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Post by Admin on Nov 9, 2023 15:26:36 GMT
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Post by Admin on Nov 16, 2023 17:35:51 GMT
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Post by Admin on Dec 4, 2023 11:40:06 GMT
Everyone has two souls. “My contention that man is born equipped with a highly differentiated and fully developed brain with innumerable attributes has often met with antagonism. Most people continue to believe that everything they have become, every reaction of their psychic ego to everyday occurrences, is determined by their education and their environment. Few people know anything about the ancestral soul and even fewer believe in it. Aren't we all the carriers of the entire history of mankind? Why is it so difficult to believe that each of us has two souls? When a man is fifty years old, only one part of his being has existed for half a century. The other part, which also lives in his psyche, may be millions of years old. Every newborn child has come into this world with a fully equipped brain. Although in the early stages of life the mind has not gained complete mastery over the body, it is clearly preconditioned for reacting to the outer world—that is, it has the capacity to do so. Such mental patterns exert their influence throughout life and remain decisive for a person's thinking. The newborn does not begin to develop his mental faculties on the first day of his life. His mind, a finished structure, is the result of innumerable lives before his and is far from being devoid of content. It is unlikely that we shall ever discover the remote past, into which the impersonal psyche of the individual reaches. There is no doubt that man’s personal psyche develops only during his lifetime, and that environment and education are decisive influences in this process. These influences become effective from the first days of a child's life. On the whole, the receptivity of a small child's brain tends to be widely underestimated, but the practicing psychologist has frequent evidence to the contrary. With neurotics, one constantly comes up against psychic defects that date back to very early childhood experiences. It is not a rare occurrence for a somewhat severe reprimand administered to a child in his playpen or his bed to affect him during his entire life. The two souls give rise to frequent contradictions in a person's thinking and feeling. Quite often the impersonal and the personal psyche are even in direct opposition. There are hundreds of examples which demonstrate to the psychologist that two souls live in every man. Exercising their imagination—which I call the mother of human consciousness—many of my patients painted pictures and described dreams which displayed a strange conformity with definite laws and showed peculiar parallels to Indian and Chinese temple, images. Where were these people supposed to have obtained knowledge about the ancient temple cultures of the Far East? I have treated patients who had visions about events which happened hundreds of years ago. All this can come only from the unconscious, the impersonal soul, the finished brain of the newborn. Contemporary man is but the latest ripe fruit on the tree of the human race. None of us knows what we know.” — Carl Gustav Jung, 1932, C.G. Jung Speaking, Pages 57-58.
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Post by Admin on Dec 5, 2023 14:13:11 GMT
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Post by Admin on Dec 5, 2023 16:37:45 GMT
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Post by Admin on Dec 10, 2023 16:08:19 GMT
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Post by Admin on Dec 17, 2023 14:04:55 GMT
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Post by Admin on Jan 3, 2024 21:25:25 GMT
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Post by Admin on Jan 19, 2024 23:05:02 GMT
Nobody can fall so low unless he has a great depth. If such a thing can happen to a man, it challenges his best and highest on the other side; that is to say, this depth corresponds to a potential height, and the blackest darkness to a hidden light. — C. G. Jung
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Post by Admin on Jan 24, 2024 22:28:45 GMT
"A mood of universal destruction and renewal has set its mark on our age. This mood makes itself felt everywhere, politically, socially, and philosophically.
We are living in what the Greeks called the kairos- the right moment for a "metamorphosis of the gods" of the fundamental principles and symbols.
This peculiarity of our time, which is certainly not of our conscious choosing, is the expression of the unconscious human within us who is changing.
Coming generations will have to take account of this momentous transformation if humanity is not to destroy itself through the might of its own technology and science.
So much is at stake, and so much depends on the psychological constitution of the modern human."
