Iona Miller's video: Jungian Genealogy by Iona Miller 2013

http://jungiangenealogy.weebly.com Only a Jungian approach to genealogy keeps the traditional historic/mythic gestalt of The World Tree alive as a symbol of wholeness. The only way to revision and interact with its lines as a gestalt matrix includes the fictional, legendary, and mythological lines of this traditional World Tree. The entire gestalt is an iconic image -- a multidimensional symbol requiring hermeneutics as much as history for best practice. Your own genealogy contains both personal and collective elements. Infinite Regress is a causal relationship transmitted through an indefinite number of terms in a series, with no term that begins the causal chain. Integration through regression, in the service of transcendence, is a well-tested technique that opens us to the deep unconscious. We go back to move forward. Like fractals, we are self-similar to a given larger or smaller part of our heritage, even if some lines are broken or uneven. Fractal genealogy can be unravelled and rebuilt, producing an artistic view of the process. Genealogy is our map of the unconscious. The Red Thread shows us the way, igniting the imagination, awakening the soul. You link your Tree to the World Tree, your history to world history and mythology. Walking the Labyrinth of our lines is a deeply meditative process that arouses spirit, intuition and gnosis from a deep sleep. It is a way of soul retrieval, uniting personal and collective unconscious. It is a process of digging through the past, overturning old notions. Nothing lives as long as deep memory. Genealogy writes you into the story of history and genetically links you to the Cosmos. It is a legitimate form of self-therapy. The genealogy of the soul begins in the longing for the lost other. Feeling 'genealogy without proofs is meaningless', some professional genealogists want to throw out the mythic babies with the bathwater. They want to prune the mythic elements from the world tree. Yet we are entangled with all the ancestral figures of our heritage. The soul yearns to know them and our relationships more deeply. They embody the foundational beliefs we carry through life. Genealogy helps us reexamine our truth. The Jungian approach includes the whole range of emotions, but spares us from literalisms and engulfment by balancing objective and subjective. Many archetypal themes are native to genealogical practice: The Hero Journey, Holy Grail, Royal Wedding, Sangreal Bloodline, and more. Your own BOOK OF THE DEAD is written in your DNA. Deciphering its inherent meaning is a Quest for the Grail and the journey of psychological transformation. No one who sets forth on the grail quest remains unchanged. The only place of power and change is the Present.