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A Lesson in Circulation: Spiritual Oases in the Concrete Jungl
by
Aurélie Athan
A Lesson in Circulation: Spiritual Oases in the Concrete Jungle
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New York City is home to countless fountains…
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…many of which are hidden gems…
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…while others are well known celebrities.
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What is universal among these diverse oases, is the water that flows through them in an endless loop.
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Each fountain performs its unique dance. One might even call it poetry.
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Some drop
from on high in
a rushing whoosh
.
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Or shoot up from below in syncopated spurts.
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Others camouflage themselves as sleek mirrors…
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…or pose as flowers. …or pose as flowers
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The largest weeps endlessly in memoriam.
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The fountain’s message is an irresistible one,
beckoning us to draw near…
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…especially in warmer weather.
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Fountains speak to the thirst of the parched psyche yearning for
renewal of, "meaning, creativity, or joy” (ARAS, 2010)
They arrest our imagination asking us to stop, watch, listen, breathe…
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… and bathe in their spray.
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Many of us walk by without noticing.
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…too caught up in the pace of the city.
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Nested in the tall midtown towers of the midcentury…
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…these liquid sculptures and the architects who designed them renewed my faith in the field of
psychology.
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Every week I chose an alternate route… and every week a new fountain found me.
For one year I dutifully walked from ARAS at the C.G. Jung Institute to my supervision with
a Jungian analyst 20 blocks away.
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The abundance of fountains dispersed throughout East Midtown led to a discovery of New York City’s “fountain renaissance.”
The 1961 Zoning Resolution for urban planning offered major incentives to
developers…
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…to build “higher and higher” towers with street-
level plazas that allowed
“light and air” to filter to pedestrians.
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There are over 531 “Privately Owned Public Spaces”
strewn throughout the city– many with
fountains within them…
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Those found in “POPS” are often rectilinear and angular reflecting the corporation’s orthogonal ethos
to maximize rentable office space and to rationally organize chaos.
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The public landscape designs of the turn of the century instead focused
on including “ornamental fountains”…
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…to bring the natural world closer to us…
[Bryant Park, 42nd St./6th Ave.]
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…to intentionally disrupt manmade grids with soothing circular forms….
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…and to remind the urban dweller of the symbolic Abundance given forth if we remember to orient towards Her. [Pulitzer Fountain, 5th Ave./59th St.]
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Both public and private fountains became my refuge for quiet
contemplation, during a trying year testing my limits of performance and comprehension of what was
ultimately healing and therapeutic.
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Even the simplest ones had their offering.
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My task was to commune long enough with a fountain for it to
reveal its secret.
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To deeply listen.
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One peacefully murmured to me.
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Another nauseated with chaotic churning…
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…yet thankfully drowned out the city with its surround sound.
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One bubbling cauldron never attained lift off…
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…while another leapt out in style.
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…the worst languished in neglect…
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A profound insight soon dawned upon me...
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…the existence of an eternal principal of renewal.
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This inner wellspring resides within us, upwelling, and calling
to be attended to.
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I came to see that our wellbeing depended on the urge to taste the
waters of the Self and irrigate our lives with its vitality.
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In times of stagnation, dis-ease, or a creative block…
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…how might we turn inward and drink from our ever-flowing
spring?
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The spiritual font required the same
devotion I had been showing my literal fountains.
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I saw that the city too must renew itself with open, fluid spaces.
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Washington Square Park Fountain from NYU vantage point.
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Fountains offer life-saving respite in the midst of the hustle and bustle.
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…in an otherwise unnatural environment.
A pleasant interjection of nature…
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Water and cities have always been inextricably linked.
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Without an adequate supply of water, early communities could not have been established.
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Water was prized and safeguarded as a singular necessity.
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Fresh water is the essence of life common to all creatures.
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“Even the smallest courtyard or
enclosed garden can be transformed
into a sacred paradise once the burble of water is heard and the air becomes cooler.”
(Hopwood, 2009)
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Fountains create an intangible, not easily defined difference in
the spaces they occupy.
Like their larger,
wilder counterparts… they create their own
climatic zone.
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The Ancients knew this too well, and respected their water deities.
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After a long, arid summer, the emergence of cold, pure water from a source hidden within the earth could
not help but seem miraculous!
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… as if the Spray of Life had emerged from some Subterranean womb.
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The first fountains or “Nymphaeions”
were built to appease gods who
brought flood or drought.
Once merely piles of
rocks, fountains expanded their
decorative role and were elaborated
into…
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…artful ensembles of water for ritual, religious, and political demonstration.
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The symbolism of water extends far back into antiquity but remains as
powerful today.
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From Psyche’s perspective so
too is soul connected to the
life sustaining properties of water and its fountain-like containment.
Psyche at a Fountain, Guillaume Segnac (1870-1924)
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A verse inscribed nearby a fountain at the Alhambra Palace in Granada, Spain:
“Whosoever comes to me thirsting I will
lead him to a place where he will find clean water cool sweet and unpolluted”
(Hopwood, 2009)
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The parallel process of engaging this restorative symbol played out in the cyclical provision of my own psychotherapy, that of my patients’, and its oversight in supervision.
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The repeated reflection and circulation of our feelings, fantasies, and insights animated what was once inert and potentiated a sense of movement and fluidity in all parties who participated.
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Critical events that occurred in sealed treatment rooms, spilled out onto streets. Synchronicities increased in intensity and frequency as if the very cosmos was enlivening alongside us.
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…a new quality of awareness emerged.
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Via this circulation of psychic material from below to above, inner to outer…
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Healing began to take place through the refreshing, tidal flow of unconscious-to-conscious content, rising and returning
back to Source, clarified, transformed and integrated.
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By the year’s end I had experientially confirmed the concentric ecology…
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…of our humanity’s collective evolution embodied…
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…in the humble image of the
Fountain.
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Now whenever I walk, as I hope you will, through New York City, I peek excitedly around every corner to see if a fountain
resides.
When I catch one out of the corner of my eye I sing to myself:
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Loop-de-loop we all turn ‘round…
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…evolve, and spiral together, in one magnificent, interconnected, cooperative
reservoir of Life.
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Thank you to my original Fountain…