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Psychological Perspectives is a beautiful journal whose mission is to promote greater consciousness by honoring and amplifying the psychology of C. G. Jung.

It has been published since 1970, sponsored by the C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles.

09/05/2023

https://doi.org/10.1080/00332925.2020.1739468

08/30/2023

Jung recognized that his early experiences of imagination and creativity were an important part of working with the unconscious and healing the psyche. Throughout his life stone was perhaps one of the most important mediums for Jung—in MDR he refers to it as a medium that allowed him to find his foundation or “footing.” One of his memories while sitting on a stone was of pondering the relationship between subject and object that led to his question: “Am I the one who is sitting on the stone, or am I the stone on which he is sitting?” (Jung, 1961, p. 20)

Excerpt from C. G. Jung’s Influence on Art Therapy and the Making of the Third by Nora Swan-Foster published in Psychological Perspectives 63-1: The Forgotten Feminine.
https://doi.org/10.1080/00332925.2020.1739467

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08/22/2023

Conscious and unconscious do not make a whole when one of them is repressed and injured by the other…. Consciousness should defend its reason and protect itself, and the chaotic life of the unconscious should be given the chance of having its way too—as much of it as we can stand…. It is the old game of hammer and anvil: between them the patient iron is forged into an indestructible whole, an “individual.” This, roughly, is what I mean by the individuation process. (Jung, 1959/1968, para. 522)

Quote from Jung in The Red Admiral’s Wing: Toward a Gaian Individuation by Stephan P. Harding published in Psychological Perspectives 66-1: The Rainmaker. https://doi.org/10.1080/00332925.2023.2211000

Art: Having Speech by Peter Birkhäuser

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08/18/2023

There is music in the world, an ordered pattern without words that can be felt in the heart. More specifically, there is music in the intersection of psyche and world. Synchronicity is that music. While soundwaves may exist outside of human consciousness, music needs an ear to hear it.

Excerpt from The Rainmaker by Thomas Hart Elsner published in Psychological Perspectives 66-1: The Rainmaker. https://doi.org/10.1080/00332925.2023.2210993

Art: Composition 8 (Komposition 8) by Wassily Kandinsky, July 1923 - Guggenheim Museum

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08/16/2023

To subscribe to Vol. 66 (4 issues, paper + digital, $85): /vol66

To purchase individual issue 66-1, The Rainmaker: /66-1

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08/14/2023

One of the most difficult tasks for chemically dependent people, especially when they are in early remission (that tenuous, perilous stage following acute withdrawal and detoxification), is to form a relationship with any power greater than themselves. Unfortunately, if this is not accomplished, many fail and relapse into chronic addiction. A powerful key to recovery is learning to observe synchronicities, to notice the miraculous within the mundane, the divine within daily life, and this is a skill that can be taught to recovering individuals who struggle with the HP [Higher Power] concept.

Excerpt from Synchronicity: A Glimpse of the Higher Power? by John Hart Young published in Psychological Perspectives 66-1: The Rainmaker. https://doi.org/10.1080/00332925.2023.2211002

Painting: Portals. Vassil Ivanov

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08/11/2023

Jung recognized the relationship between the individual soul (ātman) and the collective world soul (brahman) in other religions besides Hinduism, and in mythology, folklore, and alchemy. In his clinical work he investigated this connection as experienced uniquely by individuals—some within the context of their religion and others not. In psychological terms, he identified the unique, first-hand relationship between the individual and the collective unconscious as the basis of individuation. He recognized the difference between individuals who yearned to return to the womb of the unconscious seeking comfort in a regressive way and those who were called to connect with the unconscious in order to participate in a mutual development. The former relationship can usually be contained in an individual’s religion, but the latter will find religious doctrine too narrow or worn out to contain their unique experiences. Those called to individuate beyond religious doctrine are left to confront the numen on their own.

Excerpt from The Soul’s Invisible Life by Laurel Howe published in Psychological Perspectives 66-1: The Rainmaker. https://doi.org/10.1080/00332925.2023.2211001

Image: James Webb Space Telescope's image of the Pillars of CreationNASA, ESA, CSA, STScI; J. DePasquale, A. Koekemoer, A. Pagan (STScI)

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07/28/2023

...individuation requires us to be in relationship not only with other people, but also with the totality of the other-than-human world—with Gaia in the widest sense of the word. In this time of severe ecological crisis, this journey of soul can bring us new perspectives and ways of being in which we know the Earth, Gaia, as a living planetary being—our larger body within whom our small human bodies are enmeshed endosymbiotically. Could it be that our global ecological situation calls for all our contemporary journeys of individuation to be deeply ecological and therefore fully enmeshed within the very fabric of our animate Earth (Abram, 1997; Harding, 2009)? We cannot individuate without Gaia also individuating.

Excerpt from The Red Admiral’s Wing: Toward a Gaian Individuation by Stephan P. Harding published in Psychological Perspectives 66-1: The Rainmaker. https://doi.org/10.1080/00332925.2023.2211000

Art: Gaia by Joohee Yoon.

