Showing posts with label Jung. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jung. Show all posts
"Christmas time," explains the psychologist Oliver James, "is a fixed ritual setting which triggers historic enmities like nothing else...
"The shit really hits the fan at this time of year...
To avoid the usual tensions, Oliver James suggests that we identify what role we occupy in our family, then do the exact opposite.
OLIVER JAMES
Recently I was at a Christmas party, feeling reasonably jolly and beneficent, when a lady came up to me and said that I looked rather unhappy.
As the lady looked utterly miserable, I assumed that this was an example of what Sigmund Freud called 'projection'.
'Projection' is when someone, unconsciously, projects their own negative feelings onto someone else.
For example, the person who is 'mean' may accuse other people of being mean.
It is a defense mechanism.
Freud explained that some people find it difficult to accept that they have undesirable attributes.
The person's 'ego' splits off its own undesirable attributes and dumps them onto someone else.
Freud explained that the very insecure person might choose to project their own great insecurity onto whoever shows the slightest sign of not being totally confident.
Watching out for the CIA-Mossad in Indonesia.
Carl Jung explained that 'projection' can take place at a local, national and international level.
The bad tempered parent blames the child for being bad tempered.
The bisexual school bully accuses other children of being bisexual.
The incompetent management blames the workers for being incompetent.
The ruthless criminal fascists blame all the world's problems on the Moslems, Jews, French or whoever seems like a useful scapegoat.
Christmas in Indonesia.
Carl Jung believed that we all have a dark side, which he called the 'Shadow'.
The philosopher Ludwig Feuerbach believed that some people 'project' some of their own attributes onto God.
Thus the unscrupulous warrior projects onto his god the quality of being an unscrupulous warrior.
The historian John Demos believes that in Salem, in 1692, the young girls were projecting their own anger onto the older women who were accused of being witches.
Christmas in the trenches, when the Brits and Germans stopped projecting evil.
Jung believed that "All projections provoke counter-projection."
For example: the incompetent teacher blames the pupil for being incompetent.
The child then subconsciously picks up on the role expected of him and becomes more incompetent.
'Projection' may give temporary relief from anxiety, but at the cost of a certain dissociation, as in dissociative identity disorder.
Psychological projection.
Dissociative identity disorder (multiple personality disorder) is usually the effect of severe trauma during early childhood, usually extreme, repetitive physical, sexual, or emotional abuse.
The CIA and similar organisations reportedly torture children in order to create in the children multiple personalities - such as sex slave or assassin.
Children need to be LOVE-BOMBED.
Oliver James is in favour of 'love bombing' for children.
He argues that feeling loved is a better remedy than dishing out rules and punishment.
"In fact, feeling loved is far more important for childhood discipline than rule-making and punishment.
"At the heart of the matter is that a sense of being satisfied only comes from having demands met - needy, aggressive behaviour comes from feeling dissatisfied."
(Love bombing kids to get happy results thetelegraph.com.au)
Children need to be LOVE-BOMBED.
Oliver James is in favour of 'love bombing' for children.
He argues that feeling loved is a better remedy than dishing out rules and punishment.
"In fact, feeling loved is far more important for childhood discipline than rule-making and punishment.
"At the heart of the matter is that a sense of being satisfied only comes from having demands met - needy, aggressive behaviour comes from feeling dissatisfied."
(Love bombing kids to get happy results thetelegraph.com.au)
"If only there were evil people somewhere, insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them.
"But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being.
"And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?"
Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung said:
Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung said:
"Natural history tells us of a haphazard and casual transformation of species over hundreds of millions of years of devouring and being devoured."
Hawks eat doves and humans eat lambs.
However, Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung also said:
"But the history of the mind offers a different picture.
"Here the miracle of reflecting consciousness intervenes."
Walking on hot coals. Detaching oneself from fear and pain.
Is it possible for humans to enlighten themselves so that they escape from a world of suffering?
"Why? He uses a detachment visualization technique.
"It is not HIS arm attached to HIS body, but instead it is AN arm away from his body and therefore no feeling is possible.
"Amputees sometimes suffer from the phantom limb 'itch' where they feel an itch on a limb that does not exist."
Superconscious: Pain Control Via Detachment
Consider Duality and Non-Duality.
Duality can mean that we label things as either 'good' or 'evil'.
The problem is that some Nazis labeled the concentration camps as good, vultures label dead humans as good, and some people even like the game of cricket.
