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This was a good video, I like the Jung centric stuff. Blame is a main cause of complacency and stagnation in people's lives. Meaning is super important but it doesn't have to be as grandiose and phenomenological as most would think or say it needs to be, it can be, but it can be simple too.
My favourite Jung's quote: The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Compulsive SEEKING OF KNOWLEDGE is another way to dissociate from Life. I'd take pride in how much "knowledge" I had acquired and gave advice to everybody I had opportunity to. Then I "woke up" to the realization that although I was super-knowledgeable, I was only regurgitating a lot of "data" from other sources. What I needed was Wisdom, not "data". I was actually using the "seeking of knowledge" to avoid getting to know myself. "KNOW THYSELF"! We all need to get honest and face the evil within ourselves that we've avoided recognizing for far too long.
I feel that. I recommended "Inner Engineering: A Yogi's Guide to Joy". This is a great book of highlighting the importance of not allowing yourself to over associate with the knowledge you have accumulated, because one very easily draws conclusions that are only lackluster hypothesis at best. I had trouble getting into logic loops about what life is, and it was extremely limiting. Its refreshing to say, "you know what? I'm gonna erase all conclusions I've drawn about my existence because obviously its becoming self-destructive in someway I'm not aware of." How raw and honest can I really get with myself? I have major heart burn, nausea, and muscle tightness because of this external crisis of not belonging! And I'm a fit 21 year old! We just have to let go and accept what's coming to us with utmost COURAGE and EMBRASIVNESS. COURAGE has been a huge gamechanger; everyone wants confidence, but to feel like your in hell while still looking up and fighting for the sake of greatness, requires courage. Real confidence will soon follow.
This comment came at such a perfect timing in my life .. I was silently beginning to realize this .. reading it from someone else is incredible thank you
How to Stop Wasting Your Life Psychological Insights 1:32 Insight 1: Life is hard, and only through a strengthened character do we have any chance of living a good life. 2:51 Insight 2: Our problems exist in the present, and present problems cannot be solved by digging into our past. Actionable Steps 3:55 Face up to your shadows. Acknowledge your flaws. 6:16 One way to become conscious of your shadow is to observe the shadows of others. 6:39 Another is to reflect on the motives for your actions. 7:05 Find a meaning to your life. 10:09 The void of living a meaningless life cannot be filled by material things or experiences, but knowing that you are making a difference.
Yep, I’ve woken up, and I’m nearly 45 years old, don’t waste your life. Become the best version of who you want to be, and a role model for humanity. Don’t judge someone, only on the love they possess, and the inner child they once were, before the world, took that away.
@@deadreckoning6288 This human experience is the greatest gift. I totally understand what you mean, I relate with your emotions but we must not forget the bigger picture. We are all visitors here, let's try to make this place a better place for the next generations, for the animals, for nature.
"Problems in the present are not solved by digging into the past. People like to believe that only when they have determined *why* they are the way they are can they move forward in life, but Jung believed that an obsessive fixation on the past is only an avoidance tactic to avoid the difficult task of facing up what needs to be done now." Damn, this explains so much about people lol...
Explains why therapy is not the panacea it is presented to be. Introspection and understanding is valuable and necessary but only to an extent. Without action we just anchor ourselves to our past.
Depression is telling you that you're not getting enough 'physical' stimulation. Anxiety is telling you that you're getting too much 'mental' stimulation. Not surprising when all we do is lay around absorbing sounds and flashing images for most of the day. Peace 🙏🏼
I agree with your simple breakdown but I also think depression might/can be a lack of both stimulations. Depending on the gravity and surrounding - sometimes it is not a “personal” problem as in a flawed & chaotic persona but the hardship of finding a surrounding ( e.g friends, contacts, job, place) where one can balance and heal the missing or/and social components. And from personal experience, it is sometimes very hard or only the acceptable minimum (even with a sense of meaning).
@@ddaanat i agree. There are bi-directional feedback loops between the mind and the body. Things can happen to us that can spark depression/anxiety of the mind, and in turn we can feel it in the body. And likewise our depression/anxiety can originate in the body (for instance by lack of physical exercise) and this can creep into the mind.
except maybe for that shot of some (Hollywood-ised) "Indian" wearing Sioux headdress (@7:30) when segueing into story of PUEBLO sense of purpose (sorry, peev of mine. really great content all in all)
@@PhucNguyen-yn7ng i recognize some works by 19th century french symbolist odile redon. Also early 20th century american edward hopper. Belgian early 20th century painter james ensor. Munch. Caspar Friedrich.
This is one of the channels that gave me the courage to start my RUclips channel 3 months ago about self development. Now I have 246 subs and almost > 95 hours of watch time. I know it’s not comparable with others but I’m still proud I started because I’ve been learning so many lessons that I couldn’t have learned without getting started in the 1st place.
@@bartolol Whoever you are, I don't know you personally but I can say that you're one of the non-judgmental and open-minded people who is not fixated on tangible or external factors in order to learn from someone like me. Just because someone doesn't have a piece of paper as a credential, doesn't mean that person is not entitled to share personal experiences with the hope & intention to inspire others. Keep up with whatever it is that you're doing to improve mankind or improving your life even to a slight degree each day. This is just one part of a bigger puzzle for creating my RUclips channel about holistic health. I literally could have died back when I was 14 years old due to major depression but here I am right now replying to you, a RUclipsr, who's full of fulfillment and dedication to help others to be a better version of themselves. I ain't better than anyone else but my old self. That's all that really makes this RUclips thing more meaningful and enjoyable. Thanks so much for your support! I am hoping that you can join me with this endless personal development journey! :)
Alas nowadays we have so many Tiktok and Instagram gurus promsing riches and vanity. The youth of Gen Z is entering a scary new world of information overload. another Jung is sorely needed i agree
Growing up with divorced parents who left to work in other countries and left me by myself at the age of 14, extreme acnee, a chest deformity, self-harm scars, it was only natural that I became extremely anxious and depressed. Obviously, I knew that I had to "work on myself", but nothing ever worked. It felt like I was going deeper and deeper into depression, I hated my parents, I hated my bullies, I hated my family, I hated myself and the things I did, or didn't do, too much to be able to change. Only after I stared reading psychotherapy was I able to see how truly miserable my thinking was, to see how much I was running away from life, letting my chance at existence slip all because I had a lonely and anxious childhood. I blamed my bullies for barely going to school because of them, blaming my parents for making all the wrong decisions regarding my chest deformity and acnee, blaming myself for giving in and self-harming to the point of not being able to wear t-shirts during summer. I was living in the past the whole time, and I couldn't even realize how miserable that made me. It's extremely hard to let go of the hatred, especially when it originates from your childhood, the time of your life when you're most fragile. No matter how good you have it, how much muscle you put on, how successful you are, you will always ask yourself how would the person in front of you treat that anxious kid.
I would tell my younger self to leave as soon as possible. Become independent and leave the situation. Leave the poverty behind, along with my narcissistic mother and enabling father. I don't have to "ask" myself any longer. I'd know exactly what to do, if I could time travel. 😁
We realized it wasn't our fault, and it gave us the opportunity to study and see what most people would never bother to do. That is, seeking out, why we suffer so much. Keep reading bro, and I'll keep watching psychology on RUclips. I was never much of a reader. 😄
I was highly neurotic, socially anxious, and severely depressed. My own suffering was a blessing in disguise - I knew at some point that I'll have to make a change. And now, I have moments of gratefulness that I've been able to cure myself of neurosis. The bliss that you're experiencing after you heal yourself of mental illness... I have no words to describe it.
That 's awesome! Change is like a life-raft in disguise. It literally feels like hell, this burning sensations sometimes when I power through feelings of uncertainty to reach change. But this flaming sword is a visceral healer I've found out. I just started to discover this. If you take ownership of internal pain, That's like brining into your conscious Instead of letting it run rampant in your subconscious hoping it goes away. There's no dragon that we cannot slay, I think my only option to live life without dread is to believe there is no amount of suffering I cant handle. Also, there's a positive opportunity for growth for any and every tragedy as long as you keep fighting for good.
Stop listening to politicians and anyone who makes money telling you things without giving you specific solutions to end why we are slaves in a trance.
I agree mostly. The part about them having a solution... they do. It's Agenda 2030. They claim to have the solutions. And the fools believe it to be true.
I find the best way to get over everything is to do things for yourself. Learn to cook good food. If you like steak, learn to cook it the best way for you. A good meal that you've labored over is self fulfillment. I also find that a nice cigar and a glass of liquor, along with an hour or two alone to enjoy them, brings me relief and happiness. Doing things for others all the time is fulfilling but it leaves a void, especially if there's no one doing anything for you. So self love should be first and foremost to happiness. You're purpose in life is you because if you're broken then nobody needs you anyways.
The culture of individualism of the western world doesn’t help us to do things for others. It is seen as a waste of time and that others will not do things for us. I came from an arab country to Canada and I was always helping people and doing my best to help every body around me but I found people doesn’t have a good faith as me in helping others. So I started thinking like you. And now I only do things to people of my culture because I know we will always have each others back not like people in the western world. Also I find that a life that is centered around one’s self is really similar to the lady that was always travelling and seeking new things to bring her pleasure. It is in the end meaningless. Sometimes I think to myself : why is people so different around the world. So I imagine myself growing in a life where anxiety and meaningless things occupy my daily life like in the western world, I feel sad. Never knowing the true blanket of purpose makes me sad.
@@Seoh94 I m from Canada. We are generaly lost. All our values have been destroyed. I m french Canadian, and it is even awfull for us. All memories of our past have been erased. So, my culture doesn t promotes helping anymore, but I still do. Why? Cause I just can t wait for others to do good things. Imagine if everyone was waiting after someone else... So I don t wait. But I don t get gratification neither. Only self gratification. I stil think that beeing the person that you would wish the others to be, is the good way. xxx
@@Seoh94 To be of service is a nourishing way to live. All humans are interwoven into the fabric of existence, we grow in understanding of ourselves through each other. I've found purpose through each and every experience I've lived. Certainly and impactfully from the most traumatic and challenging circumstances in which I've found myself, have i arrived at the deepest , most meaningful realizations, not only about myself, but of humanity.
