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How to take your writing to the next level
What is the difference between a good story and a great one? Why do some characters stay with you for a couple of weeks or months, and others for a lifetime? It’s all about archetypes. Your characters...
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Create great plots by harnessing the power of myth
In our culture, because we have broken our conscious connection with myth, we tend to see our lives as separate and unique. But every individual life follows paths and patterns which are universal....
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Dreaming the faceless ones
I first discovered the concept of archetypes in the early seventies, when I was starting to try and understand my dreams. At that time, there were few books about symbols, and most of them were not...
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Dream gateways – how the gods get in
I was talking last week about the faceless ones in my dreams, figures who had no individual characteristics but represented the pure power of the archetype. Other words for these pure powers might be...
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Guest post: Dreaming through generations
In everyday life we belong to groups – most closely, our immediate family, fanning out to our extended family, our region, our nation, our continent, our culture; ultimately all of humanity. On the...
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The Shadow and Jimmy Savile’s dirty secret
In Jungian psychology, the Shadow is one of the major archetypes of the Self. It represents all the things you have identified as ‘not me’ during your formative years, when you were building your sense...
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Why you should not spurn your daemon!
The award-winning author Susan Price and I are exchanging emails at the moment for a future entry on the ‘A conversation with’ page on her blog. By a delightful synchronicity, her latest response was a...
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Christmas archetypes – the dark intruder and the wondrous baby
I think of them as the nameless or faceless one – archetypal images which carry the pure power of a universal human experience. In pantheistic cultures they may be represented by gods and goddesses....
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Mind-magic for writers – harnessing the power of the circle
The circle is an archetype for wholeness and integration, a universal pattern in nature and the human psyche which is also a template for the stories of life and fiction. You can use the power of the...
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How to get new ideas for life, work and dreams
I’m a great believer in holidays. When you’re away from home, you can see your normal day-to-day life from outside, and it gives you a different perspective. What are you relieved to be away from? How...
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A dream of darkness
A few days after I last blogged, way back in May, I went to Iceland. I’d always been drawn to the North, so Iceland had been on my must-see list for decades, but what made me actually go this year was...
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What does Christmas mean to you?
Christmas can be the most wonderful time, or the most bleak, depending on what’s going on in your life. We associate the festive season with abundance, and as much as it can be an opportunity to...
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I’m not a member of any organised religion but because of where and when I was born, the Christian symbols and stories are the ones I’m most familiar with. Of all the Christian symbols, the blessed...
View ArticleThe dreaming writer at the royal garden party
Lots of creative teachers talk about the importance of taking time out from your normal routines and doing new things, to refresh your creative energy. It’s commonly called ‘going down to the well.’ I...
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