Full-Blooded Genealogy
The Red Thread
Genealogy is our map of the unconscious -- the Land of the Dead. The Red Thread, the thread of destiny, connects to the Source. It shows us the way, igniting imagination with the alchemy of 'seeing', awakening the soul. The red threads of your blood link you and your Tree to the World Tree, your history to world history and mythology. The bloodline is also called the "underground stream". The Red Thread is a transmission of cultural influences of ancestors.
Walking the Labyrinth of our lines is a deeply meditative process that arouses spirit, intuition and gnosis from a deep sleep. It is a way of soul retrieval, uniting personal and collective unconscious. It is a process of digging through the past, overturning old notions. Even history looks different from inside your bloodlines. You can easily observe your great-grandparents intermarrying over vast distances. They may move in a single generation from eastern to western Europe, for example, or across Europe from the Near East, or change their religion and ethnic identity. Nothing lives as long as deep memory.
Entangled Roots
Genealogy writes you into the story of history and genetically links you to the Cosmos. It is a legitimate form of self-therapy. The genealogy of the soul begins in the longing for the lost other. Feeling that 'genealogy without proofs is meaningless', some professional genealogists want to throw out the mythic babies with the bathwater. They want to prune the mythic and folkloric elements that link the Medieval to the Classical period from the World Tree. It is not the Truth they seek but to control the narrative.
Stories create the world we live in. They would remove the legendary and divine from the story of humanity. But you cannot remove Isis, Enki, Adam, Woden, Arthur, or Venus from the Psyche. They abide forever with their eternal influence, no matter how deeply buried. What the soul needs is precisely the opposite of expunging them from the ancestral record. We need to clarify and build on the relationships just as we find them, keeping the webwork intact. We are entangled with all the ancestral figures of our heritage. They reside at the nexus of their ancestors and descendents.
Archetypes are the incorporeal blueprints of Being, self-organizing forms. The "collective unconscious" is a vast information store containing the entire religious, spiritual and mythological experiences of humanity. According to Jung, these inherited ancient archetypes exist deep with the human psyche and heavily influence our psychophysical being. Our genealogy shows how we are rooted in them, from the Anunnaki to Zeus, and Horus to Solomon to Merlin.
You cannot expunge the Fisher Kings, Grail Maidens, Lady of the Lake, the Serpent Scion, and Dragons. They are not 'red herrings' in our lines, but the roots of Mystery that bind us to Cosmos. Their appearance means we've transcended history. They are spiritually tangible, though not literal. It is up to us to discern their nature. The soul yearns for such deeper relationships. The archetypes embody the foundational beliefs we carry through life. Jung called Soul the archetype of Life.
Holographic Gods - http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/pantheon.html
Grail Quest & Sangreal
Genealogy helps us reexamine our truth, our existence. The Jungian approach includes the whole range of emotions, but spares us from literalisms and engulfment by balancing objective and subjective. Many archetypal themes are native to genealogical practice:
The Hero Journey, God-Kings, Holy Grail, Royal Wedding, Sangreal Bloodline, Merovingians, and more. The "Grail Bloodline" led to the Scottish House of Stewart from the Merovingians and Desposyni. The bloodline is arcane; it is occult -- that is, 'hidden' within the corridors of royal descent. Thus genealogy builds a bridge between human and the divine. There are ghosts in your genes. Your BOOK OF THE DEAD is written in your DNA.
http://drakenberg.weebly.com/
Hieros Gamos
Deciphering its inherent meaning is a Quest for the Grail and the journey of psychological transformation. The hierosgamos is the holy grail of sexual rites, a psychobiological and symbolic act. Alchemy refers to the reconciliation of Sol and Luna as The Chymical Wedding. Jung's theory of the psychic conjunction of polarities was inspired by this teaching. Over centuries, the alchemists generated a wide range of symbolic images as homologues for the anatomy of the unconscious, relating form and dynamic function.
In biology, two things are homologous if they bear the same relationship to one another. Homology is a relationship between structures or DNA derived from a common ancestor. Homologous traits of organisms are therefore explained by descent from a common ancestor. Homology can also be described at the level of the gene. In genetics homology can refer to both the gene (DNA) and the corresponding protein product.
What we seek is spiritual union, sacred marriage of the gods -- found by joining the male and female within, returning Eros to our process. They guide us into a new holistic era. We now turn to the Feminine, which gives birth to new forms, including the non-physical field of epigenetic and wave-genetic inheritance patterns.
The balance of opposites is called the ‘alchemical wedding’ or mysterium coniunctionis. It was celebrated in Morganatic marriages between human representatives of the God and Goddess that have less to do with inheritance and succession than with renewal of community. Art that contains the archetype, including the genealogical art, is the art that best serves the global community. Like the Caduceus, the two intertwined snakes, it serves as a symbol for perpetually incarnating life, healing and wholeness.
