The Cosmic Meaning of Consciousness

[@kingoflimericks]

Toward spirit each body is leaning With Creator and Man intervening Through the myth that we live in The answers are given Together we generate meaning

[@reluctantphoenix]

Love this - it's my favorite analysis of Jung's work that I have encountered so far. It comforts me greatly following some raw experiences in my life the last couple weeks. In the years between my mother's and father's deaths, I stumbled across an obscure book called Always, Karen by Jeanne Walker. Jeanne Walker's daughter Karen had died - the book explores a series of exchanges between Walker and Karen's spirit. Karen provides many insights about the life of the spirit during life and after physical death and concludes that the entire universe is engaged in an evolution of consciousness at infinite levels, all leading back to the divine. I have long imagined God as a jewel with infinite facets. We each have a facet and cannot experience the whole in our current incarnation, but we seek the whole always.

[@ISIHIA23]

That quote from Jung's memoir made me tear up. I have found myself on a few occasions feeling that same feeling of realization of the greatness of nature, of it's never ending cycle and of me being witness of it. It is such a profound feeling, the English language is too narrow to describe.

[@JeffTurnerSOA]

This episode was especially good. Thanks!

[@ToastyChud]

I think this just changed my life.

[@olivepennies4145]

Someone out there just may be getting a nudge to write a novel that makes my life richer.

[@JeromeGagnon-eu7mt]

Many thanks for this congenial series that really brings Jungs work into the here and now. What I find most interesting about this episode is not the talk of He as God and we as man, but the recognition of relationship as reality. My questions aren't so much about God or the divine but about how we can recognize this inherent value in each other in our everyday lives.

[@ruthlewis673]

What is interesting to me as a Jew is this idea of God, for want of a better word, becomes an individual man. Christians find it hard to understand that this is an anathema, to a Jewish person. What is also interesting is that Jung at the end of his life enters a Judaic experience, being fed Kosher food and experiencing the garden of Pomegranates. The sad part is this separation and ignorance ofJudaic thought has led to an impoverishment. Not only the millennia of persecution of the Jewish people by the Christian world but also an ignorance of that world's roots. It's as if there was a tree and branch was lopped of and attached to another tree a foreign tree. The tree flourished but for some, the Jewish people it bore strange fruit.

[@user-vp8fk6yn9z]

The fullness mitigates it's energy into the no-thing in an inverse burst much like a reverse big bang, from this the complete understanding of opposition is comprehended. So all fear of the ripping apart in the chaos of energy is resolved by this most natural order of unity through polarity. It is described by the logic that for every positive pole one negative is created and when they are united they return to the no-thing.

[@bayreuth79]

Jung's interpretation of 'Job' has been rightly criticised by biblical scholars and theologians because it is more eisegesis than exegesis.

[@Wayofthedream]

You can always know a great therapist by their vulnerability to their own experiences (was this not what Jung shared with us?) and share them openly. They tread a vulnerability risking their power roles in society for the sake of authenticity ... these three "friends" quote endlessly from Jung but never share who they are or how they have been touched by their experiences. They fear what Jung offered us all.

[@chemick606]

I have heard some of their personal stories in other episodes. Importantly however, this podcast is not the same as therapy, and we are not in Analysis with them, and different expectations apply, I think. For example I’m confident their style with clients is different and more personal.

[@ToastyChud]

Also I think the women in the dream are menacing because she is afraid of discovering that truth.

[@bayreuth79]

It is a complete mistake to assume that the traditional understanding of God is “static”. That is not what St Thomas Aquinas taught. Catholic theology is apophatic: we do not know what God is. All ‘positive’ attributes are really negative: God is ‘infinite’ means ‘God is not finite’; but we have no handle on what God’s infinity actually is.