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Schulz is every polish teenager’s nightmare. Either you love or you rip your skin off, mostly second option.

The rock creature thus possesses trickster characteristics: it stands above good and evil, is mocking and cunning. It cannot be grasped in terms of Lu

Hermes is the classic trickster manifestation. He is a messenger of the gods because he travels freely between humans and gods, between earth and heav

By moving on the edge, you do not really choose a side, and if you are not careful, you tumble down the wrong side.

“Libraries store the energy that fuels the imagination. They open up windows to the world and inspire us to explore and achieve, and contribute to imp

C.S. Lewis believed that rereading books was just as important as discovering new ones. Familiar stories often reveal new meanings as readers grow old

The Buddhist term for wholesome desire is chanda. Chanda is desire that arises from a place of non-tension. It often feels like a relaxed current, but

Vow can be imagined as the Soul’s inborn commitment to discover and realize its singular niche in the ecosystem of the anima mundi (World Soul). It de

Aristotle invented the word “entelechy” to refer to a thing that has its own principle of development within it, a vital force that propels it forward

Saint Augustine also teaches us what to do after we manage to look within ourselves and realize that there are aspects different from the concept we h

In other words, the moment we confront our shadows, instead of fleeing we must carefully explore those things long enough to be able to take a positio

In her essay, “Dreams Must Explain Themselves” Ursula K. Le Guin writes about how she responded to a colleague who told her that “People would be inte

> I’m not writing because I’ve got the answers. I’m writing because I’m mapping the landscape.

Until a goddess called Baubo, disguised as a servant woman in the house, got Demeter to smile by telling her risqué jokes. Then Baubo lifted her skirt

And as for “speaking from the vulva,” it is, symbolically, speaking from the primae materia, the most basic, most honest level of truth—the vital os.

Only then could she recognize that as a woman she was the source of life and rebirth. Similarly, Demeter had lost herself to rupture when she lost her

TS;WTRM (too short, want to read more) *saw this alternative today and loved it. Instead of prefacing with a tldr have a summary then a TSWTRM version

boredom is to creatives what cardio is to athletes

Every great burst of creativity or action is inseminated with the wiles of boredom

Years ago, I studied shamanism with a Lakota medicine woman. She said that the difference between science and shamanism is that a shaman doesn’t care

If intuition means rapidly processing multiple information streams to reach a conclusion below the threshold of consciousness, then yes, women’s brain

There is a lot of practical, tactical, and getting things done in worldbuilding. And there is a lot of getting low and listening. There is a lot of pu

Exploring a Catastrophic Dream as a Symbol of Modern Consciousness Hypertrophy

Jak pisał Michael Wilson, "sen jest metaforą procesu twórczego, archiwum zaś jest dosłowną manifestacją artystycznych wpływów".

Dreams, my favorite portal into the imaginal, reveal it with startling precision. Every night, an interior landscape rises up with its own geography,

dreams do not exist in linear time, and neither does the act of interpreting them. Every time you return to examine a dream, you are examining it from

By moving on the edge, you do not really choose a side, and if you are not careful, you tumble down the wrong side.

Good loses some of its goodness, and evil some of its evil. As doubt of the “light” of consciousness increases, so the “darkness” of the soul appears

Moreover, from that point of view, we understand what Carl Jung meant when he said that the cross is the symbol of man. His words were:The cross carri

One who meditates deeply may personally experience the symbolism of the cross, encountering a radical sense of emptiness—as if all that is known were

The I arises through a descent into matter, thought, isolation, and egoism (Lucifer wants to prevent this), but can only develop further if an ascent

The fodder of our descents provides the compost from which the richest fruits of our lives can grow. If only we can turn towards our pain and let it w

The I arises through a descent into matter, thought, isolation, and egoism (Lucifer wants to prevent this), but can only develop further if an ascent