About Awaken Arts
The poetry art and digital art images guide the awakening journey. Carl Jung had a name for the unconscious part of image-making, he called it the Process of Individuation.
Who We Are
Awaken Arts is a creative sanctuary dedicated to guiding individuals on their own journey of awakening and self-discovery.
Through poetry, digital art, and symbolic imagery, the site invites visitors to explore Carl Jung’s Process of Individuation — a path that leads the unconscious to awareness.
Each work of art becomes a visual portal, helping users reflect, heal, and reconnect with their deeper sense of self.
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Susan Shepler is the artist, poet, and founder of Awaken Arts. Her work is inspired by years of exploring archetypes, symbols, and dream imagery, crafting them into visual and written forms that speak to the soul.
Susan’s passion is to create meaningful art that serves as a guide for others seeking clarity, renewal, and spiritual insight on their personal path.
Carl Jung referred to Individuation as such a process. involving autonomous images-- dream images and "fantasy images" found in many art forms. The process is universal, happenstance, an urge to Wholeness, Healing, and Wellness.
- Susan Shepler
Meet the Founder
A Journey to Freedom
When we live too much through our unconscious patterns, we create unconscious lives.” Laura Day The unconscious plays havoc when it is unobserved for its own instinctual and primordial energies. Imagine that, in order to say a thing, archetypal images point to the exact opposite with pointers to both sides. They do it through images, a two-way mirror where both sides of all things can be found. One-sidedness is one lesson that repeats throughout the process. “The long and winding road,” has meaning.
The study of archetypes isn’t a new or exclusive study at all. The mind accommodates its own heroes and adversaries, but how, why, and to what end? The archetypal or symbolic journey leads to understanding.
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Awaken Arts Mission
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To contribute to the body of transformational art and literature
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To illustrate the Process of Individuation
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To explore the symbolic and archetypal path to wholeness
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To demystify the territory of the personal and “collective unconscious”
Poetry Art
Mermaid
Grismere
Guidance Cards
The Guidance Cards are grounded in the image-making process of unconscious awakening, Carl Jung's Process of Individuation. As symbols and archetypes of the process, they hold keys to awakening through universal scripts and themes.
The Guidance Cards support the awakening path through the language of symbols and archetypes.
Guidance Cards Support and Guide
Mermaid Grismere
Genie Motif
Magician Archetype
Juggling Bear
Circus Motif
The Psyche
Queen Ann, Spirit
Between Worlds
Spirit / Soul
The Cross
Heaven and Earth
A Christian Mandala
Paths & Portals
The Mirror
The Thread
The Exile
The Fire
The Guide
Paths and Portals
A journey inward through five immersive pathways.
Guidance Cards & The Portal Journeys
Look for Guidance Cards on the journeys, and experience their mythopoetic language. The cards are not intended to predict or over function on the always awakening spiritual path. Instead, they can help us to experience the way we internalize symbols, and how we unconsciously engage with their energies, just by seeing them, their familiar shapes, their wisdom, and their whispers.
A Poem About
Wings and Reflection.
Butterfly
Love and a Chipped Cup.
For You
There is love and connection in the body's energy centers.
Thread
So many Anns we know.
Archetypes & Divine Journey
Spirit Ann
Reflections
MIRROR PORTAL
Mirror, Reflections 1
The Divided Self
The Divided Self invites you to notice the fractures appearing on a reflective journey.
They're not flaws, they're clues. Each fragment has something to teach about who we've been, who we are, and who we are becoming.
Community Circle
Common Ground
Instant Download
DIGITAL PAINTINGS
PHOTOSHOP PAINT PROGRAM
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Books
Short Stories
Articles
The
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