@@gabbsdy8741 It is.. it's objectively meaningless. There's not even debate.. well the meaning or purpose is to destroy western civilization... most people have become so indifferent to their legacy and history... If u dont care, might as well give ur territories away to China or Russia or Middle-Easterns or Africans.
"Embrace the suck," right? Move towards the hard things, the pile of snakes that I've been neglecting, and face the dragon. I've heard that "this is the way." I've experienced it too. But comfort and sloth are so seductive and slippery, so one sin quickly spirals downward into another.
I learned to stop wasting my life trying to achieve the things others tell me I "need" to have to be happy or be "allowed" to relax and not be "lazy". I just enjoy life the way I want to live it for the things that I want and that's simply all there is to it. I've lived through enough physical and mental abuse to not have to self-inflict more of it.
Interesting and and informative. Have struggled with major depression since adolescence - now 54 years old. Although dealing with one’s past can be critically important, especially when there is trauma, for myself I find that my mental health and self esteem are at their best when I am most _connected_ with other humans and playing an active role in the world around me. My depression was always accompanied by isolation and/or superficial relationships in addition to being crippled by the ghosts and demons of the past.
OH NO GUYS I'M RUNNING OUT OF TIME TO BUILD MY SANDCASTLE WHICH WILL INEVITABLY WASH AWAY INTO THE SEA ANYWAY." Carl Jung is an idiot, I'm sorry but western intellectuals are stupid. It's all based on ignoring death, otherwise you wouldn't be crying about wasting your time.
@@tamasgyorffy1 Actually the key word is _connected_ - humans are social animals and meaningful connections to others and to the world around us are essential for good mental health in general and - in conjunction with medication and therapy - for recovery from depression in particular.
@emperorofpluto Thanks for sharing this. As a 30-year old whose been dealing with everything u said for many years now, it feels reassuring to know there is a way, n I should not give up all efforts.
Acknowledging and confronting my "shadow personality" was/is the most liberating thing I ever did. I no longer fear my weaknesses and insecurities. When I start to gravitate toward negative thoughts, I pull myself back mentally and redirect my mind to honest self evaluation. Ex: Instead of thinking "That person is rude and mean spirited." I think; "I've probably said or acted the same way to people in my life." Being honest with ourselves will save us from self-loathing and humiliation.
This is why retired men, especially, get depressed when they retire unless they find another purposeful meaning in life besides work. Same goes for those who can no longer work because of disability. Even having a pet to care for is enough to give your life purpose
@@gLitCheRR44 That’s what everyone says when they’re depressed. I say that too sometimes. The world does suck- but might as well just make the best of it. Contributing in any small way feels good for a person
“I've been crawling on my belly Clearing out what could've been I've been wallowing in my own chaotic Insecure delusions I wanna feel the change consume me Feel the outside turning in I wanna feel the metamorphosis and Cleansing I've endured in My shadow My shadow Change is coming Now is my time” - “46 & 2”
I'm a teenager. And months until now I've been digging up about my childhood trauma and the effect my "narcissist" mother has on me, even when I'm technically still in my childhood. Thank you for making this video. Without this I would've continuously blamed my mother for things I'm not even sure I remember vividly. Yes, my mother's verbal abuse is daily routine, whether or not she has ulterior motives. But if I don't proactively take the steering wheel of my own life, I could actually lose my life to my own incompetence. Thank you, this realization worths more than subscribes, likes and shares. I don't know how to pay you back but God knows. God bless you ❤️👍🏼
Your comment resonated so much with me that I got lump in my throat right now. I'm glad that you have the courage to face this uncomfortable truth at such a young age and learn from it. For what its worth stranger, Im proud of you. Good luck to you in this journey of life. And remember, the fact that we get to exist is a priceless gift.
power to you young blood,, maybe look into philosophical Taoism, it changed my life beyond recantation, im 60 now if i only discovered this at your age, my life would of been very different, this is my gift to you, if u choose to use it or not, just another tool in our toolbox, love and contentment from Liverpool UK Bob&mr Tao,,(my new puppy lol)
My anxiety, and neurotic behaviors had immediately shifted and began improving after I decided to STOP their causes, no matter HOW MANY difficult conversations I had to have in order to make that happen. I changed the behavior, and the effect (anxiety) has really started to leave my life.
12:18 - I liked this quote very much. I interpret the "father" in the following fragment "...that I do today what is necessary so that my father can rise over the horizon" as our symbolic higher-self, otherwise known as Nietzche's "Ubermensch". We must come to know the necessary actions to transform ourselves, and then act. There's no better place to change than here and now. I wish you all great power and love, Nicolas Vasquez
“Hard” Love. It’s an ironic country western song. Those who attack you have attacked. Shown you who they are. My Jungian analyst attacked me. Called himself trickster. Spinning Cabala and fortune telling. Plying linear time and the financial curtain. His Shadow is still in the way. Be very Aware. Guard your trust. Now more than ever. When we need to trust truth more than ever. Don’t know where it’s going but human extinction is the probability.
The whole part about finding meaning/a purpose in life strikes me as being incredibly similar to the foundation of Viktor Frankl's Logotherapy, and I'm sure that the Stoics also wrote about "being part of the divine drama" too. It's fascinating how so many of these philosophies intersect. It really makes you feel like you're onto something.
Yep, I was thinking of Frankl during this video, too. I like his principle that even in the most horrible and depressing situations, which we typically use for self pity and despair, there is a way to find meaning.
Contrary to popular belief, life does have a purpose. We're all here to help each other get through the challenges life presents. If you're not helping, you're not just wasting your life, you're part of the problem. Start small, small acts of kindness multiplied by enough people trying, can make real change. Not just for yourself, but for the whole world.
Thanks Academy team for the great content. Philosophy has been life support for me managing a disability. It truly is nourishing for the soul. Huge fan of Jung and the shadow concept. I appreciate this video. 👍🏼👍🏼
Do you know that philosophy is the deep end of the ocean where all good things come to die..... mate swim to the shallow end it's more fun, and if life ain't all about fun, what's it for?
OH NO GUYS I'M RUNNING OUT OF TIME TO BUILD MY SANDCASTLE WHICH WILL INEVITABLY WASH AWAY INTO THE SEA ANYWAY." Carl Jung is an idiot, I'm sorry but western intellectuals are stupid. It's all based on ignoring death, otherwise you wouldn't be crying about wasting your time.
I’ve been obsessed with self improvement most of my life. I never felt good enough for my parents. I didn’t understand that their inability to love me and be there for me was their shortcoming and not mine. I became fixated on fixing what I perceived was wrong with me. I did 10 years of psychotherapy. Numerous Myers Briggs and Enneagram workshops. Endless self help books. Loads of courses. Spent thousands of pounds. All along avoiding the real question “what if you’re fine just the way you are”. So much time and money I could have put in to others things. It’s taken me a long time to accept that I don’t have to earn the right to exist. And if I want to earn enough money just to pay my bills and live a comfortable life and all I want to do with my time is read books and walk in the woods and hang out with the people I love them that’s enough. We’re given this constant message that if we’re not productive enough or happy all the time we must buy this product or buy this book or follow this FB group, etc etc, get this side hustle, improve our follower count. All a distraction from actually living. Capitalism doesn’t want a contented populace because a content person doesn’t buy things. Capitalism creates a constant need where none exists. We think we can’t be happy until we have it all. It’s a lie. All we need is a warm, dry home, some sunshine, some nice food and clean water and a hot shower. And people we love to share our time with. That’s it.
Such amazing content. I cannot tell you how much I appreciate the videos that you put out and how helpful they have been over the years. Especially where I’m at currently with my journey of self discovery. Thank you.
Beautiful words by Jung, I love it. Pretty much sums up everyone I see in my life, and also many of my own faults. This has inspired me further on my own journey.
Thank you. Apparently, when you’re depressed is when you’re living in the past. Anxiety is when you’re thinking about the future. While living in the present is devoid of pain and suffering. Blessings. 💖💖💖
👍 I was mesmerized by Jung's ability to transcend materialism and clearly state that to live a fulfilled life is what we need to strive for and commit ourselves to do; not the capture of things or people that are basically unfulfilling. What beautiful insight.
what’s tragic about this is that there are highly-esteemed people who are proponents of “the peak of one mountain is the bottom of another so NEVER STOP CLIMBING”. no wonder a lot of folks see contentment as a negative virtue and then consequently remain in a fatigued and dissatisfied state after a lot has been said and done.
@@classygary I know. Another problem I had with some of the commentary in the video was that, for some, the sense of purpose might entail the seeking of an audience and thus a quest for recognition and fame, and so should *not* necessarily be treated as mutually exclusive from them. The problem would be if fame and recognition are sought as ends in themselves, as opposed to being incidental to a higher purpose.
@@orriHirro Excellent. Rarely do I hear anyone speak to this. To be content is a good life. In general I believe humans are too busy on the planet, consuming everything in our path, destroying the beauty that surrounds us to replace it with ugliness & "progress". And for what? To feed the machine that benefits the few at the expense of the many. Time to get off this merry go round to nowhere.
I was just exhausted, feeling burnt out with no control whatsoever on myself. But this video calmed me, I truly don't know why but it did calmed my nerves. Thank you for making this.
AOI, you've distilled pure gold here. You are an alchemist, here, working on Jung's sublime wisdom, bringing it to a wider audience. You should have this essay printed into propaganda leaflets and dropped from airplanes all around the world. Everyone needs to read (or hear) these words.
I clearly recall at 11 years old, overnight, I lost the ability to enjoy anything. Life never felt the same again, and I never shook off this sick feeling that is present every waking hour. Only a person who has experienced this could understand, including doctors and therapists, so few understand what real depression is. Yet most of my life I have managed to function, to the extent that I survive
The story of the woman going from place to place rings true for me. I was the same as her once, when i stopped and stood still I saw my mind start to change, I started to enter a depression and was like that for about 2 years. I had died, and realized it was a good thing that I did. Without it I couldn't grow as a person. I still have some issues, but I now see what they are and how I can resolve them.
