"This place in the psyche, where dreams, stories, poetry, and art meet, constitutes the mysterious habitat of the instinctual or wild nature. In contemporary dreams and poetry and in the older folktales and writings of mystics, the entire milieu of the core is understood as a being with a life of it's own. It is most often symbolised in poetry, painting, dance and dreams as either one of the vast elements such as ocean, vault of sky, loam of earth or as a power within personhood.
Many artists carry their own ideas and matters born of ego to the edge of the core and drop them in, sensing rightfully that they will be returned newly infused or washed with the core's remarkable psychic sense of life. Either way, this causes a sudden and profound awakening, changing or informing of the sense, mood or heart of the human. When one is freshly informed, one's mood is changed. When one's mood is changed, one's heart is changed.
That is why the images and language that arise from the core are so important." Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Ph.D.
For more visual nourishment click here and here and be sure to pick up a copy of Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype by Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Ph.D to reconnect with your true essence, to align your priorities and perspective and for some down right insightful lessons. As ever, all original images can be sources right back to the creative hub that is pinterest.
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