The conscious mind has become dissociated from the deeper matrix out of which it arose. One of the foremost reasons for this was the split that developed between spirit and nature in the Western philosophical and religious traditions. This split arose from the belief that a Creator God inhabited a realm that was totally transcendent to …
I would like to announce that my new book “Jungian alchemy” it. trad. “Alchimia Junghiana: Riflessioni teoriche di psicoanalisi junghiana e psicologia del profondo: Attraversando l’Opus Alchemico di C. G. Jung” (Diego Pignatelli Spinazzola, Persiani 2015) is coming out soon in print. It is not yet been published therefore that way I choose to post …
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css_animation=”right-to-left”] Had Carl G. Jung been a psychiatric patient, he might well have been told he had a nervous disorder and encouraged to ignore the circus going on in his head. But as a psychiatrist, and one with a decidedly maverick streak, he tried instead to tear down the wall between his rational self and …
Alchemy was both a technological practice and a spiritual way of approaching and philosophically understanding the world. Of particular use in this understanding were the signs and symbols found throughout nature. They revealed the underlying spiritual connections and transformations of the world. Fundamental to this approach was the principle of correspondence. For alchemists, analogies and …