Soul Stack
Soul Stack
A stack in honor of Soul, and our soul work, a coming to Her, for she is our holder— Anima Mundi—the grieving and anguishing world, dying and re-birthing, this process we are animated within. It means nothing to turn blindly to soul which we mistake for so many things of ego and false intuition. To truly turn our inner ear to the call of soul, requires deep discernment, integrity in love, and a capacity to feel her pain rather than shut her out.
“Let us imagine the anima mundi as that particular soul-spark, that seminal image, which offers itself through each thing in its visible form. Then anima mundi indicates the animated possibilities presented by each event as it is, its sensuous presentation as a face bespeaking it interior image—in short, its availability to imagination, its presence as a psychic reality… a display of self-presenting forms. The world not only a coded signature to be read for meaning, but a physiognomy to be faced.” James Hillman
Wait Without Hope By T.S. Eliot
“I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope,
For hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love,
For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith,
But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.
Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought:
So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing…”
“You would not find out the boundaries of the soul, even by travelling along every path: so deep a measure does it have.” Heraclitus
“According to Heraclitus, there is an equality between the soul of the world (which is fire) and the individual soul (which is wise only if it is dry, thus getting closer to fire). Although the soul is the substance existing independently of the body, neither itself, nor anything existing, is exempted from change… The individual soul can "fall asleep", and thus lose its connection with the source of the "ever-living fire.” Sladjana Ristić Gorgiev (Serbia)
Books mentioned:
The Return of the Feminine and the World Soul by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, Projection and Re-Collection by Marie-Louise von Franz, Masks of the Soul by Jolande Jacobi, The Psychoid, Soul and Psyche by Ann Belford Ulanov, Thought of the Heart & Soul of the World by James Hillman, Dark Light of the Soul by Kathryn Madden, Science of the Soul: A Jungian Perspective Edward F. Edinger, Encounters with the Soul by Barbara Hannah, Return of the World Soul by Remo F. Roth, The Soul in Grief by Robert D Romanyshyn, Salt and the Alchemical Soul by Ernest Jones, Jung’s Map of the Soul by Murray Stein, Working the Soul by Charles Poncé, Facing the World with Soul by Robert J Sardello, The Serpent’s Gift by Jeffrey J. Kripal, The Soul in Anguish by Lionel Corbett, Trauma and the Soul by Donald Kalsched, Body & Soul by Marion Woodman, What is Soul? by Wolfgang Giegerich, City & Soul by James Hillman.
