Just a Note

Just a little note to say that I´m still here. but I´m having problems with my computer.

Love and Light,

Navigating in “Jungian” waters…

…It´s not that I didn´t know about Carl Gustav Jung, what therapist hasn´t at the very least heard about the Grand Daddy of Modern Psychology? It´s just that I was into other esoteric stuff for years and didn´t really pay attention. I had imbibed a lot of Jungian concepts in my various trainings however, and even Vivian´s Vision Quest was about the subject of “Animus and Anima”.  But since Christmas I have been navigating in all the personal info about Jung, and it is really amazing the stuff “The Man” has brought into the world (apart from fathering 6 children! Mmm…was Jung a good “Pop” apart from his genius? I have to investigate that. I know he had some difficulties with us…I mean, us women.)

I need to let all this simmer a good while now, until the “soup” is ready to serve! Since I am a PS (Psychosynthesis) therapist and a healer, I know the use of Jung´s concept of “Active Imagination” is very important as a bridge between the conscious and the unconscious in Art. (OK, I´m not “a Jungian”, but I am still trained as a therapist, so I will be cautious…Anyway, in many ways I am like Jung himself, I like to experiment with my own brain before experimenting with people…! Besides, I am Swiss, like him. We are a cautious people, if anything else. By the way, did you know what Jung himself said near the end of his long life? “Thank God I am not a Jungian”! Ain´t The Man great?)

It all started with the 2011 TAG Journey, and Vivian´s Vision Quest, which became TEMENOS. So it is only fair that I should upload the info here, in this space.

First of all, I mentioned “The Red Book” (Liber Novus) in one of my groups, joking that Jung was probably on a TAG Journey! And was promptly handed the (heavy!) package for my 65th birthday in January. Fitting.

Then I read “The Undiscoved Self” (Signet), which really fired my interest.

In rapid succession I devoured…

“Memories, Dreams and Recollections”,  (Flamingo)

“Jung” a biography, (Frank Mc Lynn, Black Swan)

“The Jung Cult: Origins of a Charismatic Movement” Richard Noll, Free Press Paperbacks),

“Cult Fictions:   C.G. Jung and the Founding of Analytical Psychology”” (Sonu Shamdasani, Routledge),

”Jung stripped bare, by his Biographers” (Sonu Shamdasani, Karnac)

“ The Transcendent Function: Jung´s Model of Psychological Growth through Dialogue with the Unconscious”, (Jeffrey C. Miller, Suny)

Then (Oh blessed synchronicity!) I saw the movie (with Viggo Mortensen as Freud!) about the relationship of Jung with Sabina Spielrein and Freud,

And finally I bought “A Dangerous Method”, by John Kerr (about the fateful triangle Jung/Freud/Spielrein), a thick book too, which I am slowly absorbing, at night, when all the rest of the day is done.

Truly, I am as seeped as a tea bag!…Lol.

The Hanged Man

The Hanged Man, Major Arcana XII, 2012.

 

Hey there, Friends.

Haven´t been here for a while since I started 2012 with a Spanish “TAG”!

Also – in my personal process, and in relation to Vivian´s Vision Quest (which was real enough!) I am going through a strange phase. The best way to describe it would be through a Tarot card, as I always do in times of uncertainty:

This time, The Hanged Man has come to visit me. Vivian, Corwin and Master Blaise, and the luminous Inner Child, the whole Elvenland saga, have given way to what Jung calls “The Chthonic Mother”, Mother Earth, Ge, Gea, Gaia, in my understanding: the Triple Goddess. This time round She came to me as Lala. My very own Little Big Mother…And this year, I Travel with Her. In Spanish!

After having had a moment of illumination with the fact that “Lala” is the part of me which I understand as being linked to the energies of the Triple Goddess, the Hanged Man appeared. I needed to record this in this Archive.

Basically the Hanged Man is about the need to let go of expectations, a sacrifice of what hinders progress, and a calm surrender to greater forces.

Well, no, to me, the Hanged Man does not indicate a reversal, it shows the way to a further synthesis. And also a change of language. I do live in Spain, this is where Destiny (and Dharma) have led me, and it is now time to create a new synthesis of thought, feeling and action.

Vivian´s Vision Quest goes on, for the time being… “en castellano”.

This is where you will find me: on Lala´s Island. You may not understand Spanish, but the art goes on. Art being a universal language, you might even get a glimpse of… Lala!

Hugs around,

The Wizard of Lothlorien.

 

News!

Lala´s Island, watercolors, SG, 2012.