I like seeing stories of hope like yours. It is inspirational. I don't mean to put you on a pedestal like a super hero. The changes you mentioned is something that everyone can easily do. I've done them often enough but didn't stick with it. I'm trying to make those changes again. A big part of it is willing to sit still, to sit with your feelings of anxiety and depression. And to be there still doing meditation, or going for a walk. To do the better things while having negative feelings, rather than to subsume yourself in mindless activity or to numb yourself with alcohol or something else. It's not really that doing the better thing is exactly hard. I think what's hard is becoming more aware of the hard feelings you've suppressed for so long while doing the more positive activities.
Wow. Gosh. This video struck me really hard. I'm on the bottom now. I have no meaning, no purpose, no direction in life. I'm nihilistic, cynical, and resentful. All I do is find reasons not to live and deprive this world of any value. I've heard these ideas from Jordan Peterson because he's fond of Carl Jung and they were working for me before, but now I'm in a deep pit again. Your video really helped me to "click", to make the puzzle combined, to see what I didn't want to see and acknowledge. Thank you so much!
I love you man! Many times, the theme of your videos are so well timed to what is going on in my life or things that I'm thinking. I appreciate all you guys do.
It can happen to people who are older too. You suddenly become aware that the dreams and goals that you had don't interest you anymore, circumstances change people come and go from your life. You basically have to reinvent yourself and this takes time too letting go of old ideas and finding new ones, but you must never give up the search for meaning.
From what I learned from videos and TV shows I watch as well as what I was told by my younger sister, the meaning to life is to just live it. I cannot live, if I cannot survive. I cure myself of the unchosen suffering I am going through and end my own pain.
Timely video. A recent study found that people with depression don't have low serotonin as was believed,so SSRI's are not treating a chemical imbalance.
There are different types of depression, simple situation "depression" due to events etc and actual severe clinical depression as seen is illnesses like Schizophrenia, Bipolar I and Major Depression. You can't just tell someone with these illnesses to simply snap out of being depressed.
@@MuantanamoMobile Nobody said what you're claiming. They are merely mentioning a large, longterm study that concluded it's not a chemical imbalance. No form of depression is caused by a chemical imbalance.
The trifecta of : want (not) to - (not) have to - (not) able to Is a healthy tool to find out your struggles and make them easier. If you ask yourself what you want (really deeply want), you will also ask yourself what is necessary to achieve your goal. A comment I relate to in this section said: "I had anxiety and depression. I tried eating healthy and exercising. It did not help. It got worse". If your goal is shallow, like: 'I want to have a healthy body', but your real goal is to get better emotionally, the efforts does not feel fulfilling. It is the fullfilment of personal achievements in the long term, that will ultimately cure our problems. I want to live a happy life. What makes me happy? Then chase these things (if not hollow and fleeting joys, but lasting happiness) and become a new you. You deserve your best. But only you, can grant it to you.
Thank You . A great relief to know about the dark side of me and that all of us have it. We just need to embrace the dark sodr and work on it . All Thy Blessings .🙏🙏🙏💕💕💕
“People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own soul. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.”. ― Carl Jung.
The loss of learnings of the transcendent has been a major factor. Central to noble truths in the pathway to peace is acceptance that life is suffering. This teaching has been around for 2,500 years, and its equivalents present in many spiritual and traditional cultural teachings and practices. It has been lost for many western cultures and increasingly in other cultures as they move away from traditions
My mother's expectation was that her children be happy all the time. No sadness, hurt, anger, disappointment allowed. We grew up to be clinically depressed. What a revelation it was for me to learn in therapy that life is suffering. Changed everything.
Viktor E. Frankl states in his book ‘Man’s Search For Meaning’ that those who had purpose, were the ones most likely to survive the horrors of the concentration camps. We need a meaning in life. Logotherapy.
@@PeterMalkovich552 I agree with you completely, but I love the Academy of Ideas and I think that it does truly help a large percentage of people to be happier if they have the illusion that their lives have a meaning. I think the ego is strong in many people and unless satisfied can lead to mental problems and correspondingly bad behaviors. Your phrase 'use with extreme caution' is very insightful. 👍
It’s an “option” for all of US. But not usually an accomplishment. haha. The correct track is a worthy ideal. Throughout one’s life. In the meantime, Love is a process -Again and Again and Again.
are these paintings ever referenced? I think this would be great for your description box and also encouraging to the comprehension of paintings in context (which is often very difficult by-the-way) as always - very impressive work much thanks!
We are lucky that you choose your MEANING of life in making such wise content creation! It if not making us meaningful, it is definitely clears confusion and push us forward to live the meaningful life.
I am so glad I found this channel ithe content is amazing and really opens my eyes of understanding beyond what I have know and some that I have never put to words. thank you!
Great video, thank you!! When I first heard about the shadow I couldn’t really understand it or what was necessary to Integrate it. This video I find explained both the best.
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The problem is we have this arrogant view that we are characters in a story so we need to be epic and interesting. We aren't. Don't waste your life trying to live up to the measures of others. Life is free of such petty concerns. Don't Harm others and try to live a peaceful life. Accomplishments are great but don't make them the FOCAL point of your every waking moment. All time is ultimately wasted so stop trying to accrue points for a game no one is watching. If you are going to do something do it because YOU want to and you love doing it. Fuck the respect and praise of others.
Yes, most people are wasting their lives. Most people do not have the time or ambition to properly go within. We are in the process of getting it right.
It is a life‘s work to reset the factory default settings! Still, there are increasing glimpses of joy. And I talk to ‚the little lost one‘ whenever I remember that they need a lot of love, compassion and forgiveness. It’s myself I need to forgive, somehow.
I like the part he said about knowing one's "shadow", although to me it's more aptly named the "subconscious", and that being honest with oneself (and others) is the key to that. In his time people probably did fixate on the past, and thus avoid confronting the problem in the present, but I think both have their relevance. I agree with this general idea that people are seeking a meaningful life, they need it, although I disagree in part people can convince themselves that the pursuit of money or fame is a meaningful life and actually be "happy", although not really, and if they can't find a "meaningful life", many people turn to drugs and alcohol or other subtle forms of escaping reality.
This was very well done. The quotes, though pieces of his approach, were very well placed and I loved how the art both illustrated the ideas and were simply there to keep aesthetic attention.
There is no shame in needing help , i think going outside is your current ‘ helping your father over the horyzon ‘ best of luck to you i believe in you
I think because of covid lockdowns the rest of us can all relate to your situation in some way . Now is the time for you to venture out. Use this moment of revelation as your ladder up and out.❤🙏
I suffer from the same thing. The further you drift from your comfort zone the more you worry you can't make it back in time in case of emergency. That is my experience anyway but I got a job driving a truck and I had to drive all over the state which was exposure therapy in a way. It helped me immensely. Try to get a job or hobby which forces you away from your comfort zone in a beneficial way. It's worked for me greatly. You'll beat it 👍🏻
when I was suffering with it I was trying to always fix myself the more I tried to fix myself the worse I got. It wasn't till I found a meaning that I broke free , kind of like it said in the video about the tribes man and the western woman
Never have I ever watched a more profound video, that inexplicably describes the struggle of probably everyone is the west right now. Outstanding content.
Jung said about the idea of ancient narrative like religion the conceptualize that people are playing their role in their own drama they dedicated to something beyond themself and that was positive emotion, inspiration , motivation and meaningful life their are the reason to get up early in the morning to get things done. and Jung make contrast with Nietzsche idea by this point ,”Humanity can’t create their own value and after the death of god ,we are lose with no direction till we end up with mental illness and anxiety disorder .
Thank you for this wonderful teaching you've shared with us, it is life transforming. One small note, just trying to help or understand better: I believe the word "banal" is not pronounced like "anal", I believe it is pronounced like "canal", with the emphasis on the 2nd syllable - but I may be ignorant here of regional pronunciation differences - if that is the case, then of course there is no such thing as better or worse when it comes to such differences and in that case please forgive my two cents and toss them away.
Philosophy is always the best content to understand why you exist and what you must do to overcome the suffering of the trap you find yourself in. I thank this channel for feeding our minds so we can see what is necessary to do.
I suffered through a 4 year period of major depression. I had no idea how others could help me and had long since learned to keep my (emotional and physical) distance. That was a bad combination and why things took so long, but I slowly realized that my thoughts were stuck in a downward spiral of negativity, reasoned into a deadlock left and right. The only way to get out was to acknowledge the tangle that was my thought process, then unravel each major thread one by one and see where it lead. Turns out, most of them were philosophical conclusions based off of experiences I'd had gone through in the past. I literally had to face myself to the deepest level to get out of that hell, where the biggest changes occurred when I had what's called a 'paradigm shift'. Literally a new perspective to put things in a whole new light, in turn offering a way out of that particular deadlock. I guess that's what the 'shadow' was. To this day, I carry two beads in a necklace. One onyx - to never forget that hell, and one pearl - to 'store' the positive things I have since experienced The one thing I continue to struggle with is spirituality. I've never been religious and don't see myself becoming it, but I also don't know what non-religious spirituality might even be. That's my next challenge.
