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Depth Psychology, MA, PhDabd. Writer of weird, MFA. 🦉🤳 https://buymeacoffee.com/lifeandmars
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Research Uncovers the Parthenon's Spectacular Lighting Effects for Athena in Antiquity - Arkeonews arkeonews.net/research-unc...

"The chicken lives as if in a dream." - Clarice Lispector

"An egg is a thing that must be careful. That's why the chicken is the egg's disguise." Clarice Lispector from "The Egg and the Chicken (O ovo e a galinha)"

"No one would ever guess she had a yearning." - Clarice Lispector, from the short story "A Chicken (Uma Galinha)"-

The image is still changing, but this is the chicken's final form so far. Dancing its raw whole chicken ballerina dreams. #soulwork #surreal #dreamwork #depthpsychology #polymerclay #chickens

The Centaur and Masculinity, PART II. Exploring the centaur's appearance in popular culture and movement from sexual violence to sexual radiance #myth #centaurs #archetypalpsychology

The chicken coop is complete! No more loose chickens all over my house. The shelves are made from cardboard, papier mâché, and plaster. #chickens #sculpture #polymerclay #dreamart #foodart

"On that day I was happy, to have created one single beautiful object." Anaïs Nin, Diary Vol. 6, 1955-1966

Half-Horse Half-Man: The Centaur and Masculinity (Part I) #mythology #centaur #depthpsychology

I’m reminded of a short story that took place during the Great Depression. There are aliens in it but the main character mostly talks about the price of eggs. 🍳 “Something Bright” by Zenna Henderson. #eggs #sciencefiction

Do you remember those chickens I kept posting about? Well, I’m making them a place to live. #dreamtending #dreamart #polymerclay #sculpture #dreamwork #chickens #foodart

When Jung once said that “a neurosis is an offended god,” he meant, metaphorically, that the neglect of a deep, instinctual energy ultimately revenges itself in our somatic discords, compulsions, addictions, or projections onto others.~James Hollis, 𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘔𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘔𝘰𝘴𝘵

When asked about my dissertation process #phdlife

“If you know the imagery of your dreams, you are rooted in yourself.” Marion Woodman #dreams #dreamwork #depthpsychology #dreamanalysis #marionwoodman #dreamart #sculpture

I wish the person stealing my mail would take the junk with them too.

Coffee spill. Close call, Miss July, close call. #mirandajuly #allfours

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Write for us! We are now accepting pitches for "Rituals for Dead Games", our latest zine, and we want GAMES. Pitch us your little rituals for the grief of losing a creative outlet. Full details on the submission form. ⛓️ below ⬇️

Testing #Pinksky with a photo of my desk #pinkskyPost

Jung's most basic and far-reaching discovery is the colIective unconscious or archetypal psyche. Through his research, we now know that the individual psyche is not just a product of personal experience. It also has a pre-personal or transpersonal dimension.~Edward Edinger

Listening to the Dream: Developing trust and relationship to the unconscious via dreams and creative work open.substack.com/pub/zoemarzo...

“To live with the Santa Ana is to accept, consciously or unconsciously, a deeply mechanistic view of human behavior . . .

Apollo and the Mythic Image of Luigi Mangione #mythology #archetypalpsychology #luigimangione open.substack.com/pub/zoemarzo...

I try to consider external events as external dreams; I assume they are carrying psychological meaning in a way a dream does.~Edward Edinger

“The healing hero, therefore, is the one who finds some creative way out, a way not already known, and does not follow a pattern. Ordinary sick people follow ordinary patterns, but the shaman cannot be cured by the usual methods of healing." Marie Louise Von Franz Art by David S. Soriano

The person who has eaten his shadow spreads calmness and shows more grief than anger. If ancients were right that darkness contains intelligence and nourishment and even information, then the person who has eaten some of his shadow is more energetic as well as more intelligent.~ Robert Bly

It has become clear to me that aging itself does not bring wisdom. It often brings regression to childishness, dependency and bitterness over lost opportunities. Only those who are still intellectually, emotionally, spiritually growing inherit the richness of aging.~James Hollis

How can we support our trans and LGBTQ+ youth? We can listen to their dreams. Often teens don’t like talking about their feelings but dream sharing is more indirect and works! Here’s the specific dream images to watch for if your trans youth needs more support : dreamstudies.org/dreams-night...

Jung's most basic and far-reaching discovery is the colIective unconscious or archetypal psyche. Through his research, we now know that the individual psyche is not just a product of personal experience. It also has a pre-personal or transpersonal dimension.~Edward Edinger

Jung said that "the Gods have become diseases, not because they are diseases," but because in our materialist culture they have no way to express themselves other than as agents of pathology and as "irritants" of change. ~David Tacey

In honor of our ill-fated de-feathered friends 🦃 #thanksgiving #featherfall

“Frigga Spinning the Clouds,” by John Charles Dollman. #myth #fairytale #classicillustration