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“Carl Jung spoke passionately about the Conjunctio, a marriage of sorts, between the numinous and humans, between two lovers, between the sacred feminine and sacred masculine, etc. Yet, in order to experience this meeting between my Self and something bigger, deeper, wiser, etc., it required a certain sense of consciousness.
Conjunctio is a love story. It is the meeting of two parts at some intersecting point where everything that is, was and will be, come together and come apart. It is the place where I experience you experiencing me and it is my consciousness that allows me to register the moment, hopefully using it to grow and connect with myself. There is something about plunging into a dark pool of water that is mysterious and interesting.”
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ᔥ Jeffrey Sumber’s blog — “Conjunctio: A Love Story”
Lullabies / Of the String
White petals my blood / their stems are a bliss
“What people do out of fear of irrational elements in themselves as well as in other people is to put tools and mechanics between themselves and the unconscious world.
This protects them from being grasped by the frightening and threatening aspects of irrational experience. I am saying nothing whatever, I am sure it will be understood, against technology or techniques or mechanics in themselves.
What I am saying is that the danger always exists that our technology will serve as a buffer between us and nature, a block between us and the deeper dimensions of our own experience.
Tools and techniques ought to be an extension of consciousness, but they can just as easily be a protection from consciousness. Then tools become defense mechanisms—specifically against the wider and more complex dimensions of consciousness that we call the unconscious.
Our mechanisms and technology then make us “uncertain in the impulses of the spirit,” as the physicist Heisenberg puts it.”
Rollo May, existential psychologist in The Courage To Create
by Robert Mapplethorpe himself - Calla Lily (1987)
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“So, here in this underworld orchard awaits the gathering together of those powerful parts of the psyche, both male and female. They form a conjunctio. This word is from alchemy and means a higher transformative union of unlike substances. When these opposites are rubbed together they result in the activation of certain intra-psychic processes. They act like flint struck against rock in order to make fire. It is trough the conjunction and pressure of dissimilar elements inhabiting the same psychic space that soulful energy, insight and knowing are made.
The presence of the sort of conjunctio we have in this story signals an activation of a verdant Life/Death/Life cycle. When we see this rare and precious gathering, we know that a spiritual death will take place, that a spiritual marriage is imminent, also that a new life will be born. These factors predict what is to come. Conjunctio is not something one goes out and gets. It is something that occurs because hard, hard work is being done.
So, here we are, in our mud clothes walking down a road we’ve never seen, and with a mark of the wild nature glowing through us more and more. It is fair to say that this conjunctio is insisting on a striking revision of the old you. If you are here in the orchard, and there are these identifiable psychic aspects of you, there is no turning back—we are going forward.”
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Clarissa Pinkola Estés, in “Women Who Run With The Wolves—Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype”
Leaning Lily
“I tried to copy Robert Mapplethorpe’s Calla Lily, but to no avail. Better leave the Mastery to the Master. Not to mention, the stop was going bad and I had no time to reprint the photo.”
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a misty Rose, rose in Blue⋰Notes ♥ Poetry
Callabw1
“When I grow up, I want to be Imogen Cunningham.”
ᔥ by Jane @ Camera6ag
This is the extraordinary thing about creativity: If just you keep your mind resting against the subject in a friendly but persistent way, sooner or later you will get a reward from your unconscious.
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in John Cleese on the 5 Factors to Make Your Life More Creative
ᔥ Brain Pickings
“Sometimes one has simply to endure a period of depression for what it may hold of illumination if one can live through it, attentive to what it exposes or demands.”
May Sarton
oozing possibility
The beauty of being an artist is that the meaning is always work-in-progress. The work is only pointing towards a probability. This allows for the advent of poetry.
Anish Kapoor, sculptor
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Odd Blossoms I draw / Seeds of anxiety / a Garden they sow
Inner Cosmos I grow.
Infinity has arrived / Soothing my mind
Balsam for ennui / oozing Possibility
LULLABY #9
“If you want to know anything whatsoever, just desire to know it, then stop thinking. Try to get into a state of universal ecstasy or inner joyousness, which is a state of consciousness like unto the God-Mind. Void your mind of thoughts, thought forms and ideas. Become perfectly blank insofar as idea and form are concerned. In that manner, you become transformed from man as an individual unit of mankind, and become all Soul – the universal Soul. In that manner you make the transition from the state of sensing some things materially to knowing all things cosmically.”
