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Post by Admin on Mar 11, 2021 20:28:44 GMT
‘The usual mistake of a Western man when faced with this problem of grasping the ideas of the East is like that of the student in Faust. Misled by the devil, he contemptuously turns his back on science and, carried away by Eastern occultism, takes over yoga practices word for word and becomes a pitiable imitator. Thus he abandons the one sure foundation of the Western mind and loses himself in a mist of words and ideas that could never have originated in European brains and can never be profitably grafted upon them.’
C. G Jung – Commentary on the Secret of the Golden Flower
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Post by Admin on Mar 12, 2021 9:37:54 GMT
TRANSFORMATION NARRATIVES IN FILM AND MYTH Presented by Christopher Hauke The ‘night sea journey’ is a theme of descent, of darkness and the minimising of perception. To what end? Whether caught in the belly of a whale (as with Jonah in the Bible or the little guys in Terry Gilliam’s “Time Bandits”) or the bowels of the city at night (as in Scorsese’s “After Hours”), you are stripped of your normal world and thrown into a state of deprivation. You have no idea whether this will last hours or days or, god forbid, for ever. Should I just get used to this? Will I ever get back? Sounds like the Covid pandemic doesn’t it? In both myth and movie, there is a return. But things are never the same again. The ‘night sea journey’ is more than a transition from one state to another, it involves a transformation of the initial way of life, with all its assumptions, identities, attachments and pitfalls. After the emergence from darkness, all is changed. Myths range from the largest whole-world version as journeyed by Noah and his family, to stories of individual suffering like Jonah’s. Film narrative has its own story arc which parallels the myth in a variety of ways. What they all have in common is how one or more characters are changed for good. In considering this theme of transformation Christopher Hauke will introduce clips from an intriguingly eclectic range of films. Christopher Hauke is a Jungian analyst in private practice and Senior Lecturer emeritus at Goldsmiths, University of London interested in the applications of depth psychology to a wide range of social and cultural phenomena including film. His books include Jung and the Postmodern: The Interpretation of Realities, (2000); Human Being Human. Culture and the Soul (2005) Visible Mind. Movies, Modernity and the Unconscious.(2013). He has co-edited two collections of Jungian film writing: Jung and Film. Post-Jungian Takes on the Moving Image (2001) and Jung and Film II – The Return (2011). His short films, documentaries One Colour Red and Green Ray and the psychological drama Again premiered in London venues and at congresses in Barcelona, Zurich and Montreal. In addition to new film projects he is now researching the limits of rationality, and the place of the irrational in our lives. Registration now open! Registration closes midnight (PST) Thursday 18 March 2021. Follow this link: appliedjung.com/the-night-sea-journey-rm/
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Post by Admin on Apr 6, 2021 17:10:19 GMT
“We should know what our convictions are, and stand for them. Upon one's own philosophy, conscious or unconscious, depends one's ultimate interpretation of facts. Therefore it is wise to be as clear as possible about one's subjective principles. As the man is, so will be his ultimate truth.”
― C.G. Jung
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Post by Admin on Apr 14, 2021 11:01:51 GMT
It is the function of Eros [the principle of love and of life] to unite what Logos [the principle of mind and of thought] has sundered. The woman today is faced with a tremendous cultural task. Perhaps it will be the dawn of a new era.
~ C.G Jung.
