the psychological change cycle

                      emotional distress takes us from the
                       experience of pain & isolation................

                      through to a time of transition   -
                      the 'liminal' moment.......................................

                      - and then to a further and new
                      state of mind.

The Cave of Robert the Bruce,
Dumfries & Galloway.
                            C.G.Jung 'The Symbolic Life' 1977

"The cave is the place of unconsciousnes
and at the same time, the place of healing and redemption
because it contains the jewel of wholeness.
It is the cave where the dragon of chaos lives
and it is also the indestructible city,
the magic circle or 'temenos',
the sacred precinct where all the split-off parts of the personality
are united."

                                                                         Stein. 'In Midlife'   1983

"In liminality (at the point of transition)
the "I's" standpoint is not fixed -
it occupies no clearly defined psychological location.
The "I" is not anchored to any particular inner images, ideas or feelings.
Inner ground shifts."

we metaphorically enter the cave in distress
- the place of darkness & fear
- we face the dragon of our chaos
and
contained within the sacred earth,
held and guided by her principle of change
- new life emerges.

                                   cave - place of divine manifestation