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Post by Admin on Mar 13, 2022 16:51:24 GMT
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Post by Admin on Mar 18, 2022 19:45:30 GMT
"Our myth has become mute, and gives no answers. The fault lies not in it as it is set down in the Scriptures, but solely in us, who have not developed it further, who, rather, have suppressed any such attempts."
– Carl Jung (Memories, Dreams, Reflections, page 332)
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Post by Admin on Mar 19, 2022 18:29:10 GMT
“In addition to our immediate consciousness which is of a thoroughly personal nature... there exists a second psychic system of a collective, universal, and impersonal nature which is identical in all individuals." ― Carl Jung
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Post by Admin on Mar 27, 2022 16:57:12 GMT
The unconscious is not just evil by nature, it is also the source of the highest good: not only dark but also light, not only bestial, semihuman, and demonic but superhuman, spiritual, and, in the classical sense of the word, "divine."
~ Carl Jung
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Post by Admin on Mar 27, 2022 19:38:15 GMT
A saying of the alchemist is, "God is a circle whose centre is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere." The saying holds for God, for the anima mundi and for the soul of man. Apparently God the Father is thought of her as a soul, the Anima Mundi, which is the center of the world, and which at the same time enfolds the whole world, or rather the universe including the starry heavens. A variety of forms is revealed through the realization of the self. The self is dissolved into many egos. When the self has become conscious it leads to “Participation Mystique” The self is not wholly personal! One has one’s own view of it, but at the same time it is also, in a sense, more general. It is also the self of others, being beyond the individual. A man is both, Ego & Self! On the path of enlightenment, the ego recedes more and more to make room for the self, changing the individual until the ego has disappeared. ~ Carl Jung #Alchemy #carljung #gnosticserpent
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Post by Admin on Mar 30, 2022 13:00:45 GMT
"Filling the conscious mind with ideal conceptions is a characteristic of Western [thinking], but not the confrontation with the shadow and the world of darkness. The most dangerous psychological mistake is the projection of the shadow on to others; this is the root of almost all conflicts."
- Carl Jung
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Post by Admin on Apr 5, 2022 17:26:12 GMT
Philemon Foundation News New Publication and Launch Webinar 8 May 2022 C. G. Jung Consciousness and the Unconscious Lectures Delivered at ETH Zurich, Volume 2: 1934 Edited by Ernst Falzeder Translated by Mark Kyburz, John Peck and Ernst Falzeder Here for the first time in English are Jung’s introductory lectures on analytical psychology, delivered in the summer of 1934. These form the second series of his lectures at ETH Zurich, coming to his own work, from his overview of the history of modern psychology in the first series. With candor and wit, Jung shares with his audience the path he himself took to understanding the nature of consciousness and the unconscious. He describes their respective characteristics using examples from his clinical experience as well as from literature, his travels, and everyday life. Complete with a contextual introduction and detailed notes and scholarly apparatus, Consciousness and the Unconscious painstakingly reconstructs and translates these talks from detailed shorthand notes by attendees, making a critical part of Jung’s work available to today’s readers. Join us for the launch webinar, with panel presentations from John Beebe, Ernst Falzeder and Sonu Shamdasani, followed by discussion. 8 May 2pm-3.30pm Eastern Daylight Time Tickets, $30. Click Here to Register us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_-x5W4kCkQwO6xjVlteLfoADonors will be able to purchase the book at an authors' discount plus shipping (and taxes where applicable) directly from the Foundation
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Post by Admin on Apr 5, 2022 17:30:25 GMT
C. G. Jung and the Alchemical Imagination: Passages into the Mysteries of Psyche and Soul Hardcover by Stanton Marlan (Author)
Stanton Marlan brings together writings which span the course of his career, examining Jungian psychology and the alchemical imagination as an opening to the mysteries of psyche and soul.
