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Daughters Forever!
Sometimes I am blinded. This is human. Some people would say that I am blinded most of the time. I would say that I often choose to be blind to those aspects that should be better left untouched. But in this article I will cover something that was truly in my blind-spot until recently. I was pondering for some time on a type of personality I encountered many times in my social life (but strangely, never in my professional life): women who are completely cold (emotionally) when it comes to […]https://cezarspace.wordpress.com/2026/07/29/daughters-forever/
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Daughters Forever!
Sometimes I am blinded. This is human. Some people would say that I am blinded most of the time. I would say that I often choose to be blind to those aspects that should be better left untouched. But in this article I will cover something that was truly in my blind-spot until recently. I was pondering for some time on a type of personality I encountered many times in my social life (but strangely, never in my professional life): women who are completely cold (emotionally) when it comes to […] -
Lost in the Future
Yesterday, after 25 years since I started using the internet, I stopped looking at some random videos on YouTube and I switched to online radio listening. The quality of the videos has become so bad, the creativity is so low and the content is so uninteresting that I found listening to music from the 80s or 90s much more appealing. Despite having a large TV screen in the house, despite having 8K resolution, despite using Wi-Fi and high-speed connections, there was absolutely nothing to see […]https://cezarspace.wordpress.com/2026/07/25/lost-in-the-future/
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My grandfather was Ross Woodman. I got my ability to memorize thousands of songs from him, he was an English prof who never published anything of any use, but could recite entire books of stuff.
He had two kids with my grandma, and then abandoned her, because the domestic life of a working intellectual with a wife and kids did not suit him. Put her and my uncle on the train back to Winnipeg, to live with my creepy great grandpa.
Creepy great grandpa.
He married Marion Boa, who came to be known as Marion Woodman, and is a popular muckymuch among the weird cult of #Jungian intellectuals. Lived affluently. Hung out once with him in my 30s cause I went to visit my mom and she did not warn me he would be there. Would not shut up about hanging out with Barbara Streisand. Seriously.
Reappeared when my uncle reached University age, and promised to support him through Architect school. Then Monty flunked out, and Woodman thusly refused to pay his owed tuition, as he had promised. Marion's brother Bruce - yes, that Bruce Boa - had to call up Ross and shame him, because he was a fucking Picasso collecting motherfucker by that point and he re-abandoned his son.
If not for General Reikan himself, well, tuition wasn't even that much back then, it's not like Monty was facing USA student debt of our time. But it was sure cool of Ross to abandon him twice.
I went to visit him at age 3 and the experience was bad enough that I actually blocked out the details, I only remembered crying while he yelled at my mom and pointed at me. I talked to him when he was almost dead and it turns out there was a haircut involved, cause I had real sensory issues about my hair back then, and he basically took me, a three year old, away from my mother in a strange town and I had no idea what was going on, it was clearly terrifying cause I had nothing to do with him for decades after. Even being told I'd have the opportunity to hang out with an actor who was in a Star Wars movie. Back when how many times you'd seen a given Star Wars movie was a part of your personal mythology.
But that generational trauma, boys, it's a motherfucker. Monty was a terror presence in my life. Held a knife to my gramma's throat once. Grew up fearing that I would wake up with him over me holding a bat or some other such.
Anyways he was just a mad dog who died years ago, but somehow I was the recovery email on his google account so this week, google reminded me about him. As did the parent.
And then, for good measure, so did some old money scum lady that I have never exchanged a single word with, contacts me thinking it's my parents, friend of the woodman shit. Cause he loved hanging out with rich people. This one was involved in the will that it took them several months to produce, on his death. The only time we have communicated, and undoubtedly how she got my email into her computer, was when I sent an angry email about the stonewalling, when he had been calling daily asking for information.
My supposition is they composed it after he died.
Anyways for some reason every wasted bit of life in my lineage seems to be insisting on itself right now and basically now I'm... I dunno, not getting shit done, anyways.
Fuck Ross Woodman. He was a real piece of shit.
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“The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.”
