Claudine is Back!

Did you know that Satan is a Hebrew word? It actually means “the breath of God that
blows substance apart down to the very cellular level and has an undetermined impact.” In
other words, without it, no evolution; with it, no guarantee of success.
I recently had a chance to meet Satan personally. Here is my story.

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Claudine est de retour !

Saviez-vous que Satan est un mot hébreu ? Il signifie « le souffle de Dieu qui réduit la substance en morceaux jusqu'au niveau
cellulaire et qui a un impact indéterminé ». En d'autres termes, en son absence, il n'y a pas d'évolution ; et avec lui, aucune 
garantie de succès. J'ai récemment eu la chance de rencontrer Satan en personne. Voici mon histoire.

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Archetypal Cosmology and Art  

What could Art possibly have to do with Astronomy? Or Cosmology? Or Astrology? Well, would you please consider this:
Once upon a time, the church fathers taught that the sun turned around the earth. At that time many people thought that stars
in the sky were Gods who controlled human behavior. This was the geocentric proposition.
There was also a time when Carl Jung believed that archetypes - he called them “innate behavioral patterns”- existed only in the 
human psyche, and that what we saw in the sky was a projection from our psyche. That was the humanistic proposition. 
     
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What’s Lurking in Your Shadow?

Have you taken a good look recently at your “dark” or shadow side? Most of us find it much more comfortable to concentrate on our persona, the psychological mask we wear in public. The persona is how we see ourselves, what we’d like to be, and what we’d like others to think we are. While we’re polishing our public face, we are unconsciously casting the unacceptable partsof ourselves into our shadow, the part of our psyche that we’re unaware of and ignore most of the time.

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Post Post Post Modern Manifesto

The art of the 20th century was vastly different than the art of the 19th .century. The industrial revolution in the 19th century had brought huge changes to the structure of society. New means of transportation had increased travel and communication. People and ideas were traveling faster than ever before. In the art world, artists began to question how all these changes affected the ways that they could express themselves.

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A three-week initiation journey in the Ecuadorian Andes: birthing ourselves to what?

Before sticking our feet into the almost unbearably hot volcano-heated pool, for our rebirth ceremony, while our bodies are freezing in the 5 am, 8000 feet temperature, we had slept 2 hours. But the next day, we got to sleep at least four hours. Most of the time, we didn’t know how long we would sleep; we would just find out when it happen. In private, we asked: what is the point? Well, recently, I found out that one of the shamanic tools for accessing other realities is prolonged sleep deprivation.

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