Walter Russell in The Message of the Divine Iliad, Vol. II
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“I beg you, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.”
Rainer Maria Rilke in Letters To a Young Poet
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“Man is governed by a “Mind” which casts back to him every thought he thinks; he cannot escape from this and need not try; it would be useless. The laws of mind are simple and easy to understand. The trouble with us has been that we have laid down great obstructions, and then have tried to overcome them.
Stop trying, stop struggling, begin to be calm, to trust in the higher laws of life; even though you do not see them, they are still there”
Ernest Holmes in “Creative Mind”
A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself…
May Sarton, poet and novelist
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You’re only as young as the last time you changed your mind
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“AirLoom”
Vanishing point
Light as a feather
Hazy Butterfly
When you see
the lights in the sky
You know
it is time to Go.
Once we’ve thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost; but it’s only here that the new and the good begins.
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51 / 365
“Day 51 of 365. Calla lily. Greatly inspired by the master work of Joel Tjintjelaar (and of course Robert Mapplethorpe).”
my note: inspiration on top of inspiration :)
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Calla Lily
“Homage to Imogen Cunningham”
ᔥ by Ash Bowie Photo
Soothing my mind / A field or a mine
Lull Lilies, I’ll hold.
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When my beginnings I miss
LULLABY #10
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“The difficulty of always feeling that you ought to be doing something is that you tend to undervalue the times when you’re apparently doing nothing, and those are very important times. It’s the equivalent of the dream time, in your daily life, times when things get sorted out and reshuffled. If you’re constantly awake work-wise you don’t allow that to happen. One of the reasons I have to take distinct breaks when I work is to allow the momentum of a particular direction to run down, so that another one can establish itself.”
BRIAN ENO in Developing Your Creative Practice: Tips from Brian Eno
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“In our Ego we are impatient to know the answer to puzzles and paradoxes rather than to understand their meaning.
We intellectualize rather than intuit.
Intellectualization alone reinforces the ego’s inertia.
It has its place, but at the proper moment the intellect must surrender to unknowing so that new knowledge can enter.”
Dr. Amit Goswami—theoretical quantum physicist, in
“The Self aware Universe – How Consciousness Creates the material world.”
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“The answer will always be found in simplicity. The reason athletes (and all of us for that matter) struggle is that the quality of our thinking has declined. When that happens, we revert to the intellect for the answers and the intellect will always overcomplicate things.
Now, since we’ve been taught to grind it out, we force it. But, from this low state of mind, we’re not capable of finding answers, so our quality of thought continues to drop down as we struggle.
But what if we simply took our foot off the gas pedal? Our thoughts and mood would settle, and we would see the same challenges as opportunities. The insights start to flow again, so answers become obvious.
Once you grasp that fundamental concept you realize that willpower will not help you. You’re not capable in the moment. The more we try to control our effort (or our thoughts about effort), the more we tend to get in our own way - and reduce our odds for success.
So I encourage my clients to step back and use a term I call “stillpower,” which means don’t push ahead but rather be still. The feelings that come will be of ease, clarity, and responsiveness.
It sounds crazy. I mean, do nothing? Yes. Do not make any decisions from a low mindset - just be still.”
Garret Kramer in
“Stillpower: The True Path to Flow, Clarity, and Responsiveness”
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LET GO OF CONTROL
“The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters.”
May Sarton
When my beginnings I miss
Seeds of Anxiety / a garden they Sow
LULLABY #11
Shaun McNiff in “Trust the Process: An Artist’s Guide to Letting Go”
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“Whether in painting, poetry, performance, music, dance, or life, there is an intelligence working in every situation. This force is the primary carrier of creation.
If we trust it and follow its natural movement, it will astound us with its ability to find a way through problems—and even make creative use of our mistakes and failures.
There is a magic to this process that cannot be controlled by the ego. Somehow it always finds the way to the place where you need to be, and a destination you never could have known in advance.
When everything seems as if it is hopeless and going nowhere … trust the process.”
Book Description for “Trust the Process: An Artist’s Guide to Letting Go”
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“Our self is not the ego.The ego is only an operational, temporary identity of the self.
In attempting to weigh our being more heavily toward the quantum modality, we recognize that we cannot force quantum jumps via any conditioned maneuver. So we systematically attack conditioning.”
