Anathemantra

[my grandfather's photo :: from my flickr files]

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More and more I tend to see the soul expressing itself in body symptoms – in the way the body moves, in the dreams. I see it almost as a prisoner with the complexes squeezing in to take the life out of it.

So, I try to do the mirroring that the parents were not able to do. The soul just became more and more encased.

It wasn’t heard in a child’s body. It wasn’t seen. And that’s because the parents often have their own agenda as to what the child is, so they want it to act and speak in a certain way. The result is that the soul goes underground. I see therapy as an attempt to reconnect what that child has lost, the soul child.

- MARION WOODMAN

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Grimm’s Fairy Tales

Edited by Sara E. Wiltse

1923

Artist : Blanche Fisher Laite

Early Poems of William Morris

1914

Perseus and the Gorgons

Grimm’s Fairy Tales edited by Sara E. Wiltse

1923

Artist : Blanche Fisher Laite

Forest Music