Much is written about the first crowning at birth, but a legendary Jungian analyst now meditates on the "crown of age, " a symbol of the inner and outer development of human beings. Unabridged.
Marion Woodman was a Canadian mythopoetic author and women's movement figure. She was a Jungian analyst trained at the C. G. Jung Institute in Zürich, Switzerland. She was one of the most widely read authors on feminine psychology, focusing on psyche and soma. She was also an international lecturer and poet. Her collection of audio and visual lectures, correspondence, and manuscripts are housed at OPUS Archives and Research Center, in Santa Barbara, California. Among her collaborations with other authors she wrote with Thomas Moore, Jill Mellick and Robert Bly. Her brothers were the late Canadian actor Bruce Boa and Jungian analyst Fraser Boa.
“..and that’s how I came to recognize that wonderful statement of Jung’s: what is not brought to consciousness comes to us as faith. And that’s where I realized I did not want to follow an unconscious faith, I wanted a conscious destiny.” I can’t get enough of Marion Woodman.
Marion Woodman reads this which adds a great deal to this short offering. The Jungian viewpoint on conscious living as we age is fascinating and I found myself wanting to take notes. I will be buying a copy to read so that I can indulge my highlighter.