Saturday, June 15, 2024

 An attempt to pick up the challenging work of Carl Jung during a time of trauma, this preceding post, written and turned over at the outset of the 21st Century reflected a desire to re-commence the work that had sustained me when I first picked up the challenge of Academic exploration into explorations related to notions of psyche and spirit. Despite an unlucky house and close proximity to damaged individuals, I wrote and wrote. Piled notebooks attest to that era. Since I'd begun my real studies by challenging the work of Dr Carl Gustav Jung, by the time the century turned, I felt I had to return to an original thesis which I also compelled to share. Jung in his own time was indeed regarded as an heretic in terms of the ways and means by which he discovered his conclusions. My teachers at Adelaide Teacher's College had hoped that I would write a book which might justify the assistance they'd given me in terms of research and expression. Instead, in terms and despite of various efforts to find the kinds of paid work which might constitute a career, I kept on writing my dreams. I'd first become interested in Sigmund Freud's work by reading The Interpretation Of Dreams. My dreams had always been vivid and that they might contain a language related to experience of reality was an interesting concept. We all read a lot in those days. Homer, Plato, Joyce, Greer, Le Guin, Eliot, Judith Wright Shakespeare, to name a few, were all part of extensive required reading through a magnificent a feast of words and ideas. For myself, study and the expressions of research have continued for the past two and a half decades and at last the book has begun. I no longer agree entirely with the substance of the previous post and have decided to begin a new blog based on more recent work. Just as the Alchemists of ancient times required a shadowy experience of potential in order to eventually discover there gold of healing, the pain of experience is the greatest initiary teacher of all.