How to find your own soul according to Carl Jung

[@ericddl]

I've always loved Jung's idea of individuation. It's a journey towards a destination that almost certainly can not be achieved. That may seem like a bad thing but to me it's a reminder that the journey towards something greater is the important part.

[@Whisperingideas]

It's not a bad thing at all. Humans, like the universe, are impossible to fully comprehend

[@Novastar.SaberCombat]

Every circle begins with its end. *THAT* is why the proverbial destination is not only impossible to determine, but more importantly, the transitions, memories, and "level ups" are the most important moments to cherish. And keep in mind: you cannot "take it with you". Your MEMORIES, to be clear. Most unfortunate, but that is the painful price of perpetual existence. 🐲✨🐲✨🐲✨ "Before I start, I must see my end. Destination known, my mind's journey now begins. Upon my chariot, heart and soul's fate revealed. In time, all points converge; hope's strength, resteeled. But to earn final peace at the universe's endless refrain, we must see all in nothingness... before we start again." 🐲✨🐲✨🐲✨ --Diamond Dragons (series)

[@pratik6342]

You already are there! YOU are It.

[@teixeiradewitte]

I'd say its a destination that almost certainly may not be achieved IN ONE LIFETIME! 😂😂😂

[@Michougan]

It is acheivable but its a mind puzzle like no other.. ''A challenge lifelong it is, not to bend fear into anger.'' - Yoda

[@kokolanza7543]

Very helpful, well put together. 3 points most helpful to me: 1. The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are. 2. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light but by making the darkness conscious. And, 3. Individuation often begins with a crisis or Turning Point moments when the old ways of living no longer seem to work. When we are forced to confront parts of ourselves we've long ignored. I have trouble identifying my shadow. Would appreciate more 'hands on' help with that. Thanks for breaking down a larg & complex topic!

[@terencehennegan1439]

Anything you feel angst towards is your shadow !.

[@natmanprime4295]

you're one boomer there's actually some hope for!

[@NuFon-z6l]

Identify the shadow. Feelings like anger, sadness, jealousy negative emotions. They are manifestations of the shadow. Created in your past you have locked away. Go back to then let the original play out again. Only feel the feelings then accept them for what they are. Tears, anger, and others will come out. But once done you will see things don't bother you in the same way. That comes from a book on shadow work. Not from my azz😊

[@jenmdawg]

Beautiful post and excellent question. I have had to do 2 things in my shadow work 1) ask my subconscious to work itself out before I go to bed (dreams have been incredible) 2) applying Jung’s active imagination after my meditation sessions (I’ve literally met my Dameon in this) Oh and 3) journaling I can also assure you that just making a sincere effort in this work is enough. The only “danger” is not getting stuck with the archetype “trickster” via an inflation. (If you start feeling superior you’ve gone off track and need help).

[@klh1133]

@kokolanza7543 great question and these are great responses. Peter Crone says something that always helps me stay in touch with my shadow. "The Universe is constantly providing us the people and circumstances that reveal to us where we are not free" whatever we struggle against is an opportunity to uncover part of our shadow because everything we experience is just a reflection of who we are and what we are creating in our reality.

[@sofimazi555]

This text is not only a lesson But A meditation and a prayer. Because it is pure truth.

[@tai5338]

Bro I cannot thank you enough for this video at this specific moment in time. I'm crying and praying that the person I linked this to, watches it and learns from it as I've been struggling immensely with communicating things to them 🙏😭thank you💙♡

[@Whisperingideas]

You're welcome ❤️❤️

[@YoutubeDictatorship2024]

Your intense emotion for someone you care for and the complete selflessness of this comment has inspired me more than you may know. Truly, may your comment ripple into this universe like a beautiful spring flower for those who need it and thank you so much for just being you.

[@torkeleikevik8247]

its not your job to make other people learn or watch anything. if you struggle communcating, let it be. its not meant to unfold yet.

[@tai5338]

@torkeleikevik8247 i never said it was my job, I was simply hoping that as I let it be like I have been, this video may echo the message I was trying to get across to them is all. Having examples or a second on words spoken means a lot sometimes when walls often prevent understandings. But I appreciate your words nonetheless.

