More often the Angel appears to us in our communication, our communion, with other people. We have to learn to listen to people.

David Abram understands human language as an extension of the biological world from which we evolved.

different from, even alien to, all previous thought, and … there is nothing normative, or even normal, about it, or us.”

perception is hardly the passive reception of sensory data that the empiricists believed but is soaked with emotion and guided by the images that flood the psyche.

If the progression from sanity towards mental illness is distinguished by degrees of literalism, then the therapeutic road from psychosis back to sanity is one of going back through the same hermeneutic passage ‒ deliteralizing.

What has to go is the overwhelming sense of personal significance that comes with anima,

opposite. It is abstraction which is literal; the concrete is always imaginal.

an image is not a picture – it may have little or no visual component, and manifests as a psychosomatic event.

We have to give up our attachment to psychology itself, to the literalism of psychotherapeutics.