Sublime

Likewise, James Hillman, a Jungian analyst as well as the founder of archetypal psychology,

that I, this “me” who I walk around with all the time, is actually a composite of a lot of people living in the same house.

For most depth psychologists, the journey to the underworld is for the purpose of a return to life as, one hopes, a more integrated self, but for Hillman this does not go far enough. The return of the repressed still does not address the deeper meaning of "death itself" and the underworld psyche.39 Hades as a figure of his concern reflects a

we might regard ego from soul's perspective where ego becomes an instrument for day-to-day coping, nothing more grandiose than a trusty janitor of the planetary houses, a servant of soul-making.

“Ancestry” in our culture implies chromosomal connection; ancestors are those humans from whom I have inherited my body tissues. Biogenetics replaces the spirit world. In other societies an ancestor could be a tree, a bear, a salmon, a member of the dead, a spirit in a dream, a special spooky place. These may be addressed as “Ancestor” and an altar

CHAPTER IV Heraclitus

Heraclitus, though an Ionian, was not in the scientific tradition of the Milesians.II He was a mystic, but of a peculiar kind. He regarded fire as the fundamental substance; everything, like flame in a fire, is born by the death of something else. “Mortals are immortals, and immortals are mortals, the one living the other’s death and dying the

James Hillman