[@YoutubeDictatorship2024]

@@torkeleikevik8247 is it your job to give advice to the commenter? Because now you are doing exactly what he wants to do with the person he is referring to; giving advice about life Paradox

[@ewencameron4269]

This is the best short summary of Jung s psychology I've seen. Suits my simple little mind. I'll try to add it to my hope in the resurrection and the gospel

[@r3dflash68]

The beauty of life is within quality of self

[@Lobo-g4k]

👍

[@Azareen-x1q]

Oh i can't believe it I have been practicing Ifs for last five years, the Inventor is Richard Swartz, but it's incredible how Carl Jug has described it exactly the same thing, yes those times females were not assertive and thought to be rational, so it was considered as male trait, and empathy, creativeness, calm compassion is considered to be female trait, exactly what Ifs describes as 8 c's it's remarkable to learn that Carl Jung talked about it such a long time before.

[@nikokisting6189]

Wow: Deep! Would like to explore this Jungian Journey of Individuation to the fullest. What a discovery! 🙏🌄🎆

[@theostapel]

A most excellent title and or phrase - to reflect on and act upon Fare thee well - on life's journey

[@richvestal767]

Just a note on traits and emotions that can inhabit the Shadow: The Shadow doesn't just contain negative emotions like greed or anger. It can also definitely contain positive traits and emotions like Joy and it can contain positive traits like empathy. What winds up in the Shadow are any parts of yourself that YOU because of your social and emotional experiences (or abuse and trauma) deemed useless or detrimental to your Persona at some point that you repressed and locked away. There's really no such thing as a typical Shadow. For each person their Shadow is going to be different.

[@Samson999_]

You are helping me write my own book, whenever you upload it ties to whatever I am writing about, thank you.

[@Whisperingideas]

Im Intrested in your book

[@Novastar.SaberCombat]

Author here (600,000 words and 350+ non-A.I. illustrations). Reflection is key. Work hard, set deadlines, remain creative, and GL;HF! 🙂 🐲✨🐲✨🐲✨ "Before I start, I must see my end. Destination known, my mind's journey now begins. Upon my chariot, heart and soul's fate revealed. In time, all points converge; hope's strength, resteeled. But to earn final peace at the universe's endless refrain, we must see all in nothingness... before we start again." 🐲✨🐲✨🐲✨ --Diamond Dragons (series)

[@Samson999_]

@@Novastar.SaberCombat Wow, that is impressive, props to you.

[@geraldnitschke2888]

Thank you for a wonderful summation of CJ's ideas and philosophy on this realm. I see this as description of the way of embracing my own state & journey. And, if I could, try to convey to someone in my life ---and so many others...? ( probably not realistic--from experience) of my "individualization" journey...and maybe theirs??? A notable chapter in it all....sincerely ...thanks again.

[@claudelebel49]

You cannot "become" who you really are. You already are it. Let go of what is false and you will uncover the true,

[@JH-th9th]

Thank you for this powerful message !!!!

[@killurbob3295]

Ive met my dopplegänger 3 times. There's nothing more surreal than sitting across each other for 5 minutes, not saying anything, I didn't remember to speak, just staring into each other's eyes.. its the strangest experience any human could have..

[@thesjkexperience]

I’d like to hear more of your story. 😊

[@killurbob3295]

@thesjkexperience my story is way to sprawling to say here.. ive had probably 20 unique entity encounters.. and these are obvious hallucinations, like a spaghetti monster, these are all actual historical entities that people have experienced since recorded history. I'll say this.. the same year I became schizophrenic, I had first been woken up, at 3 am, sleeping over at my grandmother's house who had just passed.. it was her, she had touched my chest and pressed down, waking me up, and when I removed the covers, she and a pitbull were standing next to me on the couch.. basked in a greenish glow, she was probably 20 years old, when she was actually 80 when she passed.. The next event was when my mother and I were walking our dogs, we passed the patch of forest, and out from the top of the treeline, breached a giant white ball.. an 10 foot radius Orb Ufo.. it had no propulsion.. appears to be powered by anti gravity.. all of our dogs were barking at it, so this was no shared psychosis.. it was 100% real.. I started having more subtle hallucinations after it hovered over us for the next few months.. I was getting closer to schizophrenia. The last event, I was a drug addict during this time, and I was in my room about to pop my pain pills.. well when I was about to, I dropped one, and it fell between the floor and the wall.. I looked for it for an hour, but it was gone.. I looked at bit more and I instead found a white pill.. it was a XTC pill.. I have no idea how it got there, I had never done Xtc.. I researched it and it was a White Mitsubishi, a pill popular back in the late 90s and early 2000s.. I have no idea how it got in my room.. I took it. I was starting to feel it, and decided to play guitar, I was playing my metal style and headbanging.. well I had felt pretty awesome about the riff I just made so I spun around in my chair, and when I did.. It was me. He was sitting across from me, in the middle of headbanging.. mocking me.. I guess.. he was smiling. He had my old clothes on, from years ago.. had his own guitar, mine is red, his was blue.. and he looked like me when I was 21 years old.. he was sexy, unlike me now, lol. We locked eyes, and we just stared at eachother.. he never stopped smirking.. I thought this was a strange hallucination.. i didn't really have any thoughts at all, just stunned.. He blinked his eyes once, and spun around in the chair and disappeared from existence.. like a disintegration.. I became schizophrenic a week later. One thing else I say, my dopplegänger on the last time he visited me, I remembered to ask him, "say something!" I forgot the other times.. He said, " hurry up.. your time is running out" Life changing moment for me. I'm starting a show next year, sort of like ghost hunting, but not really, I'm calling it Ghost Lounge. Check it out if you wanna hear my whole story, as I tell it throughout the show.. schizophrenia isn't what we think it is, at least, that's how it seems