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Post by Admin on Apr 20, 2021 17:20:09 GMT
TUESDAY, APRIL 20, 2021 "Dreams are the facts from which we must proceed": a tribute to Jung mossdreams.blogspot.com/2021/04/dreams-are-facts-from-which-we-must.htmlI have studied Jung's Red Book and read most of his recently-published Black Books, but Memories, Dreams, Reflections is the book I most treasure by this great depth psychologist and dream traveler and the one I constantly recommend to those who are just starting to explore his work. Here is a modest tribute. I discovered Jung in high school and devoured many volumes of his Collected Works when I was an undergraduate, though I probably failed to digest the most difficult passages. In the midst of the psychic storms of 1987-8, I turned to Jung again, to see how he made sense of his own "confrontation with the unconscious". My main source book was Memories, Dreams, Reflections, his life story as recorded and edited by Aniela Jaffé based on conversations he began when he was eighty-one. His great life crisis began in 1912, after his break with Freud. For several years, he lived in a house of the spirits. The contents of his dreams and visions seemed to be spilling over into his physical life, producing poltergeist-like phenomena and apparitions that his children could see. Night after night, he descended into a dark and thrilling Underworld where he met mythic characters who seemed to him to be entirely real and transpersonal. He often felt he was under an avalanche of psychic events, "as if gigantic stones were tumbling down upon me." His survival required him to draw on a "demonic strength" that brilliant, mad Nietzsche had lacked. He kept seeing patients, but stopped lecturing at the university and ceased publishing for three years, no longer confident that he could make sense of things for other people. He had no mentor now, in the ordinary world. He sought stability through his family, his continuing work with clients, through painting and through "hewing stone", building a miniature stone village that he thought he was making in collaboration with his eleven-year-old self. He realized that he had to reclaim beginner's mind. He said to himself, "Since I know nothing at all, I shall simply do whatever occurs to me." Then he took the shaman's plunge. "I consciously submitted myself to the impulses of the unconscious." Central to Jung's ability to restore his inner compass was his daily recording of dreams. Now divorced from theory, his main preoccupation was to set down an unedited, uncensored chronicle of his experiences. "Dreams are the facts from which we must proceed." This was one of his central discoveries, and it is one of the most helpful statements that has ever been made about dreams and dreamwork. Let's start with the facts of the dream, leaving aside theory until we have recovered as much of the experience as possible. This was confirmation for me of the method I was obliged to improvise in my own time of testing. I journaled my dreams and visions as exactly as possible, giving each a title noting the time and duration of each experience. I most required clarity when my experiences rebuffed interpretation and linear thinking. I found it essential to disentangle the reports of inner adventures from other material so that their nature and content was not blurred. I underlined Jung's statement that "otherwise the material would have trapped me in its thicket, strangled me like jungle creepers" and put a big check mark in the margin. Exactly right. In his storms of emotion, Jung sought to let images take form. Images gave him a way to work with the raw power of emotion rather than being torn apart by it. He was learning how to harvest images and rework them through what he later called "active imagination" in the laboratory of his own psyche. He recorded the facts of his inner experiences even when he found the content nonsensical, repugnant or freakish. In this way, he hoped that instead of being drowned by the contents of his inner life, he would gain a means of navigation. He felt himself pulled into the Underworld. Instead of resisting, he let himself drop and began a harrowing journey of Underworld initiation, played out over years rather than hours, reminiscent of the shaman's path of tests and ordeals. In this time, he found an agreed form for an inner guide: an old man with the horns of a bull and wings of kingfisher blue that he named Philemon. "It was he who taught me psychic objectivity, the reality of the psyche." Near the end of his life, Jung observed that "all my works, all my creative activity, has come from those initial fantasies and dreams which began in 1912, almost fifty years ago. Everything that I accomplished in later life was already contained in them, although at first only in the form of emotions and images." He had had a plan for his life, to become a professor and pursue a scientific line that had seemed clear to him. "But then, I hit upon this stream of lava, and the heat of its fires reshaped my life." What overthrew his plans and expectations also gave him the prima materia for a greater life work. "That was the primal stuff which compelled me to work upon it, and my works are a more or less successful endeavor to incorporate this incandescent matter into the contemporary picture of the world." On my own stormy path of initiation in 1987-1988, I felt immense affinity for the great shaman of the West who spoke those words, and took comfort and courage from his example. I felt the deep truth of his ringing assertion that "he who takes the sure path is as good as dead", and spoke those words aloud, as I walked with my dogs to the old white oak behind the house, and scrambled up the slippery banks of the creek to the highest of the waterfalls. The most important statement for me in Memories, Dreams, Reflections is this:"All day long I have exciting ideas and thoughts. But I take up in my work only those to which my dreams direct me." This is equally true for me. Many days a week I embark on research assignments that dreams have given me, often before doing anything else in a day. I dreamed of yesterday of writing a scholarly paper.Since then I have been investigating its subject: the life and mind of Princess Marie Bonaparte, Freud's patient and patron. Popups of synchronicity and the play of shelf elves in my large and lively home library give me further prompts for research when I am dreaming with my eyes open. Jung understood this very well too.