While this is good advice, what Jung doesn't understand is the distinction between people's reduced to a speck of existence living a more tribal society where combined as a unified whole, each functioning as its integral part, a person can find his or her path and feel contentment. However when transitioning into a unique personalized existence, it takes more care and thought to who and what one is. His initial observation on dealing with the shadow is an absolute necessity and ultimately the main issue inherent to this life. You can also see a dramatic difference in the personalities, attitudes, and why some people use social media and other things, finding greater purpose of their own making, rather than seeking to fill in the hole of their existence with whatever short lived spark of excitement or a sense of meaning it gives them. The difference between someone who uses it to document the world in their travels and understanding different cultures, versus someone who just goes to different restaurants and takes pictures of the food. Someone seeking to see and learn versus someone who has no external desire to learn or seek or grow, just experience on a lower level of connection to a new place. The difference between someone who will enter a temple, look at different pillars, frescoes, art, pictographs, etc. and either share what they've learned about it or bring in people to share, versus someone who just takes a photo and has some nonsensical almost non-sequitor statement unrelated to the intent or meaning just for shits and giggles. The type of culture we've built has the potential for so much more than the cultures of most indigenous people, but it requires that much greater sacrifice, as the battle one faces becomes the battle of oneself. No matter what cultural norms society thrusts upon us, it's ultimately our choice to either adopt those norms or question them and seek an independent path because we CAN. Ultimately allowing for unlimited personal expression within the bounds of our society, rather than simply finding grace and solitude in almost a robotic existence. I'll add one thing that the Native American tribes Jung visited do have that we lack for, and are rebuilding, which he doesn't quite understand, but often touches upon in his work. Spirituality. A connection to something beyond our existence, and a connection to an exoconsciousness. Most of this has to do with understanding the nature of the ego, why it was created, what it is, and finding your true self inside...your inner voice and with it, tying the ego to it (or in some philosophies, erasing the ego, but ultimately the ego is absorbed into the true self as an aspect of what brought one to this point in life), and from there finding your actual intended path that your true self actually wishes you to be on. What Jung is also unaware of is that life is not intended to be difficult or a struggle. That's a very modern take. Struggle is only a key ingredient in learning from a lower realm spiritual path, and a necessary ingredient for the ego to derive purpose, meaning, principals, and ultimately learn that material possessions and social wants are meaningless without higher purpose, so seek the inner being (or for most, seek a higher consciousness, which in modern day means seeking it externally...and yet the true path, which is funny enough, the core of psychology, is seek it internally, internal dialogue, seeking who one really is beyond the scope of what society plugs into us as rules, ethics, morals, ways of being and acting, etc.). The other is that he almost grasps the nature of the path of the fool, without seeing it or recognizing it. If you look at the tarot, and the various archetypes, you can see that psychology is interlinked, especially pre-modern deconstructionism psychology, but it's present even within the bounds of those newer philosophies on the nature of existence. As well the different paths on the tree of life (and the tree of death if you ever look into it...path of the shadow where you're not seeking to understand the shadow to cast your inner unexpressed being or darkest desires into light, but rather embracing them in a way of following them in the conscious reality...yeah, it's not good, as it's a complete inverse of psychology, the tarot, and the tree of life). So within the bounds of the path of the Fool, which also connects to the Sage or Godhead, one has to travel through the abyss, bypassing all other potential life paths from a center point. The Abyss is the muck of all knowledge, all things internal. Essentially in Jungian terms, going so far into shadow work that you actually breach the subconscious to unlock EVERYTHING you've held back there. All dark thoughts, all suppressed harms, memories of what others have done, anything you've done yourself that you either aren't proud of, or that you feel or felt were wrong based on external influences, what Jung terms the suppression of self for the benefit of others or due to what others want of us, such as anger and the ability to battle for oneself, but also unrealized dreams, artistic creations, etc. Everything. This includes positive memories long since hidden, but in spiritual circles it's usually described as the place the Hermes/Messenger travels to and from, and the place of all knowledge hidden from oneself when one is not engaged with their higher/true self, and if you go further, the place where you create your inner demons and darkest fantasies that just keep piling up. So in cleaning house, shining a light on that path of understanding and recognition, one finds their way to the light or the Godhead. From there a fulfilled existence because any action taken is one that one is supposed to do, is fulfilling a purpose of intention, even if it is basic experience, it has a higher intention not devoted to an ego devoid of its self, but for that person as a whole to fully engage with and thus enjoy what is there for what it is without it needing to fulfill any larger purpose. Or to fulfill a larger purpose, whatever the true self is. The point is not to take actions or do things to fill in a hole or a gap, but to actually see, learn, grow, experience in a child-like way of awe and fun. There is a difference in how someone who has found a spiritual existence who take to things Jung determines as filling in gaps in a "banal" existence versus someone who is doing literally as he says. They're happy in the act of doing the thing or seeing, or listening, or being there, and happy when it's done. Ready to move onto something else or fully engaging with what it is. There is no depression in that being, no lack of expectation. A thing is what it is, and it is to be experienced as it was meant to. In anycase, cheers.
@@shipaskof8371 It would miss out on a lot of detail. Sure if you prefer concise and simple words and then fill in the detail gap yourself, but that's boring. It isn't like I repeated myself needlessly either. Half the fun of reading something well worded is that it often adds in necessary details that help expand or enhance the argument/point. At least for me anyhow. That said, yeah, and it probably would have been about half as long. It's also not much to read. That's a good 20s.
Could not have said it better. Thanks for the insight. When watching the video I was thinking maybe Jung idealized the native tribes a bit much as an outsider looking in and missed out on the fundamental shift in social structure.
For me, one of the Greatest lines in any movie was in the Sound Of Music, when Captain Von Trapp tells the Baroness, "activity suggests a life filled with purpose." I keep that quote in my mind to help me reflect on what ever task or travel I am doing.
Suppressing anger is not necessarily a bad thing, we need to "soul search" and use our words when we're around other people. Or else you run the risk of pushing loved ones away/scarring them mentally, and worst case scenario you become a rageaholic, which is an actual term.
Here are some goals that may or may not give your life meaning: - Produce the finest songs to please mother Music and grant you more creativity - Paint the perfect painting to keep father Art alive and smiling - Lift the most amount of weights to make father Chad bless you with even more strength - Help a person or more everyday to make mother Nature happy and proud of you - Bake the perfect cake for father Ramsay compliment your chiefdom
i am that guy i have missed waste most my life. missed out on lots of things, never had a birthday party, never been to a wedding never been to a funeral, never been on a mad lads holiday have zero friends low income. 34 couldnt make it up its all true. im only recently deciding to do driving lessons and make small talk with people.
As Jung said, comfort and peace are not our natural state. Life is not as easy as we think, shape it in a way to make the path smooth. Stuff happens. Life goes on!
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While life is a battleground for the free, under communism, life is lived as cannon fodder.
This was a good video, I like the Jung centric stuff. Blame is a main cause of complacency and stagnation in people's lives. Meaning is super important but it doesn't have to be as grandiose and phenomenological as most would think or say it needs to be, it can be, but it can be simple too.
My favourite Jung's quote: The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Communists need to be educated instead of them making us dumber through social media.
I love that!
Yes. Chemo-electro alchemy is our transference. And our savior, if we will choose to acknowledge it.
Transformed like Bonnie & Clyde?
Stay away from North Korea. China too at the moment.
Compulsive SEEKING OF KNOWLEDGE is another way to dissociate from Life. I'd take pride in how much "knowledge" I had acquired and gave advice to everybody I had opportunity to. Then I "woke up" to the realization that although I was super-knowledgeable, I was only regurgitating a lot of "data" from other sources. What I needed was Wisdom, not "data". I was actually using the "seeking of knowledge" to avoid getting to know myself. "KNOW THYSELF"! We all need to get honest and face the evil within ourselves that we've avoided recognizing for far too long.
I feel that. I recommended "Inner Engineering: A Yogi's Guide to Joy". This is a great book of highlighting the importance of not allowing yourself to over associate with the knowledge you have accumulated, because one very easily draws conclusions that are only lackluster hypothesis at best. I had trouble getting into logic loops about what life is, and it was extremely limiting. Its refreshing to say, "you know what? I'm gonna erase all conclusions I've drawn about my existence because obviously its becoming self-destructive in someway I'm not aware of." How raw and honest can I really get with myself? I have major heart burn, nausea, and muscle tightness because of this external crisis of not belonging! And I'm a fit 21 year old! We just have to let go and accept what's coming to us with utmost COURAGE and EMBRASIVNESS. COURAGE has been a huge gamechanger; everyone wants confidence, but to feel like your in hell while still looking up and fighting for the sake of greatness, requires courage. Real confidence will soon follow.
Well said. Very well said.
Very respectable
This comment came at such a perfect timing in my life .. I was silently beginning to realize this .. reading it from someone else is incredible thank you
You definitely weren't super knowledgeable lol
How to Stop Wasting Your Life
Psychological Insights
1:32 Insight 1: Life is hard, and only through a strengthened character do we have any chance of living a good life.
2:51 Insight 2: Our problems exist in the present, and present problems cannot be solved by digging into our past.
Actionable Steps
3:55 Face up to your shadows. Acknowledge your flaws.
6:16 One way to become conscious of your shadow is to observe the shadows of others.
6:39 Another is to reflect on the motives for your actions.
7:05 Find a meaning to your life.
10:09 The void of living a meaningless life cannot be filled by material things or experiences, but knowing that you are making a difference.
Nice bulletpoints. Thank you
Yeah, nice snippet.
Thank you
Actually, many present problems are caused by the past. "Those who don't learn from the past are doomed to repeat it."
Ty :)
Yep, I’ve woken up, and I’m nearly 45 years old, don’t waste your life. Become the best version of who you want to be, and a role model for humanity. Don’t judge someone, only on the love they possess, and the inner child they once were, before the world, took that away.
Its never too late to change
Beautiful comment, chess747.
i would change humanity for other people humanity just seem anxiously too big
I just turned 45 and have been feeling off for about 7-8 years. I don’t exactly know what to do. But I want a change and more meaning. Pronto.
Use righteous judgment ☦️
I hope everyone who's going through a difficult time makes it through the end and finds peace.
Thank you, I appreciate it 🙏
@@nathangabriel2707 he wasnt talking to you. He was talking to me.
I'm at a place of not wanting to be on the planet anymore. Im tired of humans, humanity, and this human experience.
@@deadreckoning6288 This human experience is the greatest gift. I totally understand what you mean, I relate with your emotions but we must not forget the bigger picture. We are all visitors here, let's try to make this place a better place for the next generations, for the animals, for nature.
In the end, I hope that we all find peace.
"Problems in the present are not solved by digging into the past. People like to believe that only when they have determined *why* they are the way they are can they move forward in life, but Jung believed that an obsessive fixation on the past is only an avoidance tactic to avoid the difficult task of facing up what needs to be done now."
Damn, this explains so much about people lol...
Totally agree
Explains why therapy is not the panacea it is presented to be. Introspection and understanding is valuable and necessary but only to an extent. Without action we just anchor ourselves to our past.
