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Post by Admin on Dec 12, 2021 20:02:49 GMT
"Christianity really arose from the spirit of Gnosticism, but came into conflict with it later, because the Gnostics threatened to dissolve Christianity with their philosophical speculations."
– Carl Jung (ETH Lecture V, page 162)
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Post by Admin on Dec 17, 2021 14:39:07 GMT
“If I accept the lowest in me, I lower a seed into the ground of Hell. The seed is invisibly small, but the tree of life grows from it and conjoins the Below with the Above. At both ends there is fire and blazing embers. The Above is fiery and the Below is fiery. Between the unbearable fires grow your life. You hang between these two poles. In an immeasurably frightening movement the stretched hanging welters up and down. We thus fear our lowest, since that which one does not possess is forever united with the chaos and takes part in its mysterious ebb and flow. Insofar as I accept the lowest in me — precisely that red glowing sun of the depths, the upper shining sun also rises. Therefore he who strives for the highest finds the deepest.”
― Carl Jung
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Post by Admin on Dec 19, 2021 14:56:22 GMT
"Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows art to realize its purpose through him. As a human being he may have moods and a will and personal aims, but as an artist he is "man" in a higher sense— he is "collective man"— one who carries and shapes the unconscious, psychic forms of mankind."
~ C.G. Jung
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Post by Admin on Dec 29, 2021 16:46:04 GMT
“The difference between the "natural" individuation process, which runs its course unconsciously, and the one which 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 which shines in the darkness is not only comprehended by the darkness, but comprehends it.”
― Carl Jung
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Post by Admin on Jan 1, 2022 11:24:10 GMT
At first the spirit [that is, animus] comes toward us from outside, to the child mostly from the father or from a man who takes his place, later a teacher, an older brother, a friend, the husband, and finally then in outer objective expressions of the spirit, the church, the state, society and its institutions, and in the creations of the sciences and the arts. Most often the woman has no direct access to these objective manifestations of the spirit; rather she finds them first through a man who is her guide and her mediator. This guide, this mediator, then becomes the carrier or the representation of her animus; onto him the animus is projected. There is no conflict as long as this projection succeeds, that is, as long as the projected image is more or less covered by the man who carries it. On the contrary, this state of affairs would in a certain manner appear to be perfect, in particular when the man who is the carrier [of the animus projection] is also a man whom the woman experiences as a human being and with whom the woman has a good relationship. When such a relationship is continually maintained, then we have what could be called an ideal relationship, without conflict, whereby the woman remains unconscious. Today, however, we can no longer remain unconscious. This seems to me to be proven by the fact that many women, if not practically all, who believe themselves to be happy and content in such a presumably perfect animus relationship are plagued by nervous disorders or physical symptoms. Anxiety attacks, disturbances in sleep, and general nervousness occur, or headaches, distortions in visual perception and even problems with the lungs may arise . . . .
~Carl Jung, The Animus: The Spirit of Inner Truth in Women II, Page 28
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Post by Admin on Jan 1, 2022 16:59:21 GMT
“Like plants, so men also grow, some in the light, others in the shadows. There are many who need the shadows and not the light. The image of God throws a shadow that is just as great as itself.”
― Carl Jung
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Post by Admin on Jan 5, 2022 13:43:47 GMT
“You can hardly say of your soul what sex it is. But if you pay close attention, you will see that the most masculine man has a feminine soul, and the most feminine woman a masculine soul.” ― C.G. Jung, The Red Book: Liber Novus
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Post by Admin on Jan 18, 2022 19:09:43 GMT
"The irrational fullness of life has taught me not to discard anything, not even what goes against all our theories.. It’s creepy, of course, and you can never tell whether the compass is working or it’s gone mad: but safety, certainty and quiet never lead to any discovery."
C. G. JUNG
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Post by Admin on Jan 21, 2022 20:31:01 GMT
“The alchemists, who in their own way knew more about the nature of the individuation process than we moderns do, expressed this paradox through the symbol of the Ouroboros, the snake that eats its own tail. The Ouroboros has been said to have a meaning of infinity or wholeness. In the age-old image of the Ouroboros lies the thought of devouring oneself and turning oneself into a circulatory process, for it was clear to the more astute alchemists that the prima materia of the art was man himself. The Ouroboros is a dramatic symbol for the integration and assimilation of the opposite, i.e. of the shadow. This ‘feed-back’ process is at the same time a symbol of immortality, since it is said of the Ouroboros that he slays himself and brings himself to life, fertilizes himself and gives birth to himself. He symbolizes the One, who proceeds from the clash of opposites, and he therefore constitutes the secret of the prima materia which […] unquestionably stems from man’s unconscious.”
― Carl Jung
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Post by Admin on Jan 27, 2022 20:05:05 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. Thus we demand that the world grant us recognition for qualities which we regard as personal possessions: our talent or our beauty. The more a man lays stress on false possessions, and the less sensitivity he has for what is essential, the less satisfying is his life. He feels limited because he has limited aims, and the result is envy and jealousy. If we understand and feel that here in this life we already have a link with the infinite, desires and attitudes change."
– Carl Jung (Memories, Dreams, Reflections)
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Post by Admin on Feb 1, 2022 3:15:46 GMT
"The concept of the archetype, which is an indispensable correlate of the idea of the collective unconscious, indicates the existence of definite forms in the psyche which seem to be present always and everywhere." - C.G.J.
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Post by Admin on Feb 10, 2022 18:15:01 GMT
“There is only one way and that is your way. There is only one salvation and that is your salvation. Why are you looking for help? Do you believe help will come from outside? What is to come will be created in you and from you. Hence look into yourself. Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfill the way that is in you."
― Carl Jung
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Post by Admin on Feb 13, 2022 18:19:31 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 Mar 7, 2022 14:52:14 GMT
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Post by Admin on Mar 13, 2022 11:51:19 GMT
"I only wish the Christians of today could see for once that what they stand for is not Christianity at all but a god-awful legalistic religion from which the founder himself tried to free them by following his voice and his vocation to the bitter end. Had he not done so there would never have been a Christianity." – Carl Jung (Letters Vol. I, page 521)
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