[@sofimazi555]

@@killurbob3295 Why strange?

[@killurbob3295]

@sofimazi555 sorry, ive spent about 10 minutes writing about this experience and KZbin keeps deleting comment. They've been doing this lately when I speak about my experiences. I'll just say, when I saw him the last time, he said to me, "hurry up, your time is running out" Completely life changing. Its put my life on a whole new direction. And I mean it that way, not like that guy who fell out that window

[@thomasruhm1677]

You could make a video about it.

[@klh1133]

So greatful for this message and the beautiful human voice behind it.

[@thechemistryguy7855]

bro i can clearly see how much effort you have put in,, thank you ,,love you

[@Whisperingideas]

THANKS ❤️❤️❤️

[@yt-sh]

high quality video I read some of his quote but your explanation of what he meant makes more sense

[@thesjkexperience]

Nice to see a non-alien intelligence video. Well done! Thanks 😊

[@rtsetse5826]

Great video! Thank you so much! What steps should one take to achieve that? Certain written/thought exercises? Practical Books to read? Please make a follow up video on that too

[@4DPersonality]

Well said! Two of your quotes in particular resonated with me. “Jung’s roadmap to uncovering the soul” and “journey towards uniting the many facets of your personality” 1:02 Thanks for the great content!

[@legendoctane5732]

Best guru Ji.

[@Jennypenny3467]

Best video on jung! 🎉

[@khatunamzekalashvili390]

Beautifly exlained

[@magiciansway]

I used to find these ideas difficult to understand but after exploring Internal Family Systems these ideas make more sense to me. IFS gives us a method to implement these ideas. Thanks.

[@GordonSymons-BEYOND]

Really excellent presentation of the process of becoming Who we truly are. Thank you!

[@eveven-i2u]

Yay!!! your channel is GROWING!! I'm so happy for you!!! 😭😭 You are getting the recognition and love you deserve for the efforts you put into these videos ❤❤ Im so so so happy for you!!

[@Whisperingideas]

Tysm biggest supporter ❤️❤️❤️

[@f.faucon6681]

When animus and anima are integrated, the qualities that were categorized into each become whole, and these labels become obsolete for oneself.

[@annewatkis5824]

I’ve only just learned that I need to accept my shadow elements.

[@palexharder82]

I've met my shadow once, for 3 seconds. Most uncomfortable experience ive ever had, that guy is terrifying

[@cigarettesandvinyl]

Psychedelic experience?

[@Kinghassz]

I love the idea of shadow work, theres a lot of strength in my shadow

[@JoeZenArt]

Any acceptance of duality in expression is the road to madness.

[@papashort13]

Where would we be now without Jung?

[@carolinewolf565]

Mine has been eaten so just learning who I am, when I’m almost 50. Should be a good time💪🏻✌️❤️

[@The.Lost.House.of.Israel]

my soul sits inside myself. I am not meeting her, I am her

[@ruskinyruskiny1611]

Humility is not surrender it is a demphasis of the self. The critical question of Martin Luther King is relevant "What am I doing for others". For many "God alone suffices" (St Teresa of Avila).

[@chantalderementeria]

The more you cover the pot , the more it boil .Santa teresade Avila

[@eric.mahoney6158]

I love my soul she is beautiful

[@Novastar.SaberCombat]

Reflection is key. Sadly, the majority of mankind is utterly incapable of such a complicated yet quiet skill. 🐲✨🐲✨🐲✨ "Before I start, I must see my end. Destination known, my mind's journey now begins. Upon my chariot, heart and soul's fate revealed. In time, all points converge; hope's strength, resteeled. But to earn final peace at the universe's endless refrain, we must see all in nothingness... before we start again." 🐲✨🐲✨🐲✨ --Diamond Dragons (series)

[@rml1643]

Where in the Jung’s books can we read about Individuation? Thank you very much

[@Whisperingideas]

The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious

[@rml1643]

@@Whisperingideas 🙏

[@cam-inf-4w5]

I want to do an extra highlight on the ironic point that you could and probably are also repressing the good or even the BEST parts of yourself which technically would also be called the "shadow".

