Tag: Integration

Contained flame inside a dark crucible—an image of descent, pressure, and integration in a Jungian frame.

Through the Crucible: Jung’s Dark Night of the Soul

A Jungian guide to the “dark night of the soul” as a mental crucible where shadow returns, projections withdraw, and the Self presses for a larger life. We trace the alchemical arc (nigredo → albedo → rubedo) and offer practical vessels—active imagination, dreamwork, somatic anchors, boundaries, and when to seek clinical help.

Cover artwork (cover.png) for the article titled The Eight Axioms of Reason: A Framework for Thinking in a Fractured World.

The Eight Axioms of Reason: A Framework for Thinking in a Fractured World

In an age of accelerating complexity and digital noise, reason can feel both urgent and elusive. We live in a world that talks constantly—yet thinks rarely. A world obsessed with being right, but unsure what right even means. The old maps of logic are still valuable, but they were drawn in a simpler time. Today,

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