Reflections from Bone:Dying into Life by Marion Woodman “… I was acutely aware of how deceptive fact can be.” (Woodman, 2000, p. 172) “… One stray sunflower.… It was a golden mandala. Perfect petals surrounding rows of nuts – brown seeds in perfect symmetry symmetry. Matter magnifying spirit.” (Woodman, 2000, p. 172) “I have lived […]
Month: June 2020
The World Hangs on a Thin Thread
Reflections from Bone:Dying into Life by Marion Woodman “The secret of staying on earth is embodiment. If the dark goddess can keep her hold on me through embodiment, I do not fall into the paralysis of her death side, and I am therefore not susceptible to the demon lover.” (Woodman, 2000, p. 169-170) “… having […]
Loss of Connection
Reflections from Bone:Dying into Life by Marion Woodman “That letting go was loss of passion.” (Woodman, 2000, p. 169) “It was my loss of connection to the dark feminine and her lust for life and creativity.“ (Woodman, 2000, p. 169) “in that disconnecting… I lost the secret connection to my inner masculine.” (Woodman, 2000, p. […]
Imagination/Conscious Aging
Reflections from Bone:Dying into Life by Marion Woodman “Kill the imagination and you kill the soul. Kill the soul and you’re left with a listless, apathetic creature who can become hopeless or brutal or both.”(Woodman, 2000, p. 165) “Thinking about passion and the dark feminine and how they are related to creativity and healing. This relationship is […]
Giving Back Projections
Reflections from Bone:Dying into Life by Marion Woodman “I know I have to defend myself against unconscious Negative Mother projections, have to rest, have to be very disciplined with food, and most of all have to find a place of leadership which is no longer archetypal Great Mother. And I have to do that before […]
Body and Soul
Reflections from Bone:Dying into Life by Marion Woodman “One thing I learned yet again is the power of nature to heal.” (Woodman, 2000, p. 141) “The soul is not in the body, the body is in the soul. -Hildegard Bingen” (Woodman, 2000, p. 141) “Nature was not there to enfold her children. Some of us […]
Complexes*: Positive Mother/Negative Mother
Reflections from Bone:Dying into Life by Marion Woodman “The Positive Mother that opens me to oneness and love would carry me into Being in life. The Negative Mother that opens me to rejection and fear would carry me into blank nothingness.” (Woodman, 2000, p. 88) My reflection**: Positive mother/negative mother. Ooof!! This one hits home for me! […]
Ugly Bulbs and Caterpillars
Reflections from Bone:Dying into Life by Marion Woodman “The inner work is my own.” (Woodman, 2000, p. 77) “… fantastic how an ugly bulb carries with it the archetypal field that produces that particular leaf, flower, color.” (Woodman, 2000, p. 78) “… if I spoke my mind, I was written off as a lost cause.” […]
All is Energy in Motion
Reflections from Bone:Dying into Life by Marion Woodman “… archetypes as energy templates, seeds that are coded with potential energies, sacred geometry.” (Woodman, 2000, p. 34) “…integration of consciousness and matter…” (Woodman, 2000, p. 35) “In the move toward unity, we will move through continuous birth, death, rebirth patterns. All is energy in motion.” (Woodman, […]
Body and Spirit
Reflections from Bone:Dying into Life by Marion Woodman “…in the “space” between, body chemistry transforms into imagery, and/or imagery transforms into body chemistry.” (Woodman, 2000, pg. 51) “…psychoneuroimmunology…” and “… psyche and matter are two different aspects of one and the same thing. – Carl Jung””Jung knew psyche and matter were not opposites.” (Woodman, 2000, […]
Soul Tending 