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Post by Admin on Apr 22, 2021 21:03:23 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 Admin on Apr 25, 2021 19:59:29 GMT
"The difference between the "natural" individuation process, which runs its course unconsciously, and the one that is consciously realized is tremendous. In the first case, consciousness nowhere intervenes; the end remains as dark as the beginning. In the second case, so much darkness comes to light that the personality is permeated with light and consciousness necessarily gains in scope and insight. The encounter between conscious and unconscious has to ensure that the light that shines in the darkness is not only comprehended by the darkness, but comprehends it."
― Carl Jung
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Post by Admin on May 2, 2021 20:44:29 GMT
“The ego knows only its own contents, not the unconscious and its contents. People measure their self-knowledge by what the average person in their social environment knows of himself, but not by the real psychic facts which are for the most part hidden from them.”
― Carl Jung
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Post by Admin on May 7, 2021 15:53:55 GMT
There is a thinking in primordial images, in symbols which are older than the historical man, which are inborn in him from the earliest times, eternally living, outlasting all generations, still make up the groundwork of the human psyche. It is only possible to live the fullest life when we are in harmony with these symbols; wisdom is a return to them.
~ Carl Gustav Jung 1875-1961. ℵ☉Ω
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Post by Admin on May 7, 2021 15:56:14 GMT
“The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.”
― Carl Jung
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Post by Admin on May 9, 2021 18:40:07 GMT
Taken from the standpoint of the cosmic cakra system, then, we can see that we are still very low down, that our culture is a culture in mÖlvdhvra, only a personal culture where the gods have not yet awak- ened from sleep. Therefore we have to awaken Kundalini in order to make clear to the individual spark of consciousness the light of the gods. In the thought world and in psychic events we can reach this other state of mind, we can look at ourselves from the sÖküma aspect, but then every- thing is reversed. Then we see that we are sitting in a hole and that we do not go down into the unconscious, but that in gaining a relation to the unconscious we undergo a development upward. To activate the uncon- scious means to awaken the divine, the devi, Kundalini—to begin the development of the suprapersonal within the individual in order to kin- dle the light of the gods.
Kundalini, which is to be awakened in the sleep- ing Muladhara world, is the suprapersonal, the non-ego, the totality of the psyche through which alone we can attain the higher cakras in a cosmic or metaphysical sense. For this reason Kundalini is the same prin- ciple as the Soter, the Saviour Serpent of the Gnostics. This way of looking at the world is the sÖküma aspect. The Suksma aspect is the inner cosmic meaning of events—the “subtle body,” the suprapersonal.
_Carl Jung
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Post by Admin on May 10, 2021 21:34:52 GMT
"It was Khunrath who said Christ is the savior of man, whereas the mysterious substance of alchemy is the savior of the universe, not only of man but of nature."
– Carl Jung
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Post by Admin on May 12, 2021 21:59:17 GMT
The acceptance of oneself is the essence of the whole moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook on life. ~Carl Jung (Book: Memories, Dreams, Reflections amzn.to/2Qb0Iib)
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Post by Admin on May 13, 2021 20:25:37 GMT
“You are quite right, the main interest of my work is not concerned with the treatment of neuroses but rather with the approach to the numinous. But the fact is that the approach to the numinous is the real therapy and inasmuch as you attain to the numinous experiences you are released from the curse of pathology. Even the very disease takes on a numinous character.”
C. G. Jung Letters 1, pg 37
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Post by Admin on May 14, 2021 0:01:20 GMT
“The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens to that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was conscious ego and will be soul far beyond what a conscious ego could ever reach.”
― Carl Jung
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