Béa Gonzalez

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In the latest episode of The Individuated Bookshelf, I mentioned that one of the best things about writing novels is the feedback you get from readers. This is from a recent, powerful Substack post by Bella Reynolds that references my novel "Invocation".

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Betty Kovacs, Merchants of Light.

Béa Gonzalez@sophiacycles· Jul 1

From the latest episode of The Individuated Bookshelf podcast. When the life you planned collapses, what story is trying to emerge underneath?

Béa Gonzalez@sophiacycles· Jun 30

When the life you planned collapses, what story is trying to emerge underneath? New episode of The Individuated Bookshelf on “mistakes,” midlife turns, and the birth of SophiaCycles.

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Béa Gonzalez@sophiacycles· Jun 20

Murray Stein is a Jungian psychoanalyst and the author of some powerful books including "Jung's Map of the Soul". This is him speaking in a recent interview with Jeffrey Mishlove.

Béa Gonzalez@sophiacycles· Jun 17

What if romantic love has quietly replaced religion as our main path to transcendence? In this episode we explore Jung, Robert A. Johnson, Tristan & Isolde, and why the longing we dump on partners once belonged to the sacred. Is romantic love a myth—or a portal?

Béa Gonzalez@sophiacycles· Jun 6

Why are we seeing so much public, collective anger right now? Often, it's a cover for collective grief. Dr. Sumit Anand joins me to trace the thread between ancient myth, bread riots, and modern cultural rage. Link to the episode below.

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Béa Gonzalez@sophiacycles· Mar 16

"The need to approach the dark, to revere life as an impersonal force larger than the merely human, to reconnect to a deep instinctual base,_that also seeks new creative forms, is a compelling vocation demanded of these times in which we live, times of tremendous cultural upheaval and transition."~Veronica Goodchild, Eros and Chaos

Béa Gonzalez@sophiacycles· Mar 7

Instead of being at the mercy of wild beasts, earthquakes, landslides, and inundations, modern man is battered by the elemental forces of his own psyche. This is the World Power that vastly exceeds all other powers on earth. The Age of Enlightenment, which stripped nature and human institutions of gods, overlooked the God of Terror who dwells in the human soul.

CG JUNG
Collected Works, Vol. 17

Béa Gonzalez@sophiacycles· Mar 6

The discipline of poetry is in overhearing yourself say difficult truths from which it is impossible to retreat. In a sense, all poems are good; all poems are an emblem of courage and the attempt to say the unsayable. Yet only a few are able to speak to something universal yet personal and distinct at the same time; to create a door through which others can walk, into territory that previously seemed unobtainable, in the passage of a few short lines.~David Whyte

Béa Gonzalez@sophiacycles· Mar 5

Psyche is chained to a rock. This image we will meet again in the Perseus myth, of the woman chained to a rock and offered to a monster. In fact, this motif is extremely common in myth and fairy tales. Perhaps it's a way of saying that the feminine journey often begins with bondage, being chained and sacrificed to something which is neither one's choice nor one's fault.
Liz Greene
The Jupiter Saturn Lectures

Béa Gonzalez@sophiacycles· Mar 4

"Feminine wounds are almost always cured by being still. A man, or the masculine side of a woman, generally has to take an outwardly heroic stance with his problems. … But woman’s genius is quite the reverse. When a woman is aware of her problem, the healing comes spontaneously and from the depths of her nature. Solitude is the feminine equivalent of masculine heroic action."

~Robert A. Johnson, *The Fisher King and the Handless Maiden*

Béa Gonzalez@sophiacycles· Mar 3

If we are courageous enough to say, "Not this person, nor any other, can ultimately give me what I want; only I can," then we are free to celebrate a relationship for what it can give.~James Hollis, The Eden Project [The best book written about relationships.]

Béa Gonzalez@sophiacycles· Feb 26

Grief is a wound that needs attention in order to heal. To work through and complete grief means to face our feelings openly and honestly, to express and release our feelings fully and to tolerate and accept our feelings for however long it takes for the wound to heal. We fear that once acknowledged grief will bowl us over. The truth is that grief experienced does dissolve. Grief unexpressed is grief that lasts indefinitely.

The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
Sogyal Rinpoche

Béa Gonzalez@sophiacycles· Feb 25

All too many people do not live their own lives, and generally they know next to nothing about their real nature. They make convulsive efforts to "adapt," not to stand out in any way, to do exactly what the opinions, rules, regulations, and habits of the environment demand as being "right." They are slaves of "what people think," "what people do," etc.

The Way of Individuation
Jolande Jacobi

Béa Gonzalez@sophiacycles· Feb 24

Every dark thing one falls into can be called an initiation. To be initiated into a thing means to go into it. The first step is generally falling into the dark place and usually appears in a dubious or negative form – falling into something, or being possessed by something. The shamans say that being a medicine man begins by falling into the power of the demons; the one who pulls out of the dark place becomes the medicine man, and the one who stays in is the sick person. You can take every psychological illness as initiation. Even the worst things you fall into are an effort at initiation, for you are in something which belongs to you, and now you must get out of it.

The Feminine in Fairy Tales
Marie-Louise von Franz

Béa Gonzalez@sophiacycles· Feb 22

"The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows art to realize its purposes through him. As a human being he may have moods and a will and personal aims, but as an artist he is 'man' in a higher sense—he is 'collective man'—a vehicle and moulder of the unconscious psychic life of mankind."

C.G. Jung
Modern Man in Search of a Soul

Béa Gonzalez@sophiacycles· Feb 19

"People do not realize just how much they are putting at risk when they don't accept what life presents them with, the questions and tasks that life sets them ... If we don't accept our own: destiny, a neurosis develops, and I believe it that life which we have to live is not as bad as a neurosis. If I have to suffer, then let it be from my reality. A neurosis is a much greater curse! In general, a neurosis is a replacement for an evasion, an unconscious desire to cheat life, to avoid something.

[C.G. Jung]

Reflections on the Life and Dreams of C.G. Jung
Aniela Jaffé"

Béa Gonzalez@sophiacycles· Feb 17

Intuition needs to look at things from afar or vaguely in order to function, so as to get a certain hunch from the unconscious, to half shut the eyes and not look at facts too closely. If one looks at things too precisely, the focus is on facts, and then the hunch cannot come through. That is why intuitives tend to be unpunctual and vague.

Lectures on Jung's Typology
Marie-Louise von Franz, James Hillman

Béa Gonzalez@sophiacycles· Feb 16

This is hands down the best book on projection by the most brilliant Jungian mind. She explores the psychological dynamics involved in projection, the related religious and philosophical contexts and the role archetypes and the collective unconscious play. Powerful.