Uroboros
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The Uroboros is an ancient symbol depicting a serpent or dragon eating its own tail and has been used by many cultures around the world as a visual representation of wholeness and infinity. It is also related to the beginning of the world, original perfection, and moreover, to the impeccable primal state in which the opposites were united. Like the sphere, the egg, and the rotundum, it is a symbol defined as eternal and timeless, with nothing above or below, nor having any dimension. The Uroboros is a self-contained representation, encompassing the beginning and the end.
Māyā
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In Vedanta philosophies, one of the many Hindu systems of thought, Brahman is defined as the eternal, absolute, and supreme non-dual reality. Māyā, also known as ignorance or cosmic illusion, draws a veil over Brahman, obscuring the vision and preventing humanity from seeing the spiritual planes that lie beyond them. Caught by this artifice, humans remain in the incarnate, dense and physical state, knowing reality only as that which they see, touch and feel through their senses. The universe is no longer experienced as a flawless unity, but as dual and material diversity. Human beings transcend this opposition by realizing the united and absolute Brahman.
SOUL-IMAGE
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In Jungian psychology, every human being's personality is divided into two, a masculine and a feminine archetype. In a man, the feminine part is called Anima and in the women, the masculine contra-side is known as Animus. Both archetypes are ideally equal. However, it is more common for one of them to predominate in the human personality, regardless of the gender and sexual preferences of the person. To equalize the lack of one of the two polarities, humans unconsciously attract and search for partners or people who have their contra-sexual or complementary personality. The term used in Analytical Psychology to define this encounter is Soul-image.
