“Don’t be a maybe”– a Junganian view of postmodern, post-metaphysical,...
That movie title “The Right thing to do” of Spike Lee would not fly today. Rather Raymond Chandlers “The Big Sleep”. Maybe. Something feels not right any more. Specifically the “Right” (as opposed to...
View ArticleThe Templars – Gods militia or Gnostic warlords?
Things are never as they appear but also not otherwise The Templars were the first trans-national financial and military organisation, comparable to a blend of Goldman & Sachs, Benedictine...
View ArticleSufism the Gnostic chameleon – muscle and brain of Islam
Timbuktu-Sunni activist - resurgence of animosity between Salafists and Sufis Sufism came recently into the CNN spotlight when Al Qaeda-linked Mali Islamists armed with Kalashnikov’s and pick-axes...
View ArticleRejoice; Jorge Mario Bergoglio the right men and right time – prayers heard
The new pope, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, now Francis, the 266th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church. Our prayers are answered - a non-European was elected. Not Abraxas but Pentecostal is on the Agenda...
View ArticleCharismatic Roman-Catholic’s with Pope Francis?
Charismatic Christian (Whitsun) movements have been a huge challenge for the Roman-Catholic church in Africa, South America and India largely ignored by Europe’s clerical mainstream. I was first made...
View ArticleRepost: The lost History of Christanity
Western foreign policy a pattern for genocide. (via http://fallenangels2ndlife.dyndns.org) The war in Syria becomes increasingly religious. Out of personal experience and sympathy for the country and...
View ArticlePope Francis refers to “sweet and comforting joy of evangelizing” and warns...
refocus its energy on the “peripheries,” not only geographical but existential: sin, suffering, injustice and ignorance. Pope Francis has already warned the Catholic Cardinals of an ”egocentric...
View ArticleGerman Waterloo against Putin – Repost Putin at his best
Putin at his best – harpooning an unsuspecting German journalist (via http://fallenangels2ndlife.dyndns.org) The world is used to macho images of Vladimir Putin hunting bears, harpooning whales or...
View ArticleA primatologist image of God: The Ultimate Chimp
Maybe it’s because I am an “unchurched”, humanist religious person, but todays anti-religious tracts and rants do bore me. However, a new book of the primatologist Frans de Waal, raised hope for new...
View ArticleANGELS FEAR – Sacred aesthetics of fractal recursion
TreeOf Live – Source Avatar Angels Fear – The Sacred Destroyed fallenAngel’s Fear is an obvious wordplay which crossed my mind after a blog reader pointed out that Bateson’s book Angels Fear: Towards...
View ArticleJungian Archetype of the wolf – gods and godnesses, warriors and mothers,...
st_georgenberg_stift_fiecht In a few weeks, there is Whitsun, and I will make one of my occasional trips to the monastery. The rock monastery St. George is a development center of the Benedictine...
View ArticleArchetype Lupus and Astronomy – the Sirius Case
This is an extension of the last post: the archetype of the wolf. I am a hobby astronomer and fond of its older sister Astrology. So lets look to the Wolf from that perspective. The wolf is inherently...
View ArticleArchtype of the vampire in todays culture of Narcissism
The vampire breaks the rules of the gods, society or nature, sometimes maliciously sometimes cunning or foolish or both. This article wants to explore the connection between Narcissism, Vampires and...
View ArticleFemale Janissaries in Liberia – Girls fighting in wars.
When Liberian Child Soldiers Grow Up A generation of girls fought in Liberia’s brutal wars. What they tell their own children about the past will inform the country’s future. Many Liberians are former...
View ArticleSymbols live on when language is lost – Archetypes of the Picts in Scotland
I learned recently during a trip through Scotland more about the Picts, who were a group of Late Iron Age and Early Medieval Celtic tribal people living in ancient eastern and northern part. Their...
View ArticleThe Black Swan as Acausal Connecting Principle
No, this essay is not about the movie, Black Swan with Natalie Portman. By chance I recently picked up Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s The Black Swan, and it reminded me to C.G. Jung’s Synchronicity: An...
View ArticleIsis, Mithras and Jesus: Clash of male and female Archetypes in classical Rome
Cults mithraeum_tauroctony A scholarly fashion claims that only by coincidence Christ and not the Egyptian Isis or the Persian Mithras gained the upper hand as a world religion. There is some truth in...
View ArticleJungian archetypes of Nefertiti and the Heretic Pharaoh Akhenaten
TheQueenTheLover Akhenaten (Echnaton) is the most mysterious and interesting of all the ancient Egyptian pharaohs. In the following essay I will try to interpret what little is known about the...
View ArticleThe face of God, history of time from ancient cultures to the big bang.
The history of time reflects culture – interconnecting temporal powers, religion and science. For millenniums priest were gatekeeper of time and calendar(s). Now scientists have taken over. Today we...
View ArticleFemale Archetype of Sabina Spielrein
This essay is about Sabina Spielrein (1885-1942), a remarkable Russian Jewish woman connected with the two leading pioneers of the first hour – C. G. Jung and Sigmund Freud. I like the make the case,...
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