Corpus Anima

<i>Corpus Anima</i> is a collection of previously published essays written for professional <br> Jungian journals about the unity of psyche and soma spirit and matter body and soul. There<br> are also two chapters of more personal reflections previously unpublished including a series of<br> articles on the mid-Atlantic Azorean Archipelago. The essays on psyche and soma come from<br> the direct experience of their unity. We live life moves at the confluence of these polarities of<br> spirit and matter body and soul where through the capacity to hold contradiction and paradox<br> we can become whole.<br> Included in this collection is a published essay (Routledge) on the Portuguese poet and writer <br> Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935). His particular paradoxical expression of the soul and its life in<br> the world is radically inspiring. The lines below are written on his tomb in Lisbon resting in the<br> same national monument with Vasco de Gama (c. 1460s-1524) world oceanic explorer. Pessoa<br> was an explorer of inner worlds. He is posthumously a national treasure. <br><br> I am nothing. <br>I shall always be nothing. <br>I cannot want to be anything. <br>But I have in me all the dreams of the world. <br><br>Cedrus Monte PhD is a Jungian Analyst graduate of the C.G. Jung Institute in Switzerland<br> (1995) where she now resides. She is originally from Northern California. Her roots lie there <br> even her heart; but even deeper roots soul roots lie in the Azores and Madeira both<br> autonomous island regions of Portugal. An uprooted wanderer of many lands she has<br> grounded herself as much as possible in the one constant earth the body.