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Tag Archives: archetype

Quest for the Grail: Weekly Summary

After the Grail experience, God is both perfectly hidden and perfectly revealed in everything. Continue Reading Quest for the Grail: Weekly Summary

Whom Does the Grail Serve?

 

Living with a Grail Experience

After the Grail experience, the ordinary forever becomes extraordinary. Continue Reading Living with a Grail Experience

The Grail Experience

The Grail experience is the first numinous experience that opens our eyes. Continue Reading The Grail Experience

The Quest and Its Questions

We cannot go on a quest until we know what the question is. Continue Reading The Quest and Its Questions

The Fisher King

The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go into ourselves and take responsibility for what’s there. Continue Reading The Fisher King

A Heroic Journey

What true religion has always done is open the door to the symbolic universe, to the world of the soul. Continue Reading A Heroic Journey

Feminine Symbols for God

Although Jesus was a man, the Christ is beyond gender. Continue Reading Feminine Symbols for God

A Great Story

Carl Jung A Great Story Tuesday, November 23, 2021 Father Richard continues to explore how archetypes connect us to the story of God and the universe. The small self is intrinsically unhappy because it fundamentally lacks reality. To use a philosophical word, its nonbeing means it does not exist “ontologically.” It will thus always be… Continue Reading A Great Story

The God Archetype

Carl Jung The God Archetype Monday, November 22, 2021 Father Richard shares the importance of archetypes for the soul’s encounter with God, which Jung explored in great depth. Depth psychology tells us that our lives are guided by subconscious, ruling images which Jung calls archetypes. Jungian archetypes include the father, the mother, the eternal child,… Continue Reading The God Archetype

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