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Interlude III: Janus

from Empyreum by Spirit and the Trickster

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Interlude III: Janus
From the onset of this interlude, the piano, synthesizer, and violins establish a repetitive pattern mirroring our habitual psychological and emotional processes. Later new themes introduce a fresh perspective, offering a different relationship to those patterns and thereby yielding new harmonic and melodic possibilities. The ambient sounds in this interlude were recorded by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft in its exploration of Saturn and its moons – one of which is named Janus. Janus was the Roman god with two faces, one looking toward the past and one to the future. He is the god of doorways, transitions, and new beginnings.

We cannot change our families of origin or the traumas of our past, and often these voices and experiences become internalized as mental dialogue, repeating old messages to us again and again. (As William Faulkner famously wrote, “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.”) At this stage of psychological development, authentic suffering has transformed our perspective of the past and present. The descent into the Underworld and reemergence into life has integrated unconscious material and reconnected us to our true Self. C. G. Jung said, “Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” This enlarged awareness transforms those inner voices in the present and opens up new possibilities for the future.

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from Empyreum, released September 20, 2020

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Spirit and the Trickster Houston, Texas

When a singer/songwriter and a classical pianist meet in the field of Jungian psychology, the result is a genre-bending collaboration dedicated to the exploration of archetypal themes, alchemical process, order and chaos, dreams and consciousness, and the confusing beauty of paradox. ... more

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