Depression is telling you that you're not getting enough 'physical' stimulation.
Anxiety is telling you that you're getting too much 'mental' stimulation.
Not surprising when all we do is lay around absorbing sounds and flashing images for most of the day.
Peace 🙏🏼
Thank you Alex. very true !
never thought of it that way.
I agree with your simple breakdown but I also think depression might/can be a lack of both stimulations. Depending on the gravity and surrounding - sometimes it is not a “personal” problem as in a flawed & chaotic persona but the hardship of finding a surrounding ( e.g friends, contacts, job, place) where one can balance and heal the missing or/and social components. And from personal experience, it is sometimes very hard or only the acceptable minimum (even with a sense of meaning).
@@ddaanat i agree. There are bi-directional feedback loops between the mind and the body. Things can happen to us that can spark depression/anxiety of the mind, and in turn we can feel it in the body. And likewise our depression/anxiety can originate in the body (for instance by lack of physical exercise) and this can creep into the mind.
Walk off anxiety and if that doesn't work...keep walking
The paintings selected to accompany these videos never cease to impress. Great job!
Thanks im glad u liked them
Agreed. Could you pls name some of it? Thank you!
except maybe for that shot of some (Hollywood-ised) "Indian" wearing Sioux headdress (@7:30) when segueing into story of PUEBLO sense of purpose (sorry, peev of mine. really great content all in all)
@@PhucNguyen-yn7ng i recognize some works by 19th century french symbolist odile redon. Also early 20th century american edward hopper. Belgian early 20th century painter james ensor. Munch. Caspar Friedrich.
some of them are also edvard munch
This is one of the channels that gave me the courage to start my RUclips channel 3 months ago about self development. Now I have 246 subs and almost > 95 hours of watch time. I know it’s not comparable with others but I’m still proud I started because I’ve been learning so many lessons that I couldn’t have learned without getting started in the 1st place.
You’ve made great progress since this comment, keep it up. Inspiring 🔥
@@bartolol Whoever you are, I don't know you personally but I can say that you're one of the non-judgmental and open-minded people who is not fixated on tangible or external factors in order to learn from someone like me. Just because someone doesn't have a piece of paper as a credential, doesn't mean that person is not entitled to share personal experiences with the hope & intention to inspire others. Keep up with whatever it is that you're doing to improve mankind or improving your life even to a slight degree each day. This is just one part of a bigger puzzle for creating my RUclips channel about holistic health. I literally could have died back when I was 14 years old due to major depression but here I am right now replying to you, a RUclipsr, who's full of fulfillment and dedication to help others to be a better version of themselves. I ain't better than anyone else but my old self. That's all that really makes this RUclips thing more meaningful and enjoyable. Thanks so much for your support! I am hoping that you can join me with this endless personal development journey! :)
Oh how badly we need thinkers like Carl Jung in our world today. What a masterclass of wisdom.
Alas nowadays we have so many Tiktok and Instagram gurus promsing riches and vanity. The youth of Gen Z is entering a scary new world of information overload. another Jung is sorely needed i agree
Jordan Peterson is pretty darn close
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@@yassinethegrey3945 No he's not. No one is close to Jung, even Peterson would agree.
The last thing we need is more Carl Jung’s 🤨 It’s time to move beyond the pointless playground of Jung.
Growing up with divorced parents who left to work in other countries and left me by myself at the age of 14, extreme acnee, a chest deformity, self-harm scars, it was only natural that I became extremely anxious and depressed. Obviously, I knew that I had to "work on myself", but nothing ever worked. It felt like I was going deeper and deeper into depression, I hated my parents, I hated my bullies, I hated my family, I hated myself and the things I did, or didn't do, too much to be able to change. Only after I stared reading psychotherapy was I able to see how truly miserable my thinking was, to see how much I was running away from life, letting my chance at existence slip all because I had a lonely and anxious childhood. I blamed my bullies for barely going to school because of them, blaming my parents for making all the wrong decisions regarding my chest deformity and acnee, blaming myself for giving in and self-harming to the point of not being able to wear t-shirts during summer. I was living in the past the whole time, and I couldn't even realize how miserable that made me.
It's extremely hard to let go of the hatred, especially when it originates from your childhood, the time of your life when you're most fragile. No matter how good you have it, how much muscle you put on, how successful you are, you will always ask yourself how would the person in front of you treat that anxious kid.
I would have bullied you. Life is cruel. I am not better than you in any way but that is the truth.
I would tell my younger self to leave as soon as possible. Become independent and leave the situation. Leave the poverty behind, along with my narcissistic mother and enabling father. I don't have to "ask" myself any longer. I'd know exactly what to do, if I could time travel. 😁
We realized it wasn't our fault, and it gave us the opportunity to study and see what most people would never bother to do. That is, seeking out, why we suffer so much. Keep reading bro, and I'll keep watching psychology on RUclips. I was never much of a reader. 😄
@@seanthegod4585 As a reader myself, I do guarantee that would help 😉
I am so sorry for the suffering you went through, Alex. I hope you have been able to now find self-love and meaning in your life.
I was highly neurotic, socially anxious, and severely depressed. My own suffering was a blessing in disguise - I knew at some point that I'll have to make a change. And now, I have moments of gratefulness that I've been able to cure myself of neurosis. The bliss that you're experiencing after you heal yourself of mental illness... I have no words to describe it.
Would love to hear more about your healing. Happy for you.
That 's awesome! Change is like a life-raft in disguise. It literally feels like hell, this burning sensations sometimes when I power through feelings of uncertainty to reach change. But this flaming sword is a visceral healer I've found out. I just started to discover this. If you take ownership of internal pain, That's like brining into your conscious Instead of letting it run rampant in your subconscious hoping it goes away. There's no dragon that we cannot slay, I think my only option to live life without dread is to believe there is no amount of suffering I cant handle. Also, there's a positive opportunity for growth for any and every tragedy as long as you keep fighting for good.
Hi, how did you cure your neurosis
Wonderful, you are awesome
Ma bucur ca esti bine!
Stop listening to politicians and anyone who makes money telling you things without giving you specific solutions to end why we are slaves in a trance.
I learned this the hard way.
"Be the change you want to see".
I agree mostly. The part about them having a solution... they do. It's Agenda 2030. They claim to have the solutions. And the fools believe it to be true.
Based
@@eclipsez0r “based”🤓🤓
That would be a wonderful start. There would still be a mountain to climb within ourselves. Godspeed
I find the best way to get over everything is to do things for yourself. Learn to cook good food. If you like steak, learn to cook it the best way for you. A good meal that you've labored over is self fulfillment. I also find that a nice cigar and a glass of liquor, along with an hour or two alone to enjoy them, brings me relief and happiness. Doing things for others all the time is fulfilling but it leaves a void, especially if there's no one doing anything for you. So self love should be first and foremost to happiness. You're purpose in life is you because if you're broken then nobody needs you anyways.
The culture of individualism of the western world doesn’t help us to do things for others. It is seen as a waste of time and that others will not do things for us. I came from an arab country to Canada and I was always helping people and doing my best to help every body around me but I found people doesn’t have a good faith as me in helping others. So I started thinking like you. And now I only do things to people of my culture because I know we will always have each others back not like people in the western world.
Also I find that a life that is centered around one’s self is really similar to the lady that was always travelling and seeking new things to bring her pleasure. It is in the end meaningless. Sometimes I think to myself : why is people so different around the world. So I imagine myself growing in a life where anxiety and meaningless things occupy my daily life like in the western world, I feel sad. Never knowing the true blanket of purpose makes me sad.
@@Seoh94 I m from Canada. We are generaly lost. All our values have been destroyed. I m french Canadian, and it is even awfull for us. All memories of our past have been erased. So, my culture doesn t promotes helping anymore, but I still do. Why? Cause I just can t wait for others to do good things. Imagine if everyone was waiting after someone else... So I don t wait. But I don t get gratification neither. Only self gratification. I stil think that beeing the person that you would wish the others to be, is the good way. xxx
@@Seoh94 To be of service is a nourishing way to live. All humans are interwoven into the fabric of existence, we grow in understanding of ourselves through each other. I've found purpose through each and every experience I've lived. Certainly and impactfully from the most traumatic and challenging circumstances in which I've found myself, have i arrived at the deepest , most meaningful realizations, not only about myself, but of humanity.
yes!
@@gabbsdy8741 It is.. it's objectively meaningless. There's not even debate.. well the meaning or purpose is to destroy western civilization... most people have become so indifferent to their legacy and history...
If u dont care, might as well give ur territories away to China or Russia or Middle-Easterns or Africans.
"Embrace the suck," right? Move towards the hard things, the pile of snakes that I've been neglecting, and face the dragon. I've heard that "this is the way." I've experienced it too. But comfort and sloth are so seductive and slippery, so one sin quickly spirals downward into another.
I learned to stop wasting my life trying to achieve the things others tell me I "need" to have to be happy or be "allowed" to relax and not be "lazy". I just enjoy life the way I want to live it for the things that I want and that's simply all there is to it. I've lived through enough physical and mental abuse to not have to self-inflict more of it.
Brilliant. I wish you the best in living an authentic and fulfilling life that brings you peace, joy, and so much more in abundance.
Well-said, Nate. Just be gentle to yourself, and live your life the way it feels right for you.
Feel this
For sure!!! ❤❤
Interesting and and informative. Have struggled with major depression since adolescence - now 54 years old.
Although dealing with one’s past can be critically important, especially when there is trauma, for myself I find that my mental health and self esteem are at their best when I am most _connected_ with other humans and playing an active role in the world around me.
My depression was always accompanied by isolation and/or superficial relationships in addition to being crippled by the ghosts and demons of the past.
OH NO GUYS I'M RUNNING OUT OF TIME TO BUILD MY SANDCASTLE WHICH WILL INEVITABLY WASH AWAY INTO THE SEA ANYWAY." Carl Jung is an idiot, I'm sorry but western intellectuals are stupid. It's all based on ignoring death, otherwise you wouldn't be crying about wasting your time.
the keyword being "role". yes
@@tamasgyorffy1 Actually the key word is _connected_ - humans are social animals and meaningful connections to others and to the world around us are essential for good mental health in general and - in conjunction with medication and therapy - for recovery from depression in particular.
