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Psyche

Are We Possessed?

Paul Levy

Far from a thing of the past or an ignorant superstition, demonic possession and evil spells, in our technologically developed society, are an increasing danger. C. G. Jung has given us modern terms for these very real states, uriging us to make exorcizing ourselves "the most vital task of civilization." (more)

10-15-09

Psyche

God the Imagination

Paul Levy

When the alchemists had a living experience of God through their relationship with the imaginatively created philosophers' stone, they realized that the whole experience was nothing other than an experience of the divine imagination, which is to say that they were realizing that they themselves were living inspirations of the divine, creative imagination itself. (more)

7-22-09

Psyche

The Light of Darkness

Paul Levy

The root meaning of the word consciousness, etymologically speaking, is "knowing together or seeing with an other." The process of becoming conscious requires both seeing and being seen, knowing and being known. The birth of consciousness itself involves being both subject and object of the process at the same time.     (more)

6-15-09

Psyche

The Sacred Art of Alchemy

Paul Levy

To the alchemists, creating the philosophers' stone was analogous to waking up to the dreamlike nature of the universe. Becoming lucid in the waking dream is seen as a reflection of God's ongoing creation of and incarnation into the world. (more)

5-12-09

Life

Unlived Lives

Paul Levy

The repressed, unlived lives of parents act like a psychic virus creating disease in the family system and larger environment. If we can understand how the transmission of child abuse works, maybe we can genuinely begin to heal the world. (more)

4-15-09

Psyche

Family Curse

Paul Levy

Do we “dream up” our own psychoses? Whether we consciously know it or not we are continually enacting archetypal dynamics that have been passed down through the ages. These transpersonal processes have an impact on everything, including our own mental health. (more)

3-9-09

Commons

Israel is Outgassing Its Unhealed Trauma

Paul Levy

Trauma warps the emotional and psychological lives of human beings. Understanding how trauma operates in the psyche and exhibits itself through behavior in the outer world can help us to illumine the underlying process animating events in Gaza. (more)

2-4-09

Psyche

One Great Dream of a Single Dreamer

Paul Levy

Our awakening is always a mutual and reciprocally shared co-awakening due to our infinite interconnectedness. Moved by something greater than our imagined self, we become an instrument of something much vaster than our own limited version of ourselves. (more)

1-16-09

Psyche

Catching the Bug of Synchronicity

Paul Levy

Synchronicities are expressions of the dreamlike nature of reality – moments in time when the timeless, dreamlike nature of the universe shines forth its radiance and openly reveals itself to us, offering an open doorway to lucidity. (more)

11-7-08

Psyche

Lucid Dreaming

Paul Levy

Lucid dreaming is one of the most empowering tools to transform us from passive witnesses to active collaborators in our own dreaming process. But dream work can lead us to wonder: who is dreaming and who is awake? Are most of us asleep? (more)

9-11-08

Psyche

The Transformation of the God-Image

Paul Levy

The God-image is like a dream that we are dreaming that is simultaneously dreaming us. In a radical re-visioning of itself, the unconscious has offered us in the symbolic figure of Mercurious an image of God which includes and embraces evil as an integral aspect of our wholeness. (more)

5-6-08

Psyche

We Are All Shamans-in-Training

Paul Levy

The shamanic archetype is one of the major processes that is becoming animated in the collective psyche of our species. It creates a synthesis of the conscious mind and the unconscious, a further evolution in the incarnation of a more all-embracing, integrated and expansive consciousness. (more)

3-18-08

Psyche

A Synchronistic Encounter: Where Dreams and Waking Life Intersect

Paul Levy

While working as Book Service Manager for the C. G. Jung Foundation, I had a chance encounter with one of the world's leading experts on dreams. I will never forget what he told me. (more)

1-11-08

Psyche

The Artist as Healer of the World

Paul Levy

Art-making is a sacred act. Art attains its greatest numinosity and ability to affect others when the creator of the work of art is being transformed by the act of creating. One can mimic sacred art for a living (many people get paid for this) but this is mere forgery. There is a world of difference between copying, imitating, and aping sacred art, and living our own creative experience. When we live creatively, guided by our daemon, our life itself becomes a living work of art. (more)

10-30-07

Commons

We Are Compassionate. Why Are You Killing Us?

Paul Levy

What is being played out in Burma is a living "symbol" of a deeper, mythic process which is currently enacting itself in a variety of scenarios around the world. Being a timeless, archetypal process that has materialized into our time-bound reality, it can be seen as an amplified version of what can happen in the U. S. We can only recognize what is symbolically being revealed to us if we realize that the people in Burma, both the monks and the military thugs, are not separate from ourselves.(more)

10-2-07

Psyche

Breaking Spells We Cast on Ourselves

Paul Levy

Our wounding is a numinous event that can initiate us into a deeper level of our being. When consciousness is guided by feelings of gratitude for the wound's offer of self-realization and personal evolution, it reveals itself as a worthy object of veneration. Our wound manifests as a doorway to our healing, a portal through which we can glimpse our infinite potential. (more)

9-24-07

Psyche

The Wounded Healer

Paul Levy

The archetype of the wounded healer reveals to us that it is only by being willing to face, consciously experience, and go through our wound do we receive its blessing. To go through our wound is to embrace, assent, and say “yes” to the mysteriously painful new place in ourselves where the wound is leading us. This is a genuine death experience, as our old self “dies” in the process, while a new, more expansive and empowered part of ourselves is born. (more)

8-7-07

Psyche

The Biospheric Dream Body

Paul Levy

The biospheric dreambody is a higher-dimensional aspect of ourselves that, just like a dream, is nonlocal and multi-channeled, as it is not
constrained by the apparent physical laws of the third-dimensional universe. It’s a deeper part of ourselves that expresses itself synchronistically both within ourselves and simultaneously in the outside world, through both our personal process and our collective body politic. Just like a dream, something important is being revealed to us in the process of its unfoldment, something that could have worldwide consequences for our planet’s current ecological crisis. (more)

5-18-07