Sublime

In Celtic mythology, the holy well is considered the source of all life—certainly because it is the concealed origin from which water springs, but also because it is a gateway between the worlds seen and unseen.

The Ngangikurungkurr practice what they call dadirri, a form of deep listening for these sacred stories. As Aboriginal elder Miriam-Rose Ungunmerr puts it, “Through the years, we have listened to our stories. They are told and sung, over and over, as the seasons go by. Today we still gather around the campfires and together we hear the sacred stori

Just as Jung equates the “inner experience of individuation” with what the mystics name “the experience of God”—the “smallest power” confronting the “greatest power,” the “smallest space” containing the “infinite”—so we can think of Schneerson becoming an “in-dividual,” that is, a “separate, indivisible unity or ‘whole,’”89 the individuated point t

Assuming responsibility for ourselves will begin with wresting attention from trivialities and distractions, and reconnecting it with the soul.

Among Jungians this is called “participation mystique”—a term borrowed from anthropologist Levy-Bruhl—and it is used to mean a relationship wherein “a person cannot distinguish themselves as separate from the object or thing they behold.”

We were all given the spiritlight by the Creator; so were the plants, the ants, everything. So as we hurt, destroy or dishonour Creation, we hurt, destroy and dishonour our own lives.

But Heidegger wrote at length about the ‘darkening of the world’ (Weltverdüsterung) and argued that this was connected with the darkening of spirit (Geist).