The problem is that a pleasant game of golf is always a mixture of plus and minus.
And even 'Suffering' can be positive if it leads to progress on a spiritual path, or if it reminds you that it's time to visit the dentist.
Concentration camps?
Of course concentration camps are 'bad'.
But, the reason we got concentration camps in Germany was because the Nazis labeled Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals and handicapped people as 'bad'.
Ideally, we see that "the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being."
What is Non-duality?
There are many different descriptions.
Imagine that you do not label anything as being entirely good or entirely bad.
Imagine you can see some good in your pet cat, which has just killed the bird.
Should we believe in Duality or Non-Duality or both?
In this world it is only natural that some people label things as being entirely good or entirely bad.
But, ideally we should try to understand Non-Duality.
The US military labeled this Asian child as unimportant. The child is a victim of the Pentagon's Agent Orange. www.documentingreality.com...
If the Nazis had adopted the idea of Non-Duality, they would have seen that they were related to the Jews.
Imagine you can see some good in your pet cat, which has just killed the bird.
Should we believe in Duality or Non-Duality or both?
In this world it is only natural that some people label things as being entirely good or entirely bad.
But, ideally we should try to understand Non-Duality.
The US military labeled this Asian child as unimportant. The child is a victim of the Pentagon's Agent Orange. www.documentingreality.com...
If the Nazis had adopted the idea of Non-Duality, they would have seen that they were related to the Jews.
If the Pentagon adopted the idea of Non-Duality, they would stop murdering dark-skinned children all over the world.
There are various descriptions of Non-Duality.
Imagine pure Being, Consciousness and Bliss, which is so enlightened that it is free from suffering.
Imagine pure Being, Consciousness and Bliss, which is so enlightened that it is free from suffering.
Imagine that your 'mind' and the universe are, in a sense, One.
The spiritual teachers of the past seem to have had a lot in common.
From Luke 9:48
The one who is least among you is the greatest.
From Taoism:
If you want to be reborn, let yourself die.
If you want to be given everything, give everything up.
Don't keep searching for the truth; just let go of your opinions.
For the mind in harmony with the Tao, all selfishness disappears.
With not even a trace of self-doubt, you can trust the universe completely.
The Taoist Seng T'san wrote:
All at once you are free, with nothing left to hold on to.
All is empty, brilliant, perfect in its own being.
The Taoist Seng T'san wrote:
In the world of things as they are, there is no self, no non self.
If you want to describe its essence, the best you can say is "Not-two."
In this "Not-two" nothing is separate, and nothing in the world is excluded.
The enlightened of all times and places have entered into this truth.
All at once you are free, with nothing left to hold on to.
All is empty, brilliant, perfect in its own being.
The Taoist Seng T'san wrote:
In the world of things as they are, there is no self, no non self.
If you want to describe its essence, the best you can say is "Not-two."
In this "Not-two" nothing is separate, and nothing in the world is excluded.
The enlightened of all times and places have entered into this truth.
www.abundancetapestry.com
In it there is no gain or loss; one instant is ten thousand years.
There is no here, no there; infinity is right before your eyes.
The tiny is as large as the vast when objective boundaries have vanished;
the vast is as small as the tiny when you don't have external limits.
Being is an aspect of non-being; non-being is no different from being.
Until you understand this truth, you won't see anything clearly.
Nonduality | Non-duality - Stillness Speaks
Anonymous writes:
May I add - this can also be discussed in graphical terms.
I like to think of it as the triumph of the enso over the taijitu.
For mine, the taijitu is too complicated. Unnecessarily busy.
taijitu.
The enso on the other hand is the simplest symbol that exists.
Which in symbol terms makes it pretty much perfect. (Or is that word bad? How about 'ideal'?)
The Taoist Seng T'san wrote:
There is no here, no there; infinity is right before your eyes.
The tiny is as large as the vast when objective boundaries have vanished;
the vast is as small as the tiny when you don't have external limits.
Being is an aspect of non-being; non-being is no different from being.
Until you understand this truth, you won't see anything clearly.
Anonymous writes:
May I add - this can also be discussed in graphical terms.
I like to think of it as the triumph of the enso over the taijitu.
For mine, the taijitu is too complicated. Unnecessarily busy.
taijitu.
The enso on the other hand is the simplest symbol that exists.