@emperorofpluto Thanks for sharing this. As a 30-year old whose been dealing with everything u said for many years now, it feels reassuring to know there is a way, n I should not give up all efforts.
@@Stuckin92 Hang in there my friend. You are not alone.
Acknowledging and confronting my "shadow personality" was/is the most liberating thing I ever did. I no longer fear my weaknesses and insecurities. When I start to gravitate toward negative thoughts, I pull myself back mentally and redirect my mind to honest self evaluation. Ex: Instead of thinking "That person is rude and mean spirited." I think; "I've probably said or acted the same way to people in my life." Being honest with ourselves will save us from self-loathing and humiliation.
This is why retired men, especially, get depressed when they retire unless they find another purposeful meaning in life besides work. Same goes for those who can no longer work because of disability. Even having a pet to care for is enough to give your life purpose
The modern world is not worth contributing to.
@@gLitCheRR44 That’s what everyone says when they’re depressed. I say that too sometimes. The world does suck- but might as well just make the best of it. Contributing in any small way feels good for a person
“I've been crawling on my belly
Clearing out what could've been
I've been wallowing in my own chaotic
Insecure delusions
I wanna feel the change consume me
Feel the outside turning in
I wanna feel the metamorphosis and
Cleansing I've endured in
My shadow
My shadow
Change is coming
Now is my time”
- “46 & 2”
Wow man you changed my whole perspective on that song, I guess I never truly listened! I will never listen to it the same but its better now.
Step into the shadow
Coming out the other side
I love that song!
yezzir
Phenomenal song
I'm a teenager. And months until now I've been digging up about my childhood trauma and the effect my "narcissist" mother has on me, even when I'm technically still in my childhood.
Thank you for making this video. Without this I would've continuously blamed my mother for things I'm not even sure I remember vividly. Yes, my mother's verbal abuse is daily routine, whether or not she has ulterior motives. But if I don't proactively take the steering wheel of my own life, I could actually lose my life to my own incompetence.
Thank you, this realization worths more than subscribes, likes and shares. I don't know how to pay you back but God knows. God bless you ❤️👍🏼
Your comment resonated so much with me that I got lump in my throat right now. I'm glad that you have the courage to face this uncomfortable truth at such a young age and learn from it. For what its worth stranger, Im proud of you.
Good luck to you in this journey of life. And remember, the fact that we get to exist is a priceless gift.
@@BoJenfa thank you for the kind words. I wish you well too, stranger. God bless😄
power to you young blood,, maybe look into philosophical Taoism, it changed my life beyond recantation, im 60 now if i only discovered this at your age, my life would of been very different, this is my gift to you, if u choose to use it or not, just another tool in our toolbox, love and contentment from Liverpool UK Bob&mr Tao,,(my new puppy lol)
@@bobmiller7502 Alright! Thank you for the much welcomed advice, Mr. Bob & Mr. Tao!
@@BoJenfa 👏🏻👏🏻
Please never stop making this content😁
My anxiety, and neurotic behaviors had immediately shifted and began improving after I decided to STOP their causes, no matter HOW MANY difficult conversations I had to have in order to make that happen. I changed the behavior, and the effect (anxiety) has really started to leave my life.
12:18 - I liked this quote very much. I interpret the "father" in the following fragment "...that I do today what is necessary so that my father can rise over the horizon" as our symbolic higher-self, otherwise known as Nietzche's "Ubermensch". We must come to know the necessary actions to transform ourselves, and then act. There's no better place to change than here and now.
I wish you all great power and love,
Nicolas Vasquez
Hardship is inevitable. But there's no reason to let someone else make your life harder than it already is.
(...so long as that hardship is detrimental and not engendering growth.)
“Hard” Love. It’s an ironic country western song. Those who attack you have attacked. Shown you who they are. My Jungian analyst attacked me. Called himself trickster. Spinning Cabala and fortune telling. Plying linear time and the financial curtain. His Shadow is still in the way. Be very Aware. Guard your trust. Now more than ever. When we need to trust truth more than ever. Don’t know where it’s going but human extinction is the probability.
It's not inevitable.
@@drubber007 wrong
@@ginkgoteki prove it.
The whole part about finding meaning/a purpose in life strikes me as being incredibly similar to the foundation of Viktor Frankl's Logotherapy, and I'm sure that the Stoics also wrote about "being part of the divine drama" too. It's fascinating how so many of these philosophies intersect. It really makes you feel like you're onto something.
Yep, I was thinking of Frankl during this video, too. I like his principle that even in the most horrible and depressing situations, which we typically use for self pity and despair, there is a way to find meaning.
“Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.”
- Sigmund Freud
This channel actually already made a video Victor Frakl and Logotherapy!! It’s a pretty old video considering it was uploaded 6 years ago.
@@bekind664 thanks
Jung was influenced by Stoicism.
Your videos are very helpful. Thank you.
Contrary to popular belief, life does have a purpose. We're all here to help each other get through the challenges life presents. If you're not helping, you're not just wasting your life, you're part of the problem. Start small, small acts of kindness multiplied by enough people trying, can make real change. Not just for yourself, but for the whole world.
Not a single second is waste. With the quotes and portraits your video was very inspring and helpful, thank you!
Thanks Academy team for the great content. Philosophy has been life support for me managing a disability. It truly is nourishing for the soul. Huge fan of Jung and the shadow concept. I appreciate this video. 👍🏼👍🏼
They do a good job of it don’t they?
Do you know that philosophy is the deep end of the ocean where all good things come to die..... mate swim to the shallow end it's more fun, and if life ain't all about fun, what's it for?
OH NO GUYS I'M RUNNING OUT OF TIME TO BUILD MY SANDCASTLE WHICH WILL INEVITABLY WASH AWAY INTO THE SEA ANYWAY." Carl Jung is an idiot, I'm sorry but western intellectuals are stupid. It's all based on ignoring death, otherwise you wouldn't be crying about wasting your time.
Did you donate money 💵?
How did you do that 📟?🤔
Edit: Never mind, I see the thanks button now 😅
My life has meaning when I give it meaning.
I make the world a more beautiful place.
It's comparable to a daily dose of vitamins.....for the brain!
Thanks a million!
I’ve been obsessed with self improvement most of my life. I never felt good enough for my parents. I didn’t understand that their inability to love me and be there for me was their shortcoming and not mine. I became fixated on fixing what I perceived was wrong with me. I did 10 years of psychotherapy. Numerous Myers Briggs and Enneagram workshops. Endless self help books. Loads of courses. Spent thousands of pounds. All along avoiding the real question “what if you’re fine just the way you are”. So much time and money I could have put in to others things. It’s taken me a long time to accept that I don’t have to earn the right to exist. And if I want to earn enough money just to pay my bills and live a comfortable life and all I want to do with my time is read books and walk in the woods and hang out with the people I love them that’s enough. We’re given this constant message that if we’re not productive enough or happy all the time we must buy this product or buy this book or follow this FB group, etc etc, get this side hustle, improve our follower count. All a distraction from actually living. Capitalism doesn’t want a contented populace because a content person doesn’t buy things. Capitalism creates a constant need where none exists. We think we can’t be happy until we have it all. It’s a lie. All we need is a warm, dry home, some sunshine, some nice food and clean water and a hot shower. And people we love to share our time with. That’s it.
I hope you are doing well. Btw What is your job profession sir.
Yes the money machine is a pathway to living an incomplete life
Love it! 💯!
Amen
More people need to read this you knocked the wind out of me thank you
Such amazing content. I cannot tell you how much I appreciate the videos that you put out and how helpful they have been over the years. Especially where I’m at currently with my journey of self discovery. Thank you.
Beautiful words by Jung, I love it. Pretty much sums up everyone I see in my life, and also many of my own faults. This has inspired me further on my own journey.
Thank you.
Apparently, when you’re depressed is when you’re living in the past. Anxiety is when you’re thinking about the future. While living in the present is devoid of pain and suffering.
Blessings. 💖💖💖
Not facts, just saying
huh?
👍 I was mesmerized by Jung's ability to transcend materialism and clearly state that to live a fulfilled life is what we need to strive for and commit ourselves to do; not the capture of things or people that are basically unfulfilling. What beautiful insight.
I am an artist specifically a songwriter/musician/recording artist… this takes many “things” as I’m not exactly drawing on cave walls .
what’s tragic about this is that there are highly-esteemed people who are proponents of “the peak of one mountain is the bottom of another so NEVER STOP CLIMBING”. no wonder a lot of folks see contentment as a negative virtue and then consequently remain in a fatigued and dissatisfied state after a lot has been said and done.
@@classygary I know. Another problem I had with some of the commentary in the video was that, for some, the sense of purpose might entail the seeking of an audience and thus a quest for recognition and fame, and so should *not* necessarily be treated as mutually exclusive from them. The problem would be if fame and recognition are sought as ends in themselves, as opposed to being incidental to a higher purpose.
@@orriHirro Excellent. Rarely do I hear anyone speak to this. To be content is a good life. In general I believe humans are too busy on the planet, consuming everything in our path, destroying the beauty that surrounds us to replace it with ugliness & "progress". And for what? To feed the machine that benefits the few at the expense of the many. Time to get off this merry go round to nowhere.
your videos are always pretty profound but this one particularly hit close to home. thanks.
I was just exhausted, feeling burnt out with no control whatsoever on myself. But this video calmed me, I truly don't know why but it did calmed my nerves. Thank you for making this.
AOI, you've distilled pure gold here. You are an alchemist, here, working on Jung's sublime wisdom, bringing it to a wider audience. You should have this essay printed into propaganda leaflets and dropped from airplanes all around the world. Everyone needs to read (or hear) these words.
Best Channel on RUclips 🐐
Yes, we must learn to critically think for ourselves, and stop believing what SM, and MSM say, especially corrupt politicians.
Exactly. I learned that from 2020 situation.
