Welcome
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."
THIS IS
AWAKEN ARTS
The poetry art and digital art 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, a language of symbols, as experienced in dreams and art.
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.
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.
Poetry Art
Mermaid
Grismere
Guidance Cards
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
Mermaid Grismere
Genie Motif
Magician Archetype
Juggling Bear
Circus Motif
The Psyche
Queen Ann, Spirit
Between Worlds
Spirit / Soul
The Cross
Heaven and Earth
A Christian Mandala
Paths & Portals
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 their mythopoetic language. The cards are not intended to predict or over function on the always awakening spiritual path. Instead, they can help us to experience the way we internalize symbols, and how we unconsciously engage with their energies, just by seeing them, their familiar shapes, their wisdom, and their whispers.
A Poem About
Wings and Reflection.
Butterfly
Love and a Chipped Cup.
For You
There is love and connection in the body's energy centers.
Thread
So many Anns we know.
Archetypes & Divine Journey
Spirit Ann
The Hidden Language
in Poetry Art
Images belonging to this journey flow with awareness.
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?
Reflections
Reflections
MIRROR PORTAL
Mirror, Reflections 1
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.
Community Circle
Common Ground
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DIGITAL PAINTINGS
PHOTOSHOP PAINT PROGRAM
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Books
Short Stories
Articles
The
Library
ABOUT ME
My poetry has become a 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. I've done this work for many years, with websites that included Images and Archetypes, Centering Arts, and AwakenArts.
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."
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."
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."