Which in symbol terms makes it pretty much perfect. (Or is that word bad? How about 'ideal'?)
enso "It symbolizes absolute enlightenment. In Zen Buddhist painting, ensō symbolizes a moment when the mind is free to simply let the body/spirit create."
And then there's the enso's unconnected appearance in mathematics wherein it represents zero. Or is it unconnected? Where's Jung when you need him?
Regardless, zero is interesting - it didn't exist until really quite late in history. It took a long time for people to get their heads around it. I also like the fact that zero is (arguably) the antithesis of mathematics. I never did like maths - it's the language of priests - and zero (qua zero) is pretty much of no use to them.
From maths to religion and back again: zero equals nothingness, and nothingness equals a transcendence of duality. So we've two priesthoods, one embracing numbers, and the other embracing duality, and both find themselves stymied by the simplest symbol in the world.
Which happily brings us full circle.
But then it would, wouldn't it?
best etc. etc.
Nixon Scraypes does not like the idea of NON-DUALITY (the idea that everything is a mixture of 'good' and 'bad' or 'yin' and 'yang')
Nixon Scraypes said...
'Fly Agaric' is a poison toadstool.
What we would argue is that everyone is a mixture of 'good' and 'bad'.
Jimmy Savile left the bulk of his £4.3m fortune to good causes
Someone said of Savile: "You should see him with disabled kids. You should see the pleasure he brings them."
And then there's the enso's unconnected appearance in mathematics wherein it represents zero. Or is it unconnected? Where's Jung when you need him?
Regardless, zero is interesting - it didn't exist until really quite late in history. It took a long time for people to get their heads around it. I also like the fact that zero is (arguably) the antithesis of mathematics. I never did like maths - it's the language of priests - and zero (qua zero) is pretty much of no use to them.
From maths to religion and back again: zero equals nothingness, and nothingness equals a transcendence of duality. So we've two priesthoods, one embracing numbers, and the other embracing duality, and both find themselves stymied by the simplest symbol in the world.
Which happily brings us full circle.
But then it would, wouldn't it?
best etc. etc.
Nixon Scraypes does not like the idea of NON-DUALITY (the idea that everything is a mixture of 'good' and 'bad' or 'yin' and 'yang')
Oh,come on.
I have a bowl of organic brown rice and a bowl of poison toadstools.
Which shall I eat?
You tell me which is good which is bad?
'Fly Agaric' is a poison toadstool.
It is 'good' in that it is used by people to eliminate flies.
"Medical practitioners in Siberia have used this mushroom to promote the creative conditions of the mind."
Agaricus - Homeopathy - Herbs To Herbs
Agaricus - Homeopathy - Herbs To Herbs
"As a homeopathic medication, Agaricus is useful for its wonderful curative attributes."
Agaricus - Homeopathy - Herbs To Herbs
Eisenhower. Responsible for a lot of deaths. A mixture of good and bad.
Franz does not like the idea of NON-DUALITY (the idea that things can be a mixture of 'good' and 'bad')
Franz writes:
"DID SAVILE MURDER 13-YEAR-OLD GIRL?"
Do I look for some good in Savile?
Do I look for some BAD in the girl?
Eisenhower. Responsible for a lot of deaths. A mixture of good and bad.
Franz does not like the idea of NON-DUALITY (the idea that things can be a mixture of 'good' and 'bad')
Franz writes:
"DID SAVILE MURDER 13-YEAR-OLD GIRL?"
Do I look for some good in Savile?
Do I look for some BAD in the girl?
Jimmy Savile left the bulk of his £4.3m fortune to good causes
Someone said of Savile: "You should see him with disabled kids. You should see the pleasure he brings them."
St. Mary Magdalene was a sinner (prostitute and an adulteress) and a saint.
Rudy M comments:
In your example of the uses of a poisonous toadstool, you still are making a dualistic judgment.
You are saying: "these properties are good."
You aren't doing away with a binary category, you are just applying it to specific qualities...
I've always understood non-dualism to be a lot more radical than you are presenting it to be.
Rudy M is correct in that we are not taking a radical position.
Rudy M comments:
In your example of the uses of a poisonous toadstool, you still are making a dualistic judgment.
You are saying: "these properties are good."
You aren't doing away with a binary category, you are just applying it to specific qualities...
I've always understood non-dualism to be a lot more radical than you are presenting it to be.
Rudy M is correct in that we are not taking a radical position.
We are still using words like 'good' and 'bad'.
Language is dualistic.
