Sublime

The person looking at or working with the particular image actually participates in the shamanic energy and experience that originally catalyzed it.

In the last analysis, most of our difficulties come from losing contact with our instincts, with the age-old forgotten wisdom stored up in us. And where we make contact with this old man in us? In our dreams. —C. G. Jung

Women often crave a mate who has this kind of endurance and the wit to continue trying to understand her deep nature.

minds and her body to revisit old experiences and patterns in the language of the subconscious—metaphors.

She will show up in our thoughts, our dreams, our inner knowings, our sudden awarenesses . . . with the most useful spare wheel, the lever, the spiritual muscle, the needle and thread, the warp and the weft, the clay, the materia, the music, the nourishment, the difficult insight into, the brilliant thought, the doorway to new attitude, the exact e

Marion Woodman,

“The Death Mother as Nature’s Shadow,” {12} author and anthropologist Daniela Sieff

We are all born anlagen, like the potential at the center of a cell: in biology the anlage is the part of a cell characterized as “that which will become.” Within the anlage is the primal substance which in time will develop, causing us to become a complete someone. So our lives as women are ones of quickening the anlage.

Archetypally, bones represent that which can never be destroyed.