Comments for Through a Jungian Lens

Comment on Father’s Day 2013 by rgl

rgl — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 02:54:53 +0000

Thank you, good doctor Urspo.

Comment on Father’s Day 2013 by Urspo

Urspo — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 03:38:18 +0000

Happy Father’s Day !

Comment on At Home in Canada by Urspo

Urspo — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 05:28:13 +0000

Synchronicity has me making my plans of the annual trek to Canada as you traveled home. I look forward to be back there in August.

Comment on We Are All One – Earth Day and Everyday by Urspo

Urspo — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 05:26:09 +0000

On my old car was the bumper sticker “One Human Family”.
I find it amazing/sad when people are upset by it. It’s as old as time to divide people into ‘Us” vs. “Them”. If the human race can grow out of childhood, it is adopting this notion of One Family.

Comment on At Home in Canada by rgl

rgl — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 14:03:21 +0000

Yes, it will be interesting to find out what appears when dinner is finally served. And yes, Hillman is controversial even in his death. Hillman had a lot to say about images, saying that “images don’t stand for anything” but that images are the psyche itself. He said, “an image is not what one sees but the way in which one sees.” As Hillman uses the word “image,” there is no mere image. If anything, images or symbols or things all become numinous when the mind is ready, when imagination asserts its authority over the mind which is otherwise simply a functional tool not much different that the minds found in all animate life. But then again, I will undoubtedly learn more in reading and re-reading the works of Hillman I have in my collection, as well as Thomas Moore’s resonances to Archetypal and Jungian psychology. Thank you dear friend for your intriguing questions. – Robert

Comment on At Home in Canada by rgl

rgl — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 13:51:12 +0000

Where am I headed? I don’t think I know the answer. The presence of Catholicism in my youth served to validate my sense of self as a spiritual being. The organisational church frustrated and betrayed me and its own potential for spirituality. In Buddhism I connect with its philosophical roots that are not about temples or sects. In so many ways, I find Buddhism re-awakening, re-affirming my spiritual centre that was buried deep within beside all the garbage. Will you find me wearing robes and chanting Sutras and disappearing? Not likely. But what will emerge as I wander through collecting bits and pieces that resonate is more about becoming a more peaceful person within and without. Thanks, Allen.

Comment on At Home in Canada by Opa Bear

Opa Bear — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 12:10:46 +0000

Dear Friend,
I am glad to read that you have arrived home safe and sound.
Hmm,…. white snow and a tanned body, that should do good for a picture, (smile !).

Interesting to read that so much is boiling inside you – in due time, I am interested when dinner is served !

Isn’t Hillman having controversial idea’s, by others that he is referring to Symbols
as mere images and therefore robs them from their potential (numinous) ?

Comment on At Home in Canada by Allen

Allen — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 11:30:17 +0000

I look with great interest at your blog pages frequently. I think it very interesting that you are moving towards “Catholic” without the church, while pursuing Buddhism and Buddhist meditation: this reminds me of Thomas Merton, whose work has also been for a long time of great — and increasingly perplexing! — interest. I’ll be interested in seeing where you go, but I suspect your ideas will become increasingly deep and rich. Power to you!

Comment on Anatomy of a Mother Complex – Pt 6 by rgl

rgl — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 02:21:31 +0000

The masculine and the feminine doesn’t always mean male and female. As you well know, every man has an inner woman, an inner mother. I know of a fair number of Jungians who are not big into heterosexual ways of living – there are a few good books written about, by and for (as well as those who treat, or are in relationship with gay men. That said, I speak for myself and not all of humankind as I wrestle with “my” mother-complex. All men and all women have a mother complex AND a father complex. It doesn’t serve anyone to simply “diss” without saying something that needs to be said. I hope you take the time to comment again to truly express what you feel is missing, add “your” take to the issue of mother-complex. Thanks for taking the time to speak out rather than remain in silence.

Comment on Anatomy of a Mother Complex – Pt 6 by rgl

rgl — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 02:15:03 +0000

Thank you, Brinda, for your taking the time to post a comment here. Yes, the eternal and perpetual entwining of dark and light like the yin yang circle, good and evil, light and dark, moist and dry, night and day, love and hate. I do hope you will return again with more words to share here.