Stephen Pickering

Tag: Psychology

The Symbolic Meaning of the Belly of the Whale

Apr 2, 2020

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Stephen Pickering

in Lifestyle, Mythology, Philosophy, Pyschology, Spiritual

Giving yourself over to something completely, letting yourself be ‘swallowed’ by it, as it were, (symbolically, psychologically) with the faith that you are not going to be annihilated (except maybe your ego and attachment to self-image) but rather transformed, ‘reborn’ into your true hero, adventurous self: That’s the sense of the ‘belly of the whale’…
On Ego: The Labyrinth Metaphor

Jun 6, 2013

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Stephen Pickering

in Philosophy, Spiritual, Uncategorized

The labyrinth in which the hero soul has become lost. That’s the place from which we are all starting. Did the ego build this labyrinth? Or is the labyrinth a metaphor for the ego itself? Those are interesting questions, but they aren’t nearly as interesting, practically speaking, as what the Wax String of Theseus stands…