Primordial Psyche is the Soul of the Ancestors
"We forget that the Soul has its own Ancestors."
--James Hillman
You live inasmuch as these Mendelian units are living. They have souls, are endowed with psychic life, the psychic life of that ancestor; or you can call it part of an ancestral soul. ~Carl Jung, Zarathustra Seminar, Page 1401.
Near the end of his life, Jung spoke to Aniela Jaffe about the Septem Sermones and explained "that the discussions with the dead [in the Seven Sermons] formed the prelude to what he would subsequently communicate to the world, and that their content anticipated his later books. 'From that time on, the dead have become ever more distinct for me as the voices of the unanswered. unresolved and unredeemed.' " [The Red Book, p346 n78]
Somewhere In Time
BACK FROM THE DEAD
Ancestral Continuum: Surviving the Afterlife
United by Blood, We Are Connected In a Sacred Procession
A Quest for Wholeness through Remembrance & Interaction
The blood weeps from my heart when I do shape,
In forms imaginary, th’ unguided days
And rotten times that you shall look upon
When I am sleeping with my ancestors.
William Shakespeare
THE HOUSE OF LIFE
Your Soul & Ancestral Destiny
Genealogy is a wormhole into our ancestry and family history. We each dig a tunnel into our past. If we don't remember our ancestors, we probably cannot recall the distant past. Identifying ancestors can take us places we would not otherwise have gone. They can illuminate us or even manifest themselves. Our ancestors are totally essential to our every waking moment. They wrestled with the same issues we face daily. We should strive to be good ancestors. Each living cell carries the experience of a billion years of ancestral experimentation, written in our hearts.
We cannot slay death, as we have already taken all life from it. If we still want to overcome death, then we must enliven it. Therefore on your journey be sure to take golden cups full of the sweet drink of life, red wine, and give it to dead matter, so that it can win life back. __Jung Red Book, p.244
The past is not dead. It isn’t even past. -William Faulkner
“We're all ghosts. We all carry, inside us, people who came before us.”
― Liam Callanan, The Cloud Atlas
But one thing you must know: the one thing I have learned is that one must live this life.
This life is the way, the long sought-after way to the unfathomable, which we call divine.
~Carl Jung, The Red Book, Page 232.
"There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth...
not going all the way, and not starting." --Buddha
Consciousness is the cradle of the birth of God in man.
~Carl Jung, Conversations with C.G. Jung, Page 39.
"I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books;
I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me." - Hermann Hesse
Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around. --Gilbert K. Chesterton
“We all grow up with the weight of history on us. Our ancestors dwell in the attics of our brains as they do in the spiraling chains of knowledge hidden in every cell of our bodies.”
- Shirley Abbott
Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We forget that the Soul has its own Ancestors."
--James Hillman
You live inasmuch as these Mendelian units are living. They have souls, are endowed with psychic life, the psychic life of that ancestor; or you can call it part of an ancestral soul. ~Carl Jung, Zarathustra Seminar, Page 1401.
Near the end of his life, Jung spoke to Aniela Jaffe about the Septem Sermones and explained "that the discussions with the dead [in the Seven Sermons] formed the prelude to what he would subsequently communicate to the world, and that their content anticipated his later books. 'From that time on, the dead have become ever more distinct for me as the voices of the unanswered. unresolved and unredeemed.' " [The Red Book, p346 n78]
Somewhere In Time
BACK FROM THE DEAD
Ancestral Continuum: Surviving the Afterlife
United by Blood, We Are Connected In a Sacred Procession
A Quest for Wholeness through Remembrance & Interaction
The blood weeps from my heart when I do shape,
In forms imaginary, th’ unguided days
And rotten times that you shall look upon
When I am sleeping with my ancestors.
William Shakespeare
THE HOUSE OF LIFE
Your Soul & Ancestral Destiny
Genealogy is a wormhole into our ancestry and family history. We each dig a tunnel into our past. If we don't remember our ancestors, we probably cannot recall the distant past. Identifying ancestors can take us places we would not otherwise have gone. They can illuminate us or even manifest themselves. Our ancestors are totally essential to our every waking moment. They wrestled with the same issues we face daily. We should strive to be good ancestors. Each living cell carries the experience of a billion years of ancestral experimentation, written in our hearts.
We cannot slay death, as we have already taken all life from it. If we still want to overcome death, then we must enliven it. Therefore on your journey be sure to take golden cups full of the sweet drink of life, red wine, and give it to dead matter, so that it can win life back. __Jung Red Book, p.244
The past is not dead. It isn’t even past. -William Faulkner
“We're all ghosts. We all carry, inside us, people who came before us.”
― Liam Callanan, The Cloud Atlas
But one thing you must know: the one thing I have learned is that one must live this life.
This life is the way, the long sought-after way to the unfathomable, which we call divine.
~Carl Jung, The Red Book, Page 232.
"There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth...
not going all the way, and not starting." --Buddha
Consciousness is the cradle of the birth of God in man.
~Carl Jung, Conversations with C.G. Jung, Page 39.
"I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books;
I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me." - Hermann Hesse
Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around. --Gilbert K. Chesterton
“We all grow up with the weight of history on us. Our ancestors dwell in the attics of our brains as they do in the spiraling chains of knowledge hidden in every cell of our bodies.”
- Shirley Abbott
Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors. --Ralph Waldo Emerson