We are saying that we should not label things, such as Poison Mushrooms, as being "all good" or "all bad".
When we describe 'the perfect game of golf' we are forced to describe certain moments in the game as 'good' and certain moments as 'bad'.
But the game overall can be described as perfect.
Some people believe that 'reality at the deepest level' cannot be described easily with words.
Some people believe that "Only the whole of existence itself can be said to be nondualistic, because there is nothing outside the whole of existence to distinguish it from."
words in non-dualism - philodynamics
words in non-dualism - philodynamics
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Christians, Buddhists, Taoists and others might agree that we should try to be selfless.
There is a belief that we can achieve 'the peace that passeth all understanding' by being selfless.
Buddhism and Taoism, however, warn against extreme self-sacrifice.
selflessness.
Buddhism has an interesting view of the 'self' and the 'soul'.
"If the word 'soul' refers to a non-bodily component in a person that can continue in some way after death, then Buddhism does not deny the existence of a soul.[4]
"Just as the body changes from moment to moment, so thoughts come and go; there is no permanent conscious substance that experiences these thoughts...
"When the body dies, the mental processes continue and are reborn in a new body.[4]
"Because the mental processes are constantly changing, the new being is neither exactly the same as, nor completely different from, the being that died.[9]
"Buddhism rejects the notion of a permanent self, but does not reject the notion of a self consisting of constantly changing physical and mental phenomena..[10]
"Buddhism rejects the notion of a permanent self, but does not reject the notion of a self consisting of constantly changing physical and mental phenomena..[10]
"Early Buddhist scriptures describe an enlightened individual as someone whose changing self is highly developed."
Buddha did not say that 'the self' exists or does not exist.
Buddha did not say that 'the self' exists or does not exist.
Why?
He did not want us to 'grasp' or 'cling' to the idea of 'self' because that can cause suffering.
He did not want us to 'grasp' a or 'cling' to the idea of not having a 'self' because that can cause suffering.
The Buddha advised paying no attention to such questions as "Do I exist?"
"What distinguishes Jungian psychology is the idea that there are two centers of the personality.
"The ego is the center of consciousness, whereas the Self is the center of the total personality, which includes consciousness, the unconscious, and the ego.
"The Self is both the whole and the center. While the ego is a self-contained little center of the circle contained within the whole, the Self can be understood as the greater circle".[2]
Abraham Maslow (above) refers to "self-transcendence", which means "to experience, unite with and serve that which is beyond the individual self: the unity of all being."
"Self-transcendence is a personality trait associated with experiencing spiritual ideas[1] such as considering oneself a part of the universe."[2]
Abraham Maslow (above) refers to "self-transcendence", which means "to experience, unite with and serve that which is beyond the individual self: the unity of all being."
"Self-transcendence is a personality trait associated with experiencing spiritual ideas[1] such as considering oneself a part of the universe."[2]
Claude Robert Cloninger
"Cloninger found that psychiatric patients tend to be lower in self-transcendence compared with adults in the general population.[2]
Self-transcendence is one of the "character" dimensions of personality assessed in Cloninger's Temperament and Character Inventory.[2]
"However, low cooperativeness and self-directedness combined with high self-transcendence may result in openness to odd or unusual ideas and behaviours associated with distorted perceptions of reality."[4]
In the video below, psychologist Jonathan Haidt (above) speaks about 'self-transcendence'.
George Dunn responds after viewing Jonathan Haidt’s TED talk:
Is Self-Transcendence Unique to Humans? | TheBentAngle.
"I'm not convinced that the sort of 'self-transcendence' Haidt discusses is always such a great thing.
In the video below, psychologist Jonathan Haidt (above) speaks about 'self-transcendence'.
George Dunn responds after viewing Jonathan Haidt’s TED talk:
Is Self-Transcendence Unique to Humans? | TheBentAngle.
"I'm not convinced that the sort of 'self-transcendence' Haidt discusses is always such a great thing.
"René Girard's theory helps us to understand that group cohesion is often, maybe even typically, forged at the expense of some enemy or scapegoat.
"Also, I’m not sure that what he describes is so much 'transcending' the ego as it is a vast expansion of it.
"Finally, I’m always wary when people start talking about the 'sacred,' having learned from Girard and others to associate the sacred with violence, oppression, and obfuscation.
"Altruism, as I understand it, doesn't have to depend on some 'sacred' merger of one's personality identity with the group.
