Jung, who realized the universality of archetypes, nonetheless maintained that their historical cultural expression was not readily transferable, and could be problematic if exotic deities and rituals were simply adopted.

he suggested that a western way of transcendence would fruitfully arise from Christianity.

currently reading St Edith Stein's The Science of the Cross, a phenomenology of John of the Cross' mystical practice, revealing insights and directions common to Mahayana Buddhism.

mo or correction here.

what we're experiencing is the reaction of the unconscious to an effort to suppress expansion of consciousness on the part of some who fear what is emerging.

as a result, the unconscious produces bizarre psychoses that distort and amplify negative aspects of what is emerging into consciousness.

thus, you have the MAGA obsessions and depravity, which gets projected onto others instead of being recognized as part of their own psychology.

denial is deadly.

you can't defeat the unconscious, since it's the ground, the mud so to speak, from which you grow and, hopefully, flower.

you can't escape the unconscious, into drugs, sex, power, etc. that way leads to death and worse.

integration of unconscious energies into consciousness to create a new way of being-in-the-world, a whole.

that's another possibility.

enantiodromia.

the pendulum swing of human evolutionary consciousness expansion.

we are currently experiencing the reaction of the unconscious to the expansion of consciousness that has been occurring since circa the 60s.

we are facing the same challenges as the WWII generation.

this time, we are stronger and can learn from the past.

look for the differences, which reveal the weaknesses.

this is a psychic event occurring worldwide.

it's a test of faith, in principles, in values, courage

in the process of increasing consciousness,

"libido fights against libido, instinct against instinct,

the unconscious is in conflict with itself,

mythological man perceived the unconscious in all the adversities and contrarieties of external nature

without ever suspecting that he was gazing at the paradoxical background of his own consciousness."

have we really progressed very much from this state of mind?

Kundalini mysteries at Pompeii?

ELON🤨

"May 2024 geomagnetic storm was the first major storm to occur during a new paradigm in low Earth orbit satellite operations dominated by commercial small satellites."

Thanks to Starlink in 2019, Earth now has almost 10,000 active satellites--

When a fraction decide to change course all at once, satellite operators must scramble to track them, making sure they don't collide. This creates a new and unprecedented risk.

problem will get worse in the years ahead "

https://spaceweather.com/

people originally came from trees.

you've seen the tree of life,

here's the tree of the dead.

the Tree of Life
in Egyptian

okay, nauts.

here's a photo of
Gilgamesh with
the herb
of immortality.

to me it looks a helluva lot
like a bouquet of
ripe poppy seed pods😂

urban wild possum cam😍😍😍

MANDALAS to colour

🖍️🖍️🖍️

try this and observe your body's response.

"Breathing in, I am aware of my entire body.

Breathing out, I smile to my entire body."

the power of a smile. how you move body matters.

"The Buddha’s solution is homeopathic rather than allopathic:

you don’t control your thoughts, you transform them, which you do by vowing to liberate others.

The vow creates a path that isn’t a path for beings who aren’t beings.

The practice of charity is the first of the paramitas.

The sutra begins with alms but focuses on the gift of liberation."

Zen Roots

this image, although not a mandala, is symbolically evocative.

"We call the unconscious "nothing," and yet it is a reality in potentia.

The thought we shall think, the deed we shall do, even the fate we shall lament tomorrow, all lie unconscious in our today.

The unknown in us which the affect uncovers was always there and sooner or later would have presented itself to consciousness.

Hence we must always reckon possibilities of future development, perhaps in just such an outburst of affect which sometimes radically alters the whole situation."

some spontaneous mandalas drawn by Jung's patients during therapy. none of them had any previous knowledge of mandalas as such.

his therapy patients produced multitudes of these mandala images.

"mandala means 'circle.' they are all based on the squaring of a circle.

Their basic motif is the premonition of a centre of personality, a kind of central point within the psyche, to which everything is related, by which everything is arranged, and which is itself a source of energy.

The energy of the central point is manifested in the almost irresistible compulsion and urge to become what one is.

This centre is not felt or thought of as the ego but as the self."

"What is the meaning of the frightful regressions of our time?

The development of consciousness through science and technology was too rapid and left the unconscious, which could no longer keep up with it, far behind,

forcing it into a defensive position which expresses itself in a universal will to destruction.

partly by creating a chaos controlled by terrorism, a primitive state that affords only the barest necessities and surpasses in horror the worst times of the "Dark" Ages."