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In the Eye of the Storm

An individual response to the Global Crisis

ISSN 1939-3407

May 28, 2020

Ashok Bedi, M.D., Jungian Psychoanalyst

www.pathtotheosoul.com

www.tulawellnessllc.com

Robert BJ Jakala PH.D., Jungian Psychotherapist

In a storm, the safest place is in the eye of the storm. My colleague BJ and I will share our daily reflections on this centering process from an Analytical perspective, sharing from the repertoire of our personal and professional experience. BJ is a psychologist and a photographer and will pick an image of the day that catches him in this collective crisis. I will amplify it from a Jungian Analytical perspective. We hope that this may offer you a baby step on the path to your own unique response to this chaos.

When we must deal with problems, we instinctively resist trying the way that leads through obscurity and darkness. We wish to hear only of unequivocal results, and completely forget that these results can only be brought about when we have ventured into and emerged again from the darkness. (Jung, 1960b, p. 389)

The hummingbird nest is so small. It is hard to imagine two lives need it for home. The nest would fit in the space made by touching my thumb and index finger in the same hand (the “okay” sign). The natural camouflage blend of nest and baby feathers give them predator protection. Look for the beaks and eyes pointed up; you can see two babies standing on the nest.

They are not interested in anything except their parents bringing food. They do not want to hear how far their parents had to fly, or the number of flowers they had to gather nectar from, […]

Hubris to Humility

Dynamics of Denial versus Acceptance

In the Eye of the Storm

An individual response to the Global Crisis

ISSN 1939-3407

May 26, 2020

Ashok Bedi, M.D., Jungian Psychoanalyst

www.pathtotheosoul.com

www.tulawellnessllc.com

Robert BJ Jakala PH.D., Jungian Psychotherapist

In a storm, the safest place is in the eye of the storm. My colleague BJ and I will share our daily reflections on this centering process from an Analytical perspective, sharing from the repertoire of our personal and professional experience. BJ is a psychologist and a photographer and will pick an image of the day that catches him in this collective crisis. I will amplify it from a Jungian Analytical perspective. We hope that this may offer you a baby step on the path to your own unique response to this chaos.

We do not know how far the process of coming to consciousness can extend, or where it will lead….Meaning makes a great many things endurable—perhaps everything. (Jung, 1961, p. 340)

The natural light in the foreground is from sunlight shining between the trees from above. My vantage point gives some perspective of what lies in front of me in the deeper terrain. I can take twenty to twenty-five steps before moving into unseen and unknow territory. I feel confident I can navigate the places I can see. There does seem to be safety beyond, but I have no certainty, just hope and curiosity of the moment. I know I will assess as I go, taking one step at a time while continually reassessing.

The image feels quite like the light of my conscious/aware mind. I journey forward with some familiar structures/defenses in trying to find meaning in this pandemic. I feel I can endure its presence if I can find meaning(s) for it in my […]

The Creative Instinct

Survival and Creation instincts

In the Eye of the Storm

An individual response to the Global Crisis

ISSN 1939-3407

May 24, 2020

Ashok Bedi, M.D., Jungian Psychoanalyst

www.pathtotheosoul.com

www.tulawellnessllc.com

Robert BJ Jakala PH.D., Jungian Psychotherapist

In a storm, the safest place is in the eye of the storm. My colleague BJ and I will share our daily reflections on this centering process from an Analytical perspective, sharing from the repertoire of our personal and professional experience. BJ is a psychologist and a photographer and will pick an image of the day that catches him in this collective crisis. I will amplify it from a Jungian Analytical perspective. We hope that this may offer you a baby step on the path to your own unique response to this chaos.

Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows art to realize its purposes through him. (Jung, 1966, p. 101)

The carvings are more descriptive of a clan’s alignment with the ancestors than a surname. The figures provide a visual representation of values and characteristics of those who live around them. As I stand in front of them, they resonate directly to my heart. My brain does not seem involved, even though technically it is as it signals my senses to view the totems. There is wisdom without words, a knowing without labels, an exchange without external movement. I was “Aw” struck by their size and the spirit of what they portray. In an odd way, I felt like I am their projection. There is an imposing presence about them. It seems like they stand still and watch […]

ISSN 1939-3407

May 22, 2020

Ashok Bedi, M.D., Jungian Psychoanalyst

www.pathtotheosoul.com

www.tulawellnessllc.com

Robert BJ Jakala PH.D., Jungian Psychotherapist

In a storm, the safest place is in the eye of the storm. My colleague BJ and I will share our daily reflections on this centering process from an Analytical perspective, sharing from the repertoire of our personal and professional experience. BJ is a psychologist and a photographer and will pick an image of the day that catches him in this collective crisis. I will amplify it from a Jungian Analytical perspective. We hope that this may offer you a baby step on the path to your own unique response to this chaos.

Every creative man knows that spontaneity is the very essence of creative thought. Because the unconscious is not just a reactive mirror-reflection, but an independent, productive activity, its realm of experience is a self-contained world, having its own reality, of which we can only say that it affects us as we affect it—precisely what we say about our experience of the outer world. And just as material object are the constituent elements of this world, so psychic factors constitute the objects of that other world. (Jung, 1956, p. 185)

PREQUEL-Today’s entry is the image and write up I sent to Dr. Bedi yesterday afternoon. He did not receive it, and sent an email telling me. So, I forwarded the email I sent, and as an ensuring measure, I sent it to him as a completely new email. He never received any of them. He called me this morning to find out what happened to yesterday’s entry. I explained what I did and told him I thought “Psyche” has a sense of humor, because I was hesitant about my write up yesterday […]

Connect with your Roots

The Tree and her Roots

In the Eye of the Storm

An individual response to the Global Crisis

ISSN 1939-3407

May 19, 2020

Ashok Bedi, M.D., Jungian Psychoanalyst

www.pathtotheosoul.com

www.tulawellnessllc.com

Robert BJ Jakala PH.D., Jungian Psychotherapist

In a storm, the safest place is in the eye of the storm. My colleague BJ and I will share our daily reflections on this centering process from an Analytical perspective, sharing from the repertoire of our personal and professional experience. BJ is a psychologist and a photographer and will pick an image of the day that catches him in this collective crisis. I will amplify it from a Jungian Analytical perspective. We hope that this may offer you a baby step on the path to your own unique response to this chaos.

Plurimi pertransibut–but he who is rooted in the soil endures. Alienation from the unconscious and from its historical conditions spells rootlessness.(Jung, 1964, p. 49)

 
Erosion reveals roots that transform grounded nutrition. They are exposed in a way that gives a better understanding of what it takes to keep a tree alive and vibrant. I seldom get that view of entangled feeding messengers. They are hardened and dark, no longer tender or pale, as I expect them to be while buried in the soil.

The tree is still standing and looks healthy (although you cannot see it in the photograph). I do not know how long it has lived this way or how it might look different had the erosion taken place. I only the present tree with its life in the present.

In the pandemic, some of the foundations of social freedom, health, and economy are threatened and some have eroded. I can not just walk outside and be with other people. I must wear […]