The unification of archetypes embodies the Self. Jung said, “The symbols of the self arise in the depths of the body and they express its materiality every bit as much as the structure of the perceiving consciousness. The symbol is thus a living body, corpus et anima.” (Cw 9i) Any distinction between mind and body is an artificial dichotomy.
The Great Rite, also called the Hieros Gamos, dates to Inanna of ancient Sumeria, around 2600 BCE, if not before -- gods and goddesses, kings of the land and queens of sovereignty incarnate on the earth. The hieros gamos, or sacred marriage, is one of the earliest recorded public ceremonies in written history. The Sumerian rites were deemed essential for the fertility of the land. Symbols arising from the changeable coniunctio reflect the natural process of life/death/rebirth arising from the fixed constellations.of the patriarchal archetypes. The feminine gives birth to the Self before she can birth the new man. Hierosgamos is the symbol of the absolute that reigns over the ego.
The myth of the Holy Grail had to do with the Fisher King whose impotence reflected the drought, the wasteland. Sexual union is a microcosm of the god and goddess, the two fundamental aspects of the cosmos whose union completes the whole. Mystically, the sexual union of male and female is the source of both immortality and personal individuation and redemption.
No one who sets forth on the grail quest remains unchanged. The incarnatio is a spontaneous act of creation in the matter of the universe as the result of the today constellated act of the conuinctio. Synchronicity is the conjunction of individual and cosmos in a way that accelerates and deepens life in an unforeseen way that celebrates Life. The only place of power and change is the Present.
Jung's Model
By the time he was nineteen, Jung was convinced that his existence was somehow deeply entwined with his ancestors and the spiritual mysteries. Jung challenges us to unite our cultured side with the primeval ancestors, what he called “the two million-year-old man within” at the clan and tribal level of human relationships. Such a person would have a relationship with the animal ancestor foundation of the psyche like an indigenous person speaks of spirit animals. We would not exist without the strength and hard work of our ancestors. We have an overall cellular memory of past ancestors that is local and nonlocal, personal and universal.
Jung does not mean to imply by this that experience as such is inherited, but rather that the brain itself has been shaped and influenced by the remote experiences of mankind. But,
'Although our inheritance consists in physiological paths, it was nevertheless mental processes in our ancestors that traced these paths. If they came to consciousness again in the individual, they can do so only in the form of other mental processes; and although these processes can become conscious only through individual experience and consequently appear as individual acquisitions, they are nevertheless pre-existent traces which are merely "filled out" by the individual experience. Probably every "impressive" experience is just such a break-through into an old, previously unconscious riverbed.’
Our genealogical ancestors link us to Source and to our Opus, the Great Work of reconnection with spirit and soul, through nearly infinite alchemical marriages and their offspring. Whatever we lack in our personal experience can surely be found there in the collective root.
"Am I a combination of the lives of these ancestors and do I embody these lives again? Have I lived before in the past as a specific personality, and did I progress so far in that life that I am now able to seek a solution? I do not know." (Jung, MDR).
Dr. Jung concludes the “Liber Secundus” portion of The Red Book with the following words:
“An opus is needed, that one can squander decades on, and do it out of necessity I must catch up with a piece of the Middle Ages-within myself. We have only finished the Middle Ages of others. I must begin early, in that period when the hermits died out. Asceticism, inquisition, torture are close at hand and impose themselves. The barbarian requires barbaric means of education. My I, you are a barbarian. I want to live with you, therefore I will carry you through an utterly medieval Hell, until you are capable of making living with you bearable. You should be the vessel and womb of life, therefore I shall purify you. The touchstone is being alone with oneself. This is the way” (The Red Book, Page 330).
Jung believed that vestigial remnants, "archetypal" experiences of evolutionary ancestors were embedded in the unconscious that affected how we behave and think in the present. Our royal ancestors are our inner Court of last resort. We have spiritual DNA, as well as physical, and our lot in life is to answer the questions posed by the people who came before us.
Balancing inner and outer realities serves to regulate both collective unconscious and collective conscious forces (and implicitly, moral opposites of good and evil residing in the psyche and expressed in the sentiments and acts of external reality).
"At Bollingen I am in the midst of my true life, I am most deeply myself.
Here I am, as it were, the "age-old son of the mother." That is how alchemy puts it, very wisely, for the "old man" the "ancient," whom I had already experienced as a child, is personality No. 2, who has always been and always will be. He exists outside time and is the son of the maternal unconscious. In my fantasies he took the form of Philemon, and he comes to life again at Bollingen. At times I feel as if I am spread out over the landscape and inside things, and am myself living in every tree, in the plashing of the waves, in the clouds and the animals that come and go, in the procession of the seasons." ~Carl Jung, Memories Dreams and Reflections.