Dr. Amit Goswami in The Self-Aware Universe – How Consciousness Creates the material world
LET GO OF CONTROL
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Flower Study III
“Inspired by Robert Mapplethorpe’s Calla Lily studies.”
ᔥ by Joel Tjintjelaar
Balsam for ennui / oozing Possibility / Inner Cosmos I grow.
LULLABY #12
“CREATIVITY IS NOT A TALENT. IT IS A WAY OF OPERATING.”
TIME — “Giving your mind as long as possible to come up with something original,” and learning to tolerate the discomfort of pondering time and indecision.
John Cleese on the 5 Factors to Make Your Life More Creative
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” …a practice of some kind… It quite frequently happens that you’re just treading water for quite a long time. Nothing really dramatic seems to be happening.
…And then suddenly everything seems to lock together in a different way. It’s like a crystallization point where you can’t detect any single element having changed.
There’s a proverb that says that the fruit takes a long time to ripen, but it falls suddenly…
And that seems to be the process.”
Brian Eno in
Developing Your Creative Practice: Tips from Brian Eno by Scott McDowell
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“Understanding creativity as a common expression of the quantum self can encourage anybody to engage in it.In this context, we should distinguish between outer and inner creativity.Outer creativity involves discoveries external to oneself; the product of outer creativity is meant for society at large.In contrast, inner creativity is inner-directed. Here the product is personal transformation of one’s context of living – a newer and newer us.”
Dr. Amit Goswami in The Self-Aware Universe – How Consciousness Creates the material world
Balsam for ennui / Oozing Possibility
A moment of insight when a new idea comes through is like an explosion.
In the aftermath, one needs to look around and assemble the pieces to see which new shape is arising.
my own note
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Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Poet and Jungian psychoanalyst
in “Women Who Run With the Wolves”
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COSMOS
1. The Universe regarded as an orderly, harmonious whole.
2. Plant cultivated for brightly colored flowers.
“In the garden the door is always open into the holy - growth, birth, death. Every flower holds the whole mystery in its short cycle, and in the garden we are never far away from death, the fertilizing, good, creative death.”
May Sarton, poet and novelist
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White petals my blood / their stems are a bliss / When my beginnings / I miss
Lull
Lilies,
I’ll hold.
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It sounds crazy. I mean, do nothing? Yes. Do not make any decisions from a low mindset - just be still.
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”Lull Lilies / I’ll hold
Two Callas
“ My modern day tribute to Imogen Cunningham.”
ᔥ by Andrew Kung
Three Callas
“ My modern day tribute to Imogen Cunningham.”
ᔥ by Andrew Kung
Lull Lilies, I’ll hold.
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“Allow your judgments their own silent, undisturbed development, which, like all progress, must come from deep within and cannot be forced or hastened. Everything is gestation and then birthing. To let each impression and each embryo of a feeling come to completion, entirely in itself, in the dark, in the unsayable, the unconscious, beyond the reach of one’s own understanding, and with deep humility and patience to wait for the hour when a new clarity is born: this alone is what it means to live as an artist: in understanding as in creating.
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In this there is no measuring with time, a year doesn’t matter, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means: not numbering and counting, but ripening like a tree, which doesn’t force its sap, and stands confidently in the storms of spring, not afraid that afterward summer may not come. It does come.
But it comes only to those who are patient, who are there as if eternity lay before them, so unconcernedly silent and vast. I learn it every day of my life, learn it with pain I am grateful for: patience is everything!”
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Rainer Maria Rilke in Letters to a Young Poet
(Letter III)
The flower you hold in your hands
was born today
and is already your age.
“La flor que tienes en tus manos ha nacido hoy y ya tiene tu edad.”
“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”
— Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
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” (…) we must now recognize that we, our organizations, as indeed the entire cosmos – are all self organizing systems. Not just a little bit, not just in some special part, but from beginning to end, top to bottom. It is all self-organization. The implications of this recognition, should it prove to be valid, are two fold (at least).
First, a large part of what we currently devote a good deal of time and energy to – organizing things – is wasted effort, for our systems, left to their own devices, will take care of that business pretty much all by themselves.
Secondly, our efforts at organization and control are not only of questionable value, but also destructive. By imposing our view of organization on a self-organizing system we essentially throw a spanner in the works, thereby reducing organizational function, and our own levels of performance.”
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I guess, when one major cycle ends, then… it starts all over again.
Just at a higher pitch.
⋯ Love, Carla