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Karl Jung’s interpretation of the Kundalini as the “anima” may in part have been suggested by the following description of her cited in The Serpent Power: “She . . . is the ‘Inner Woman’ to whom reference was made when it was said, ‘What need have I of outer women? I have an Inner Woman within myself’ ” (1st ed., 272).

Dr. Jung greatly valued the contributions of Arthur Avalon an author of The Serpent Power in his “The Psychology of Kundalini Yoga” Seminars.]
Arthur Avalon (pseud. Sir John Woodroffe), The Serpent Power (London, 1919).

The copy in Jung’s library is the first edition and contains many marginal annotations.

“…the symptomatology of the case, and it was that which forced me to look into things; I had the idea that something of the sort existed in the East. It was soon after Avalon’s book “The Serpent Power” was published, and there I found the parallel.

…I find it highly complicated—an ocean of individual differences, so ill-defined that one cannot touch it anywhere! Individual problems cannot be understood in uniqueness; thus one is thankful for all references, such as the translation of the ta***ic texts by Avalon, which show that there have always been people with such problems. The Indian conceptual world was thus for me a means to clarify personal experiences.” ~Carl Jung, Kundalini Yoga Seminar

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“Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.”- Carl Jung

💛 from Big T🍁 praying for peace

51 and having fun! 🎉 It just keeps getting better and better. Had a spectacular birthday weekend in Magical Maggia Valley here in Switzerland. Thank you for all the kind birthday wishes🙏❤️😎

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Life is too short for not celebrating! It "can be a joy of conversation, joy of eating, joy of anything one might do… And joie de vivre may be seen as a joy of everything, as a philosophy of life… When was the last time you celebrated?

…..on Sundays
my heart complains
about how my
head has let me down
in the past

and on Wednesdays
my head lists all
of the times my
heart has screwed
things up for me
in the future

they blame each
other for the
state of my life

there's been a lot
of yelling - and crying

so, lately, I've been
spending a lot of
time with my gut

who serves as my
unofficial therapist

most nights, I sneak out of the
window in my ribcage

and slide down my spine
and collapse on my
gut's plush leather chair
that's always open for me

~ and I just sit sit sit sit
until the sun comes up

last evening,
my gut asked me
if I was having a hard
time being caught
between my heart
and my head

I nodded

I said I didn't know
if I could live with
either of them anymore

"my heart is always sad about
something that happened yesterday
while my head is always worried
about something that may happen tomorrow,"
I lamented

my gut squeezed my hand

"I just can't live with
my mistakes of the past
or my anxiety about the future,"
I sighed

my gut smiled and said:

"in that case,
you should
go stay with your
lungs for a while,"

I was confused
- the look on my face gave it away

"if you are exhausted about
your heart's obsession with
the fixed past and your mind's focus
on the uncertain future

your lungs are the perfect place for you

there is no yesterday in your lungs
there is no tomorrow there either

there is only now
there is only inhale
there is only exhale
there is only this moment

there is only breath

and in that breath
you can rest while your
heart and head work
their relationship out."

this morning,
while my brain
was busy reading
tea leaves

and while my
heart was staring
at old photographs

I packed a little
bag and walked
to the door of
my lungs

before I could even knock
they opened the door
with a smile and as
a gust of air embraced me
they said:

"What took you so long?"

(John Roedel)

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May you be happy 💫

May you be healthy 💫

May you be loving 💫

May you be safe 💫

May you be free from suffering 💫

🌟Happy New Year 2023 everyone!🌟

May it be a peaceful one 💙💛 #2023

“How to be in harmony with the cosmos? It seems that certain preliminaries are indispensable: Rid yourself of all beliefs; leave metaphysics to the sectarians of the absurd; understand that hope is fear gone bad; confront reality directly; stop upholding the romantic dream of realization; forget sentimental neurosis; play with your own limits; look at your confusion; confront life without the bric-a-brac of the religious and the spiritual—without, for all that, becoming a narrow-minded materialist who would make a new God out of rationalism; dare to be alone; do not oppose Essence against reality; give yourself over to the pleasures of pure subjectivity; understand that everything is real; and finally, one day, know exhilarating silence.”
Daniel Odier 🕉 **ra **rayoga

The most magical 50th birthday weekend celebrated in the technicolor radiance of Swiss autumn with the best gift I have ever received, my magnificent wife. With her by my side, turning 50 feels like the start of the best part of my life. Thanks to all my friends and family for your thoughtful happy birthday wishes. Age is just a number, life keeps getting better and better when you focus on love, health and service.

They tell us the design of the world says:
“the older a woman is,
the less beautiful she is”

But I have never seen anyone more beautiful
than my grandmother,
wearing all eighty nine years of her skin
like it is the sun’s gold.

Each wrinkle is a map
that tells me the story
of a love, a battle, a truth
she has lived.

So many women are taught
that age reduces our beauty,

but tell me

have you ever heard of a masterpiece
that only took a few seconds to paint?

Or looked upon the ancient oak
with anything less than awe?

Or considered the sapphire sea
any less divine for her age?

Then how can we look at ourselves in the mirror
and see anything less than a miracle
growing even more beautiful every day as we age.

- Nikita Gill

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How do we measure a person’s yoga practice? What does ‘being good at yoga’ even mean?

What if it’s not how long they hold a handstand...
Or how deep their forward bend is...
Or if they can balance on one arm...
Or if they can power through 108 sun salutations without breaking a sweat...
Or how tight their ‘yoga body’ is...
Or if they can sit on their bum doing nothing for hours at a time...
Or if they can see pretty blue flashing lights above their crown....
Not even if they can manufacture bliss-states from time to time.

What if a person’s yoga practice was measured in how good a listener they become...
In a lessening of reactivity to other people’s bu****it...
In their ability to see the best in others and love it... even the most annoying people...
In their kindness...
In their capacity for sincerity...
In their naturally reduced need for stimulating pleasures that were adopted to compensate for the eclipsed pleasures of breath and being...
In their ability to say things clearly without fear of what people will think...
In their perspective on the world.

If this stuff isn’t developing naturally — not as a fake performance — then it could be that our yoga isn’t actually yoga. Awkward.

Real yoga is about clarity of mind and perception, by linking the dissociative and solipsistic brain back up with the whole body, which is already nature, the power of life.

And it does matter, not just as pedantry, because we urgently need more love and less reactivity, and more clarity and less consumerism.

~Rosalind Atkinson 🕉

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☸️Walking meditation, sometimes known as “kinhin”, is a practice within several forms of Buddhism that involve movement and periods of walking between long periods of sitting meditation.

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🔆 The timing of the June Solstice is not based on a specific calendar date or time; it all depends on when the Sun reaches its northernmost point from the celestial equator. Therefore, the solstice won’t always occur on the same day. Currently, it shifts between June 20, 21, and 22.

🔆The Summer solstice represents the transition from action to nourishment, which is exactly what the Sun gives us during the long nights of summer, both to our actual crops but also to the continual journey we travel from darkness to light.

🔆Summer reminds us that there is hope in the world, that the light within can spread to the far reaches of the globe and inspire others. We can nurture others, just as the Sun nurtures us.

🔆 For the majority of cultures, the day involves enjoying sumptuous feasts, lighting bonfires, singing and dancing to traditional songs, and reconnecting with nature.

🔆Through honoring this day of light, we energetically set in motion a period of awakening in our consciousness which lasts all summer until the Fall Equinox. Here are some ways to align with this day and harness its power to build the light within you.

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