"To the contrary, wouldn't genuine altruism be a matter of responding to the alterity (otherness) of the other person and recognizing her unique identity as a separate person, rather than simply responding to some identity that we both share?
"In any case, Haidt's account of self-transcendence doesn't explain why we - and other animals - are sometimes willing to stick our necks out for others who are not members of our own group or even our own species.
"Maybe he would explain that sort of altruism as a 'bug,' rather than an adaptation. In any case, it seems to me that altruism can’t simply be reduced to the sort of vertical self-transcendence he describes."
Our dreams usually contain people we have met before and people we have not met before.
Strangers in dreams | Psychology Today.
It is as if our minds are tuning in to something like foreign radio stations, or other people's worlds, or the collective subconscious.
Stuart Hameroff, an anaesthesiologist at the University of Arizona, Tucson, wrote in New Scientist that dreams resemble quantum information with their "multiple coexisting possibilities, timelessness, hidden meaning and bizarre logic."
Our bodies are made up of tiny particles.
The 'double-slit experiment' suggests that our minds can decide the behaviour of particles.
The experiment "demonstrates that matter and energy can display characteristics of both waves and particles, and that the behaviour of the particle changes based on a person's perception and consciousness."
Studying the cosmos.
Can other people's minds affect the particles that make up our bodies?
Can good doctors work 'miracles'?
"The 'Copenhagen interpretation' of quantum mechanics states that a particle exists in all states at once until it is observed.
In other words, you are both happy and unhappy until you decide which state you are in.
The cat in the box is both alive and dead, until you open the box and decide its fate.
In the Schrödinger's cat thought experiment, a cat in a box is both alive and dead until someone lifts the lid and observes it.
Only then is the cat discovered to be either ‘alive’ or ‘dead’.
The Quantum Zeno Effect suggests that a particle that could decay, if observed continuously, will never decay.
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Fritz Perls sees dreams as projections of parts of the self that have been ignored, rejected, or suppressed.[34]
I knew a lady who believed that while she was asleep she could actually visit her relatives who lived on a distant island.
"Quantum physics itself is pointing out that this seemingly objective universe of ours is more like a dream than we have previously imagined.
"Upon further inspection, to quote noted physicist, mathematician and astronomer James Jeans, “The universe begins to look more like a great thought than a great machine.”
"Quantum physics points out in the Observer Effect that, just like in a dream, in the act of observing we affect and actually evoke the very universe that we are observing.
"Being like a dream, we have much more power to creatively give shape and form to our waking reality than is generally realized.
"Being like a dream, we have much more power to creatively give shape and form to our waking reality than is generally realized.
"The discoveries of the new physics point to the hitherto-unsuspected powers of the mind to mold seemingly external reality rather than the other way around.
"This God-given power of how we co-create reality with this universe of ours is being shown to us night after night in our night dreams...
"Things that seem to be obstructing our journey through life are actually getting dreamed up... The obstacle itself is, in disguised form, the very catalyst we need to transcend the obstacle..."
Your Dreams: Analysis by Lauren Lawrence.
Carl Jung and family
According to Carl Jung: "We all must do what Christ did. We must make our experiment.
"We must make mistakes. We must live out our own version of life.
"And there will be error. If you avoid error you do not live."
The Psychotherapist & Self Acceptance.
According to the Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung, there is a 'dark side' to all our personalities.
Think of anger, greed, fear and lust.
This 'dark side', or 'shadow', is usually hidden within our 'subconscious'.
The 'dark side' or 'shadow' should not be seen as necessarily always 'evil'.
For example, there would be no marriages or children without there being a little 'lust'.
It is extreme or out-of-control lust that is evil.
If we get angry about injustice, that is no bad thing, so long as we remain rational and do not go berserk.
Essential Secrets of Psychotherapy: What is the "Shadow" by Stephen A. Diamond, Ph.D.
Jesus appears to have had his 'shadow'.
Jesus faced temptations in the desert.
He cursed the fig tree.
The Psychology of Jesus — Chapter 3 — David McKenna
Our rulers want us to be excessively angry, greedy, frightened and lustful so as to control us.
However, there is also a 'good side' to all of us.
Fr. John A. Sanford, in his 1970 book The Kingdom Within, sees Jesus's instruction "love your enemies" as an attempt to help us deal with all the parts of the whole, the 'dark side' and the 'good side', without hurting anyone.
Professor Wallace Clift has looked at Jung's view of humanity as "a story of developing consciousness".