The Red Thread
Genealogy is our map of the unconscious -- the Land of the Dead. The Red Thread, the thread of destiny, connects to the Source. It shows us the way, igniting imagination with the alchemy of 'seeing', awakening the soul. The red threads of your blood link you and your Tree to the World Tree, your history to world history and mythology. The bloodline is also called the "underground stream". The Red Thread is a transmission of cultural influences of ancestors.
Walking the Labyrinth of our lines is a deeply meditative process that arouses spirit, intuition and gnosis from a deep sleep. It is a way of soul retrieval, uniting personal and collective unconscious. It is a process of digging through the past, overturning old notions. Even history looks different from inside your bloodlines. You can easily observe your great-grandparents intermarrying over vast distances. They may move in a single generation from eastern to western Europe, for example, or across Europe from the Near East, or change their religion and ethnic identity. Nothing lives as long as deep memory.
Entangled Roots
Genealogy writes you into the story of history and genetically links you to the Cosmos. It is a legitimate form of self-therapy. The genealogy of the soul begins in the longing for the lost other. Feeling that 'genealogy without proofs is meaningless', some professional genealogists want to throw out the mythic babies with the bathwater. They want to prune the mythic and folkloric elements that link the Medieval to the Classical period from the World Tree. It is not the Truth they seek but to control the narrative.
Stories create the world we live in. They would remove the legendary and divine from the story of humanity. But you cannot remove Isis, Enki, Adam, Woden, Arthur, or Venus from the Psyche. They abide forever with their eternal influence, no matter how deeply buried. What the soul needs is precisely the opposite of expunging them from the ancestral record. We need to clarify and build on the relationships just as we find them, keeping the webwork intact. We are entangled with all the ancestral figures of our heritage. They reside at the nexus of their ancestors and descendents.
Archetypes are the incorporeal blueprints of Being, self-organizing forms. The "collective unconscious" is a vast information store containing the entire religious, spiritual and mythological experiences of humanity. According to Jung, these inherited ancient archetypes exist deep with the human psyche and heavily influence our psychophysical being. Our genealogy shows how we are rooted in them, from the Anunnaki to Zeus, and Horus to Solomon to Merlin.
You cannot expunge the Fisher Kings, Grail Maidens, Lady of the Lake, the Serpent Scion, and Dragons. They are not 'red herrings' in our lines, but the roots of Mystery that bind us to Cosmos. Their appearance means we've transcended history. They are spiritually tangible, though not literal. It is up to us to discern their nature. The soul yearns for such deeper relationships. The archetypes embody the foundational beliefs we carry through life. Jung called Soul the archetype of Life.
Holographic Gods - http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/pantheon.html
Grail Quest & Sangreal
Genealogy helps us reexamine our truth, our existence. The Jungian approach includes the whole range of emotions, but spares us from literalisms and engulfment by balancing objective and subjective. Many archetypal themes are native to genealogical practice:
The Hero Journey, God-Kings, Holy Grail, Royal Wedding, Sangreal Bloodline, Merovingians, and more. The "Grail Bloodline" led to the Scottish House of Stewart from the Merovingians and Desposyni. The bloodline is arcane; it is occult -- that is, 'hidden' within the corridors of royal descent. Thus genealogy builds a bridge between human and the divine. There are ghosts in your genes. Your BOOK OF THE DEAD is written in your DNA.
http://drakenberg.weebly.com/
Hieros Gamos
Deciphering its inherent meaning is a Quest for the Grail and the journey of psychological transformation. The hierosgamos is the holy grail of sexual rites, a psychobiological and symbolic act. Alchemy refers to the reconciliation of Sol and Luna as The Chymical Wedding. Jung's theory of the psychic conjunction of polarities was inspired by this teaching. Over centuries, the alchemists generated a wide range of symbolic images as homologues for the anatomy of the unconscious, relating form and dynamic function.
In biology, two things are homologous if they bear the same relationship to one another. Homology is a relationship between structures or DNA derived from a common ancestor. Homologous traits of organisms are therefore explained by descent from a common ancestor. Homology can also be described at the level of the gene. In genetics homology can refer to both the gene (DNA) and the corresponding protein product.
What we seek is spiritual union, sacred marriage of the gods -- found by joining the male and female within, returning Eros to our process. They guide us into a new holistic era. We now turn to the Feminine, which gives birth to new forms, including the non-physical field of epigenetic and wave-genetic inheritance patterns.
The balance of opposites is called the ‘alchemical wedding’ or mysterium coniunctionis. It was celebrated in Morganatic marriages between human representatives of the God and Goddess that have less to do with inheritance and succession than with renewal of community. Art that contains the archetype, including the genealogical art, is the art that best serves the global community. Like the Caduceus, the two intertwined snakes, it serves as a symbol for perpetually incarnating life, healing and wholeness.
