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Jung

[psykopaths]

[noosphe-re]

The tension of the future is unbearable in us. It must break through narrow cracks, it must force new ways. You want to cast off the burden, you want to escape the inescapable. Running away is deception and detour. Shut your eyes so that you do not see the manifold, the outwardly plural, the tearing away and the tempting. There is only one way and that is your way; there is only one salvation and that is your salvation. Why are you looking around for help? Do you believe that help will come from outside? What is to come is 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.

C.G. Jung, The Red Book: Liber Novus, edited and introduced by Sonu Shamdasani

[entheognosis]

[shy-girl04]

The life that I could still live, I should live, and the thoughts that I could still think, I should think.

C. G. Jung, The Red Book

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

(Art by Catrin Welz-Stein)

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"The knowledge of the heart is in no book and is not to be found in the mouth of any teacher, but grows out of you like the green seed from the dark earth."

~ Jung

(Ian Sanders)

[astrolocherry]

"Recollection of the outward events of my life has largely faded or disappeared. But my encounters with the ‘other’ reality, my bouts with the unconscious, are indelibly engraved upon my memory. In that realm there has always been wealth in abundance and everything else has lost importance by comparison."

-Carl G Jung: Memories, Dreams & Reflections

[asoftepiloguemylove]

on change

Ursula Le Guin Dragonfly; The Tales from Earthsea / BoJack Horseman (2014-2020); Nice While It Lasted dir. Aaron Long / Eric Jong Becoming Light: Poems New & Selected / Ocean Vuong On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous / C.G. Jung The Red Book (via @tamsoj) / Charlotte Eriksson Everything Changed When I Forgave Myself / BoJack Horseman (2014-2020); Nice While It Lasted dir. Aaron Long / Rainer Maria Rilke Letters to a Young Poet

[withinthesplendor]

"No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless it's roots reach down to hell." - CG Jung

By Hannah Frasier Moore, "Root & Spill"

[brownsugar4hersoul]

" Your visions will become clear only when you look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. "

- Carl Gustav Jung

[authenticity2025]

The tension of the future is unbearable in us. It must break through narrow cracks, it must force new ways. You want to cast off the burden, you want to escape the inescapable. Running away is deception and detour. Shut your eyes so that you do not see the manifold, the outwardly plural, the tearing away and the tempting. There is only one way and that is your way; there is only one salvation and that is your salvation. Why are you looking around for help? Do you believe that help will come from outside? What is to come is 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. C.G. Jung, The Red Book: Liber Novus, edited and introduced by Sonu Shamdasani

[yeesiine]

What you resist, persists

[psykopaths]

[noosphe-re]

To begin at once with an example of such apparent lack of caution, I must say that the man we call modern, the man who is aware of the immediate present, is by no means the average man. He is rather the man who stands upon a peak, or at the very edge of the world, the abyss of the future before him, above him the heavens, and below him the whole of mankind with a history that disappears in primeval mists. The modern man—or, let us say again, the man of the immediate present—is rarely met with. There are few who live up to the name, for they must be conscious to a superlative degree. Since to be wholly of the present means to be fully conscious of one's existence as a man, it requires the most intensive and extensive consciousness, with a minimum of unconsciousness. It must be clearly understood that the mere fact of living in the present does not make a man modern, for in that case everyone at present alive would be so. He alone is modern who is fully conscious of the present.

C.G. Jung, Modern Man in Search of a Soul

[entheognosis]

The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you.

Carl Jung

[thebardostate]

The Philosophy of Coincidence

When coincidences happen to others, we tend to shrug them off; but when they happen to us, that's a different story. Several forms of coincidence have been identified.

Serendipity (Horace Walpole) is a form of coincidence that is based on an active search for something (out of need or curiosity), a chance occurrence, an informed observation, and a valued outcome. So serendipity isn't finding something without looking for it: you were searching for something, during which you found something else by happy accident. Serendipity is not passive, it occurs while taking action.�� 

Seriality (Paul Kammerer) is a recurring pattern of similar or identical events or things in space or time, such as the number 6 in the picture below. It was the basis for the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Cause and Effect."

Synchronicity (C.G. Jung) is a meaningful coincidence in that it furthers self-realization, personal and spiritual growth, and/or a deeper experience of human connectedness. Statistics doesn't know what to do with personal meaning, so it just ignores it; but a freakishly improbable coincidence paired with a psychologically important event is what makes a synchronicity. Its psychic import can't be understood solely as a matter of statistics without losing information due to reductionism. When a synchronicity strikes, the feeling is that the cosmos is sending you an unmistakable message with the psychic force of a thunderbolt.

Simulpathity (Bernard Beitman) occurs when one person spontaneously and simultaneously experiences the distress of another without conscious awareness of their distress and usually from some distance away. The phenomena is most pronounced between twins, but it is also reported between other closely bonded persons. A review of 160 cases found about 33% involved a parent or child, 28% friends and acquaintances, 14% husband and wife, and 15% siblings. As an example of the phenomena, the inventor of the EEG, Hans Berger, was motivated to study electrical brain waves in part because of a simulpathity experience he shared with his sister. Berger was almost run over by a horse pulling a cannon, and when he got home, he received a concerned telegram from his father sent at the request of his sister (who lived miles away), inquiring about Berger's health. His family had never previously sent him a telegram. "It was a case of spontaneous telepathy in which at a time of mortal danger, and as I contemplated certain death, I transmitted my thoughts, while my sister, who was particularly close to me, acted as the receiver" (J. Berger, 1940, p. 6).

Coincidences like these are another line of empirical evidence that materialism cannot easily account for. I once experienced a synchronicity event in which I asked the cosmos to send me a sign to confirm whether a major epiphany that I had just experienced was real. I then sat down to play a game of Risk on my computer, and won 26 battles in a row. I didn't even lose any armies until the very end, when I freaked out and experienced a moment of disbelief and self-doubt that this was actually happening, at which point I lost two armies - but I still won every single attack in the game. I find it especially interesting that the moment of self-doubt appears to have weakened the phenomenon I was observing. There were no witnesses, but no matter - the cosmos sent me an unmistakable message.