Thoughts on Individuation & Self

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>> Thanks for this OF quote (below), dear Alice. This is dense and

>> sobering stuff - it resonates ad infinitum with those of us who even

>> remotely attempt to live its truth. The Self, ah yes! To be or not to

>> be. It's not only (what describes as) the 'real person' - the

>> divine core that's everywhere - it's also the heart of the collective

>> unconscious - and the boundless circumference of the whole. Once we

>> are centred here - at the tornado's still core - we are at home in

>> mysteries and uncertainties as well as in clear thought. The Self has

>> a detached appreciation of the dance of all opposites - it is

>> equidistant from them all. It belongs to all - and to none. Gathering

>> the world to itself, serving the One Soul that infuses all, it has

>> its paradoxical being in a lack of clear identity - a relative

>> abolition of the ego's fixed sense of 'I'. So much of this journey

>> toward wholeness, this Tao of eternal flow and change, is as

>> inexplicable as the ebb and flow of Nature. Wholeness - life's goal

>> and journey - is an objective reality which confronts us - often in

>> times of chaos and crisis - as the ultimate carrot before the donkey,

>> the calming imago Dei beckoning us further inward - and outward into

>> the wounded world.

>>

>> As Jung says, it is fresh 'values' (born of 'feeling') - the opposite

>> of 'thinking' - that we bring to the parched collective when we are

>> separated from it in order to better serve. Such values are often the

>> repressed, unlived antithesis of beliefs worshipped by the one-sided,

>> fear-stricken masses.

>>

>> I like Alice's dandelion analogy - a deft blend of opposites - sturdy

>> centre anchored and frail surrounds taking to the wind. Such is life

>> - we're buffeted and broken by it -and the wounded pieces re-seed the

>> earth, yet the core remains inviolable and grounded in the unus

>> mundus. I like the spider analogy, too. It is only when Spider

>> buddies are resting at the centre of the web that they are in touch

>> with all that's happening; touch the web anywhere and Spider will

>> sense its vibration - thus the importance of feeling.

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>> And that, good folk, is why the ego must not be ruled by cold

>> intellect. There's too much that can't be explained; it just is. The

>> rational must befriend the irrational and vice versa - or else vice

>> prevails. Personality is Tao, individuation a lived mystery, an

>> endless cycle of being and becoming, dying and rebirthing, resting

>> and vibrant, an unknowable certainty. To understand it, we must

>> 'stand under' in humility, jump in to sink or swim, and gaze upward

>> at the psyche's myriad stars.

>>

>> Just a bit of rambling, courtesy of Self - uniquely danced by each of

>> us

>> Safe journeys to all

>> Maureen

>>

>> Dr Maureen B. BSc, BA(Hons), PhD

>> Physician of Soul

>> Schizophrenia Drug-free Crisis Centre: Phone +61 8 8362 0980

>> Private Consultations: Mobile [Australia] 0431122881

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>> ADELAIDE SOUTH AUSTRALIA 5000

>> 'The Divine Self embraces the love of power through the power of love'

>>

>>

>>> Here is a significant quote!

>>>  

>>> " Individuation cuts one off from personal conformity and hence from

>>> collectivity. That is the guilt which the individuant leaves behind

>>> him him for the world, that is the guilt he must endeavor to redeem.

>>> He must offer a ransom in place of himself, that is, he must bring

>>> forth values which are an equivalent substitute for his absence in

>>> the collective personal sphere. Without this production of values,

>>> final individuation is immoral. "

>>>  

>>>                                                             C.G.Jung

>>>  

>>> love

>>>  

>>> ao<01.gif>

>>>

Dr Maureen B. BSc, BA(Hons), PhD

Physician of Soul

Schizophrenia Drug-free Crisis Centre: Phone +61 8 8362 0980

Private Consultations: Mobile [Australia] 0431122881

http://www.jungcircle.com

PO Box 7205 Hutt Street

ADELAIDE SOUTH AUSTRALIA 5000

'The Divine Self embraces the love of power through the power of love'

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Dearest " Mir " -

Well, I'm sorry everyone [?! :-( :-) ???] but this Yahoo format still

confuses me.

Never mind, I SHALL ? " Press On " ?! :-)

Just did want to tell you how much I appreciated your most recent post,

because -- in simple(?) " weathers " sense I was also, some weeks

back, " Katrina'd " . Will try to tell you more as soon as I can (either

here on-list or off-list) but am right this minute, that I type into my

computer keypad, feeling the need to re-read and respond to a few of

the other posts here.