to ward off the debilities associated with aging."
Jung in Ireland and other programs: http://www.nyjungcenter.org/
Glossary of Terms: (Compiled by Daryl Sharp, Inner City Books)
Archetype: ...Universal and recurring image, pattern or motif representing a typical human experience. Archetypal images come from the collective unconscious and are the basic content of religions, mythologies, legends and art. They also emerge...through dreams and visions.
Collective Unconscious: The deepest layer of the unconscious, which is ordinarily inaccessible to awareness. It is universal and non-individual...The contents of the collective unconscious are the archetypes and their specific images.
Persona (Latin) Actor's Mask: It is the partially calculated public face an individual assumes in relating to others. The persona is derived from the expectations of society and the early training by parents and teaches. It is the role one plays in society, useful both in facilitating contact with others and as a protective covering, but inhibiting when one identifies with it.
Synchronicity: A term coined by Jung...to explain the occurrence of meaningful coincidence...whenever an inner psychic happening (dream, vision, premonition) is accompanied by a corresponding outer physical event which could not have been causally connected with the former.
Unconscious: That portion of the psyche which is outside conscious awareness. The unconscious expresses itself in dreams, fantasies, obsesive preoccupations, slips of the tngue and accidents of all kinds. Jung distinguishes two layers of the unconscious containing the universal patterns and images called archetypes.
Jung in Ireland 2007
In the second half of life, the body declines, but the soul rises. As elders we have the ability and responsibility to mentor others because we now know from experience that everything passes; this is something you don’t know when you’re younger.
Growing wiser is an art and there is an energy growing bestows. There’s no gold watch to commemorate this passage.
Art actually points beyond itself to a deep place of wonder that can literally take your breath away. It magnetizes the soul.
We need this sense of dream time and astonishment. Journeys allow us to maintain vibrant contact with the extraordinary. For our sanity we need to take journeys out of the ordinary, into the extraordinary and back again. This also infuses life with more passion.
Traditionally people’s biggest fears: there’s not enough, need to hold on, being alone, death.
The ancient wisdom of the Tao says we will always have enough, we can let go, we’re never alone, and dying is like coming home.
Dr. Lavin recommends Sages Tao Te Ching by Lao Tsu (Steven Mitchell translation). He opens it synchronistically, i.e., allowing the universe to guide him to the right page:
Today’s page: “The sage does not retire from life. The sage retires from unhappiness.”
Retirement, Dr. Lavin says, is about doing what we should always have been doing, living with joy. As the Tao says,” Retire from the strain of seeking security.”
Jung wrote The Stages of Life in which he mapped many of life’s crucial turning points.
One gift of Jungian psychology is that it guides us to gently turn at those points, and therefore keep moving and growing.
Rilke said: “I live my life in widening circles.” We have to take the time to grow wiser, to participate in active imagination, to experience liminal space. We can get stuck in certain stories and images and need to push to the next thing.
Dr. Lavin encourages us to read The Wisdom Paradox: How Your Mind Can Grow Stronger as Your Body Grows Older by Elkhonon Goldberg. (see book list below) He also cites an article from Time Magazine that tells us certain aspects of the brain only form after a particular age.
You can be wise and isolated but not lonely because you are partnered from within. Wisdom is a gift and the earliest forms were the feminine. We don’t have images for the deepest energies inside us.
As we’ve grown, we’ve also rejected parts of ourselves we’ve outgrown or never liked. Jungian psychology is inclusive and Dr. Lavin encourages us to let back in our rejected selves. They had virtues, even though we’re glad we’re not them any more.
“Forgive those selves that make mistakes and begin to like them.” This heals the struggle with the polar parts of our personalities.
We’re on a collective and a personal journey but the collective is all about mediocrity, fitting in, not standing out. It does not encourage individuation.
This may have come from Wendy Donniger’s lecture: It’s ironic but a lot of what we become happened as a result of suffering, yet as parents we want to protect our children from suffering. The world presents it to them anyway.
Check out these books and venues:
Sages Tao Te Ching
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1569246114?ie=UTF8&tag=wwwlorriekazc-20
The Wisdom Paradox: How Your Mind Can Grow Stronger As Your Body Grows Older
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1592401872?ie=UTF8&tag=wwwlorriekazc-20
"According to New York University neuropsychologist Elkhonon Goldberg, brains get better in key respects as they get older. Moreover, he argues in The Wisdom Paradox, people can do much to ward off the debilities associated with aging."
Jung in Ireland and other programs: http://www.nyjungcenter.org/
Glossary of Terms: (Compiled by Daryl Sharp, Inner City Books)
Archetype: ...Universal and recurring image, pattern or motif representing a typical human experience. Archetypal images come from the collective unconscious and are the basic content of religions, mythologies, legends and art. They also emerge...through dreams and visions.
Collective Unconscious: The deepest layer of the unconscious, which is ordinarily inaccessible to awareness. It is universal and non-individual...The contents of the collective unconscious are the archetypes and their specific images.
Persona (Latin) Actor's Mask: It is the partially calculated public face an individual assumes in relating to others. The persona is derived from the expectations of society and the early training by parents and teaches. It is the role one plays in society, useful both in facilitating contact with others and as a protective covering, but inhibiting when one identifies with it.
Synchronicity: A term coined by Jung...to explain the occurrence of meaningful coincidence...whenever an inner psychic happening (dream, vision, premonition) is accompanied by a corresponding outer physical event which could not have been causally connected with the former.
Unconscious: That portion of the psyche which is outside conscious awareness. The unconscious expresses itself in dreams, fantasies, obsesive preoccupations, slips of the tngue and accidents of all kinds. Jung distinguishes two layers of the unconscious containing the universal patterns and images called archetypes.
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