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Post by Admin on Feb 26, 2020 19:48:42 GMT
"If we are to do justice to the thing we call Spirit, we should really speak of a Higher Consciousness rather than of the Unconscious."
—C.G. Jung
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Post by Admin on Mar 7, 2020 3:45:24 GMT
When the two poles meet, they form a circle, which previously was a broken curve :
Ego consciousness and the “..unconscious psyche may be understood as the two poles or foci of an ellipse, which both together define the shape of the curve. When the distance between the two poles becomes infinite, that is when the two poles are completely torn from one another, an irremediable split has occurred and the content of the ellipse is nil. But when the two poles become one, that is when complete harmonization has taken place, the result is the circle, which is the ellipse with the greatest possible content. This corresponds to Jung's concept of the "Self" which he defines as the new centre of gravity that is the synthesis between the conscious and the unconscious psyche. This Self is the highest realization of the individual, and at the same time transcends the individual completely. It is the synthesis between the external and the internal reality. It is in me and I am in it. It is our goal, and at the same time it is the source from which we came and which constantly feeds us. It is not possible to speak of it except in paradoxical terms because it is so much more than a logical conclusion or theoretical abstraction; it is living reality and experience. It is ‘the god in us.’”
Gerhard Adler, Studies in Analytical Psychology
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Post by Admin on Mar 7, 2020 4:20:30 GMT
“I don't want to force my views on anybody else. But I confess that I submitted to the divine power of this apparently unsurmountable problem and I consciously and intentionally made my life miserable, because I wanted God to be alive and free from the suffering man has put on him by loving his own reason more than God's secret intentions. There is a mystical fool in me that proved to be stronger than all my science. I think that God in his turn has bestowed life upon me and has saved me from petrification ... Thus I suffered and was miserable, but it seems that life was never wanting and in the blackest night even, and just there, by the grace of God, I could see a Great Light. Somewhere there seems to be great kindness in the abysmal darkness of the deity ... Try to apply seriously what I have told you, not that you might escape suffering - nobody can escape it - but that you may avoid the worst - blind suffering."
C.G. Jung, unpublished letter 1936
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Post by Admin on Mar 7, 2020 4:30:45 GMT
Anima :
“A highly intelligent man, an academic teacher in his mid-fifties, with a rather overdeveloped intellect and corresponding feeling-problem, sees in his dream a /woman of exquisite beauty. While he is still admiringly looking at her she changes suddenly into a tall slender white lit candle of quite inexpressible beauty -if possible even more beautiful than the angelic woman. This graceful serenely-burning candle is perched on a tall stool, a kind of altar inspiring reverence and awe. The woman here is an unequivocal symbol of what Jung has called the anima, the femme inspiratrice, the eternal feminine. But even she, in spite of her wonderful appearance, has to be divested of all possible personal implications and transformed into a symbol of spiritual illumination beyond rational human definition. This dream shows what Jung means by a symbol, just as it shows how archetypes.. manifest themselves in the here and now of space and time.”
Gerhard Adler, Dynamics of the Self Jung :
“The animus in this respect rather difficult to deal with because it is a plurality. One can compare the animus to a group of people, a court, or a limited company, or an organization; while the anima is very definitely one person and therefore more clearly to be seen. The anima behaves exactly like a definite person, but she is also a function, her true function being the connection between the conscious and the unconscious. We are standing in between two worlds, a visible tangible world, and the other invisible world, which somehow has a peculiar quality of substantiality; but very subtle, a sort of matter that is not obvious and is not visible, that penetrates bodies and apparently exists outside of time and space. It is here and everywhere at the same time, and yet nowhere because it has no extension; it is a complete annihilation of space and time, which makes it a very different thing from our conception of an obvious world.”
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Post by Admin on Mar 7, 2020 5:32:46 GMT
“The relationship between body and soul, ..the interdependence of Psyche and physical processes in the living organism, [should] be understood not.. as a causal relationship but as a synchronistic phenomenon.”
Gerhard Adler, Dynamics of the Self
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Post by Admin on Mar 7, 2020 5:35:01 GMT
“Perhaps it will help if I introduce my theoretical exposition with the narration of a personal experience right towards the end ofJung's life. It was the last time I saw Jung, a few months before his death. It was a Sunday morning and I had gone out to his Tower at Bollingen. His housekeeper told me to go upstairs to the study. I knocked at the door and went in. There the old man sat in his highly informal country clothes, at his writing desk, with a writing-pad in front of him and a fountain-pen in his hand. He had not heard me come in, and I stood, deeply moved, and almost embarrassed about my intrusion, for there, looking out over the lake of Zurich but clearly looking out very much further and deeper, he sat, completely unawarr of my presence, intensely still and absolutely concentrated, utterly alone with himself and engrossed in his inner images -the picture of a sage completely absorbed in a world of his own, which yet is the infinite universe. This lasted only a few moments; then he noticed me; one could feel how he returned from far away, and the spell was broken. No doubt I had interrupted him, but he showed no trace of it, no sign of disturbance: there he was, at once deeply related to the other person and open to his presence. I shall never forget the image of the sage contained in his inner universe, or the immediate return to the reality of the actual human situation. Both were the same man, and the interplay reveals a great deal about the nature of his genius.”
Gerhard Adler, Dynamics of the Self
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Post by Admin on Mar 11, 2020 0:29:25 GMT
"On this plane of consciousness we feel single and as if collectivity were just the opposite. Inside it is different, there is a multitude, and there the situation is reversed: it is as if we were the multitude there.. It is as if you were a whole universe inside, while externally you are simply a unit. Inside you are a macrocosm and you contain many microcosms."
