Star in the Earth: the archetype of the Earth and the Light from Below a lecture by Christine Ford 2010

Jung s study of the great medieval alchemist, Paracelsus, helped to show us a mysterious light in the earth, a light from below. When Paracelsus perceived scintilla or sparks of this new light, he called it the Lumen Naturae, the Light of Nature. In our time, Neumann said this light of the earth is becoming more significant, and that it is identical with a newly emerging spirit of the earth. What is this light or spirit from below, and what must it what must we undergo in order to realize its meaning? We will study sparks in recent dreams, meditations and sandplay, in particular those that carry hints about renewing the seed of the light, finding the star in the earth, and discovering the fire from below. We will look deeply into a trove of unconscious material for lights from nature that may have collective as well as individual significance. Christine Ford, MA, LPC, CST-T, is a licensed psychotherapist and certified sandplay therapist (teaching), with a private practice in central Denver. She began studying Jung in San Francisco in 1969, and after moving to Denver in the 1970s, she worked and studied for many years with analysts from the C.G. Jung Institute. She muses about creating a book from her thesis on Psyche and Spirit, titled, Transformation Through Relationship with Inner Figures. Chris serves on the Board of Trustees of the Sandplay Therapists of America, and is President of the Colorado Sandplay Therapy Association.