An extraordinary passage from #Jungian #JamesHillman on salt and our #wounds and the soul's need for our wounds for its sustenance - quite literally a game-changing perspective on our wounds and why we keep returning to them again and again...

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#soulmaking #theodicy #philosophyofreligion #philosophy

PS: I also adopt Jung's attitude right at the outset which is to say to myself: "I have no idea what this dream means". And proceed from this place of not-knowing, mystery and intrigue.

#Jung #theunknown #soulmaking #images

The Soul Is Not a Dropbox Folder Modern spirituality loves to treat the soul like a Dropbox folder—preloaded, waiting in the cloud. But the wisdom traditions say otherwise: you don’t start with a soul, you make one. This essay explor...

The soul isn’t cloud storage.
It’s not your “authentic self” on standby in the sky.
It’s the residue of a life forged in fire, distilled by presence & surrender.

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Trusting the Spiral – Reflections on Soul-Making and Symbolic Process Earlier this year, an image came to me with unusual clarity: I am both an Osprey circling in the heavens and a Tortoise finding its way through the undergrowth on the ground. The osprey sees the wide terrain of my life with vision and strategy; the tortoise moves through its density—deliberate, grounded, and slow. Both are me, both are essential. At the time, I didn’t know what to make of this image beyond its poetic resonance.

This episode of Speaking of Jung helped reorient my path. Writing and symbolic images are soul work. I’m the osprey and the tortoise—vision and groundedness. Thank you, Laura London and Christina Becker, for the mirror. #Jungian #SoulMaking #DepthPsychology