the moon's favors: Introduction to the Red Book Lectures

2012/10/10

Introduction to the Red Book Lectures

C.G. Jung And The Red Book

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Lectures presented by Lance S. Owens, MD
Gnostioc Society Library

Listening to the first lecture, I think of Jung's warning against inflation. He was tempering his reaction to his own experience. Please -- be in accord with that. Be your own tempering. Prophecy is a dangerous word in my book, in my understanding, in my reading these lessons. Transformation through your own experience of something: being, remaining open seems the key. Continuing to open. To seal a thing with the emblem of prophecy is part of closing. Please. Breathe this. Open the images. Discover you own in your being. Or so this says to me.

more on The Red Book:

Words whisper, carrying more than one might know, hypostases, rather than mere understanding. Words grow from roots, spawn families, travel and mingle, get lost, get found, and often marry the strangest bedfellows. Like our bodies, our ideas, and our culture, words evolve, handed down to us from a place beyond memory. As the warp and woof of language, words possess the magic to shape the immaterial into the solid things of psyche ~From my intro to AO's The Archives of the Heart

The Platonic tradition may be likened to an underground river that from time to time sends up a spring; wherever its waters flow, the soul is reborn, and with it the conception of intellectual form, the beautiful, and true art.~ Kathleen Raine