congratulations alice et al

[Guest guest]

Happy birthday to you Alice.

You seem to be the fourth person I know (the others a little better than you)

with her/his birthday on this day. Congratulations to you all!

Love,

Mette

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Message: 2

Date: Sat, 13 Nov 1999 00:53:30 -0600

From: " K. Armstrong " <aarmstrongsxxxxxxx (DOT) xxxx

Subject: Re: A personal question

Dear Sergej,

Bless you and bless your pain...bless those that brought you the bounty of

wisdom

and vision, which you cherished and learned much from. So much wisdom around

this

little flame..there is not much to add. Dan...yours was a keeper. Jung's

insights,

were in fact, based on more than mere intuition,reason, sense or feeling...it

was

his ability in the end(IMHO)..to incorporate all these processes into his own

inner work that made his own healing possible and then his amazing ability to

heal

others. I want to share a little secret with you, Sergei and please do not take

it

as patronizing bullshit. It is simply my own experience and perhaps you can take

what you need from it....When I first started this journey with Jung, I found

his

works most difficult and needed *interpretors*, so to speak. So I read all the

authors, notable and obscure, on Jung. an interesting and insightful lot for

sure.

Once I had it explained to me in various forms(through all the insights..and

some

were in fact way off base as a matter of fact)..anyway, I have found myself

reading the MAN himself now for over a year and i think the thing i love most

about him, was his ability to consider the improbable while reviewing the

obvious..his own flexibility of thought...his own contradictions and his

catching

himself doing them<G>......or..his creativity, when he did not bother to

*screen*

his own process or those of his patients and friends!! He just let the inner

healing process have it's course; and learning to listen to that inner voice

makes

the Healing possible.In my book, this is the TAO!! Dan is right about many

things

here. Do not interpret this loss from your vantage point right now...it was a

natural process of aging. THE GIFT...is that it *affected* you so profoundly and

sends you plumbing your own depths!! There is strength we get from witnessing a

life well lived in the important things; family and friends.There is strength,

as

well, from witnessing a life poorly lived or not lived at all!! Lessons we learn

from great souls. Souls which teach us to LOVE. Souls, which touch the deepest

recesses of our own higher/lower natures, souls which come in all forms and

disguises... souls which made great sacrifices......and make our own growth

possible, pleasurable and sometimes, horrific. This is what we gain from

the 'Wise

Ones'...if we have hearts that can hear! You are hearing the correct voice when

you hear that death is a natural end to life. It is synchronous only because you

are 'being with' that reality..facing the loss...but seeing the beauty..seeing

the

ugly..seeing it all. Yes..in a way, it has everything to do with you, but not

the

way you may think.It is like a *bridge*...the one we face when we die or face

our

unconscious in this work. We all know we are going there, right now, but it

seems

so unkind sometimes. That is the underworld soul and it is bountiful. You are

gifted with death much like you are gifted with life....a symbolic fact, you

think?

Just thoughts from the neurotic plane<s>....my prayers are with you...Love,