Several chapters describe a telos that aims at the mysterious goal of the Philosophers’ Stone, a move replete with classical and postmodern ideas catalysed by prompts from the unconscious: dreams, images, fantasies, and paradoxical conundrums. Psyche and matter are seen with regards to soul, light and darkness in terms of illumination, and order and chaos as linked in the image of chaosmos. Marlan explores the richness of the alchemical ideas of Carl Jung, James Hillman, and others and their value for a revisioning of psychology. In doing so, this volume challenges any tendency to literalism and essentialism, and contributes to an integration between Jung’s classical vision of a psychology of alchemy and Hillman’s Alchemical Psychology.
C.G. Jung and the Alchemical Imagination will be a valuable resource for academics, scholars, and students of Jungian and post-Jungian studies, Jungian analysis, and psychotherapy. It will also be of great interest to Jungian psychologists and Jungian analysts in practice and in training.
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Post by Admin on Apr 7, 2022 18:04:58 GMT
According to the Basilidians, Abraxas is the God above god, the endless, eternal, entire and infinite beginning and end, the terrible and mightiest source of all life and gorge of the void. The burning one, which unites all indistinct opposites within itself: effective and ineffective; fullness and emptiness; good and evil; life and death; difference and sameness; light and darkness; truth and lies; wisdom and meaninglessness, power and powerlessness, omnipresence and absence; masculinity and femininity; yin and yang; becoming and unbecoming; hot and cold; beauty and abomination; love and indifference; one and the many. Whose word is life and death. In the same way that the Taoists speak of ‘The Eternal Tao’ from which the polarities Yin and Yang emanate, so too Gnosticism speaks of Abraxas from which the good god and evil god emanate. Whenever other religions make reference to their god and devil with one being good and the other evil, we see a differentiation of good and evil which immediately places them under Abraxas who is undifferentiated, both at once. Good and evil exist, but Abraxas is existence itself. In this manner the great psychologist C.G. Jung saw Abraxas and the Self as being one and the same.
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Post by Admin on Apr 8, 2022 18:40:12 GMT
FREE EBOOK: Psychology and the Occult from the Collected Works of Swiss psychoanalyst Carl Jung. "Contains several important essays and lectures by Jung on the occult and parapsychology. Carl Jung, who was to come under the influence of Freud, maintained an interest in the occult throughout his life, beginning in his young adulthood. Jung, who wrote in a letter to Freud that he "dabbled in spookery", set out on a lifelong course to explain the occult and the "spirit world" in terms of the unconscious. While Jung may have believed in the reality of spirits, his writings take a more agnostic scientific/rationalist position as to their reality, while at the same time attempting to explain occult and spiritualistic phenomena in terms of the unconscious. Jung is perhaps most famous for his notion of the collective unconscious, the source of all inherited ancestral memories, and even within his dissertation for his medical doctorate the idea of the collective unconscious may be present. Indeed, Jung writes, "I waded through the occult literature so far as it pertained to this subject [the visions of Miss S. W.], and discovered a wealth of parallels with our gnostic system, dating from different centuries, but scattered about in all kinds of works, most of them quite inaccessible to the patient." Alternatively, at least initially Jung was to explain many of the statements of mediums in terms of hysteria and cryptomnesia (the coming into consciousness of unrecognized memory images). To understand Jung's fascination with the occult and spiritualism, one really must understand the sort of revival occultism and mysticism was undergoing at the time in continental Europe and America. The Romantic movement was underway and the writings of the Swedish seer, Swedenborg, were popular. In addition, a reaction was occurring against materialism, and this reaction provoked the sort of romanticism found behind spiritualism. Scientific investigations of occult phenomena were also sought as part of the Society for Psychical Research and research into the phenomena of parapsychology were being conducted at Duke University. In addition, new discoveries in theoretical physics regarding the nature of space and time, the dimensionality of the universe, and quantum phenomena were challenging preconceived notions. It is among this milieu that Carl Jung's ideas on the occult were to arise and have their greatest impact." To view and download this file, please visit: bit.ly/3tThMsP
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Post by Admin on Apr 9, 2022 13:56:10 GMT
“We do not know whether what we on the empirical plane regard as physical may not, in the Unknown beyond our experience, be identical with what on this side of the border we distinguish from the physical as psychic. Though we know from experience that psychic processes are related to material ones, we are not in a position to say in what this relationship consists or how it is possible at all. Precisely because the psychic and the physical are mutually dependent it has often been conjectured that they may be identical somewhere beyond our present experience, though this certainly does not justify the arbitrary hypothesis of either materialism or spiritualism.”
