On a Razor’s Edge and Vocation
This will be the last of the badland photo series that I will post here for the present. I particularly enjoyed this photo with its folds and shadows and crevices that hint at something much bigger. It is all in one’s point of view, I admit. That said, that is particularly what this blog site is about – photos viewed through a Jungian Lens.
This blog site is a map through the razor’s edge between my conscious state of awareness and the personal and collective shadow. Since I can’t truly speak of unconsciousness, simply because it is unconsciousness, I can balance on the edges of it, perhaps catching fleeting ghostly images, such as one finds in one’s dreams. Photography then becomes a form of active imagination, a tool to approach those edges of unconsciousness. Every so often, I sense an “ah-ha” moment where something has shifted from unconscious to consciousness, something that was ready to be noticed. All of this is directed towards meaning, creating and finding meaning in my life.
Daryl Sharp, a Canadian Jungian analyst, publisher and author talks about how the search for meaning becomes an imperative vocation in the second half of life:
Simply and naturally, by the virtue of the work on yourself, you are a magnet for those whose souls long for life. Granted, this is not your problem, but you do have to own up to the person you’ve become. Who you are, whether you will or no, has an inductive effect on others. To my mind this is all to the good, for if enough individuals become more conscious, why then the collective will too and life on this earth will go on. (Sharp, Who Am I, Really?, 1995, p. 66)
And this in part explains why this blog is open for others to read, for you to read. Perhaps my struggles, my thinking out loud, my questions; perhaps all of this is some way effects you in a positive way.
nice pic
Perez Christina
7 Oct 09 at 12:10 PM
I have never heard of Daryl Sharp until I read this. based on what I have read on here I feel drawn to reading this book. I will google it.
I am not sure it would be correct to for me to say that I have had many “ah-ha” moments but I do feel that I sometimes get snippets of what normally appears to be hidden. The search continues with the tools and resources I have available to me. Your blog is one of the invaluable ones. Thank you.
J
7 Oct 09 at 12:47 PM
I think it might be appropriate to post a list of useful books by post-Jungians that I have read. Thanks for your continued support here.
Robert G. Longpré
7 Oct 09 at 2:22 PM
Hi Christina, I hope that you find some of the words of interest as well. I enjoyed my visit to your blog site which has an interesting anthropological focus. I look forward to your returning in the future.
Robert G. Longpré
7 Oct 09 at 2:23 PM
I can’t speak for anyone else but I would find it very useful.
J
7 Oct 09 at 3:11 PM
My mother … Today I saw her, and I told her something. And I saw something that I never saw before.
She was in need of help, the dark forces were feeding themselves from her. They were using her to feed themselves. They were literally feasting on her.
I saw her scared in the middle of all those monsters and vampires. She was asking for Help.
She was a child and she was needing my help.
And I wanted to Help her.
I wanted the dark forces go away from her.
I wanted to set the Light around her. I wanted to scared off the vampires around her. I wanted Light around her.
I wanted to Liberate her. And Love her. And Bless her.
***
And I never saw this before. I thought she hated me and she was just being used by vampires.
And I felt guilt because I didn´t saw that before. Instead of Love her I entered into the game of the dark forces that were manipulating her.
The vampires that I saw, are they real? Do they exist? Are they feasting from my mother? Are they using her?
How can I free her?
Love
9 Oct 09 at 11:51 AM
If she is in danger, in the hands of those monsters as I saw,
How can I set the Light around her to take her out of there, to send away the dark forces that are eating from her blood?
Love
9 Oct 09 at 11:56 AM
Before I saw what I wrote above, I have been thinking that I had never received love from my family (from another Sources yes, but not from my family. Not True Love).
But my mother … she neither has received love from her family. And never from other Sources.
And I have deny Love to her.
I have deny Compassion to her. Because I couldn´t see anything.
She is alone and instead of Love her and show compassion and sweetness, unconsciously, I did abandon her.
Just with Love toward her, (showing Love and tenderness toward her) I could have Save her.
She went with those “vampires” because I didn´t show Love to her.
She was lonely, and I didn´t gave her Love. I was watching from my little self. I was trapped by the noise and the terrible shadows.
And because of that, one of my children, my mother, has been thrown to the hands of suckers of her energy,
to vampires. Monsters.
***
Jesucristo puede Ayudar.
***
Love
9 Oct 09 at 12:31 PM
Today you began withdrawing projects. Congratulations on moving forward on your journey.
Robert G. Longpré
9 Oct 09 at 1:21 PM
The best thing you can do is to accept her for her humanness, forgive her for being wounded while she had responsibility for you, love her unconditionally – the rest, she must do for herself.
Robert G. Longpré
9 Oct 09 at 1:23 PM