- Carl Gustav Jung
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Post by Admin on Jan 28, 2024 18:33:48 GMT
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Post by Admin on Feb 4, 2024 17:45:49 GMT
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Post by Admin on Feb 11, 2024 2:51:09 GMT
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Post by Admin on Feb 13, 2024 12:57:53 GMT
For Jung, architecture was a tool to represent the psyche psyche.co/ideas/for-jung-architecture-was-a-tool-to-represent-the-psycheCarl Jung’s approach to architecture is a provocation: how are we creating spaces for the forgotten dimensions of our minds? Architecture is physical, tangible and material. It is concrete, steel and glass. It is wood, brick and stone. It shelters and protects us by partitioning the vast expanses of physical space. At its core, architecture exists and operates in the outside world. What could it possibly say about our inner worlds? For Carl Jung, everything. Throughout his life, until he died in 1961, Jung used architecture as a conceptual tool to study the structure of the human psyche. In fact, it was Jung’s dream of a multistorey house that helped him develop his idea of the collective unconscious. His exploration of this dream house proved so profound that Jung began to understand himself as a kind of architect. In the early 20th century, he designed two homes along the shores of Lake Zurich, not only to accommodate his daily needs but also to articulate the dimensions of his conscious and unconscious mind. Though now overshadowed by the enduring influence of his writings, these homes were fundamental to his work and life. For Jung, the unconscious could be understood only partially through words, feelings, dreams or theories. It also required a presence in physical space – a structure that partitions the vastness of the outside world. In many ways, architecture was at the heart of 20th-century psychoanalysis. For Jung, our inner worlds are unthinkable without it. Jung’s first house came to him during a dream in 1909. While travelling through the United States on a lecture tour with his fellow psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, Jung dreamt he was in the salon of a two-storey house. The room was furnished with antique pieces of furniture and paintings hung on the walls. While exploring the salon, he found a set of stairs that led down to a basement. Everything appeared much older on this lower level. The furnishings and red-brick floors looked medieval. Eventually, he found a heavy door that opened onto a stone stairway leading down to an ancient, vaulted room. The walls and floor were made from stone slabs and bricks dating back to the Roman era. And attached to one of these slabs on the ground he found a metal ring. Pulling the ring, and lifting the slab, revealed yet another stairway leading further below. Following the narrow staircase down to the lowest level of the house, Jung arrived in a cave cut into bedrock. Thick dust blanketed the ground upon which bones and broken pottery were scattered as if they were the remains of a prehistoric culture. In the dust, Jung found two skulls half-disintegrated. Then he awoke. For the rest of his life, Jung revisited this dream house to articulate his ideas about the structure of the human psyche. The salon represented ego-consciousness, the space we inhabit most often and populate with our best objects – the things we want others to see. But this floor is built upon older layers, each one representing significant epochs of intellectual history: medieval, Roman and Greek, and all the way back to prehistory. Jung interpreted the lowest level of the house to mean that all historical knowledge was founded on our primal roots. In other words, the architecture of the dream house showed Jung that we all, regardless of what we consciously believe, share a common set of unconscious, prehistoric beliefs. Jung termed this layer of the psyche the ‘collective unconscious’ and considered it the deepest core of humanity. In his autobiographical book Memories, Dreams, Reflections, first published in German in 1961, he wrote: My dream thus constituted a kind of structural diagram of the human psyche; it postulated something of an altogether impersonal nature underlying that psyche. It ‘clicked,’ as the English have it – and the dream became for me a guiding image … It was my first inkling of a collective a priori beneath the personal psyche. The collective unconscious, inspired by an architectural dream, proved to be one of Jung’s most influential concepts. According to Jung, the parts of ourselves we are conscious of – parts that together form our ego-consciousness – are influenced by pre-existing images and myths, which Jung called ‘archetypes’. These include archetypes of the wise old man, the great mother, the tree of life, eternity, and the sacred. Jung believed that these pre-existing, ancient foundations for thought were powerful enough to reroute and affect our conscious processes even today, including our notions of the self. Populating the collective unconscious, they provide a universal lower level through which humans understand the world around them. rest in link
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Post by Admin on Feb 20, 2024 19:19:12 GMT
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