~ Carl Jung; Mysterium Coniunctionis: Inquiry into the Separation and Synthesis of Psychic Opposites in Alchemy; January 1, 1963
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Post by Admin on Apr 11, 2022 12:04:49 GMT
“...the patient does not feel himself accepted unless the very worst in him is accepted too. No one can bring this about by mere words; it comes only through the doctor’s sincerity and through his attitude towards himself and his own evil side. If the doctor wants to offer guidance to another, or even to accompany him a step of the way, he must be in touch with this other person’s psychic life. He is never in touch when he passes judgement. Whether he puts his judgements into words, or keeps them to himself, makes not the slightest difference. To take the opposite position, and to agree with the patient offhand, is also of no use, but estranges him as much as condemnation. We can get in touch with another person only by an attitude of unprejudiced objectivity. This may sound like a scientific precept, and may be confused with a purely intellectual and detached attitude of mind. But what I mean to convey is something quite different. It is a human quality—a kind of deep respect for facts and events and for the person who suffers from them—a respect for the secret of such a human life. The truly religious person has this attitude. He knows that God has brought all sorts of strange and inconceivable things to pass, and seeks in the most curious ways to enter a man’s heart. He therefore senses in everything the unseen presence of the divine will. This is what I mean by “unprejudiced objectivity”. It is a moral achievement on the part of the doctor, who ought not to let himself be repelled by illness and corruption. We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. I am the oppressor of the person I condemn, not his friend and fellow-sufferer. I do not in the least mean to say that we must never pass judgement in the cases of persons whom we desire to help and improve. But if the doctor wishes to help a human being he must be able to accept him as he is. And he can do this in reality only when he has already seen and accepted himself as he is.”
-Jung, Modern Man in Search of a Soul
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Post by Admin on Apr 22, 2022 12:53:20 GMT
“Is that which science calls the “psyche” not merely a question-mark arbitrarily confined within the skull, but rather a door that opens upon the human world from a world beyond, now and again allowing strange and unseizable potencies to act upon him and to remove him, as if upon the wings of the night, from the level of common humanity to that of a more personal vocation?” ― C.G. Jung, Modern Man in Search of a Soul
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Post by flyingcarpet46 on Apr 27, 2022 20:32:58 GMT
The state of imperfect transformation, merely hoped for and waited for, does not seem to be one of torment only, but of positive, if hidden, happiness. It is the state of someone who, in his wanderings among the mazes of his psychic transformation, comes upon a secret happiness which reconciles him to his apparent loneliness. In communing with himself he finds not deadly boredom and melancholy but an inner partner; more than that, a relationship that seems like the happiness of a secret love, or like a hidden spring-time, when the green seed sprouts from the barren earth, holding out the promise of future harvests.
(Carl Gustav Jung, Vol 14, par. 623)
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Post by flyingcarpet46 on Apr 27, 2022 20:33:15 GMT
The state of imperfect transformation, merely hoped for and waited for, does not seem to be one of torment only, but of positive, if hidden, happiness. It is the state of someone who, in his wanderings among the mazes of his psychic transformation, comes upon a secret happiness which reconciles him to his apparent loneliness. In communing with himself he finds not deadly boredom and melancholy but an inner partner; more than that, a relationship that seems like the happiness of a secret love, or like a hidden spring-time, when the green seed sprouts from the barren earth, holding out the promise of future harvests.
(Carl Gustav Jung, Vol 14, par. 623)
⁶from an ad on my facebook page
A focused, online, twelve-week, course on dialogue with the unconscious towards the practice of individuation. Albedo, the stage of illumination, is an investigation of dream work, symbols, active imagination, and the essential role of the ego consciousness.
appliedjung.com.
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