ENG: "FOLLOW YOUR BLISS." (Joseph Campbell). The Self wants things through us, and I guess Campbell's quote would be more aligned to the needs of the Self . But if we read this quote trhough the needs of the Ego, it is understood as a need of pleasure all the time, as we know, nothing can give us pleasure and bliss all the time. So everything gets temporary, shallow and superficial. When Eastern cultures became accessible to us, and the huge populatization of it, it became

ING: "Everything is double, everything has two poles, everything has its opposite. The same and the unequal are the same thing. The extremes touch. All truths are half-truths. All paradoxes can be reconciled." Always when man faces enigmatic questions, about the unknown, like death; his unconscious creates simbolic models (mythic/archetypal models). And almost all of those symbols and motifs that manifests in death dreams are as well present in the journey of the individuati

ENG: In the time when belief systems that offer life meaning seem to have failed us, any archetypal imagery that can provide an organazing system could become a container for the psyche in an uncertain world. (The ancient Gods want to regain their voice) Consciousness isn't only a racional and intelectual process of the soul and spirit, that's mostly why the modern man is sick and devoid of meaning. When we get constellated by a symbol or an archetype, it's a transcedent ca

ENG: " Atotô Obaluaê ! ” (Which means "Silence to the great King of Earth!". That's the greatings to the orisha Obaluaye at the Yoruba culture and rituals (afro-brazilian). Obaluaye is a very powerful and feared orisha he is the responsable for earth (from everything grows and returns), the fire, the gate guard at the threshold of death/rebirth, he can deliver sickness and pandemic but as well a cure for all humans pains. He's image holds the archetype of the Wounded Healer

PT: Vocês devem se perguntar porquê eu escolhi o nome do site como Templo de Medusa. Pois é em motivo de adoração e inspiração no mito da...