Clift sees this as being similar to Jesus's idea of the 'Holy Spirit' working to improve us.
Jung called the 'dark side' the 'Shadow' and he reckoned that it comes from our animal ancestors.
Jung wrote: ‘"The shadow is that hidden, repressed, for the most part inferior and guilt-laden personality whose ultimate ramifications reach back into the realm of our animal ancestors and so comprise the whole historical aspect of the unconscious."
When the 'dark side' emerges, for example in a War I or in a divorce, many people look for scapegoats.
We demonise our enemy.
There is a tendency to blame everything that goes wrong on Moslems or Jews or Blacks or Gays or Gypsies.
Most people deny their 'shadow', unconsciously 'projecting' it onto others so as to avoid confronting it in oneself.
Essential Secrets of Psychotherapy: What is the "Shadow" by Stephen A. Diamond, Ph.D.
Each of us should accept that we have a 'dark side' or 'shadow'.
The shadow is most dangerous when it is repressed and projected onto others.
When we will not acknowledge our dark side, we are at risk of becoming mentally ill and starting a war.
The 'saint' should acknowledge his or her 'dark side'.
Jekyll was saintly, but he hid and did not acknowledge his other side, Hyde, who was evil.
Jekyll's personality was split rather than whole.
Essential Secrets of Psychotherapy: What is the "Shadow" by Stephen A. Diamond, Ph.D.
When the CIA and its friends use their Monarch mind-control programme to brainwash children, they create in the children more than one personality.
One personality may the 'normal' personality and another may be the 'assassin' or sex slave'.
As mentioned above, the 'shadow' or 'dark side' contains positive some qualities.
Fear can be useful, if it keeps us safe.
Jung believed that most of us have lost touch with certain parts of our selves.
Jung believed that we should not try to be 'normal' because that means suppressing our real self, including the 'shadow'.
The healing of the disturbed person comes when they stop trying to be 'normal' and conformist.
We need to accept our 'shadow' and see that it involves some normal instincts and creative impulses.
Encyclopedia of Psychology and Religion (Springer Verlag, 2009) / Anger, Madness, and the Daimonic: The Psychological Genesis of Violence, Evil, and Creativity (SUNY Press, 1996) / Meeting the Shadow: The Hidden Power of the Dark Side of Human Nature (Tarcher/Putnam, 1991) - all by Stephen A. Diamond,
To be a good Christian you have to be fully aware of the 'shadow'.
Jesus asked us to consider our own faults, before we look at the faults of others.
Jesus had dinner with tax collectors and sinners.
Jesus had his difficult moments.
"And if anyone will not receive you or listen to your words, shake off the dust from your feet as you leave the house or town. Truly, I say to you, it shall be more tolerable on the day of judgement for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah than for that town...
"But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!...woe to you, blind guides...You blind fools!...You blind men!...You serpents, you brood of vipers, how are you to escape being sentenced to hell?"
Jesus was not necessarily kind to pigs or Greeks.
"The moment the evil spirits were cast into the pigs, they rushed headlong from the steep bank onto the lake and were drowned."
"The woman was a Greek ... she begged Jesus to drive the demons out of her daughter. 'First let the children eat all they want,' he told her, 'for it is not right to take the children's bread and toss it to the dogs.'"
Rejection of Pascal's Wager: The Personality of Jesus
Jesus did not claim to be perfect.
Jesus said: "Why do you call me good? No one is good - except God alone."
Carl Jung said: "On the cross his mission deserted him.
"But because he had lived so fully and devotedly he won through to the Resurrection body...
"It seems to me to be the Holy Spirit’s task and charge to reconcile and reunite the opposites in the human individual through a special development of the human soul."
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Letter from one of the most evil King Leopold II of Belgium to Colonial Missionaries, 1883
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The Psychotherapist & Self Acceptance.
According to the Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung, there is a 'dark side' to all our personalities.
Think of anger, greed, fear and lust.
This 'dark side', or 'shadow', is usually hidden within our 'subconscious'.
The 'dark side' or 'shadow' should not be seen as necessarily always 'evil'.
For example, there would be no marriages or children without there being a little 'lust'.
It is extreme or out-of-control lust that is evil.
If we get angry about injustice, that is no bad thing, so long as we remain rational and do not go berserk.
Essential Secrets of Psychotherapy: What is the "Shadow" by Stephen A. Diamond, Ph.D.
