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The flame and its heat play an essential role in a multitude of alchemical operations, such as distillation or calcinatio (drying). The police are also called “the heat.” A criminal who hasn’t been caught yet is always concerned about avoiding the heat. A criminal who has been detected wants to escape or outwit the heat.
When we are willing to accept the darkness, it is only then that we find the light.
The adequate question therefore never is: Have I a shadow problem? Have I a negative side? But rather: Where does it happen to be right now? When we cannot see it, it is time to beware! And it is helpful to remember Jung’s formulation that a complex is not pathological per se. It becomes pathological only when we assume that we do not have it;
... See moreThe more we synchronize ourselves with the time in clocks, the more we fall out of sync with our own bodies and the world around us. Borrowing a term from the environmentalist Bill McKibben, Michelle Bastian, a senior lecturer at Edinburgh University and editor of the academic journal Time & Society, has argued that clocks have made us “fatally
... See moreThere’s something about entering a movie theater on a weekday afternoon that resets your mind. The context is so novel—“most people are at work right now!”—that it shakes you loose from your standard state of anxious reactivity. This mental transformation is cleansing and something you should seek on a regular basis.