This bilingual (English and Spanish) game moves players along the spectrum of colors in the rainbow, encouraging expression and understanding of feelings, while learning how to name and talk about difficult or more complex feelings. The process of playing creates an opportunity for the discussion of relevant life events and the feeling responses which accompany them. This game can be played with both children and adults.
 
For 2 or more players, all ages.
 
"New and innovative. Simple to use and easy to understand, this game has proven to be non-threatening and clinically effective." Barbara A. Moynihan, RN, PhD

"The unconscious must not be ignored; it is as natural, as limitless, and as powerful as the stars."

~ Carl G. Jung

Plato (427-347 B.C.) defined archetypes for us, using "The Allegory of The Cave" to describe human life. To Plato, primordial images existed in the evolutionary structure of the human psyche, which he believed were inherited in the actual brain structure.

 

The soul of a human, often called 'psyche' (sigh-key), is essentially spiritual. In the Eleusian Mysteries (c.1400 B.C.), psyche is represented by Persephone who is abducted by Pluto, god of the Underworld. Demeter, the Great Corn Maiden, grieves the loss of her child (the soul), which causes the earth to become barren. She embarks on a journey through the Underworld in search of her daughter, guided by two torches: reason and intuition. Demeter pleads with Pluto to free Persephone, and he finally agrees to release her to the upper world six months of the year. Persephone's emergence is the coming of spring, just as our soul's true home is in the higher worlds, where it knows freedom from material form and material concepts.

Carl Jung (20th Century Swiss psychoanalyst) called these primordial images the collective unconscious. For Jung, the repeated appearance of similar symbolic images and themes was proof of this, and he believed in fact the universal symbols themselves ARE the key to unlocking unconscious regions of the human psyche.

psyche (si-ke) n. the soul personified; the principle of life (Gk. psyche, soul, mind). Expressions of the psyche, such as minikins, have been created for ages and used as talismans, representations of the Life's mysteries and sources of inner wisdom.

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Manic, adj., 1. An inordinately intense desire or enthusiasm for something; craze.

2. Excessive enthusiasm.

Minikin, n. (rare) 1. A very small and delicate creature or being. 2. cherub. (MD: m. minnekijn, dim. of minne, love. (Hebrew, Shakespearean)

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