The words that the Pueblo Indian said brought light into my heart. Thanks for sharing !
Jedinej, kdo opravdu mrhá mým časem, jste vy...
Dnešní schůzka byla ta nejzbytecnejsi, co jsem kdy zažil....
I clearly recall at 11 years old, overnight, I lost the ability to enjoy anything. Life never felt the same again, and I never shook off this sick feeling that is present every waking hour. Only a person who has experienced this could understand, including doctors and therapists, so few understand what real depression is. Yet most of my life I have managed to function, to the extent that I survive
My favorite channel on RUclips. Bravo 👏👏👏 it's almost like you condensed Carl Jung's life's work into a 15min video. Absolutely brilliant 🤠
The story of the woman going from place to place rings true for me. I was the same as her once, when i stopped and stood still I saw my mind start to change, I started to enter a depression and was like that for about 2 years. I had died, and realized it was a good thing that I did. Without it I couldn't grow as a person. I still have some issues, but I now see what they are and how I can resolve them.
How did you make this change?
@@zain4019 General meditative techniques, good diet, regular exercise, writing things down in a journal, that sort of thing :)
@@zain4019 surrender and control your thoughts and emotions
I like seeing stories of hope like yours. It is inspirational. I don't mean to put you on a pedestal like a super hero. The changes you mentioned is something that everyone can easily do. I've done them often enough but didn't stick with it. I'm trying to make those changes again. A big part of it is willing to sit still, to sit with your feelings of anxiety and depression. And to be there still doing meditation, or going for a walk. To do the better things while having negative feelings, rather than to subsume yourself in mindless activity or to numb yourself with alcohol or something else. It's not really that doing the better thing is exactly hard. I think what's hard is becoming more aware of the hard feelings you've suppressed for so long while doing the more positive activities.
Yup
There is much to learn from Uncle Carl. I love your videos, great work man.
Wow. Gosh.
This video struck me really hard.
I'm on the bottom now. I have no meaning, no purpose, no direction in life.
I'm nihilistic, cynical, and resentful.
All I do is find reasons not to live and deprive this world of any value.
I've heard these ideas from Jordan Peterson because he's fond of Carl Jung and they were working for me before, but now I'm in a deep pit again.
Your video really helped me to "click", to make the puzzle combined, to see what I didn't want to see and acknowledge.
Thank you so much!
Not a coincidence I was just thinking ab this for awhile and it’s the first thing that pop ups when the thought does
I love you man! Many times, the theme of your videos are so well timed to what is going on in my life or things that I'm thinking. I appreciate all you guys do.
I have to say your videos are way too good. I have not seen this kind of content of youtube so far.
After watching this video and learning also in the comments about seeking fulfillment I feel really good.
It can happen to people who are older too. You suddenly become aware that the dreams and goals that you had don't interest you anymore, circumstances change people come and go from your life. You basically have to reinvent yourself and this takes time too letting go of old ideas and finding new ones, but you must never give up the search for meaning.
From what I learned from videos and TV shows I watch as well as what I was told by my younger sister, the meaning to life is to just live it. I cannot live, if I cannot survive. I cure myself of the unchosen suffering I am going through and end my own pain.
Simply put, give your life a narrative.
Timely video.
A recent study found that people with depression don't have low serotonin as was believed,so SSRI's are not treating a chemical imbalance.
There are different types of depression, simple situation "depression" due to events etc and actual severe clinical depression as seen is illnesses like Schizophrenia, Bipolar I and Major Depression. You can't just tell someone with these illnesses to simply snap out of being depressed.
Could give the name of this study please? I would like to look at it. Thanks!
@@Simon-vy8fe "The serotonin theory of depression: a systematic umbrella review of the evidence"
@@aless5207 Thanks!
@@MuantanamoMobile Nobody said what you're claiming. They are merely mentioning a large, longterm study that concluded it's not a chemical imbalance. No form of depression is caused by a chemical imbalance.
This might be the most meaningful and soothing video I've ever watched! And logical, too. Good job.
The trifecta of : want (not) to - (not) have to - (not) able to
Is a healthy tool to find out your struggles and make them easier. If you ask yourself what you want (really deeply want), you will also ask yourself what is necessary to achieve your goal.
A comment I relate to in this section said: "I had anxiety and depression. I tried eating healthy and exercising. It did not help. It got worse".
If your goal is shallow, like: 'I want to have a healthy body', but your real goal is to get better emotionally, the efforts does not feel fulfilling. It is the fullfilment of personal achievements in the long term, that will ultimately cure our problems.
I want to live a happy life. What makes me happy? Then chase these things (if not hollow and fleeting joys, but lasting happiness) and become a new you.
You deserve your best. But only you, can grant it to you.
Thank You . A great relief to know about the dark side of me and that all of us have it. We just need to embrace the dark sodr and work on it .
All Thy Blessings .🙏🙏🙏💕💕💕
“People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own soul. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.”. ― Carl Jung.
What a great way to start my morning! Amazing, thank you for sharing 💜
The loss of learnings of the transcendent has been a major factor. Central to noble truths in the pathway to peace is acceptance that life is suffering. This teaching has been around for 2,500 years, and its equivalents present in many spiritual and traditional cultural teachings and practices. It has been lost for many western cultures and increasingly in other cultures as they move away from traditions
Materialism is a veil over the eyes.
My mother's expectation was that her children be happy all the time. No sadness, hurt, anger, disappointment allowed. We grew up to be clinically depressed. What a revelation it was for me to learn in therapy that life is suffering. Changed everything.
Astonished with quality, it's like a strong vortex of philosophical information pulling my consciousness to enjoy its rich truth.
Best content on ALL of the internet.
I wish more appreciated its value.
Any man can be buried by tragedy, strength does not originate from pain and suffering, it comes instead from our ability to overcome it.
Very true
Viktor E. Frankl states in his book ‘Man’s Search For Meaning’ that those who had purpose, were the ones most likely to survive the horrors of the concentration camps. We need a meaning in life. Logotherapy.
@@PeterMalkovich552 I agree with you completely, but I love the Academy of Ideas and I think that it does truly help a large percentage of people to be happier if they have the illusion that their lives have a meaning. I think the ego is strong in many people and unless satisfied can lead to mental problems and correspondingly bad behaviors.
Your phrase 'use with extreme caution' is very insightful. 👍
Getting on the right track at a young age seems to be the best thing I can think of. But it's not an option for all of us. Life is not fair.
It’s an “option” for all of US. But not usually an accomplishment. haha. The correct track is a worthy ideal. Throughout one’s life. In the meantime, Love is a process -Again and Again and Again.
It’s like you missed the point of the video. No matter how hard life is, you have to face your options and get to work. Strong times bred tough men.
how young?
Wonderful artwork to depict and illustrate excellent content. Thank you☮
Islam gives our life a lot of sense, tells you why are you here, how to live your daily life, and your destination. Makes a lot of sense
are these paintings ever referenced?
I think this would be great for your description box and also encouraging to the comprehension of paintings in context (which is often very difficult by-the-way)
as always - very impressive work
much thanks!
Here you go - academyofideas.com/2022/08/how-to-stop-wasting-your-life-carl-jung-as-therapist/#art
some of the paintings didnt do proper represantation but still good
I already know it’s going to be wonderful 💜
We are lucky that you choose your MEANING of life in making such wise content creation! It if not making us meaningful, it is definitely clears confusion and push us forward to live the meaningful life.
Jung is the boss. An adventurer of the mind. Love the video artworks.
I am so glad I found this channel ithe content is amazing and really opens my eyes of understanding beyond what I have know and some that I have never put to words. thank you!
Great video, thank you!! When I first heard about the shadow I couldn’t really understand it or what was necessary to Integrate it. This video I find explained both the best.
*THIS IS FOR YOUR SUCCESS*
No matter what’s going on in your life right now, i am very sure there’s something and somewhere you’re missing it, so try and get a means that will have you feeling inspired, motivated, and understood; so you can take your next steps to success.
Because your success and greatness is my pleasure
Thanks for reading
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The problem is we have this arrogant view that we are characters in a story so we need to be epic and interesting. We aren't. Don't waste your life trying to live up to the measures of others. Life is free of such petty concerns. Don't Harm others and try to live a peaceful life. Accomplishments are great but don't make them the FOCAL point of your every waking moment. All time is ultimately wasted so stop trying to accrue points for a game no one is watching. If you are going to do something do it because YOU want to and you love doing it. Fuck the respect and praise of others.
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Yes, most people are wasting their lives. Most people do not have the time or ambition to properly go within. We are in the process of getting it right.
It is a life‘s work to reset the factory default settings!
Still, there are increasing glimpses of joy. And I talk to ‚the little lost one‘ whenever I remember that they need a lot of love, compassion and forgiveness. It’s myself I need to forgive, somehow.
I like the part he said about knowing one's "shadow", although to me it's more aptly named the "subconscious", and that being honest with oneself (and others) is the key to that. In his time people probably did fixate on the past, and thus avoid confronting the problem in the present, but I think both have their relevance. I agree with this general idea that people are seeking a meaningful life, they need it, although I disagree in part people can convince themselves that the pursuit of money or fame is a meaningful life and actually be "happy", although not really, and if they can't find a "meaningful life", many people turn to drugs and alcohol or other subtle forms of escaping reality.
This was very well done. The quotes, though pieces of his approach, were very well placed and I loved how the art both illustrated the ideas and were simply there to keep aesthetic attention.
As someone who has been stuck inside for over 5 years because of Agoraphobia.. The first 10 seconds of this video was fkn devastating to me.
There is no shame in needing help , i think going outside is your current ‘ helping your father over the horyzon ‘ best of luck to you i believe in you
I think because of covid lockdowns the rest of us can all relate to your situation in some way . Now is the time for you to venture out. Use this moment of revelation as your ladder up and out.❤🙏
I suffer from the same thing. The further you drift from your comfort zone the more you worry you can't make it back in time in case of emergency. That is my experience anyway but I got a job driving a truck and I had to drive all over the state which was exposure therapy in a way. It helped me immensely. Try to get a job or hobby which forces you away from your comfort zone in a beneficial way. It's worked for me greatly. You'll beat it 👍🏻
when I was suffering with it I was trying to always fix myself the more I tried to fix myself the worse I got.