Jesus appears to have had his 'shadow'.
Jesus faced temptations in the desert.
He cursed the fig tree.
The Psychology of Jesus — Chapter 3 — David McKenna
Our rulers want us to be excessively angry, greedy, frightened and lustful so as to control us.
However, there is also a 'good side' to all of us.
Fr. John A. Sanford, in his 1970 book The Kingdom Within, sees Jesus's instruction "love your enemies" as an attempt to help us deal with all the parts of the whole, the 'dark side' and the 'good side', without hurting anyone.
Professor Wallace Clift has looked at Jung's view of humanity as "a story of developing consciousness".
Clift sees this as being similar to Jesus's idea of the 'Holy Spirit' working to improve us.
Jung called the 'dark side' the 'Shadow' and he reckoned that it comes from our animal ancestors.
Jung wrote: ‘"The shadow is that hidden, repressed, for the most part inferior and guilt-laden personality whose ultimate ramifications reach back into the realm of our animal ancestors and so comprise the whole historical aspect of the unconscious."
When the 'dark side' emerges, for example in a War I or in a divorce, many people look for scapegoats.
We demonise our enemy.
There is a tendency to blame everything that goes wrong on Moslems or Jews or Blacks or Gays or Gypsies.
Most people deny their 'shadow', unconsciously 'projecting' it onto others so as to avoid confronting it in oneself.
Essential Secrets of Psychotherapy: What is the "Shadow" by Stephen A. Diamond, Ph.D.
Each of us should accept that we have a 'dark side' or 'shadow'.
The shadow is most dangerous when it is repressed and projected onto others.
When we will not acknowledge our dark side, we are at risk of becoming mentally ill and starting a war.
The 'saint' should acknowledge his or her 'dark side'.
Jekyll was saintly, but he hid and did not acknowledge his other side, Hyde, who was evil.
Jekyll's personality was split rather than whole.
Essential Secrets of Psychotherapy: What is the "Shadow" by Stephen A. Diamond, Ph.D.
When the CIA and its friends use their Monarch mind-control programme to brainwash children, they create in the children more than one personality.
One personality may the 'normal' personality and another may be the 'assassin' or sex slave'.
As mentioned above, the 'shadow' or 'dark side' contains positive some qualities.
Fear can be useful, if it keeps us safe.
Jung believed that most of us have lost touch with certain parts of our selves.
Jung believed that we should not try to be 'normal' because that means suppressing our real self, including the 'shadow'.
The healing of the disturbed person comes when they stop trying to be 'normal' and conformist.
We need to accept our 'shadow' and see that it involves some normal instincts and creative impulses.
Encyclopedia of Psychology and Religion (Springer Verlag, 2009) / Anger, Madness, and the Daimonic: The Psychological Genesis of Violence, Evil, and Creativity (SUNY Press, 1996) / Meeting the Shadow: The Hidden Power of the Dark Side of Human Nature (Tarcher/Putnam, 1991) - all by Stephen A. Diamond,
To be a good Christian you have to be fully aware of the 'shadow'.
Jesus asked us to consider our own faults, before we look at the faults of others.
Jesus had dinner with tax collectors and sinners.
Jesus had his difficult moments.
"And if anyone will not receive you or listen to your words, shake off the dust from your feet as you leave the house or town. Truly, I say to you, it shall be more tolerable on the day of judgement for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah than for that town...
"But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!...woe to you, blind guides...You blind fools!...You blind men!...You serpents, you brood of vipers, how are you to escape being sentenced to hell?"
Jesus was not necessarily kind to pigs or Greeks.
"The moment the evil spirits were cast into the pigs, they rushed headlong from the steep bank onto the lake and were drowned."
"The woman was a Greek ... she begged Jesus to drive the demons out of her daughter. 'First let the children eat all they want,' he told her, 'for it is not right to take the children's bread and toss it to the dogs.'"
Rejection of Pascal's Wager: The Personality of Jesus
Jesus did not claim to be perfect.
Jesus said: "Why do you call me good? No one is good - except God alone."
Carl Jung said: "On the cross his mission deserted him.
"But because he had lived so fully and devotedly he won through to the Resurrection body...
"It seems to me to be the Holy Spirit’s task and charge to reconcile and reunite the opposites in the human individual through a special development of the human soul."
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Letter from one of the most evil King Leopold II of Belgium to Colonial Missionaries, 1883
Genie at The World We Swim In
