tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6973764545675459805.post4248321527970056325..comments2023-11-05T01:15:22.501-07:00Comments on Taming the Polar Bears: Mania and the Story of Icarus and DaedalusUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6973764545675459805.post-8604171844000268202015-12-16T20:27:26.593-08:002015-12-16T20:27:26.593-08:00Well, yes.. And as Jung most famously said, "...Well, yes.. And as Jung most famously said, "The Gods have become our diseases".. then followed up endlessly by the great modern psychological thinker James Hillman, with his books 'Suicide & the Soul'.. then followed by 'Re-Visioning Psychology'.. also later by his best selling book 'The Soul's Code'.. I have become a devourer, like a hungry Saturn, reading just about every book I can get my hands on by Hillman, including his books 'Mythic Figures,' beginning with an essay on 'Dionysus in Jung's Wrirings' & also on 'Athene, Ananke & the Necessity of Abnormal Psychology'.. And another essay titled 'Pink Madness: Why Venus-Aphrodite Drives Us Crazy With Pornography'.. also the book 'Animal Presences,' 'The Dream & the Underworld' & 'Pan & the Nightmare' etc.. I have also read & studied much of the books & workshops with astrologer & Jungian analyst Liz Greene, author of book's like 'The Astrology of Fate' & co-author of 'The Mythic Tarot'.. She also has available numerous studyshops on Cd, including a workshop she did with Hillman titled 'The Alchemical Sky'.. With these studyshops available at www.astrologos.com.. <br /><br />And meanwhile I have been studying astrology, psychology, mythology & the world in general & writing about all this in my blog www.whatsitallmeanthen.blogspot.com since late 2007.. I too was inspired, like many others by books like Jonathon Livingston Seagull in my "Individuation process".. Hillman was basically calling for us all to return to the poetic basis of Mind, back to the imaginative Renaissance Mind.. The meaning of life essentially being our own Soul's in search of Eros. Or that which most deeply inspires or "moves us".. Eros, who is love.. as in all the great works of Shakespeare etc et al.. <br /><br />And all this taking me back to the three wuotes ot the start of my daily journel.. beginning with a quote from the book 'The Artists Way'.. then ending with a quote from an essay on "bi-polar disorder," based on Hillman's essay on the Puer & Senex dynamic relationship.. the endless dialog between the "eternal youth" & the "old man".. <br /><br />Regaining a<br />Sense of Power<br />There is a vitality, a life force,<br />an energy, a quickening, that <br />is transferred though you into<br />action, & because there is only<br />one of you in all time, this <br />expression is unique. And if <br />you block it, it will never exist<br />through any other medium &<br />will be lost. <br /><br />Martha Graham<br />'The Artists Way'<br /><br />Psyche’s Return <br />to Greece<br />Socrates: Beloved Pan & all you other <br />Gods who haunt this place, give me beauty <br />in the inward Soul, & let the outward <br />& inward man-woman be at One. <br /><br />Plato, Phaedrus, 279B<br /><br />A Jungian Essay <br />on Bipolar Disorder<br />It is not a matter of indifference <br />whether one calls something a <br />'mania' or a 'god'. To serve a mania <br />is detestable & undignified, but <br />to serve a god is full of meaning..<br /><br />Carl Jung <br />Solastrohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15988450019787920338noreply@blogger.com