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07/26/2023

I am giving a presentation to a church group. I look at the audience, especially the expectant faces of the younger people. I have been asked to talk about climate change, to provide them with the current scientific understanding of what is happening in the world. I describe how the last two decades have been the warmest on record, with an accompanying record-setting loss of Arctic sea ice. I present the latest facts: the number of days with record high temperatures is now more than twice that of record lows; it is estimated that one-third of all land animals and over half of all plant species could lose their habitats during the next 80 years. As I look out into the audience, I sense something has shifted in the room. The expressions on people’s faces tell me that various moods now populate our gathering. I have seen this before and realize it is time to move on from enumerating the facts of global warming. I pause for a moment to ask how people are feeling. There is absolute silence, as if they have never been asked this question before. Then I see a hand rise slowly: a young woman expresses how helpless she feels in the face of such immensely challenging information. After her brave, heartfelt admission, others begin to raise their hands and share feelings about our changing world and what they fear losing. The moods expressed include sadness, hopelessness, anger, denial, guilt, numbness, and fear. We sit together in silence, holding this multitude of moods. Giving voice to these silent spirits inhabiting our hearts brings a certain warmth to the room. In sharing our feelings about these issues a door opens, connecting us. Our humanness, our ability to suffer loss in our world, is perhaps the very thing that will lead to our transformation. Our shared feelings evoke within us a profound depth of caring.

Excerpt from Climate Chaos: A Complex Issue by Jeffrey T. Kiehl published in Psychological Perspectives 66-1: The Rainmaker.
https://doi.org/10.1080/00332925.2023.2210999

Art: Clouds above a Landscape at Sunset, Joseph Mallord William Turner, c. 1820-1840

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07/24/2023

There was a great drought where Wilhelm lived. For months there was not a drop of rain and the thing became catastrophic. The Catholics made processions, the Protestants made prayers, and the Chinese burned joss-sticks and shot off guns to frighten away the demons of the drought. Finally the Chinese said, “We will fetch the Rainmaker,” and he came from one of the provinces, a dried up old man. He said the only thing he wished was a quiet little house somewhere, and there he locked himself in for three days. On the fourth day, clouds gathered and there was a great snow storm at the time of the year when no snow was expected, an unusual amount, and the town was so full of rumor about the wonderful Rainmaker that Wilhelm went to the man to ask him how he did it. In true European fashion he said, “They call you the Rainmaker. Will you tell me how you made the snow?” And the little Chinaman said, “I have not made the snow. I am not responsible.” “But what have you done these three days?” “Oh, I can explain that. That is more simple. I come from another country where things are quite all right. Things are out of order here, they are not as they should be by the ordinance of heaven, therefore the whole country is not in Tao. I am also not in the natural order of things because I am in a wrong country so the thing which I had to do was to wait three days until I was back in Tao, and then naturally Tao made the rain.” (Jung,1998, p. 333)

Excerpt from The Rainmaker of Kiauchow by Hansueli F. Etter published in Psychological Perspectives 66-1: The Rainmaker. https://doi.org/10.1080/00332925.2023.2210998

Art: Statue of Lao Tzu in Quanzhou - Wikimedia

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07/21/2023

Many of us will no doubt have had, at some time or another in our lives, the experience of inner and outer events meaningfully coinciding. Perhaps we dream of a person or an event and then that person or event appears outside in waking life. Jung (2015) tells the story of walking through the woods with a woman as she tells him a deeply significant dream of a spectral fox walking toward her down the stairs of her family home. Suddenly, a real fox steps out of the woods and onto the path, walking in front of them both for a time (p. 395). These are the types of meaningful coincidences of inner and outer that we typically refer to as synchronicity. As an experience, synchronicity is not new. Throughout all times and places people have felt, as my client felt, the presence of a meaningful, purposeful spirit in nature. But synchronicity is not simply a return to a prescientific past. As Jung sees it, synchronicity is not only a rare and serendipitous experience, but also a principle in nature, as is causality. Synchronicity is complementary to causality.

Excerpt from The Rainmaker by Thomas Elsner published in Psychological Perspectives 66-1: The Rainmaker. https://doi.org/10.1080/00332925.2023.2210993

Art: The Foxes, 1913, by Franz Mark. Oil on canvas, Private Collection.

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07/19/2023

Issue 66-1: The Rainmaker is now online! https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/upyp20/66/1

A synchronistic event, if understood correctly, is proof of God. It proves that there exists a unified, cosmic creative power, not a personal, white-bearded lord in heaven.

Excerpt from the article Conversation about Synchronicity with Marie-Louise von Franz by Marie-Louise von Franz, Robin Mindell, and Roy Freeman published in Psychological Perspectives 66-1: The Rainmaker.

Art: Lu Han, Eight Landscapes, 1699. Album of eight leaves; ink and color on paper. 14 × 10 in. Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Gift of Mrs. Henry J. Bernheim, 1945. Accession Number: 45.97.9a–h.

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