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“The core of the architecture was what #Wilber called the #spectrumofconsciousness — a model that mapped levels of identity and modes of knowing across the full range of human experience, from the most contracted egoic awareness to the most expansive transpersonal modes described in the contemplative traditions. The model did not argue the merits of any school over others. Its method was not argumentation but something closer to what Niels Bohr called complementarity. Different schools of #psychology — from #Freudian analysis to #Jungian individuation to #Zen — each illuminated different bands of the spectrum. Each was valid for its domain. The framework’s job was to hold the relationships between them, not to rank them.
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That #KenWilber belongs to this more sophisticated #Pragmatist tradition — the one #Habermas belongs to — is what the lifestyle enclave and the institutional allergies have conspired to make invisible.”https://www.erikhaines.org/p/can-the-real-wilber-please-stand
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Another set of intuitive paintings. It's a very meditative and grounding practice.
#painting #art #artist #intuiveart #jungian #shadowwork #arttherapy #meditation #watercolor #paint #artistic #mentalhealth
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A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF THE TAROT
For centuries, across cultures, people have spoken of a world beyond the physical. Some call it the supernatural or God, others the subtle body, the collective unconscious or the ethereal. Whether connecting with something deep within or something divine beyond us, this non‑physical realm has long fascinated both sages and scholars. Though modern science and mysticism often clash, I have always been drawn to their boundary—a liminal space where metaphysics and quantum theory blur into what some call the ‘secrets of the universe.’
Historically, people have developed tools and methods to commune with this unseen world. With this column, I hope to explore these divination practices—both to demystify the idea that we can engage with the unseen and to consider how they might help us connect more deeply with ourselves and each other. Theorists like Albert Einstein, who envisioned an interconnected universe, and Carl Jung, who wrote about archetypes and the collective unconscious, have suggested a hidden web. I believe divination can help us tap into it, offering insight and self‑understanding.
One of the most well‑known tools today is the tarot. While tarot as we know it differs from its origins, the practice of cartomancy (using cards as divination tools) began in the Tang dynasty in seventh-century China before traveling west and evolving into the 15th‑century Italian tarot deck. Contemporary tarot decks still maintain the 78‑card structure developed in the Renaissance era, which is divided into the Minor and Major Arcana.
The Minor Arcana mirrors a traditional deck of playing cards, with four suits—pentacles (or coins), swords, wands and cups—each aligning with one of the four elements: earth, air, fire and water. Within each suit, ten numbered cards trace a personal journey through the challenges, growth and lessons of that element.
These culminate with the court cards—Pages, Knights, Queens and Kings—which reflect stages of maturity. Pages carry the curiosity of beginnings and knights the restless energy of adolescence, while queens and kings embody mastery of the inner and outer realms. Together, the suits form a story of self‑actualization through the elements that shape our lives.
The Major Arcana, a set of 22 cards, speaks to our broader existential journey. They follow the fool through symbolic stages of life. The fool encounters figures like the Empress, Strength, Death, and the Star that echo the hero’s journey described by Joseph Campbell. These archetypes appear across global mythologies, alchemical traditions, and Jungian psychology, offering a symbolic map of transformation.
In essence, a tarot deck is a guide to the process of becoming. It’s an archetypal narrative found everywhere from ancient myths to Alice in Wonderland and Star Wars. It mirrors what spiritual practitioners call the dark night of the soul: the leap into the unknown, the trials, the adventures, and eventually the revelations.
For this month’s collective reading, I’ve chosen the Smith-Waite deck. It was illustrated in 1909 by artist and occultist Pamela Colman Smith. Commissioned by Arthur Edward Waite, the deck was created through Smith’s intuitive practice, and her imagery has since become the foundation for countless tarot decks.
Every reader approaches tarot differently, but I begin by grounding myself, often with a quiet prayer or affirmation, before shuffling and pulling the cards the spread calls for. This month, I’ve drawn three cards for the collective: one for our past, one for the present moment, and a third for what awaits us.
In the past position, we have the Ace of Swords. This suggests the collective has recently moved through a period of sharp, and maybe even uncomfortable clarity. An essential truth has been revealed. The Ace appears when illusions fade and we’re asked to see things as they truly are. For many, this may have been a moment of honesty, a shift in perspective, or the realization that something could no longer be overlooked.
