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Awaken Arts offers a self-paced guide, where paths lead through an awakening  journey. Experience the process of enlightenment which Carl Jung referred to as,
the Process of Individuation,"a process in and of images."  

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ABOUT AWAKEN ARTS

The Unconscious Communicates through Symbols

The poetry art and digital images guide the awakening journey.  Carl Jung had a name for the unconscious part of image-making, he called it the Process of Individuation.  It's a path that leads the unconscious to awareness through images, specifically through a language of symbols.  This is recognized in dreams and art.

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Poetry Art

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Mermaid 
Grismere

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About Me

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My poetry is simply digital art.  I am passionate about my work with symbols and archetypes, and the mysteries that surround the unconscious.  Having art images as containers for enlightenments along my own Awakening Path, the language becomes apparent.
It's work I've done for many years, with websites that included Images and Archetypes, Centering Arts, and AwakenArts.

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My work with images aligns with Carl Jung's concept of the Process of Individuation-- a path inward unfolding through symbols and archetypes.

The process is illusive and unpredictable, so my art has become an explorative, insightful journey into the process and the art of individuation.  Crafting poems into mages resulted in a series of archetypal images and symbols, the kind you find in dreams.
This has led me into deeper study, exploring paths of higher awareness, art, dreams, and symbolic language.

A note about the process, it matters, even when a certain wellness is a grace within, it's automatically inherent in who you are.  It's paradoxical to be so wholly connected, a divine being, but compromised by unseen and unremembered layers of life.  Over time, this produces obstructions and a dull awareness of life within.  There is grace--
A process, orchestrated for you, enters into your life to return you to Self, to awaken.  

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Guidance Cards

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The Guidance Cards are grounded in the image-making process of unconscious awakening, Carl Jung's Process of Individuation.  As symbols and archetypes of the process, they hold keys to awakening through universal scripts and themes.

The Guidance Cards support the
awakening path through the language of symbols and archetypes.

Guidance Cards Support and Guide

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Mermaid Grismere
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Magician Archetype

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The Psyche

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Queen Ann, Spirit
Between Worlds
Spirit / Soul

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The Cross
Heaven and Earth
A Christian Mandala

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Paths & Portals

Step into Your Journey

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The Portals are journeys and experiences--
A combination of creativity, insight, perspectives and symbol awareness. 

The Mirror

The Thread

The Exile

The Fire

The Guide

Paths and Portals 
A journey inward through five immersive pathways.

Guidance Cards & The Portal Journeys

Look for Guidance Cards on the journeys, and experience the mythopoetic language that created them.  The cards are not intended to predict or over function in the always awakening spiritual paths. They can help us to understand the way we internalize symbols, and interact unconsciously with their energies, just by seeing them, their familiar shapes, their whispers, and their wisdom.

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A Poem About
Wings and Reflection.

Butterfly

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Love and a Chipped Cup.

For You

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There is love and connection in the body's energy centers.

Thread

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So many Anns we know.

Archetypes & Divine Journey

Spirit Ann

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The Mirror

Where you begin go see yourself reflected in what surrounds you.

The Thread

A quiet path of remembering.

The Fire

The place where truths are ignited, old patterns are burned away, and something is reborn from the ashes.

The Exile

A wilderness of the soul, where loss and disorientation become a sanctuary.

The Guide

The portal of wisdom, trust, and companionship. 

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Reflections

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A Guidance Card

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Reflections

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The Divided Self

The Divided Self invites you to notice the fractures appearing on a reflective journey.
They're not flaws, they're clues. Each fragment has something to teach about who we've been, who we are, and who we are becoming.

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Common Ground

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Common Ground
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Common Ground is where kindred spirits gather to share the patterns that shape us.

Symbols that appeared through my journey are similar to symbols appearing in dreams, images that Carl Jung referred to as "fantasy images."  

Symbols speak a universal language, but it's a language so gossamer, it drifts throughout awareness.  

Symbols connected to my inner journey include Christian symbols.  Awaken Arts respects the universal themes that connect us — love, longing, loss, renewal —  

This is a space for reflection, dialogue, and the quiet unfolding of awareness —
A circle where we meet as we are.

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Calvin Hall & Vernon Nordby

"Archetypes can only express themselves through symbols, since the archetypes are deeply buried in the collective unconscious, unknown and unknowable to the individual."

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Robert A. Johnson

"It baffles many people at first to hear that the imagination is an organ of coherent communication, that it employs a highly refined, complex language of symbols to express the contents of the unconscious."

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Carl Jung

"Dreaming and imagination have one special quality in common:  their power to convert the invisible forms of the unconscious into images that are perceptible to the conscious mind."

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The Hidden Language
in Poetry Art

Images belonging to this journey flow with Spirit presence.
Embodying Spirit, Ann brings Spirit close.
Through the poem, we discover that Spirit is present, and only partly here, pulling us toward the Kingdom of Heaven.

Queen Ann, Spirit

In this poem, Ann is running from a burning castle. Her sons, the Princes, and the King are fighting battles, on the sea, and on horses. Ann is escaping capture, running along a hillside in the lighted night.  
Ann is seeking help, although it is unlikely that the distant neighboring "kingdoms" would be willing or able to help.  
Symbolically, Ann is between worlds.

Where can you go when the world is burning?

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