C G Jung - Astrology - Indigenous Cultures - Metaphysical Perspectives - Spirituality/Seth
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Local ScenesNicola was born in 1955 and raised in the South Island of New Zealand. For thirteen years she raised and rehabilitated native wildlife, mainly birds, with Rod's help. Currently she is developing her creative impulses through various media while maintaining a strong connection to her feathered family. Nick has for many years struggled with challenges to her health and Rod has lovingly taken on the role of carer.
Currently we live in north Leura in a home which has a
wonderful outlook over a small valley at the front and through our
garden into native bush at the back. in . We call our house "Arrunga"
which is from an aboriginal language and means "sanctuary". It is both
our sanctuary and a have for the birds we have rehabilitated and come
to experience as so central to our sense of a meaningful life. We recently retired after 13 years from rehabilitating native
wildlife, mainly birds but still have an aviary in our backyard and
many a flying visitor around our neighbourhood. This intimate
involvement with creatures while very rewarding comes at a great cost
and the time has come to open up new opportunities for us to spent time
in nature free from such heavy responsibility.
Below is a photo
of the steps leading up to the back door of our house. This is the
entrance we most use and is also used by people coming ot consult Rod. Below is a photo of Jorge and Rod.
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We have both been profoundly
affected by our experiences
of
rehabilitating native birds which has left us with a very different
relationship to ourselves and our creature sisters and brothers with
whom we share our lives and our planet. We have also been brought to a
different relationship to the wild birds that are around us so much
(See Stories of Our Friends the Birds.)
We have a mutual interest in a metaphysical world view which includes the psychological perspectives of C G Jung, the works of Jane Roberts and Seth as well as the world views of indigenous cultures world wide. Our website is dedicated to a dialogue and commentary about the current world situation within these perspectives. In our view a metaphysical and psychological understanding of life and reality, including humanity's place in the `scheme of things', is essential to our individual and collective well being, and indeed survival. For us this means that the
purpose
and meaning in life cannot
be fully known or expressed within the rationalistic materialist world
view prevalent in modern Western life. We hold the view that the
psyche, or non-physical dimension of reality, underpins physical or
incarnate existence. And we hold that the psyche is not an amorphous or
undefined reality but a realm or dimension. It is also the source
and "a priori" to all physical existence which in the Jungian view
holds the primordial images or archetypes which determine the nature of
existence both individual and collective at the physical level. This we
contend must be taken into account in any fruitful
attempt to recover the sense of individual meaning in life which so
many now seem to lack. We believe these matters are essential to
dealing with the urgent problems of our modern world situation: for an
example see our responses to 11September 2001:.
for as C G Jung remarked:
Autumn sunsets are a feature of the area we live in - this one was autumn 2000 from Nick's study window. |
Quotable Quote - September 2006"... we know the great deal with more about ourselves then we have normally cared to admit, except at the great moment of truth in our life, in Love and hate, at Perth and death. Beyond these moments our life seems as if it is one great voyage away from the truths we all encompassed, have passed and our future, what we were and what we will return to be."From "Death of a River Guide" by Richard Flanagan. Go to The Collected Quotes |