C.G. Jung, Visions, 8 December 1930
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Post by Admin on May 1, 2020 14:16:18 GMT
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Post by Admin on May 2, 2020 18:45:13 GMT
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Post by Admin on Jun 2, 2020 16:13:25 GMT
It is a bewildering thing in human life that the things that cause the greatest fear is the source of the greatest wisdom
- Carl Jung
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Post by Admin on Jun 13, 2020 1:25:18 GMT
"But aside from words, which address themselves to the intellect, there is so much more in the air between us: feelings, images, part-souls, or segments of the psyche. The people who rely on natural science and the so-called realistic view of the world, based on it, are unaware of the abstracting and isolating nature of science. True reality can only be approached and surmised spiritually."
~Carl Jung, C.G. Jung Speaking, p. 270
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Post by Admin on Jun 22, 2020 2:45:46 GMT
“Whereas the man of today can easily think about and understand all the "truths" dished out to him by the State, his understanding of religion is made considerably more difficult owing to the lack of explanations. ("Do you understand what you are reading?" And he said, "How can I, unless someone guides me?" Acts 8 : 30.) If, despite this, he has still not discarded all his religious convictions, this is because the religious impulse rests on an instinctive basis and is therefore a specifically human function. You can take away a man's gods, but only to give him others in return. The leaders of the mass State could not help being deified, and wherever crudities of this kind have not yet been put over by force, obsessive factors arise in their stead, charged with demonic energy—money, work, political influence, and so forth.
When any natural human function gets lost, i.e., is denied conscious and intentional expression, a general disturbance results. Hence, it is quite natural that with the triumph of the Goddess of Reason a general neuroticizing of modern man should set in, a dissociation of personality analogous to the splitting of the world today by the Iron Curtain. This boundary line bristling with barbed wire runs through the psyche of modern man, no matter on which side he lives. And just as the typical neurotic is unconscious of his shadow side, so the normal individual, like the neurotic, sees his shadow in his neighbour or in the man beyond the great divide.
It has even become a political and social duty to apostrophize the capitalism of the one and the communism of the other as the very devil, so as to fascinate the outward eye and prevent it from looking within. But just as the neurotic, despite unconsciousness of his other side, has a dim premonition that all is not well with his psychic economy, so Western man has developed an instinctive interest in his psyche and in "psychology."“
~Carl Jung, The Undiscovered Self, pp. 45-46
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Post by Admin on Jul 5, 2020 23:29:28 GMT
The Original Protocols for Memories, Dreams, Reflections C. G. Jung and Aniela Jaffé Edited by Sonu Shamdasani with Thomas Fischer and Robert Hinshaw as Consulting Editors "In 1963, Memories, Dreams, Reflections by C. G. Jung, recorded and edited by Aniela Jaffé was published and swiftly became a bestseller. Since then, it has been regarded as the primary source of information concerning C. G. Jung’s life and work, with sales nearing a million in English alone. In short, it is the work by which Jung has come to be known by the public at large. Memories, Dreams, Reflections by C. G. Jung comprised material compiled and edited by Aniela Jaffé on the basis of her conversations with Jung and was supplemented by Jung’s own memoir concerning the early years of his life and other autobiographical materials, with the participation of Pantheon publisher, Kurt Wolff, who initiated the project. However, behind the scenes, there lay a complex tale of composition, editing and alleged censorship. The protocols of Aniela Jaffé’s original conversations with Jung reveal that significant material was withheld in the published version, and that much had been edited. While the published version of Memories, Dreams, Reflections by C. G. Jung was cast in the form of a more or less chronological life narrative, the protocols show Jung ranging across an array of subjects in an associative manner in a single conversation, and discovering meaningful connections that he had hitherto not realized, aided by Aniela Jaffé’s sensitive questioning and Kurt Wolff’s prompting. The protocols present not only recollections of times past, but a critical chapter in Jung’s evolving self-understanding and the elaboration of his work, and a window into his own personal cosmology, as elaborated in his Red Book and Black Books, and only hinted at in his published writings. They function as a bridge that links Jung’s life and personal relations with his work and professional collaborations. For a contemporary reader, they provide a vivid impression of being in Jung’s presence and hearing him speak openly about his life in a manner that is in turn questing, profound, witty and melancholic. The literary executor of the estate of Aniela Jaffé, Robert Hinshaw, and the Foundation of the Works of C. G. Jung have agreed to a complete publication of Aniela Jaffé’s protocols of Jung’s recollections. The volume will be edited by Sonu Shamdasani with Thomas Fischer and Robert Hinshaw as consulting editors, appearing in English in the Philemon Series of the Philemon Foundation, published by Princeton University Press." philemonfoundation.org/current-projects/the-original-protocols-for-memories-dreams-reflections/
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Post by Admin on Jul 7, 2020 13:59:28 GMT
Aion: Researches into the Phenomenology of the Self (Collected Works of C.G. Jung) by C. G. Jung
"Aion is one of a number of major works that Jung wrote during his seventies that were concerned with the relations between psychology, alchemy and religion.
He is particularly concerned in this volume with the rise of Christianity and with the figure of Christ. He explores how Christianity came about when it did, the importance of the figure of Christ and the identification of the figure of Christ with the archetype of the Self. A matter of special importance to Jung in his seventies - the problem of opposites, particularly good and evil - is further discussed and the importance of the symbolism of the fish, which recurs as a symbol of both Christ and the devil, is examined.
As a study of the archetype of the self, Aion complements The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious, which is also published in paperback."
Quote from Amazon.
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Post by Admin on Jul 15, 2020 15:11:28 GMT
Personally, I am convinced that not only people but also animals have souls.
~Carl Jung, ETH Lectures 1933-1934, Page 141
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