The Cosmic Meaning of Consciousness
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- Опубликовано: 18 сен 2024
- In Answer to Job, Jung states, “Whoever knows God has an effect on him.” If, as Jung claims, individual human consciousness affects God, what we are matters monumentally. When we serve our neuroses, the gulf between ego and Self widens. Pursuing individuation not only sets our personality in right order, it permits our personal experiences to enrich the collective unconscious - who we are is added to God. When Jung visited the Navajo, they told him they helped the sun, their father, cross the sky each day, a spiritual observance that sustained the world. Jung said, “I had envied the fullness of meaning in that belief and had been looking about without hope for a myth of our own. Now I knew what it was, and knew even more: that man is indispensable for the completion of creation, that in fact, he himself is the second creator of the world….” Human consciousness weaves meaning into the dance of life. Our psyches companion God crossing the sky each day and so participate in creation. As we confront the mystery of our lives and uncover the unique meaning unfolding in us - we become conscious co-creators.
HERE’S THE DREAM WE ANALYZED:
“I stand up from the couch and move toward the hallway. Three older women have entered the house. They look to be in their 50s or 60s, with long, draping clothes. They look like ordinary women and do not appear threatening, but I immediately feel menacing energy. I ask them who they are and what they are doing in the house. The women brush off my questions and mock me for my concern, suggesting that I am frightening the little boy. They have pushed past the hallway and are now in the kitchen. Their forcefulness tells me that they are here with ill intent, and I fear that they are here to rob the family. I grab the little boy and take him upstairs to hide him in his room while I deal with the old women, but when I am closing the boy’s bedroom door to go back downstairs, the women are already on the second floor of the house, entering all the rooms, opening drawers and cabinets, and taking things. They seem to be everywhere, and yet their movements are not chaotic but very controlled and methodical in a way that is unsettling to me. They seem particularly intent on taking books, paper files, and personal documents. I begin to think about what the family might have that the women want, what value is here that I had not known about. I remember or realize that the father is a famous novelist, and I wonder if maybe the women are trying to steal his work. I try to stop them, but they won’t listen to me, and I wonder how I am going to explain this to the family later. After following them around for a bit, I take the boy back downstairs. I decide to call 9-1-1 and leave the house until help arrives. I am barefoot and carrying the boy on my hip as I walk away from the house. While I wait for the 9-1-1 responder to answer, I realize that I do not know the house’s address. The dream ends before I find out whether help arrives.”
REFERENCES:
King, Warrior, Magician, Lover. Robert Moore
Memories, Dreams, Reflections. CG Jung
Answer to Job, CG Jung
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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.
This episode was especially good. Thanks!
I think this just changed my life.
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.
Someone out there just may be getting a nudge to write a novel that makes my life richer.
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.
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
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.
Jung's interpretation of 'Job' has been rightly criticised by biblical scholars and theologians because it is more eisegesis than exegesis.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Also I think the women in the dream are menacing because she is afraid of discovering that truth.