Dance

The dance is a religious element. The dance is one of the most essential elements of all ancient cultures and religions. The dances of primitive troubles are almost never just for fun, although they are also for fun. They always have a deeper, transcendent meaning. They are danced for the purpose of helping the sun rise, or helping dirties of fertility, or some other specific purpose. Dance represents or produces a cosmic rhythm. Another aspect of dance is human communion. Nothing brings people closer together, into a kind of communion spirit. Practically nothing expresses as close a psychic relationship as people dancing together. That’s why dance can be so restorative. It unified people in their feeling and in their spirit. Dance expresses the movement of life, and to dance in the right way would be to go along this movement, with the psychic movement of life. To dance with the devil is an archetypal motif. You can say this expresses negative possession. A religious archetype that is positive in itself can negatively affect those who aren’t up to meeting it in the right way. One must never forget that it is the very same archetype which in other connection of understood and assimilated without losing one’s humanness, is f the highest positive value.

Dance is intimately linked with time, for when one dances one must continually “keep time” – maintain a rhythmical movement. One has to keep time from moment to moment with the movement of the Self in the process of individuating. When it becomes conscious, the Self established a whole new attitude toward time. It changes one’s conscious attitude from a static to a more flexible attitude toward time. One knows that one has to live from minute to minute in the right way and at the right time.

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My name is Paityn Masters, my friends call me P. I am queer, Pisces, & an ENFP. I am trained as a psychotherapist, and my roots were as a youth pastor. As a psychotherapist, my specialty is in trauma and complex PTSD. I met my best friend and my cosmic partner, Jenni McCullum in graduate school. Together, we began discovering the spiritual world and the psychic gifts that had laid dormant in our psyche. We both went through a wild initiatory process that joyfully and sometimes even painfully expanded our capacity to both SEE and to HEAR, beyond the limits of the five senses. We are both intuitives, and Jenni is also a medium. As traditional psychotherapy frowns on the mystical modality, we had to start our own practice, and sacrifice licensing in order to answer the Call. Fortunately, we found our theoretical home in a branch of psychology known as Depth Psychology, that has its roots in the discoveries made by C. G. Jung, and seeks to study the soul rather than behavior, and sees the whole person on a spiritual level first—then works down to personality, family influence, upbringing, biology, heredity, physicality, status, image, and complexes. We see symptoms as more than something to eliminate, we see them as messages from the Soul. Psyche means Soul, but not many people know this, because our culture can’t seem to get beyond its dependence on the “safety” of the logical/rational mind. “Whenever you are in the realm of Soul, things will always go over your head. The statements of the conscious mind may easily be snares and delusions, lies, or arbitrary opinions, but this is certainly not true of the statements of the soul: to begin with they always go over our heads because they point to realities that transcend consciousness.” (C.G. Jung, Answer to Job). Healing means “making whole,” and many either think they are already whole, or fear they’re broken beyond repair. Healing involves the courage to look at the wounds that caused the brokenness to begin with. Symptoms are a huge help in identifying not only the injury but also the gifts one possesses. Marion Woodman said, “the wound is where the God enters.” So, we look at pain and trauma from the standpoint of Soul Making. I speak of God in my writing quite frequently, and like Soul, God is something that transcends our ability to conceptualize what that means. When I say God… I mean the God that I have discovered within… the same one that is within you. Folded up within each of us is the entirety of the cosmos. How we relate to our inner world determines how we will relate to everything. Our primary wounds and our deepest wounds are in the realm of relationship—beginning with the way we relate to our own inner selves. We are wounded in relationship and so we must be healed in relationship. That’s one of the things that we hope to do in our work here in this earth school. We hope to hold up a mirror so you can see your true nature, the image of your soul; reflection brings about insight, knowledge, and Wisdom.

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