Crop Circles, Jung, and the Reemergence of the Archetypal Feminine by Gary S. Bobroff

Author:Gary S. Bobroff [Bobroff, Gary S.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-58394-736-4
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Published: 2014-09-29T16:00:00+00:00

The masculine has been described as a Solar form of awareness; like the sunlight of daytime, it enables precise clarification of that which is close to us, but which, by its brightness, obscures the deeper stars and bodies that can only be seen after dark.7 Evaporated by the sharp contrasts of the daylight, the moon symbolizes the veiled, moist depths of the psyche’s wellspring. Where the sun rules the daylight of rational thought, the moon is said to be ruling “the night of instinct and the shadowy perceptions of the inner intuitive world.”8 While the sword of masculine insight is of great practical use in pursuing that which is linear, that which is directly apprehensible, and that which we can know objectively, its conquering through division often cuts too swiftly through complexity and leads to oversimplification and “to the triumph of the one-dimensional reality over all contradiction” (Marcuse).9 “Negative masculinity cannot think in metaphor,”10 writes Woodman, and Jung saw in us that “it is still the case today that discrimination and differentiation means more to the rationalistic intellect than wholeness through the union of opposites. That is why the unconscious produces the symbols of wholeness.”11 He saw the psyche as holding the healing principle of balanced opposites within us—despite our own imbalance. Where the Solar consciousness may fall into inflated self-importance and hang on to belief in its own truth, the opposite part of our nature plays a role in consciousness as well, and the Lunar quality within us can help us to discover a cure for our bright grandiosity by rooting us in a truth that is dark, sometimes irrational or paradoxical, grounded in our body, in the instinctual, emotional, and archetypal energetic depths within us. Arising not out of linear, directed thinking, but coming seemingly without cause, the whispers of our Lunar consciousness “are not visionary, unreal imaginings; they are intuitively perceived realities … expressions of the feminine principle, the Eros.”12 The Lunar quality of our psyche exists beyond the ego’s command, it can be inconstant like the moon, and yet it is a harbor for our hidden, inner processes of growth. Connected to the wider scope of the unconscious, it is the subtle, quiet voice of psyche, in which we may sometimes find that special something that we need, but did not know we needed. The moon symbolizes the psyche as “diffuse illumination.”13

The moon stands, indeed, for the great principle of transformation through the things which are lowest. That which is dark and cold and moist, which hides from the light of day and from man’s enlightened thinking, holds also the secret of life. For life renews itself again and again, and when at last, through his repeated experiences, man understands, he will grasp the inner meaning which until that moment lies concealed within the very texture of the concrete happening. (Harding)14

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