HOLY BLOOD, HOLY TRAIL
A Mystery Wrapped in a Love Story
For those who can trace their ancestral lines back through centuries, the Grail Trail is a golden path back to medieval times, ancient times, & into the mists of myth and pre-history. Follow your Grail-Trail and see where it leads.
Underground Streams Converge in the Vast Ocean of the Medieval Ancestral Pool
Ancestral Life Continues Within Us
“Then turn to the dead, listen to their lament
and accept them with love.” --C.G. Jung, The Red Book, Chapter XV
One of the key themes in ‘The Lament for the Dead’ is the denial of death by contemporary, secular Western culture. Our ancestors are not properly recognized and given their due weight – there is no real place for the dead in our culture. Shamdasani says on p.176:
“The first task that Jung finds himself confronted with [as I think anyone engaged in this descent is] is reanimating the dead, acknowledging that the dead are, and they have presences, they have effects. We turn our eyes away from future-oriented living and to what has gone before, in the shape of animated history, history that is not simply a record but history that is active.”
Therefore, by denying the dead we are denying ourselves.
Jung believed that the foundations of personality are ancestral and universal. Because much of genealogical best-practice includes mythic and fictional characters, the process is best approached with a Jungian orientation, rather than as hard historical fact, except where lines are clearly curated. In terms of collective unconscious, genealogy has "as if" psychic reality.
Jungian and post-Jungian practices allow us to interact with such material in a deeply meaningful way that helps us integrate such knowledge and self-knowledge, that enhances integration and individuation. Post-Jungians are committed to an approach that does not focus exclusively on psychic reality but also takes into account the realities of the outer world. Genealogy helps us adapt to both external or internal realities. This practice raises into conscious awareness what was formerly subconscious or unconscious -- the lives of our direct ancestors. Re-examining Psychology: Critical Perspectives and African Insights By Len T. Holdstock
LIFESPAN
Since we are psychic beings and not entirely dependent upon space and time, we can easily understand the central importance of the resurrection idea: we are not completely subjected to the powers of annihilation because our psychic totality reaches beyond the barrier of space and time. ~Carl Jung, The Symbolic Self, Page 695.
Although he is already born in the pleroma, his birth in time can only be accomplished when it is perceived, recognized, and declared by man.
-Jung, Psychology & Religion
Life that just happens in and for itself is not real life;
it is real only when it is known.
~Carl Jung, Psychology and Alchemy, Page 81.
Hence one could say —cum grano salis —that history could be constructed
just as easily from one's own unconscious as from the actual texts.
~Carl Jung, Psychology and Alchemy, Page 86.
Trace your History back through Time into Myth
Collective Remembrance - Soul Searching - Wisdom Bridge
Celebrating Historic & Mythic Heritage
Place, Sense, Purpose & Death; Ancestral Magic
Deep Impulses, Untold Secrets, Spirit Walking
A Mystery Wrapped in a Love Story
For those who can trace their ancestral lines back through centuries, the Grail Trail is a golden path back to medieval times, ancient times, & into the mists of myth and pre-history. Follow your Grail-Trail and see where it leads.
Underground Streams Converge in the Vast Ocean of the Medieval Ancestral Pool
Ancestral Life Continues Within Us
“Then turn to the dead, listen to their lament
and accept them with love.” --C.G. Jung, The Red Book, Chapter XV
One of the key themes in ‘The Lament for the Dead’ is the denial of death by contemporary, secular Western culture. Our ancestors are not properly recognized and given their due weight – there is no real place for the dead in our culture. Shamdasani says on p.176:
“The first task that Jung finds himself confronted with [as I think anyone engaged in this descent is] is reanimating the dead, acknowledging that the dead are, and they have presences, they have effects. We turn our eyes away from future-oriented living and to what has gone before, in the shape of animated history, history that is not simply a record but history that is active.”
Therefore, by denying the dead we are denying ourselves.
Jung believed that the foundations of personality are ancestral and universal. Because much of genealogical best-practice includes mythic and fictional characters, the process is best approached with a Jungian orientation, rather than as hard historical fact, except where lines are clearly curated. In terms of collective unconscious, genealogy has "as if" psychic reality.
Jungian and post-Jungian practices allow us to interact with such material in a deeply meaningful way that helps us integrate such knowledge and self-knowledge, that enhances integration and individuation. Post-Jungians are committed to an approach that does not focus exclusively on psychic reality but also takes into account the realities of the outer world. Genealogy helps us adapt to both external or internal realities. This practice raises into conscious awareness what was formerly subconscious or unconscious -- the lives of our direct ancestors. Re-examining Psychology: Critical Perspectives and African Insights By Len T. Holdstock
LIFESPAN
Since we are psychic beings and not entirely dependent upon space and time, we can easily understand the central importance of the resurrection idea: we are not completely subjected to the powers of annihilation because our psychic totality reaches beyond the barrier of space and time. ~Carl Jung, The Symbolic Self, Page 695.
Although he is already born in the pleroma, his birth in time can only be accomplished when it is perceived, recognized, and declared by man.
-Jung, Psychology & Religion
Life that just happens in and for itself is not real life;
it is real only when it is known.
~Carl Jung, Psychology and Alchemy, Page 81.
Hence one could say —cum grano salis —that history could be constructed
just as easily from one's own unconscious as from the actual texts.
~Carl Jung, Psychology and Alchemy, Page 86.
Trace your History back through Time into Myth
Collective Remembrance - Soul Searching - Wisdom Bridge
Celebrating Historic & Mythic Heritage
Place, Sense, Purpose & Death; Ancestral Magic
Deep Impulses, Untold Secrets, Spirit Walking