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Post by Admin on May 16, 2021 19:53:36 GMT
"Unfortunately there can be no doubt that man is, on the whole, less good than he imagines himself or wants to be."
- Carl Jung
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Post by Admin on May 17, 2021 18:54:41 GMT
The decisive question for man is: Is he related to something infinite or not? That is the telling question of his life. Only if we know that the thing which truly matters is the infinite can we avoid fixing our interests upon futilities, and upon all kinds of goals which are not of real importance. ~Carl Jung (Book: Memories, Dreams, Reflections amzn.to/3fnB3LF
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Post by Admin on May 20, 2021 16:20:51 GMT
“God is a psychological fact of immediate experience, otherwise there would never have been any talk of God. The fact is valid in itself, requiring no non-psychological proof and inaccessible to any form of non-psychological criticism. It can be the most immediate and hence the most real of experiences, which can be neither ridiculed nor disproved.” — Dr. Carl G. Jung
“It should not be overlooked that I deal with those psychological phenomena which prove empirically to be the bases of metaphysical concepts, and that when I say ‘God,’ I can refer to nothing other than demonstrable psychological patterns which are indeed shockingly real.“ — Dr. Carl G. Jung
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Post by Admin on May 20, 2021 21:47:25 GMT
“How can you become if you never are? Therefore you need your bottommost, since there you are. But therefore you also need your heights, since there you become.”
― Carl Jung
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Post by Admin on May 20, 2021 21:52:15 GMT
“We meet ourselves time and again in a thousand disguises on the path of life.”
~Carl Jung
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Post by Admin on May 21, 2021 0:13:27 GMT
“Emotion is the moment when steel meets flint and a spark is struck forth, for emotion is the chief source of consciousness. There is no change from darkness to light or from inertia to movement without emotion.”
― Carl Jung
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Post by Admin on May 22, 2021 18:31:11 GMT
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
~C. S. Lewis
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Post by Admin on May 22, 2021 22:16:46 GMT
What Carl Jung was really saying geoffjward.medium.com/what-carl-jung-was-really-saying-8d08419d69ec‘What truly matters in Jung’s message is the understanding that we are ultimately grounded in something infinite and eternal, and that our lives as finite beings, illusory as they be, serve a divine purpose.’ Bernardo Kastrup In the summer of 1940, despite the tribulations of the time, a meeting took place at Moscia, overlooking Lake Maggiore on the Swiss-Italian border, at which the depth psychologist Carl Gustav Jung gave a surprise extempore talk in response to the main speaker at the event, the Basel mathematician Andreas Speiser. On this occasion, at the Eranos discussion group founded in 1933 for humanistic and spiritual studies, the subject was ‘the psychology of the Trinity’. Almost apologetically, Jung told his audience: ‘I can formulate my thoughts only as they break out of me. It is like a geyser. Those who come after me will have to put them in order.’ Of course, this remark can be taken with more than a grain of salt, for it belies the thoroughness, even pedantry, with which Jung (1875–1961) put together his material. Yet it does indicate some of the difficulties encountered in readings of his works, particularly those written towards the end of his life. At that Eranos talk was Anelia Jaffé, who became secretary to the C G Jung Institute, as well as Jung’s personal secretary, and an analytical psychologist. She later wrote: ‘The very profusion of creative ideas and of the material discussed opens out endless vistas, and the spontaneity of his style leads to occasional obscurities.’ (The Myth of Meaning in the Work of C G Jung, 1967).
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Post by Admin on May 28, 2021 9:45:23 GMT
“Jung said that to be in a situation where there is no way out or to be in a conflict where there is no solution is the classical beginning of the process of individuation. It is meant to be a situation without solution; the unconscious wants the hopeless conflict in order to put ego consciousness up against the wall, so that the man has to realize that whatever he does is wrong, whichever way he decides will be wrong. This is meant to knock out the superiority of the ego, which always acts from the illusion that it has the responsibility of decision. . . If he is ethical enough to suffer to the core of his personality, then generally, because of the insolubility of the conscious situation, the Self manifests. In religious language you could say that the situation without issue is meant to force the man to rely on an act of God.”
― Marie-Louise von Franz, The Interpretation of Fairy Tales
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Post by Admin on May 28, 2021 19:04:13 GMT
/ "Only by discovering alchemy have I clearly understood that the Unconscious is a process and that ego's rapport with the Unconscious and its contents initiate an evolution, more precisely, a real metamorphosis of the psyche." /
- Carl G Jung
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Post by Admin on Jun 2, 2021 15:27:08 GMT
“Be silent and listen: have you recognized your madness and do you admit it? Have you noticed that all your foundations are completely mired in madness? Do you not want to recognize your madness and welcome it in a friendly manner? You wanted to accept everything. So accept madness too. Let the light of your madness shine, and it will suddenly dawn on you. Madness is not to be despised and not to be feared, but instead you should give it life...If you want to find paths, you should also not spurn madness, since it makes up such a great part of your nature...Be glad that you can recognize it, for you will thus avoid becoming its victim. Madness is a special form of the spirit and clings to all teachings and philosophies, but even more to daily life, since life itself is full of craziness and at bottom utterly illogical. Man strives toward reason only so that he can make rules for himself. Life itself has no rules. That is its mystery and its unknown law. What you call knowledge is an attempt to impose something comprehensible on life.”
― Carl Jung
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Post by Admin on Jun 2, 2021 17:52:25 GMT
We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. ~Carl Jung (Book: Modern Man in Search of a Soul amzn.to/3kKtmQo)
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Post by Admin on Jun 6, 2021 0:13:22 GMT
As I have pointed out, the union of opposites on a higher level of consciousness is not a rational thing, nor is it a matter of will; it is a process of psychic development that expresses itself in symbols.
Historically, this process has always been represented in symbols, and today the development of personality is still depicted in symbolic form. I discovered this fact in the following way.
The spontaneous fantasy products I discussed earlier become more profound and gradually concentrate into abstract structures that apparently represent ''principles" in the sense of Gnostic archai.
~Carl Jung, CW 13, Para 31
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Post by Admin on Jun 7, 2021 10:42:55 GMT
Today is the 60th anniversary of the death of C. G. Jung. I give you this quote, in memory of his work:
"Our aim is to create a wider personality whose center of gravity does not necessarily coincide with the ego, but which, on the contrary, may even thwart the ego-tendencies. Like a magnet, the new center attracts to itself that which is proper to it, the 'signs of the Father', namely everything that pertains to the original and unalterable character of the individual ground-plan. The same knowledge, formulated differently to suit the age they lived in, was possessed by the Gnostics.
...Man's consciousness was created to the end that it may recognize its descent from a higher unity; pay due and careful regard to this source; execute its commands intelligently and responsibly; and thereby afford the psyche as a whole the optimum degree of life and development. I am addressing myself to those many people for whom the light has gone out, the mystery has faded, and God is dead. To gain an understanding of religious matters,...that is left us today as the psychological approach.
...All opposites are of God, therefore man must bend to this burden; and in so doing he finds that God in his 'oppositeness' has taken possession of him, incarnated himself in him. He has become a vessel filled with God and with Divine conflict."
Blessings in memory of the man, on this day.
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Post by Admin on Jul 3, 2021 18:07:42 GMT
“If you imagine someone who is brave enough to withdraw all his projections, then you get an individual who is conscious of a pretty thick shadow. Such a man knows that whatever is wrong in the world is in himself, and if he only learns to deal with his own shadow he has done something real for the world. He has succeeded in shouldering at least an infinitesimal part of the gigantic, unsolved social problems of our day."
― Carl Jung
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