Psyche's Cinema - short films

I create stop motion short films through a Jungian lens. Groups and individuals use my films for active imagination, and innerwork. My films are like dreams. They are based on fairy tales and thus have the wisdom of those tales. psychescinema.com

It is very dangerous when a wound is so common in a culture that hardly anyone knows that there is a problem. There is general discontent with our way of life but almost no one knows specifically where to look for its origin.~Robert A. Johnson

#Writers how do you deal with the problem of "too many ideas, not enough time?" (I can't write fast enough and it is discouraging.) #writing Photo - from 8 years ago, standing with Thalia my busy Muse.

Until the shadow is integrated into the personality, the world appears filled with opponents or adversaries who are actually products of the unconscious; afterward, people can be seen as individuals, even people who disagree with us.~Robin Robertson

The Anecdote of the Man Who Fell into the Water, from the Language of the Birds. A parable about pride (drowning man). The man gathering firewood is a metaphor for a breathing meditation practice followed by Sufi adherents that produces a sound llike sawing wood. 15th c. MET

When traveling there is the outer trip but also the inner journey. Currently in Turkiye, learning so much!

The creative process... consists in the unconscious activation of an archetypal image .... By giving it shape, the artist translates it into the language of the present and so makes it possible for us to find our way back to the deepest springs of life CGJung

Language, in its origin and essence, is simply a system of signs or symbols that denote real occurrences or their echo in the human soul. -- Carl Gustav Jung (1956). “Symbols of transformation”

Eternal truth needs a human language that alters with the spirit of the times. Carl Jung #cgjung (1966). “The practice of psychotherapy”, Bollingen

poemsbylauralb.substack.com/p/todays-prayer #poem #poetry #perfectionism

What healing inner image have you had lately?poemsbylauralb.substack.com/p/taking-in-th…

Matisse said, "I believe in God when I'm working." If our creative energy is blocked, it will find an outlet in some kind of distorted religion, or addiction. An addiction to me is a distorted religion.~Marion Woodman

A world without love is a world governed by rigid contracts and inexorable duties, a world in which – God forbid! – the lawyers run everything. The mark of really loving someone or something is unconditionality and excess, engagement and commitment, fire and passion John D Caputo

A new #poem! poemsbylauralb.substack.com/p/an-adventure

Treating the Sunday readings as if they are #dreams is yielding some really big surprises. This practice leads to not privileging traditional views but allowing the images themselves to subvert the primacy of the ego. #Jungian

New episode Thursday! Our reflections on the readings for Easter. As usual, we encounter some surprises! Join us! Art - Mary Magdalene and the apostles Peter and John at the empty tomb, 1629 pod.link/1799776273

New episode Thursday! "Portraits of Betrayal," Palm Sunday 2026. Join us!! pod.link/1799776273

Have you re-created yourself today? A new #poem! poemsbylauralb.substack.com/p/play

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“Boredom is rage spread thin” ― Paul Tillich