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Hermes Trismegistus (I think originally just called Hermes - apparently Trismegistus means "the Thrice-Great") was the inventor of Alchemy. So they sort of are the same thing, or at least were born...
Liked On: 12-31-2017, 01:34 AM
Thanks NeoHenry - that is really cool stuff! It's funny how people tend to divide along the fault line of Spirituality/Materialism.
Liked On: 12-31-2017, 01:34 AM
Sorry, I missed this post before. Lots going on in this thread today! I can hardly keep up! I know who Richard Dadd is - he did very intricate fairy illustrations around the same time as Arthur...
Liked On: 12-31-2017, 01:34 AM
As my fencing master, Maestro Ramon Martinez, said, "There is the Trinity, the mind, body, and spirit. People throw away the spirit (and even the mind depending on who you talk to), but that is...
Liked On: 12-31-2017, 01:33 AM
Actually if you read the PDF file Snoop linked to at the very bottom of the last page (I'm reading through it now) it pretty much explains everything you just asked about. It sometimes strikes me...
Liked On: 12-30-2017, 11:23 PM
As far as I'm concerned, this IS about Jung. Jung in a sense is mysticism brought forward into psychology. In fact, if you've seen the (excellent) Cronenberg movie A Dangerous Method, partly about...
Liked On: 12-30-2017, 11:23 PM
Hermeticism... It tends to pop up, and though I'm usually not interested I always get a strong urge to read about it... I haven't yet, because it seemed so unnaccessable before. This looks promising...
Liked On: 12-30-2017, 10:05 PM
I feel like I should also try to address some of the other stuff you brought up in that post. The looping thoughts could be OCD or something similar, or it could just be that you keep experiencing...
Liked On: 12-30-2017, 10:01 PM
Here's a really good video about psychological alchemy. It does a good job of explaining how Jung arrived at the idea that you can study history, religion and mythology etc (and alchemy) to learn...
Liked On: 12-30-2017, 10:01 PM
Those videos are amazing, aren't they? So is this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezVyg_I0uGo
Liked On: 12-30-2017, 10:00 PM
There's a lot less of that, at least in Jung's writing itself. He said the way we understand psychological things is to observe them in other people and then experience them within ourselves. So...
Liked On: 12-30-2017, 10:00 PM
Just out of curiosity, has anybody here heard of or read the Kybalion? It's a book published under pseudonyms that compiles and kind of centralizes what is supposedly the essence of esoteric Hermetic...
Liked On: 12-30-2017, 10:00 PM
The Jews were just being projected onto - the shadow would be the simmering hatred and absolute despair in the hearts of the German people because of what happened to them in WWI, plus maybe other...
Liked On: 11-26-2017, 11:19 PM
I don't really have time at the moment to read all of what DarkMatters shared about the Anima/Animus and Shadow, but I'd like to give my take on why you have to become fully aware of and integrate...
Liked On: 11-23-2017, 03:04 PM
Animus The inner masculine side of a woman. (See also anima, Eros, Logos, and soul-image.) Like the anima in a man, the animus is both a personal complex and an archetypal image. ...
Liked On: 11-23-2017, 03:04 PM