Crazy Wisdom – the Archetype of the Fool, the Clown, the Jester and the Trickster.
The Archetype of the Fool, the Clown, the Jester and the Trickster are universally recognized patterns of characters. Every of this four archetypes challenges conventional wisdom differently, offering different types of Crazy Wisdom. When I lived in California I listened…
Jung’s Rebirth Archetypes and Transformation
A fellow blogger, SymbolReader, pointed out the Rebirth Archetypes in the latest James Bond movie “Skyfall”. In my last article I presented transformation as key element in Tolkiens Lord of the Rings. Both triggered a brief follow up about the Rebirth…
Jungian Archetype Checklist for Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings
In his masterpiece The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien created what he called a “new mythos”. There is undoubtedly much in Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings that invites us seeing it through the Jungian framework. However, on a closer look, comparatively…
C. G. Jung’s Red Book in a hurry – Narrative
Prelude The «Red Book» created between 1914 and 1930 can be described as a visual diary of dreams. Jung described this book – its language and emotions seem at times almost embarrassing – as important testimonies of his psychological and…
2013 Conclave Easter of Abraxas or Pentecostal ? A Jungian view
This article will try to summarise the narrative of Jesus’ Passion (the period between Easter and Ascension) based on Abraxas some Gnostic writings . We will particularly view the 1500 year old scripts of the Nag Hammadi library discovered in Egypt in 1945 and show strange repeating…
The Templars – Gods militia or Gnostic warlords?
Were the Templars – Gods militia or Gnostic warlords? Well, whings are never as they appear but also not otherwise. The Templars were the first trans-national financial and military organisation, comparable to a blend of Goldman & Sachs, Benedictine Monks and a Blackwater mercenaries elite force…
“Don’t be a maybe” – a Junganian view of postmodern, post-metaphysical, post-philosophical neo-pragmatism
That movie title “Do the Right Thing” – “Don’t be a maybe” of Spike Lee would not fly today. Rather Raymond Chandlers “The Big Sleep”. Maybe. Something feels not right any more. Specifically the “Right” (as opposed to Wrong not…
2013 Year of Snake – Black Water Snake with sneaky energy.
The 2013 Year of Snake begins shortly after the New moon in Aquarius, the humanitarian of the zodiac. The Snake is the sixth sign of the Chinese Zodiac, which consists of 12 Animal Signs. That means all twelve years begins a…
The footprints of Aquarius and New World Order – a Jungian view
The Aquarius Age (aka New Age or New World Order) is a period defined by the passage of the spring equinox (literally “Equal Night”) into the Aquarius zodiac sign. What does the Aquarius age promise? What are its footprints? Is it…