Tag: Archetypes

• Rethinking Jesus (04) The Hero’s Journey

  After Jesus was baptised by John , what happened next? We’re told that he took himself off into the ‘wilderness’ for the standard biblical “forty days and forty nights”, (meaning a long, but indeterminate time), during which he was both menaced by “wild beasts” and also protected by “angels”. He was also subjected, by the […]

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  28th Jan 2022

  Christianity, Jesus of Nazareth, Literature, Mythology, New Testament, Poetry, Religion

  Archetypes, Devil, Gospels, Hero, Jesus, Joseph Campbell, Myth

• Jung, Archetypes, Arts, Religion

  Arising from recent dialogue with a friend, I’m posting this one-off to try to clarify my thinking about Carl Jung, archetypes, the arts and religion. In Jung’s view, the human psyche has three different but interacting ‘levels’, which should not be thought of as separate ‘compartments’. There is consciousness, which enables us to perceive, and […]

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  23rd Jan 2022

  Christianity, Consciousness, Literature, Mythology, Philosophy, Religion

  Archetypes, Consciousness, Instincts, Joseph Campbell, Jung, Transcendence

• The Gospels  (1) ‘Jesus as Archetypal Hero’

  Recently, I began to look at the Gospels – books that should be regularly read, but in the right way. What I share here are my current views, which are as fallible and changeable as anyone else’s. My aim is not to convince you that I’m right, but to invite you to check out your […]

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  18th Sep 2021

  Consciousness, Jesus of Nazareth, Literature, Mythology, New Testament, Philosophy, Religion

  Archetypes, Collective Unconscious, Freud, Gospels, Hero Myth, Jesus, Joseph Campbell, Jung

• The Four Gospels

  The Four Gospels have stood the test of Time. They have contributed many a word and phrase to our everyday language. They have influenced, consciously or otherwise, our thoughts and feelings, attitudes and actions, individually and socially. They’ve been the stimulus for some of our greatest paintings, sculptures, poetry and music. They’re here to stay, […]

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  12th Sep 2021

  Consciousness, Jesus of Nazareth, Literature, Mythology, New Testament, Religion

  Archetypes, Gospels, History, Jung, Metaphor, Myth