by Christina | Jul 13, 2026 | Alchemical Reflections, From The Blog
”It is .(also) . . understandable that their will-power weakens and their self-control becomes slack and begins to lose its grip upon circumstances, moods, and thoughts. It is quite consistent with such a state of mind if some particularly unruly parts of the...
by Christina | Jun 14, 2026 | Alchemical Reflections, From The Blog
”None of us stands outside humanity’s black collective shadow.” – C.G. Jung Introduction Sometime in the last month, I came across an article in the New Yorker Magazine with a title that stopped me mid-scroll: “Why Is It So Hard to Be...
by Christina | May 17, 2026 | Alchemical Reflections, From The Blog
”We are not here to fit in, be well-balanced, or provide exempla for others. We are here to be eccentric, different, perhaps strange, perhaps merely to add our small piece, our little clunky, chunky selves, to the great mosaic of being. As the gods intended, we...
by Christina | Apr 16, 2026 | Alchemical Reflections, From The Blog
“You cannot individuate, for instance, by locking yourself up in a cell; you can only individuate in your concrete life, you appear in your deed; there you can individuate and nowhere else. Real consciousness can only be based upon life, upon things experienced, but...
by Christina | Mar 17, 2026 | Alchemical Reflections, From The Blog
“They went into the solitude of the desert to teach us that the place of the soul is a lonely desert. There they found the abundance of visions, the fruits of the desert, the wondrous flowers of the soul.” – The Red Book (p. 236) C.G. Jung We are lost and...
by Christina | Feb 16, 2026 | Alchemical Reflections, From The Blog
“Most of us, most of the time, change very gradually, bit by bit, day by day. But it also can and does happen sometimes that people are transformed suddenly and permanently by a highly memorable experience… It was like passing through a one-way door.”...
