“This is just a point which then opens up into an incredible structure of theoretical detail and ion some 20 years later.
But at this point, the self is a point, an attitude, that bridges conscious and unconscious, is not involved in participación mystique, characterized by detachment, and is
beyond the reach of emotional entanglements and violent shocks.”
continued
From Jungianthology Radio: Understanding the Meaning of Alchemy.
“in this letting go, breakdown of participation mystique and taking back projections, a
new center of awareness or a center of consciousness develops that Jung says is a midpoint between conscious and unconscious.
outside of participation mystique, but it observes the world. It isn't unrelated to the world outside or the world inside. It's an observation point.”
From Jungianthology Radio: Understanding the Meaning of Alchemy: Jung’s Metaphor for the Transformative Process, Jun 19, 2017
There is something to this. Heidegger writes similarly in places, as do some mystical writers, e.g., Evelyn Underhill, Friedrich von Hűgel, etc. The particulars are, of course, nuanced,
and cannot be taken up in a short space.
the archetypes expressed individually, yet revealing universal energies.
Jung links the collective unconscious to the fact that all humans have the same bone structure. i can feel it in my bones, as is said.
i think that's a good metaphor but not merely a metaphor in the sense people use it to brush it off.
metaphor/active imagination/transformative energy.
thanks for the reference, which others may also find helpful.
as it happens, i have a sample of that in my Kindle app.
all these traditions' ageless wisdom coming together👌🏽
it's wonderful 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Indeed 😊🙏🏻
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You may want to read “Buddhist Phenomenology
A Philosophical Investigation of Yogacara Buddhism and the Ch'eng Wei-shih Lun,”
by Dan Lusthaus