SophiaCycles (Béa Gonzalez)

Dostoyevsky meets Jung. What happens when we confront the shadow instead of outrunning it? From Crime and Punishment to The Idiot, this video explores how literature can illuminate where we are broken.🎥 Watch here→ shorturl.at/4ijQ1

In this episode of Gatherings, I speak with Shylashri Shankar about her novel Blood Caste—a gripping mystery set in 1895 Hyderabad. We explore fiction as inner work, identity & the truths stories can reveal. As a novelist myself, I loved this conversation! shorturl.at/VPKnx

Dreams are not arbitrary. They’re not planted in our brain by alien forces. They are natural by-products of our psyche seeking its own healing and development. Dreams come to us as part of the psyche’s natural process of healing itself for developing our journey. ~James Hollis

What the creative person and the mad person have in common is that they are not confined to a single self located in the ego, but their subjectivity extends across a spectrum of possibilities.~David Tacey, 𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘰 𝘙𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘑𝘶𝘯𝘨

𝘗𝘭𝘶𝘮 𝘗𝘶𝘥𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨: 𝘚𝘺𝘯𝘤𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘵𝘺, 𝘈𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘵𝘺𝘱𝘦𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘦𝘪𝘳𝘥𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘕𝘶𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳. I wrote a piece on Jung, Wolfgang Pauli, Marie-Louise von Franz and a certain M. Deschamps and his plum pudding. shorturl.at/5Q95b

Can fiction offer insights that non-fiction can’t? I believe so—writing novels has helped me stitch myself together in ways nothing else has. I spoke with Shylashri Shankar about this on Gatherings. Full episode drops Thursday with her new novel 𝘉𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘊𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦.

[T]hose who think --as do many-- "Let me first correct society, then get around to myself" are barred from even the outer gate of the mansion of God's peace."~Joseph Campbell, Myths to Live By

It is the genius of Jung to argue that "gods" exist, but only metaphorically and only in a natural dimension. That natural dimension is the psyche.~Michael Vannoy Adams, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘜𝘯𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘤𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴

We know now that memory formation has to do with emotion. The more emotionally impressive something is, the more it sticks in the memory. ~Marie-Louise von Franz

This is a brilliant book. If you were ever intrigued by the connection between modern physics and Jung--this book, which explores the relationship between Wolfgang Pauli and Jung, will show you what it is.

Man has to cope with the problem of suffering. The Oriental wants to get rid of suffering by casting it off. Western man tries to suppress suffering with drugs. But suffering has to be overcome, and the only way to overcome it is to endure it.~CG Jung, 𝘓𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴, 𝘝𝘰𝘭 1

My path is not your path, therefore I cannot teach you. The way is within us, but not in Gods, nor in teachings, nor in laws. Within us is the way, the truth, and the life.~CG Jung, The Red Book

To have the courage to accept a quality which one does not like in oneself, and which one has chosen to repress for many years, is an act of great courage. But if one does not accept the quality, then it functions behind one’s back.” ~Marie-Louise von Franz

In this new Substack post, I revisit Sophocles’ Antigone through the lens of Jung and the Axial Age. A story of law vs. love, order vs. soul and the feminine principle we’re still trying to recall. shorturl.at/5D4hX