SELECTED PUBLICATIONS & ARTICLES by Iona Miller
NATURAL PHILOSOPHY - MYTHOLOGICAL STUDIES - POST-JUNGIAN COMMENTARY - FRONTIER SCIENCE - AESTHETIC APPROACH -
ARCHETYPAL PSYCHOLOGY - SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
ARCHETYPAL PSYCHOLOGY - SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
Pure objectivists assume they can stand naked in this world.
Pure subjectivists imagine that the world is their own clothing.
Pure empiricists are just ‘waiting for a good lesson,’
which the pure extrapolators are sure everybody will get.
Unlike the specialist who ‘keeps his eye on the ball’, or the non-specialist who ‘keeps his ear to the ground,’ we can do both by using all our faculties comprehensively. We savor the paradoxes of life with logical human maturity. We constantly take a ’second look’ at our own thinking to take into account its effects on this 'second sight.'
Pure subjectivists imagine that the world is their own clothing.
Pure empiricists are just ‘waiting for a good lesson,’
which the pure extrapolators are sure everybody will get.
Unlike the specialist who ‘keeps his eye on the ball’, or the non-specialist who ‘keeps his ear to the ground,’ we can do both by using all our faculties comprehensively. We savor the paradoxes of life with logical human maturity. We constantly take a ’second look’ at our own thinking to take into account its effects on this 'second sight.'
The Ancients already knew the therapeutic potential of the family links between generations that we rediscover in modern transgenerational analysis. Far from being a new fashion, the recognition of transgenerational processes dates back to the first shamanic type of communities. Their methods to cure "The Ancestor Syndrome" offer to contemporary therapies essential historical references and valuable teachings. Transgenerational integration brings a welcome middle ground for exchanges between traditional, shamanic and actual therapeutic approaches. This new field nourishes the rooting of contemporary practices as well as the renewal of ancestral wisdom. With the contribution of specialists from different backgrounds, this collective book presents a wide spectrum of perspectives to bridge traditional and modern knowledges.
In an increasingly fragmented world, there is a constant quest for religious expression that will at last enable the union of the material and the spiritual. The Millers here demonstrate that such an expression is to be found in a combination of alchemy and the psychological studies of C. G. Jung, himself no stranger to alchemical study. Using the stages of purification and refinement found in The Book of Lambsprinck , a 16th-century alchemical text, as well as in Jung's archetypes of consciousness and unconsciousness, the authors trace the development of the self from solitude to union. The great attraction of the book is its affirmation of the redemption of broken matter in the union of self and soul. Illustrations, reproduced from The Book of Lambsprinck , are beautifully rendered. The end result, in sum, is a vital text for all spiritual seekers.
The book does cover perfume, and is a valuable reference on perfumes in all their uses, BUT it is not only about perfume. This book is one of the best primers on Kabbalistic thought, the tree of life, and ritual magic that a beginner (or advanced) student could hope for. The first few chapters are a basic primer on kabbalistic theory that is seldom equaled in clarity and usefulness, including a very clear example of the Middle Pillar Exercise. The next chapters focus on perfume and incense blending, both for pleasing scents and for magical use. For the herbal students the middle of the book is the most rewarding. Every point or path on the tree of life is associated with a perfume/incense/scent. Each plant or animal source of that scent is discussed in detail, (including synthetic, cruelty free, alternatives to the traditional musk and other animal scents). This book even has the different music notes that correspond with each scent. This is not only perfect for making your own rituals, but for mixing oils, too, and making your own natural perfume.
selected works
ARTICLES, CHAPTERS, BOOKS
Self-Exploration - Frontier Science - Mythology
Post-Jungian Psychology - Esoterics - Genealogy
Self-Exploration - Frontier Science - Mythology
Post-Jungian Psychology - Esoterics - Genealogy
Iona is a Symbolist and visionary, perhaps more pragmatic and less literal than most with similar interests. Her writing is informed by Jungian, Post-Jungian, Archetypal, Personality, Transpersonal, and Transgenerational psychologies, as well as philosophy and meditation.
Jungian psychology strongly connects with the arts, culture and history of society, which also derive from the imagination. Writing is ordinary magic, natural magic. It can transport the reader to new territory, to 'foreign lands.'
"Science comes to a stop at the frontiers of logic, but nature does not: she thrives on ground as yet untrodden by theory." ~Carl Jung, CW 16, Para 524.
"All my writings may be considered tasks imposed from within, their source was a fateful compulsion. What I wrote were things that assailed me from within myself. I permitted the spirit that moved me to speak out." ~Carl Jung; Memories, Dreams and Reflections; Page 222.
Among Satyrs and Nymphs pre-print
Descent from Oceanus and Io
A Genealogical Ritual Exploration
Iona Miller, 2021
ionamiller2020.weebly.com/nymph-io.html
Descent from Oceanus and Io
A Genealogical Ritual Exploration
Iona Miller, 2021
ionamiller2020.weebly.com/nymph-io.html
Angel Mirrors
https://ionamiller2020.weebly.com/angel-mirrors.html
https://ionamiller2020.weebly.com/angel-mirrors.html