"On earth, as it is in heaven": that is the theme. Man is returned to the innocence of the sun and stars, and of the animal world, which is rooted in nature, by an equation of himself with the sun, the great lion of the heavens, and of his victims with the herds of the night sky. And by concentrating on these, he is able to erase from consciousness the actual threat of the night of annihilation. The reality of nature and himself as nature has been countered by a myth of personal immortality."

Joseph Campbell, 1959 Eranos Lecture "Renewal Myths and Rites of the Primitive Hunters and Planters" p.17

Things I'm thinking about and needed a place to write down:

Typology of the Psyche, 1919, Jung created it coming out of psychotic break, thought it was beside the point as he worked with it, and really never mentioned it again thereafter.

James Hillman on:
William James' (brother of Henry ) approach to psyche. American Psychologist, died just before WWI. Deconstructed the Hegelian drive to unify into idea of "wholeness". Prefering instead "each-ness".

The idea of individuation is a linear narrative. Another kind of "getting it all together", but does that really work? Am I really going anywhere in particular or wandering through a mosaic?


Simpsons Season 2 Episode #7F22 had Mr. Burns presenting Bart with a Mesoamerican Olmec War God from 3000 years ago named Xtapalapaquetl. I giggled for several days. Anybody got a jpg or a screen shot?