From the category archives:
The Mystery of everything is life, which is water; for water dissolves the body into spirit… (C. G. Jung) The Red Sea is an ideal symbol… for the elixir or the tincture of transformation. Sea water… is regarded as the baptismal water, which purifies and cleanses, preparing the stage of albedo or whitening.Source Red Tears, [...]
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The processes in alchemy are a projection of processes within the Psyche. There are different ways of systematizing the process of alchemy — there can be four stages, seven stages, twelve stages, etc. The “Nigredo” stage (yesterday’s post) is reached both through “Calcinatio” and “Putrefecatio”: The phase of Blackening which usually marked the beginning of [...]
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As mentioned in yesterday’s post about the adaptive strategy of depression, the Jungian metaphor for the journey is that of the “nigredo”, the first stage of alchemy. Although the excerpt below is primarily about the encounter with the psychological shadow that needs to be dealt with, it is also descriptive of the encounter with mortality, [...]
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