[@DrunkenMasterStyIe]

You are the Soul.

[@ivorfaulkner4768]

Repetitive ideas on the Shadow aspect of the personality. The person is made up of the True Self and the False Self. That’s the aim: to be the True Self by the practice of Awareness. Buddhist psychology is v.good for the practice.

[@Valhill2]

Love ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@psterud]

Man, a decent video, but a little jarring in its spazzy presentation. Calm it down. Take a breath. Let it breathe. Space is valuable between the substance.

[@websurfer5772]

I feel like everyone I know is individuated already so I'm having a _Wizard of Oz_ moment right now. Think about the people you know. Aren't they all uniquely themselves? Aren't they completely themselves? We're not saying they have to be perfect, right? We're not saying whether they will be more bad or good if they're individuated, right? For instance, can there be self-actualized people in prison? Tell me some famous people that we might all know who are not individuated. I'll wait.....

[@BlossomWhite877]

But I don't think soul is real, if soul is real then where did it came from? _Does it has a personality or nature different than other souls?_ _Or every soul is one and same?_ If they are same then what's the point of knowing them?? Whose soul? GOD's but if God is real then, he must be unbreakable......and a part of god needs to learn something??

[@Whisperingideas]

Your Soul is your deepest impulse, you can feel it but you can't explain it with words

[@ellenschulz1229]

Your soul is a spark of the divine . Consciousness. Your soul is a piece of God, that thing that animates you. It simply wants to experience life through your lens. It doesn't judge anything that you do, the choices that you make.

[@199011tj]

💖

[@zipperpillow]

Maybe.

[@mack8488]

Why am i hearing things 2..3..4..times ?

[@Danestani.master1]

Maybe after life

[@lostballintallgrass1]

Jesus said in the Gospel of Thomas that if we did not do this, it will be our undoing.

[@ShallIfindthefaith1011]

Is it my imagination 6:21 in and it seems like you just keep repeating the same 3 phrases over and over again ? Are we going to hear the HOW to ?

[@johnb8854]

*Most CONFUSE The SOUL with either an entity, or the human entity, of the spirit, or even with LIFE The Real Self", an Offspring and Child of "The LIGHT", "The LIFE of GOD"... But The SOUL is non of these... Next to my name is a 100 % Accurate miniature Drawing of The SOUL Construct, which fills our whole field of Vision, and is a Component of "The HOUSE of GOD"... Learn HOW to see your own SOUL, and Possess your SOUL as Jesus to us to do....*

[@Aislinsweetdreams]

Man, F the masculine parts of my soul and F Jung too, I do what I want.

[@Whisperingideas]

happy to hear that you do what you want, keep it up

[@B.Duncan]

Something about a computer generated voice and short pauses to even no pauses between sentences, makes it very difficult to stay focused on the message. Too bad a real individual wasn't used to narrate this video. It would have been much better.

[@elizabethk3238]

Speaking too quickly gor topic.

[@hannahsdrawings8664]

So his thinking includes yin and yang or he based his thinking on yin and yang. This fem vs masc division is artificial. In Europe for example it is men who were first artists, actors, poets, painters, sculptors so it was normal to them they are both creative and emotional - why would that be called fem. From my experience I've met more creative and sensitive men while most women I've met were insensitive, self-centered, lacked empathy. Men are able to form better friendship btw each other, than women, brothers can be much closer than sisters. It is a misconception to think creativity and emotions are feminine. So the idea of accepting both in oneself is not necesary, it is enough to know such division is artificial. People differ from each other with physicality, personality and the way they were raised.

[@carlharmeling512]

Meeting your own soul is a nonsense concept. You and your soul are one and cannot be separated. Thus it is impossible to meet yourself or know yourself as if you were another person. Turning a person’s attention back upon their self as if they could observe and analyze it is as if a tree could dig up its own roots to find out how it was made. Analysis is what you do to other people not to yourself. Carl Jung had no real sympathy for his patients or he would have seen this. Leave a man’s soul out of it. You can not save it nor can you ruin it. The soul is an inviolable thing. Judge a person’s words and actions but don’t think to judge his soul.

