” We are dragged along by fate to that which we refuse to walk toward upright.”  Carl G. Jung.

I love this quote because I have found it to be so accurate: Spirit does indeed set up various situations and dramas  which challenge and stretch us  to become more than we believe ourselves to be.  In  other words, situations which force us, or require us, to expand beyond the limits of who we believe ourselves to be.   Before we are “dragged” into these situations  by fate, ( or Spirit, or our Soul)  however, we usually receive an invitation, a call, if you like, to step willingly outside of our comfort zone, into the new arena/environment. This call heralds the fact that Spirit  intends to provide us with the opportunity to bring about a further  psychological transformation,  or expansion of identity, within us.  

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In this Category, you are learning to look for,  read and interpret,  the guidance that is available to us all of the time,  from Spirit;  indeed, from the whole Spirit Realm  as we are  gently guided and drawn into Unity Consciousness.   

You have already been introduced to the idea -  more than once if you are a regular visitor to this site! -  that everything that you believe is “out there” in the world, is actually a manifestation of your psyche: your own inner world, or inner landscape. Yet, you need to see and experience this truth for yourself: that your outer and inner worlds are inextricably  linked. The overall aim of this Category, therefore, is  to assist you to see in a new way, so that you become  more spiritually awakened and aware. 

Unfortunately, until we attain Unity Consciousness (Enlightenment) we suffer  under the illusion that we are a separate being, separate and apart  from everyone and everything else in existence.  It  all seems a bit of a tangle, but I assure you, you can and will awaken from the dream of separation if you want to.  Think of it this way: at present you are probably, mostly,  seeing everything through a pair of dark glasses that have obscured your vision, but, you are starting to remove them. 

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With reference to my article, Finding Heaven . . .  Once Upon a Time, in which I talked about my personal experience of the One World, or Unus Mundus, which is the goal of individuation and alchemy. One of my friends told me that she couldn’t find any information on the web about this phenomenon.

This state of being,  incidentally,  in which you experience yourself as being unified with, or,  at-one with,  all of Creation,  is also the “healed,” or “whole,” state,  symbolized by the Holy Grail.  Basically, the Quest for the Grail, is the quest for wholeness and healing, so that once again, we may be re-united with the land - literally. (Love the film, “Excalibur,” which tells this story.)

If you remember, in the grail legends, the knights are searching for the grail so that both King Arthur  and the land will  be “One” ie. healed, re-united. They had both fallen ill and were wasting away,  if you recall.  

Anyway, there’s  an essay by the famous Jungian,  Marie-Louise Von Franz,  on ”The New Alchemy Website,” entitled “The Unus Mundus and Synchronicity,” (1979) which is taken from Von Franz’  “Alchemical Active Imagination.

The essay on the Unus Mundus is listed on the website’s Homepage under the section,  ”Brief Extracts on Analytical Psychology.” Happy reading, and don’t worry, the extract isn’t very long.

This article  was supposed to be about healing our body through  healing our soul. The article was  also to include  how the body can help us in our journey to enlightenment,  if we learn to understand how it is always trying to communicate with us.   Then I realized I should really tell you why I believe so completely that the body can be healed through healing our soul. 

So, here it is . . .   I’ll post the “other” article on the body and its’ wisdom  in a day or two.   

Some years ago I was in constant physical discomfort and pain.  Now I’m not.  It’s been a miracle; I now have a new life.

To  be truthful, I didn’t emerge from a pain-filled life by listening to my doctors.  While they were sympathetic and supportive, their attitude towards my condition ( I had a spine operation from which I never fully recovered and later developed osteo-arthritis and a rare form of rheumatoid arthritis) was one of resignation. The problem was,  I just couldn’t see myself as some kind of disabled person, and I wanted to live a full and enjoyable life. I knew I  had to do something. Read the rest of this entry »