In the present, we meet The Emperor. He brings structure, discipline, and a call for grounded authority. After the clarity of the Ace, the Emperor asks us to act on what we now understand. This is a moment to establish boundaries and take leadership into our own hands. Collectively, it signals a need to envision new systems, routines, or foundations that support long‑term stability and growth.
Looking ahead, the Six of Pentacles points toward a future shaped by reciprocity and balanced exchange. We are invited to consider how we share our resources and to do so with fairness, generosity, and integrity.
Together, these cards paint a trajectory from clarity to structure to compassionate action. What we understand now becomes the blueprint for a more balanced and mutually supportive future. While I hesitate to use these tools for fortune‑telling, I use them instead as cues for reflection, and this reading suggests a collective movement toward reciprocity, —something I can happily stand behind.
#arcana #campbell #CarlJung #Column #curiousMethods #divination #edwardWaite #ElfieKalfakis #jungian #majorArcana #Photo #pyschology #tarot -
Well, wel, well... Apparently, #ToxicIndividualism is a thing! So sick of leaders and followers who don't understand how everything is #Interconnected! #TrueEvil! (In my #Jungian interpretation, "That which separates us from God / #Nature / Each Other").
#MAGA #RightWing #ToxicMasculinity #Patriarchy #RWLibertarians #LackOfCompassion #PowerStructures #BadLeaders
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It’s a poor recording but I like this talk: “The Psychology of Transformation. Toronto analyst Marion Woodman explores the body-spirit relationship, the withdrawing of projection, gender issues, and the surrender of ego to the self...” #jung #cgjung #meditation #jungian
Chrysalis: The Psychology of T... -
@petergleick Bobby gonna show daddy he can make his mark on the world.
This entire cabinet is dangerous.
#Jungian thought “The Puer Aeternus-possessed man lives ….a “provisional life.” At a deep and perhaps subconscious level, he feels he has not entered “real life” yet.As such, he’s in an endless holding pattern—hence the term “failure to launch” syndrome.
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A Sense of Doubt blog post #3761 - Therapy Question: Are People Powerless to Change? https://sensedoubt.blogspot.com/2025/06/a-sense-of-doubt-blog-post-3761-therapy.html #Counseling #Therapy #MentalHealthAwareness #MentalHealth #MentalHealthAdvocate #MentalHealthThursday #Psychology #Jungian #traumaInformed
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Sand Mandala | Created & DestroyedFor anyone who has never witnessed the #cosmic #ritual #art of the #Tibetan #Buddhist #Sand #Mandala, here is a very nice 2-min #documentary #video. From Laticia Fan.
🔗 https://vimeo.com/212060461 2017 Apr 06
🔗 https://Wikipedia.org/wiki/Sand_mandala#Time #Timelessness #TimeTravel #Buddhism #monks #Jungian #symbolism #visual #spiritual #meditation #Kronodon
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I found this short video fascinating, especially when Marie-Louise von Franz (who is incredible btw) talks about the concept of a national shadow and how knowing one's personal shadow can help keep one from falling into a collective shadow. But the rest is great too.
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Research interests: #sciencefiction, #fantasy, #Jungian depth psychology, #superheroes, gender, gothic, Jewish speculative fiction, metafiction, parody, postcolonial, myth & folklore in popular sff tv/book/film franchises #academicsky #academic Sometimes edit and submit to academic anthologies
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I've been reading Robert A. Johnson's book, Inner Work. I was lead to this book because I've been reading Jung and wanting to remember my dreams. I've enjoyed what I've read so far. And now I just bought Johnson's book, Owning Your Own Shadow, after watching the excellent video below.
#Jung #Jungian #JungianShadow #ShadowWork #ego #self #shadow #psychology #dreams #analysis
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I have been curious recently about #tarot cards and how they relate to #Jungian #archetypes. Consequently, I've been doing some reading on the subject and watching a variety of videos on tarot in general. And I got my first deck today (woo hoo).
I found the video below a great, straight-forward overview history of how tarot decks came to be.