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The Story of Nasir al-Din al-Tusi and Hulegu Khan
The story of a Persian Astronomer the Mongol General and an observatory happened in Maragheh City located to the south of Mt. Sahand, what is now northwestern Iran with a history dating back to the...
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The Jesuits – Ricci, Schall, Verbiest and the ancient observatory in Beijing...
The ancient observatory in Beijing China, once part of the city walls, is mounted on the battlements of a ten-meter watchtower close to the “First Ring”. As one of the oldest and famous observatories...
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C.G. Jung, Kepler and Pauli – The Synchronicity Triangle
The psychoanalytic C.G.Jung and the famous astronomer Kepler were both intuitive thinkers and empiric scientists with strong mystic tendencies. Pauli was a famous particle physicist, who collaborated...
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Taking a stand for Christianity
Plato_Today “Truth is not determined by a majority vote.” ― Pope Benedict XVI What we are seeing in our time is a generation, where truth is relative to what people wish to believe. Those with this...
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Gods tiny particles
The physics world and the German press were exited with early reports that the elusive “God particle” had been detected at CERN’s during their LHC experiments. Accidentally CERNs technician put an...
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Kepler’s harmonic archetypes and C.G. Jung’s spiritual wholeness
In the sixteenth century, the time of Johannes Kepler, fields such as alchemy, astrology, and harmonics were considered important subjects eyed suspiciously by theology which overtook metaphysics....
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Mayan calenders and archetypes of apocalypse – a collective unconscious...
The world might come down tomorrow according to Mayan calendar. Actually the Mayan never predicted an apocalypse, but a reset sure would be nice, at least in politics. There are many of unlikely...
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Burning Ahmed Baba and Alexandrian library – Is Sufism haram?
In another defining act of intellectual barbarism, “Islamist extremists” (term borrowed by AP - Activists, Islam fighters nor Islamists won’t do) in Mali destroyed a number of tombs in the ancient city...
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The footprints of Aquarius and New World Order – a Jungian view
The Aquarius Age (aka New Age or New World Order) is a period defined by the passage of the spring equinox (literally “Equal Night”) into the Aquarius zodiac sign. What does the Aquarius age promise?...
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ANGELS FEAR – Sacred aesthetics of fractal recursion
TreeOf Live – Source Avatar Angels Fear – The Sacred Destroyed fallenAngel’s Fear is an obvious wordplay which crossed my mind after a blog reader pointed out that Bateson’s book Angels Fear: Towards...
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Archetype Lupus and Astronomy – the Sirius Case
This is an extension of the last post: the archetype of the wolf. I am a hobby astronomer and fond of its older sister Astrology. So lets look to the Wolf from that perspective. The wolf is inherently...
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The Black Swan as Acausal Connecting Principle
No, this essay is not about the movie, Black Swan with Natalie Portman. By chance I recently picked up Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s The Black Swan, and it reminded me to C.G. Jung’s Synchronicity: An...
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Isis and Mithras against Jesus Christ – the ancient Rome a religious market...
Cults mithraeum_tauroctony A scholarly fashion claims that only by coincidence Christ and not the Egyptian Isis or the Persian Mithras gained the upper hand as a world religion. There is some truth in...
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History of Time I: The face of God from ancient cultures to the big bang.
The history of time reflects culture – interconnecting temporal powers, religion and science. For millenniums priest were gatekeeper of time and calendar(s). Now scientists have taken over. Today we...
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History of Time Part II: Calendar basics
Calendar Basics About prehistoric calendar not much is known, and even the old calendar of literate cultures can often only reconstructed incomplete. However, a comparison with various known types of...
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Female Archetype of Sabina Spielrein – queen or wise women?
This essay is about Sabina Spielrein (1885-1942), female archetype of the Queen (in exile), or Russian Jewish Wise Woman connected with the two leading pioneers of the first hour – C. G. Jung and...
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History of time III: From Solar to Lunar Year
As societies moved from from from per-historic to complex civilizations their calendar system adopted from nature and weather calendars to direct observation and lastly to calculated calendars (see...
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The magic of outstanding pictures – photography for Jungians
As a photographer, your eye is your lens. A Jungian understands, there are more than five senses. This essay gives a basic understanding, why excellent pictures (paintings or photographs) succeed....
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