Hi there, Friends.

I haven´t been here for a while, sorry. I am now creating a sort of Spanish “TAG”, called “El Viaje” (The Journey), because I needed to come closer to doing workshops at the “real-Earth” Sanctuary as well as being Online. I´ll see what happens, and for the time being this blog (and the Wizard´s) will simply float around.

The structure of “El Viaje” is based on my/our experience of Susan´s TAG journey, though with some differences. For example the prompts are public, anybody can follow the blog and apply them, but there actually is a private supervision on a closed website. A bit like the Yahoo group we moved with at the time, but with more comments on my part on people´s Journey, and put into a clear context: that of personal investigation, through Applied Psychosynthesis.

I put the link in because the art will be new, as the year progresses, and you might be interested in seeing how everything develops. I have tried to make the Spanish part coherent with my 2011 TAG Journey, because I don´t want to lose this material, or forget about it. Actually “El Viaje” is a part of “Vivian´s Vision Quest”, only sort of more “local”. And in Spanish, of course.

The structure of the group online is that of a “central blog” with personal blogs attached, a bit like we did with the TAG. Mika and Adam are doing this with me, you will find their new blogs on the site of the Taller METAFORA. I have a personal blog, “La Isla de Lala”. in which you might be interested, art-wise.

“El Taller METAFORA” was an art workshop at the Sanctuary that we did in 1999, just before the Millennium. It was a seed for something that may well be happening this year, in real-time, and on real-Earth.

Hope all is well with all of you, hugs around,

Shakti.

…Who is Lala?

My very own little Lala, Mixed Media, SG, 2012.

Hello! Did you start well into this shining New Year?

Something new happened here. I was thinking about all the archetypes catwalk that happened in my TAG Journey last year, and I must have all of them pretty well ordered and integrated because a new figure appeared in my inner “eye” (I), with a mysterious question: …Who is Lala?

Been meditating on that for almost two weeks now, until I got my eager hands on new wool, and ***I had an idea***! So I made “a Lala”, here she is.

Hello, Little Mother! SG, 2012.

Lala is not like anything I have met before, but I think that some of you (that I have known for years) will recognize the  basic character instantly, lol.

O-ho. She is back! And I´m certainly looking forward to explore her many facets…once again!

 Jung calls her the Chthonic Mother. To me, she just came as Lala. Mmmm…easier to visualize.

Also, I have received Carl Gustav Jung´s Red Book for my birthday (wow!), and I have now read a lot of Jung´s stuff since october last year:

- The Undiscovered Self (comes highly recommended by me!),

- Jung, A Biography, by Frank McLynn,

- Aspects of the Feminine, (anathema to feminists!),

. Psychic Energy (Its source and Transformation) by Esther Harding (foreword by Jung) ,

- The Transcendent Function (by J.Miller),

Yeah, yeah, and because I like to pack a kit and close a circle:

- Jung, the Key Ideas, “Teach Yourself” serie (www.teachyourself.com)

…and am now quite schooled in Analytical Psychology, though what I like best about Jung is… Jung, The Man. (He was very handsome and very Swiss indeed.) 

I saw The Movie too (A Dangerous Method, or something like that, don´t go if you are not interested in psychology, lol), and it was also fun watching Viggo Mortensen (I am an Aragorn fan!) posing as Freud… I had a great moment of shifting realities, ( Aragorn as Freud, and Jung  The Man, in action on the screen, spanking Kira Knightley! ). After that, my subconscious threw Lala at my more intellectual left-hand side brain, right over the corpus callosum! Like, get over your Animus, time to Go Home! hahaha 

I tell you, Friends, travelling in my brain is a real Adventure! I rather think that I have several bees in my bonnet!  

Hugs around, and again, my very best thoughts and best wishes to all of you for 2012. …Create!…

 

 

 

 

Happy Change of Civilization!

Mandala, watercolors, SG, 2011.

Yes, well, let us hope something will change, because some parts of the current so-called ”civilization” are really shitty…

Ye gods! We´re there! …2012!

Frankly, I will be happy if things go on the way they are, I mean in my personal life, for just another cycle. And you?

My best wishes, Health, Wisdom, Love and Light to you, my Friends!…

From my heart:

The Wizard of Lothlorien.

 

Festival of the Light

This is the front cover of my new experiment: a stitched fabric book!

Wishing you a very nice “Festival of the Light” Season, I will come back in January!

Hugs,

The Artist.

"Elvenland", visual journal, fabric cover, SG 2011