Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Carl Jung "Memories, Dreams and reflections"

"There I was now, the first human being to recognize that this was the world, but who did not know that in this moment he had first really created it"


We can see in the text that during his travels to Kenya and Uganda, his perspective changed giving him a sort of systematic view on the world around him . We can infer a new outlook on the world he now see by quoting "The meaning of consciousness has become overwhelmingly clear to me, what nature leaves imperfect, the art perfects" Man, I, in an invisible act of creation put the stamp of perfection on the world by giving it objective existence. This act we usually attribute to the creator alone without considering that in doing so we view as a machine calculated down to the last detail, along with the human psyche, it runs senselessly, obeying foreknown and predetermined rules. In such a cheerless clockwork fantasy there is no drama of man, world, and God; there is no "new day" "leading to new shores" but only thee dreariness of calculated progress. Carl Jung or CJ as we coincidentally have the same nickname, he was a Swiss man that experienced traveling in his life that enlightened him and gave him a broader outlook on life that even though he tried his hardest but could not stay completely objective when evaluating these different cultures. He had a deep sense of superiority when comparing himself to these people that he could not avoid, he described it as your unconscious self being exposed that had hid within himself a deeper connection, a deeper meaning, to what he would normally have and all these thoughts are buried deep and locked away in the inner working of your minds, these dreams that we sometimes can not explain could be representations of these thoughts and they sometimes haunt us. Maybe that's why we sometimes have a hard time sharing our dreams with others. We mite feel like we're better of keeping some things for ourselves for fear of what they could say or think about us and what we may very well think of ourselves.  

3 comments:

  1. "Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. (Jung)" I like very much his quote.

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  2. Also agreeing with Jim. That quote that is presented in the picture, is a very deep quote. And I believe is completely true. It's by looking within ourselves, to our desires, passions and feelings, that we realize who we really are and then, and only then, can we really awaken.

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  3. Sometimes we keep things to ourselves that only sinks us in a deep black hole from which there is no turning back. That fear of sharing only worsens our human psych; but to excel that fear is a sign of maturation in our part.

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