The unification of archetypes embodies the Self. Jung said, “The symbols of the self arise in the depths of the body and they express its materiality every bit as much as the structure of the perceiving consciousness. The symbol is thus a living body, corpus et anima.” (Cw 9i) Any distinction between mind and body is an artificial dichotomy.
The Great Rite, also called the Hieros Gamos, dates to Inanna of ancient Sumeria, around 2600 BCE, if not before -- gods and goddesses, kings of the land and queens of sovereignty incarnate on the earth. The hieros gamos, or sacred marriage, is one of the earliest recorded public ceremonies in written history. The Sumerian rites were deemed essential for the fertility of the land. Symbols arising from the changeable coniunctio reflect the natural process of life/death/rebirth arising from the fixed constellations.of the patriarchal archetypes. The feminine gives birth to the Self before she can birth the new man. Hierosgamos is the symbol of the absolute that reigns over the ego.
The myth of the Holy Grail had to do with the Fisher King whose impotence reflected the drought, the wasteland. Sexual union is a microcosm of the god and goddess, the two fundamental aspects of the cosmos whose union completes the whole. Mystically, the sexual union of male and female is the source of both immortality and personal individuation and redemption.
No one who sets forth on the grail quest remains unchanged. The incarnatio is a spontaneous act of creation in the matter of the universe as the result of the today constellated act of the conuinctio. Synchronicity is the conjunction of individual and cosmos in a way that accelerates and deepens life in an unforeseen way that celebrates Life. The only place of power and change is the Present.
Jung's Model
By the time he was nineteen, Jung was convinced that his existence was somehow deeply entwined with his ancestors and the spiritual mysteries. Jung challenges us to unite our cultured side with the primeval ancestors, what he called “the two million-year-old man within” at the clan and tribal level of human relationships. Such a person would have a relationship with the animal ancestor foundation of the psyche like an indigenous person speaks of spirit animals. We would not exist without the strength and hard work of our ancestors. We have an overall cellular memory of past ancestors that is local and nonlocal, personal and universal.
Jung does not mean to imply by this that experience as such is inherited, but rather that the brain itself has been shaped and influenced by the remote experiences of mankind. But,
'Although our inheritance consists in physiological paths, it was nevertheless mental processes in our ancestors that traced these paths. If they came to consciousness again in the individual, they can do so only in the form of other mental processes; and although these processes can become conscious only through individual experience and consequently appear as individual acquisitions, they are nevertheless pre-existent traces which are merely "filled out" by the individual experience. Probably every "impressive" experience is just such a break-through into an old, previously unconscious riverbed.’
Our genealogical ancestors link us to Source and to our Opus, the Great Work of reconnection with spirit and soul, through nearly infinite alchemical marriages and their offspring. Whatever we lack in our personal experience can surely be found there in the collective root.
"Am I a combination of the lives of these ancestors and do I embody these lives again? Have I lived before in the past as a specific personality, and did I progress so far in that life that I am now able to seek a solution? I do not know." (Jung, MDR).
Dr. Jung concludes the “Liber Secundus” portion of The Red Book with the following words:
“An opus is needed, that one can squander decades on, and do it out of necessity I must catch up with a piece of the Middle Ages-within myself. We have only finished the Middle Ages of others. I must begin early, in that period when the hermits died out. Asceticism, inquisition, torture are close at hand and impose themselves. The barbarian requires barbaric means of education. My I, you are a barbarian. I want to live with you, therefore I will carry you through an utterly medieval Hell, until you are capable of making living with you bearable. You should be the vessel and womb of life, therefore I shall purify you. The touchstone is being alone with oneself. This is the way” (The Red Book, Page 330).
Jung believed that vestigial remnants, "archetypal" experiences of evolutionary ancestors were embedded in the unconscious that affected how we behave and think in the present. Our royal ancestors are our inner Court of last resort. We have spiritual DNA, as well as physical, and our lot in life is to answer the questions posed by the people who came before us.
Balancing inner and outer realities serves to regulate both collective unconscious and collective conscious forces (and implicitly, moral opposites of good and evil residing in the psyche and expressed in the sentiments and acts of external reality).
"At Bollingen I am in the midst of my true life, I am most deeply myself.
Here I am, as it were, the "age-old son of the mother." That is how alchemy puts it, very wisely, for the "old man" the "ancient," whom I had already experienced as a child, is personality No. 2, who has always been and always will be. He exists outside time and is the son of the maternal unconscious. In my fantasies he took the form of Philemon, and he comes to life again at Bollingen. At times I feel as if I am spread out over the landscape and inside things, and am myself living in every tree, in the plashing of the waves, in the clouds and the animals that come and go, in the procession of the seasons." ~Carl Jung, Memories Dreams and Reflections.