Patriarchy and Opposites

Reflections from Bone:Dying into Life by Marion Woodman “… to hold the balance between light and dark, and cherish both.” (Woodman, 2000, p. 222) “Rather than confront, even quarrel, she falls into old patriarchal assumptions that was unconscious in the man as in the woman.” (Woodman, 2000, p. 222-223) “… he for God only, she […]

Embodied Spirit

Reflections from Bone:Dying into Life by Marion Woodman “… matter opens to receive spirit (earth energy opens to receive light vibration).” (Woodman, 2000, p. 218) “God and goddess manifesting in matter – that is incarnation. That baby is the new consciousness: God/goddess in every living thing – the totality of the universe.” (Woodman, 2000, p. […]

Pathological Idealism

Reflections from Bone:Dying into Life by Marion Woodman “The pathological idealism of Romanticism continues to murder the feminine that cherishes life. Undermined by the ensuing suicidal death wish, the culture will have to find a way to move from power drive to love, if we are to survive.” (Woodman, 2000, p. 216-217) “I don’t want […]

Chaos of Sophia

Reflections from Bone:Dying into Life by Marion Woodman “… The gaps are not my lack of concentration, but rather my too precise pondering on the event.” (Woodman, 2000, p. 215) “my rational mind has accepted that I do not have cancer; my unconsciousness is still trapped in a death wish.” (Woodman, 2000, p. 216) “Sophia […]

Sacrum as Golden Bowl

Reflections from Bone:Dying into Life by Marion Woodman “As I think of this golden bowl [sacrum] supporting the fierce spiritual energy descending, attracted to matter, and Earth energy equally fierce ascending, attracted to spirit, I feel the inner marriage yearning to be consummated right there within me.” (Woodman, 2000, p. 198) “Although I was always […]

Matter Magnifying Spirit

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 […]

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 […]