On the shore

By: theintrovertedtree 27th Jul 2021 Philosophy, PsychologyInbetweenness, Liminality, Shore, UnconsciousLeave a Comment

Like so many people, I often feel like I miss the sea. Walking down the beach the other day, I thought that most of the time what we miss is not so much the sea but the shore. Not so much diving or sailing but being in front of it. Not in the distance, not…

Our little tribulations

By: theintrovertedtree 13th Jul 2021 Philosophy, PsychologyCollective unconscious, Death, Detachment, Individual purpose, Soul searching, UnconsciousLeave a Comment

As I passed by the flat of one of my neighbours, I remembered that someone died alone there a few years ago and took weeks to be found. Months later, a young couple moved in. Now their toddler’s toys were spread in front of their door, illustrating our inevitable cycle of life and death with…

Crossing the river

By: theintrovertedtree 6th Jul 2021 PsychologyCharon, Death, Soul searching, Styx, The other sideLeave a Comment

I always liked this character, Charon, whose job is to take the souls of dead people to ‘the other side’. He has a small boat, which he rows across the Styx, the river that separates both worlds. I saw this picture at El Prado museum when I was a kid and I was deeply impressed.…

Those stars

By: theintrovertedtree 29th Jun 2021 PhilosophyCollective unconscious, Elves, Inner search, Shadow and Light, Stars, TolkienLeave a Comment

In Tolkien’s world, the stars were the first thing the elves saw when they awoke. They were tossed on the sky by Varda, just so they wouldn’t be in the dark when they woke up. The unreachable light in the darkness. The stars are not farther awayThan the men I deal with Heroes del Silencio,…

Those songs

By: theintrovertedtree 24th Jun 2021 PsychologyInner search, Projections, WordsLeave a Comment

Aren’t all the songs the same song? Aren’t all the books the same book? What I find in them, isn’t it what I need each time? Doesn’t my unconscious project what my conscious ego needs to see? My brain carefully selects the words I need to hear and removes the rest, which are no longer…

A horizon of here

By: theintrovertedtree 1st Jun 2021 PhilosophyHorizon, Inner search, Soul searchingLeave a Comment

I look at the horizon sometimes, mesmerised at the fact that I can see something I will never be able to reach. I remember it took me some time as a child to grasp the concept. I kept asking where exactly that ‘horizon’ was, as if it were a geographic spot and I needed the…

Ninety degrees

By: theintrovertedtree 25th May 2021 PsychologyCollective unconscious, Cross, Self1 Comment

We humans have this tendency, or obsession rather, to build houses in the shape of a rectangle or a square. I don’t believe there is any specific logic to this. We came out of caves and wanted to build ourselves some shelter. We could have used a triangle or even an hexagon, which makes much…

Death within

By: theintrovertedtree 27th Apr 2021 PhilosophyDeath, Freedom, Human species, Purpose of life1 Comment

We are used to think of a seed or a child in terms of potential. The seed holds in itself the potential to become a tree. The child holds the potential to become an adult human being. Do we carry death within us? From the moment we are born, from the beginning, an end is…

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I am an INTJ in the second half of my life. I used to think that the second half of life was a cliché. I used to know things. I don’t want to be as pretentious as to say I know nothing, but I certainly know less than I used to and it is a…

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On the shore

By: theintrovertedtree 27th Jul 2021

Philosophy, PsychologyInbetweenness, Liminality, Shore, UnconsciousLeave a Comment

Our little tribulations

By: theintrovertedtree 13th Jul 2021

Philosophy, PsychologyCollective unconscious, Death, Detachment, Individual purpose, Soul searching, UnconsciousLeave a Comment

Crossing the river

By: theintrovertedtree 6th Jul 2021

PsychologyCharon, Death, Soul searching, Styx, The other sideLeave a Comment

Those stars

By: theintrovertedtree 29th Jun 2021

PhilosophyCollective unconscious, Elves, Inner search, Shadow and Light, Stars, TolkienLeave a Comment

Those songs

By: theintrovertedtree 24th Jun 2021

PsychologyInner search, Projections, WordsLeave a Comment

A horizon of here

By: theintrovertedtree 1st Jun 2021

PhilosophyHorizon, Inner search, Soul searchingLeave a Comment

Ninety degrees

By: theintrovertedtree 25th May 2021

PsychologyCollective unconscious, Cross, Self1 Comment

Death within

By: theintrovertedtree 27th Apr 2021

PhilosophyDeath, Freedom, Human species, Purpose of life1 Comment

Soundtrack to a farewell

By: theintrovertedtree 20th Apr 202120th Apr 2021

BooksEphemeral, Farewell, Galadriel, Life cycles, LOTR, Middle Earth, The Lord of the Rings1 Comment

To me, nothing symbolises the ephemeral life like music. We can frame light and colour in a photograph, in a painting, but we cannot retain a melody. Music comes to us, touches our soul and leaves. Like those subtle notes in Beethoven’s fifth piano concert. They come, float casually in the air and leave. Like…

The sea that unites all islands

By: theintrovertedtree 6th Apr 2021

PsychologyCollective unconscious, Soul searching, Unconscious3 Comments

I think about the public in a concert or a mob in the street. They act as One. People doing things they would never dare doing if they were alone. For a few moments they stop being individuals with an independent conscience and they become one with the group. They abandon themselves. They surrender to…