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What is it?
The muse is the manifestation in the physical world of what we need to experience to manifest what we desires to create. The muse is the physical manifestation that supplies, or rather is the occasion for, the passion to act in the world. In this regard, the muse acts as the external sources of our creative life energy. Although the sources lies within, the inner is reflected in the outer and the muse is the reflection externally. In seeking and obtaining the muse we find the Source within our self.
The muse is something external to us on which we can focus and seek. The muse is that external focus that stimulates us and excites us and keeps us motivated to push into the world. It is what call forth our energy or which causes our energy to flow. Although the inner marriage allows us to operate and find a source of energy that never runs dry to move into the world from within our own being, we need an external focus. The muse is that coupling point or grounding point were the offspring of the inner marriage is more or less exactly matched with a point in the external world. It is what allows us to simultaneously both to hold a single point focus and ground the flow of our creative life energy externally. The external focus helps to continually pull us past mind to step out of mind and to confront the limiting beliefs of mind
Originally posted by midicon
Perhaps friction and irritation are the result of the recognition within ourselves that we have failed to live up to all that the muse personifies.
Or even the highs and lows of being at the ‘whimsy’ of an overpowering and overwhelming projection…even when it is consciously recognized as such.
Jung once described the ‘anima’ as being, among other things, fickle, capricious, moody and ‘bitchy’…and the ‘animus’ the masculine equivalent, as a virtual ‘bevy of flying Dutchmen’.
Robert Graves had many muses and used them to inspire his creativity…all in a conscious way of course. His White Goddess was the ultimate muse for him…or at least the source.
Originally posted by midicon
I have to agree that the ‘animus’ is a more elusive figure than the ‘anima’
Perhaps your link is in a sense more appropriate…that is if we change…
‘Bevy of flying Dutchmen’ to ‘a group of mysterious strangers from overseas’
I think that just about sums it up…both in the Jungian and the ‘botanical’ sense too.