This center which is here, but which we know is really everywhere, is Wakan-Tanka.
All the things of the universe are joined with you who smoke the pipe — All send their voices to Wakan-Tanka, the Great Spirit. When you pray with this pipe, you pray for and with everything.
Black Elk Speaks - John Neihardt
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SPIRIT OF THE WORLD |
MANY VOICES / ONE TRUTH |
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MYTH AND SYMBOL
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"Myth is able to encompass the archetypal dimensions of the unconscious mind, which transcends early conditioning and cultural setting. A mythic outlook also reminds you that you are part of a larger picture than your immediate concerns." David Feinstein and Stanley Krippner, 'Personal Mythology'
Marilyn Ferguson's Book of PragMagic
(Marilyn Ferguson)
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"The human form is the symbol of all symbols." Pierre Deghaye, 'Jacob Boehme and His Followers'
Modern Esoteric Spirituality
(Antoine Faivre and Jacob Needleman, editors)
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"Myths provide forms and categories of understanding by which to grasp and consciously realize the nature of the trans-personal powers." Dr. Edward F. Edinger, Jungian psychoanalyst, 'The Tragic Hero: An Image of Individuation'
The Goddess Re-Awakening: The Feminine Principle Today
(Shirley Nicholson, Compiler)
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"Every mythic image points past itself. Every deity opens to mystery." Joseph Campbell
The Hero's Journey
(Phil Cousineau, editor)
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"In my experience it is of considerable practical importance that the symbols aiming at wholeness should be correctly understood…They are the remedy with whose help neurotic dissociations can be repaired, by restoring to the conscious mind a spirit and an attitude which from time immemorial have been felt as solving and healing in their effects."
Collected Works
(Carl Jung)
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"Forms are the symbols of formless divine principles; symbolism is the language of Nature. With reverence the wise pierce the veil and with clear vision contemplate the reality."
The Secret Teachings of All Ages
(Manly P. Hall)
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"Myth is always about soul-making and about the pathos that accompanies the journey of the soul as it travels from out-moded existence to the amplified life in the kingdom. Thus it has much to teach us about where we are right now and where we are headed." Jean Houston, 'Living in One's and Future Myths'
The Fabric of the Future
(M. J. Ryan, editor)
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"Language, myth, art, and religion are parts of this universe. They are the varied threads which weave the symbolic net, the tangled web of human experience. All human progress in thought and experience refines upon and strengthens this net." Ernst Cassirer (1874-1945)
A Treasury of Philosophy, Vol. 1
(Dagobert D. Runes, editor)
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"Mythological imagery springs from the collective unconscious, the transconscious, and it is therefore not contaminated by merely social conventions, language, logic, or the illusions of any particvular cult or individual. Furthermore, the language of mythology is associative and integrative, and…hence it more clearly and truly reflects the actual physical reality of the seamless coat of the universe, of the mutual interdependence and interpenetration of all things and events."
Spectrum of Consciousness
(Ken Wilber)
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"Human life itself and the world we live in, are themselves allegories and symbols of another life and the veils of another world."
The Meaning of Masonry
(W. L. Wilmshurst)
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"We can no longer hold our loves at home and project our aggressions elsewhere; for on this spaceship Earth there is no 'elsewhere' any more. And no mythology that continues to speak or to teach of 'elsewheres' and 'outsiders' meets the requirement of this hour."
Myths To Live By
(Joseph Campbell)
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"Myth has a universal formulation that speaks to the codings of the deep unconscious. Thus myth is not just an ancient narrative designed to entertain benighted souls during the long winter evenings; it is an imprint in the psychic and spiritual DNA."
The Search for the Beloved
(Jean Houston)
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"According to the late mythologist Joseph Campbell, mythic tales reconnect us to the trnascendent source that undergirds daily life, while disconnection from this realm invites anxiety and soul sickness."
As Above, So Below: Paths to Spiritual Renewal in Daily Life
(Ronald S. Miller and the editors of New Age Journal)
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"Essentially the same mythological motifs are to be found throughout the world. There are myths and legends of the Virgin Birth, of Incarnations, Deaths and Resurrections; Second Comings, Judgments, and the rest, in all the great traditions. And since such images stem from the psyche, they refer to the psyche. They tell us of its structure, its order and its forces, in symbolic terms."
Myths To Live By
(Joseph Campbell)
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"Like flowers and trees, or poems and songs, the plays or stories of life manifestation grow, expand and differentiate the unfolding process of existence."
The Alchemy of Healing
(Edward C. Whitmont, MD)
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"The treasures of folk fairy tales and myths arose originally from spiritual experiences."
An Outline of Occult Science
(Rudolf Steiner)
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"The myth is the undisclosed thought of the soul. The characteristic trait of the myth is to convert reflection into history."
Isis Unveiled
(Helena P. Blavatsky)
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"It must be pointed out that just as the human body shows a common anatomy over and above all racial differences, so, too, the psyche possesses a common substratum transcending all differences in culture and consciousness….This explains the analogy, sometimes even identity, between various myth-motifs and symbols, and the possibility of human beings making themselves mutually understood. The various lines of psychic development start from one common stock whose roots reach back into all the strata of the past. This also explains the psychological parallelisms with animals." C. G. Jung
The Secret of the Golden Flower
(Richard Wilhelm, translator)
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"All great symbols are shadowed forth in the person of man himself."
The Meaning of Masonry
(W. L. Wilmshurst)
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"It is a fact that symbols, by their very nature, can so unite the opposites that these no longer diverge or clash, but mutually supplement one another and give meaningful shape to life."
Memories, Dreams, Reflections
(Carl Jung (edited by Aniela Jaffe))
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"The ancient folk legends, common to all religions, are the universal language of man's deeper unconscious."
Great Religious Leaders
(Charles Francis Potter)
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"The reality of the symbol is founded upon the idea that the ultimate reality of an object lies in its spiritual rhythm – which it incarnates."
A Dictionary of Symbols
(J. E. Cirlot)
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"I agree that those mythic forms are collectively inherited in the psyche. And I agree entirely with Jung that it is very important to come to terms with those mythic archetypes."
Grace and Grit: Spirituality and Healing in the Life and Death of Treya Killam Wilber
(Ken Wilber)
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"Myth provides a revelation to waking consciousness of the powers of its own sustaining source." Joseph Campbell
A Mythic Life, Learning to Live our Greater Story
(Jean Houston)
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"Consistent themes in these [mythic] stories emerge quickly: opposites are balanced by a third, mediating element that reconciles a conflict, healing the split of polarity and transforming separate parts into a complete and successful whole."
A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe: The Mathematical Archetypes of Nature, Art & Science
(Michael S. Schneider)
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