[@john-paulgies4313]

This is somewhat incoherent. It's not about perfection, but about: "wholeness"? Those are literally synonyms.

[@obergrupenfuhrer2359]

Wholeness and perfection are not synonymous, wholeness is not perfect, it’s accepting all aspects of ourselves,

[@john-paulgies4313]

@@obergrupenfuhrer2359 Suppose one of the aspects of a self is a desire to murder, or inflict large and extensive amounts of pain, or to steal from vulnerable people via scam, or any form of attacking a person. What does it mean to "accept" this? Merely to acknowledge its existence within oneself? Or something more practicable?

[@cozybones4037]

Acceptance here would be confronting those impulses as opposed as denying them because of how socially unacceptable they are. If you're looking for something practicable I think mindfulness would be the place to start since it's tailored around allowing thoughts to pass without trying to manipulate or critique them.

[@john-paulgies4313]

@@cozybones4037 I would rather call that "acknowledgement", or "being honest about oneself to oneself". More than a mere recognition of the facts, "acceptance" entails an affirmation of the disorders in oneself as _rightly_ part of self. That's the moral laxity problem of "mindfulness" - self-knowledge without a path to walk. Give me the AA serenity prayer and a worthy destination for the journey, rather than the broad way that leads to destruction that many find (Matthew 7:13).

[@obergrupenfuhrer2359]

@@john-paulgies4313 well accept that you are capable of great evils, and ask yourself why you do these things, and remember that you aren’t your thoughts you can have thoughts and feelings but dosent mean you need to act on them. And if someone would do those things there is probably some things that happening in the past or childhood that needs to be addressed and worked on. But there are also people who have mental issues like people who have anti social behaviour and narcissistic personality. Which impedes their ability to feel compassion or empathy for others.

[@Indomitablespirit108]

and the greatest betrayal to your soul was avoiding meeting Ramana Maharshi

[@michaelnazar9358]

//didn't watch //comments

[@Whisperingideas]

😂

[@davidmccauley8034]

Yung was occult demonic

[@kimmullins337]

What?

[@obergrupenfuhrer2359]

Elaborate? Cause from my understanding he’s a Christian

[@kimmullins337]

People can come up with the dumbest bs!!!!

[@SibleySteve]

He was a Gnostic mystic without empirical evidence, making extraordinary claims without extraordinary proof. He dialogues with the dead and with spirits. If someone came along in 2024 and made half of the silly statements this guy made, he would be laughed off campus as a religious nut. He was not a Christian, he walked away from that, and embraced Victorian spiritualism, the same cultural zeitgeist that vomited forth the popular seance and ghost pulp religion of privileged urban elites with nothing to do but play parlor games and start golden Dawn clubs like a bunch of spoiled brats.

[@kengaroo5170]

That was dumbonic.

[@huepix]

Sounds like B.S. to me

[@Anna_Raphael]

Gender roles are social construct and stereotype that divides men and women. In reality, babies behave the same regardless of genders. I reject Jung's concept of masculinity and femininity. These are social expectation and gender roles that shape our persona to fit traditional roles, they are not something that develope naturally.

[@Anna_Raphael]

In fact, the reason why a small group of people have gender dysphoria may be this fixation on gender characteristics. Our sex chromosomes determine only our physical appearance and reproductive system, not our personality.

[@georgias8099]

The human language and culture hasn't developed enough to accommodate this narrative. Unfortunately this results in conflict. Just don't forget that we're looking after people, whether they disagree with us or not. Let's not sacrifice people for the life of an abstract narrative. If you want to look deeper, maybe you'll understand that a narrative is a spirit. But don't overthink it if it doesn't click immediately.

[@georgias8099]

My message is incomplete. I mean to say, the human language and culture hasn't developed enough to accommodate this narrative in a way that it can live harmoniously with existing narratives.

[@Whisperingideas]

@Anna_Raphael, I think there's a misunderstanding of Jung's perspective here. Jung didn’t view masculinity and femininity purely as social constructs. Instead, he believed in the concepts of animus and anima, which are the unconscious masculine and feminine aspects within every person, regardless of gender. For Jung, these are psychological archetypes that exist in the collective unconscious, not something determined by societal roles. The integration of both the masculine (animus) and feminine (anima) is essential for psychological wholeness, and they shape the way we relate to ourselves and the world. They're not about rigid gender roles but rather internal qualities we all possess. I will make a video about the anima and the Animus in detail (subscribe if you don't want to miss it)

[@Anna_Raphael]

@@Whisperingideas I speak from the aspect of biological science and evidence-based hypothesis.