The tree that called my name: on the significance of encountering the constellated symbol in the natural, other-than-human, world.
The Journal of analytical psychology November 2022 Gillian M Brown
In this paper I explore what it means to encounter the symbol as a meaningful object, or process, within the environment of the other-than-human. Using Jung's account in 'The spirit mercurius' of an enlisted Indigenous soldier who attempts to desert his barracks on hearing a native Oji tree calling him, I compare the evolving stages of consciousness theorised by Jung to explain this phenomenon...