Carl Jung
Carl Jung_ The prophet
Title: Carl Jung
Author: Robert Bruce Baird
Article:
Carl Jung wondered if he might be crazy when he had visions of
the World War before the first of these conflagrations in the
20th Century came to pass. This made him a lot more desirous of
understanding from whence his prophetic visions might have come
as he continued to become one of the most erudite and learned
men of that century.
There are a lot of people who exhibit common sense (an all too
rare thing) that understand it is what we DO that determines
what we are; rather than what we say (!) we believe. Practicing
random acts of kindness and sharing would go a lot further than
trying to convince others that we know something we are only on
the verge of beginning to see. This principle or law is
encompassed in the saying of the Magi called 'Right
Thought=Right Action'. The practices of Tai Chi and qigong
(pronounced 'chee-gong') work with the energy that surrounds us
and sustains us and our astral selves. In China it has a
prehistoric origin that makes the government want to stamp it
out. This is the kind of religion that focuses on personal
transformation and healthful interactions with all around us.
They say it differs from Yoga or Tai Chi in that it is less
complex and requires less focus on breathing. This 'They' is
Falun Dafa or Falun Gong. You should have heard about the
attacks on it in China and maybe you know it is spreading in
America. The Chinese government is trying to extradite the
leader back to China. The heresy trials and Inquisitorial
approaches of nations are still with us. 'Chhi', 'Qi', 'Pranha'
and other names like 'cosmic soup' are really the same thing as
what the limbo state and astral energy or auric bodies are made
up of.
The benefits of looking inward for growth and purpose are much
better than trying to get someone else to believe as you do. In
his foreword to 'The Tibetan Book of the Dead' with an
Introduction by Lama Anagarika Govinda, Carl Jung made some
excellent points. He says that we are visualizing these energies
and spiritual dimensions according to our prevailing ethnic and
cultural idioms. If we believe in Shiva or Jesus, Mohammed or
Cernunnos then when we encounter the energy that relates to
these cultural images, that is what our mind translates to our
conscious brain. Science can prove the neurophysiological nature
of these assertions now. It surely would cut a huge swath
through a lot of ecclesiastical structure if everyone was to
know we are all affected by the same 'gods' with simply
different stories and names. Ecumenicism is not (as the Catholic
Cardinal Biffi would like) just a dialogue between Christian
denominations. It is a 'Brotherhood of Man' initiative that all
of us must endeavour to bring to fruition. We are endeavoring to
find the best way to show how the 'his'-story has stolen this
once common perception that Falun Gong harkens back to, has
taken us away from our soulful connection. The growth of man’s
culture seems headed towards more of what is called connectivity
or ‘Critical Mass’ through shared archetypes but the
manipulation of thought and development of counter-archetypes is
causing a lot of confusion.
Northrop Frye addresses this growth that Jung studied in this
brief excerpt. “Jung believes, however, that the ordinary
medical analogies of diagnosis, treatment, and cure are not
adequate for the psychologist. The physical body nearly always
matures in about twenty years, but in most people the psyche
remains largely undeveloped throughout life, though it possesses
within it a force of growth toward the ‘individuation’ which is
its peculiar maturity {I posit Jung understood ‘PURPOSE’ in the
same way Viktor E. Frankl did in what became Logotherapy. Jung
understood that ‘individuation’ is aligned with all the forces
and powers making each of us more whole when we know the
‘one’-ness.}. This growing force within the psyche is what Jung,
in contrast to Freud, means by libido, {Freud was an ego
conflicted individual who never understood the sexual drive to
achieve ‘one’-ness.} and, being a biological force, it behaves
teleologically, just as an acorn behaves as though intended to
become an oak tree. {With many other acorns.} When a
psychologist tries to help a neurotic, he is helping release the
power of growth, and he ought to realize that any ‘cure’ is only
one stage in the process he has started going.” (2)
About the author:
Author of Diverse Druids Columnist at The ES Press Magazine
Guest 'expert' at World-Mysteries.com
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