Above: Images of the anima mundi appearing in Jung’s Psychology and Alchemy: left-hand image from Robert Fludd’s Utriusque Cosmi, 1617; right-hand image from Leonhard Thurneysser’s, Quinta Essentia, 1574.

Below: Less anthropocentric images of the anima mundi: Michael Michelitsch’s fractal image of the living earth (left) and Marina Radius’s bronze image of the owl, symbol of planetary wisdom (right).