Of Agape, Climax, and Transubstantiation…
Posted by Anjuelle Floyd | Filed under Articles and Essays
With the passing of crisis come celebration, perhaps a love scene. Survival or resurrection from death provides the central character a wider scope of consciousness.
Personal concerns no longer drive the protagonist. Those of the community dominate her or his thoughts and actions instead. Agape love now influences their choices and behavior.
Personal suffering has yielded a greater respect and understanding of those aches and pains that affect, and beset the collective. From this emerges empathy guided by the wish to heal.
Tags: agape, battle, central character, climax, community, consciousness, crisis, crucifixion, death, elixir, Eucharist, healing, Holy Grail, major character, Mass, protagonist, symbol, transformation, transubstantiation
Of Easter, The Vedas, and Passion…
Posted by Anjuelle Floyd | Filed under Articles and Essays
The roots of Easter morning lie in the sad and turbulent time extending from when Christ, with his crown of thorns, was led to the cross, fastened upon it, nails holding him in place, and then allowed to die.
This horrific time includes the moment in which the Son of Man, utters, “It is done,” onto Mary arriving, as promised, at the tomb, and to surprisingly discover the huge stone slab rolled away.
Tags: Biblical Passion, Christ, crisis, cross, crucifixion, death, Easter, Hindu priest, Luke, mantra, Mark, Mary Magadalene, Matthew, prayer, Sansrit, scribe, Son of Man, Thomas, Vedas
Illusions, Deceptions, and Various Manifestations of Doubt
Posted by Anjuelle Floyd | Filed under Articles and Essays, Musings
The Chameleon or Shapeshifter archetype relates directly to the Jungian archetypes of anima and animus. Anima is the feminine aspect all men hold and animus is the masculine aspect every female carries in her psyche.
Anima and animus reside in the archetypal unconscious that belies the individual unconscious layered by shadow. Anima and animus speak to [...]
Tags: ancestral history, anima, animus, archetype, Chameleon, Christ, collective unconscious, crucifixion, deception, doubts, fuel, illusion, individual and personal unconscious, instability, Lord of Death, Ma Kali, Major Arcana, manipulation, Shapeshifter, Siva, Tarot, The Hanged Man