It wasn't till I found a meaning that I broke free , kind of like it said in the video about the tribes man and the western woman
Go outside bro. Just go for a walk.
Never have I ever watched a more profound video, that inexplicably describes the struggle of probably everyone is the west right now. Outstanding content.
A very clear explanation 🙏✨🙏 so palpable and given with a nice warm voiceover.Grateful !✌️
Jung said about the idea of ancient narrative like religion the conceptualize that people are playing their role in their own drama they dedicated to something beyond themself and that was positive emotion, inspiration , motivation and meaningful life their are the reason to get up early in the morning to get things done.
and Jung make contrast with Nietzsche idea by this point ,”Humanity can’t create their own value and after the death of god ,we are lose with no direction till we end up with mental illness and anxiety disorder .
Thank you for this wonderful teaching you've shared with us, it is life transforming. One small note, just trying to help or understand better: I believe the word "banal" is not pronounced like "anal", I believe it is pronounced like "canal", with the emphasis on the 2nd syllable - but I may be ignorant here of regional pronunciation differences - if that is the case, then of course there is no such thing as better or worse when it comes to such differences and in that case please forgive my two cents and toss them away.
such a great Presentation. Thank you so much
Philosophy is always the best content to understand why you exist and what you must do to overcome the suffering of the trap you find yourself in. I thank this channel for feeding our minds so we can see what is necessary to do.
First right religion.
I suffered through a 4 year period of major depression. I had no idea how others could help me and had long since learned to keep my (emotional and physical) distance.
That was a bad combination and why things took so long, but I slowly realized that my thoughts were stuck in a downward spiral of negativity, reasoned into a deadlock left and right.
The only way to get out was to acknowledge the tangle that was my thought process, then unravel each major thread one by one and see where it lead. Turns out, most of them were philosophical conclusions based off of experiences I'd had gone through in the past. I literally had to face myself to the deepest level to get out of that hell, where the biggest changes occurred when I had what's called a 'paradigm shift'. Literally a new perspective to put things in a whole new light, in turn offering a way out of that particular deadlock.
I guess that's what the 'shadow' was. To this day, I carry two beads in a necklace. One onyx - to never forget that hell, and one pearl - to 'store' the positive things I have since experienced
The one thing I continue to struggle with is spirituality. I've never been religious and don't see myself becoming it, but I also don't know what non-religious spirituality might even be. That's my next challenge.
While this is good advice, what Jung doesn't understand is the distinction between people's reduced to a speck of existence living a more tribal society where combined as a unified whole, each functioning as its integral part, a person can find his or her path and feel contentment.
However when transitioning into a unique personalized existence, it takes more care and thought to who and what one is. His initial observation on dealing with the shadow is an absolute necessity and ultimately the main issue inherent to this life. You can also see a dramatic difference in the personalities, attitudes, and why some people use social media and other things, finding greater purpose of their own making, rather than seeking to fill in the hole of their existence with whatever short lived spark of excitement or a sense of meaning it gives them.
The difference between someone who uses it to document the world in their travels and understanding different cultures, versus someone who just goes to different restaurants and takes pictures of the food. Someone seeking to see and learn versus someone who has no external desire to learn or seek or grow, just experience on a lower level of connection to a new place. The difference between someone who will enter a temple, look at different pillars, frescoes, art, pictographs, etc. and either share what they've learned about it or bring in people to share, versus someone who just takes a photo and has some nonsensical almost non-sequitor statement unrelated to the intent or meaning just for shits and giggles.
The type of culture we've built has the potential for so much more than the cultures of most indigenous people, but it requires that much greater sacrifice, as the battle one faces becomes the battle of oneself. No matter what cultural norms society thrusts upon us, it's ultimately our choice to either adopt those norms or question them and seek an independent path because we CAN. Ultimately allowing for unlimited personal expression within the bounds of our society, rather than simply finding grace and solitude in almost a robotic existence.
I'll add one thing that the Native American tribes Jung visited do have that we lack for, and are rebuilding, which he doesn't quite understand, but often touches upon in his work. Spirituality. A connection to something beyond our existence, and a connection to an exoconsciousness. Most of this has to do with understanding the nature of the ego, why it was created, what it is, and finding your true self inside...your inner voice and with it, tying the ego to it (or in some philosophies, erasing the ego, but ultimately the ego is absorbed into the true self as an aspect of what brought one to this point in life), and from there finding your actual intended path that your true self actually wishes you to be on.
What Jung is also unaware of is that life is not intended to be difficult or a struggle. That's a very modern take. Struggle is only a key ingredient in learning from a lower realm spiritual path, and a necessary ingredient for the ego to derive purpose, meaning, principals, and ultimately learn that material possessions and social wants are meaningless without higher purpose, so seek the inner being (or for most, seek a higher consciousness, which in modern day means seeking it externally...and yet the true path, which is funny enough, the core of psychology, is seek it internally, internal dialogue, seeking who one really is beyond the scope of what society plugs into us as rules, ethics, morals, ways of being and acting, etc.).
The other is that he almost grasps the nature of the path of the fool, without seeing it or recognizing it. If you look at the tarot, and the various archetypes, you can see that psychology is interlinked, especially pre-modern deconstructionism psychology, but it's present even within the bounds of those newer philosophies on the nature of existence. As well the different paths on the tree of life (and the tree of death if you ever look into it...path of the shadow where you're not seeking to understand the shadow to cast your inner unexpressed being or darkest desires into light, but rather embracing them in a way of following them in the conscious reality...yeah, it's not good, as it's a complete inverse of psychology, the tarot, and the tree of life).
So within the bounds of the path of the Fool, which also connects to the Sage or Godhead, one has to travel through the abyss, bypassing all other potential life paths from a center point. The Abyss is the muck of all knowledge, all things internal. Essentially in Jungian terms, going so far into shadow work that you actually breach the subconscious to unlock EVERYTHING you've held back there. All dark thoughts, all suppressed harms, memories of what others have done, anything you've done yourself that you either aren't proud of, or that you feel or felt were wrong based on external influences, what Jung terms the suppression of self for the benefit of others or due to what others want of us, such as anger and the ability to battle for oneself, but also unrealized dreams, artistic creations, etc. Everything. This includes positive memories long since hidden, but in spiritual circles it's usually described as the place the Hermes/Messenger travels to and from, and the place of all knowledge hidden from oneself when one is not engaged with their higher/true self, and if you go further, the place where you create your inner demons and darkest fantasies that just keep piling up. So in cleaning house, shining a light on that path of understanding and recognition, one finds their way to the light or the Godhead. From there a fulfilled existence because any action taken is one that one is supposed to do, is fulfilling a purpose of intention, even if it is basic experience, it has a higher intention not devoted to an ego devoid of its self, but for that person as a whole to fully engage with and thus enjoy what is there for what it is without it needing to fulfill any larger purpose. Or to fulfill a larger purpose, whatever the true self is. The point is not to take actions or do things to fill in a hole or a gap, but to actually see, learn, grow, experience in a child-like way of awe and fun.
There is a difference in how someone who has found a spiritual existence who take to things Jung determines as filling in gaps in a "banal" existence versus someone who is doing literally as he says. They're happy in the act of doing the thing or seeing, or listening, or being there, and happy when it's done. Ready to move onto something else or fully engaging with what it is. There is no depression in that being, no lack of expectation. A thing is what it is, and it is to be experienced as it was meant to.
In anycase, cheers.
U could have said all that in way less words.
@@shipaskof8371 It would miss out on a lot of detail. Sure if you prefer concise and simple words and then fill in the detail gap yourself, but that's boring.
It isn't like I repeated myself needlessly either. Half the fun of reading something well worded is that it often adds in necessary details that help expand or enhance the argument/point. At least for me anyhow.
That said, yeah, and it probably would have been about half as long.
It's also not much to read. That's a good 20s.
Could not have said it better. Thanks for the insight. When watching the video I was thinking maybe Jung idealized the native tribes a bit much as an outsider looking in and missed out on the fundamental shift in social structure.
@@lilpoodle2680 Yes, it seems that going back to the tribal mentalty and its ways of life isn't a right path towards a more meaningful life.
For me, one of the Greatest lines in any movie was in the Sound Of Music, when Captain Von Trapp tells the Baroness, "activity suggests a life filled with purpose." I keep that quote in my mind to help me reflect on what ever task or travel I am doing.
Suppressing anger is not necessarily a bad thing, we need to "soul search" and use our words when we're around other people.
Or else you run the risk of pushing loved ones away/scarring them mentally, and worst case scenario you become a rageaholic, which is an actual term.
Oh wow, and here I was just looking for content for my English students...... thank you for yet another brilliant video!
Your RUclips Channel is so giving, Thank you when I can I will contribute.
Here are some goals that may or may not give your life meaning:
- Produce the finest songs to please mother Music and grant you more creativity
- Paint the perfect painting to keep father Art alive and smiling
- Lift the most amount of weights to make father Chad bless you with even more strength
- Help a person or more everyday to make mother Nature happy and proud of you
- Bake the perfect cake for father Ramsay compliment your chiefdom
Ha! These are perfect.
I just take care of my kids and animals. Knowing they depend on me for life is enough for me.
lmao father Chad
i am that guy i have missed waste most my life. missed out on lots of things, never had a birthday party, never been to a wedding never been to a funeral, never been on a mad lads holiday have zero friends low income. 34 couldnt make it up its all true. im only recently deciding to do driving lessons and make small talk with people.
Keep trying @shaolinskunks88, life will get better. All the best to you.
One step after another! :) Believe in yourself. I also believe in you!
@@etiennestocker6314 Thanks! Yes, one step after another!
i hope you’re doing well. i wish you happiness, love, and everything you deserve in this world.
@@priscillalerma5830 im losing weight people starting to notice me now.
As Jung said, comfort and peace are not our natural state.
Life is not as easy as we think, shape it in a way to make the path smooth.
Stuff happens. Life goes on!
Excellent, excellent video! 100%.