Aging people should know that their lives are not mounting and unfolding but that an inexorable inner process forces the contraction of life. For a young person it is almost a sin—and certainly a danger—to be too much occupied with himself; but for the aging person it is a duty and a necessity to give serious attention to himself. ~Carl Jung Self Realization of the Unconscious
Through Ancient Eyes
JH- I was reading about this practice that the ancient Egyptians had of opening the mouth of the dead. It was a ritual and I think we don't do that with our hands. But opening the Red Book seems to be opening the mouth of the dead.
SS- It takes blood. That's what it takes. The work is Jung's "book of the dead". His descent into the underworld, in which there's attempt to find the way of relating to the dead. He came to the realization that unless we come to terms with the dead simply cannot live, and that our life is dependent on finding answers to their unanswered questions.
JH- Their unanswered questions.
(Hillman J., Shamdasani S., The Lament of the Dead. Psychology After Jung's Red Book, 2013)
“Be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.” (Matthew 10:16)
"The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware." -Henry Miller
"The aim of individuation is nothing less than to divest the self of the false wrappings of the persona on the one hand, and of the suggestive power of primordial images on the other." ~Carl Jung, The Function of the Unconscious, Collected Works 7, Paragraph 269
"Self-reflection, or – what comes to the same thing – the urge to individuation, gathers together what is scattered and multifarious and exalts it to the original of the One, the Primordial Man. In this way our existence as separate beings, our former ego nature, is abolished, the circle of consciousness is widened, and because the paradoxes have been made conscious, the sources of conflict are dried up."
~Carl Jung, Collected Works 11, Transformation Symbolism in the Mass , Paragraph 401
According to Sardello, our task in facing the threat of total annihilation is to find a way to regenerate our world, both inner and outer, psychic and physical, through the power of love born not of existential security but of the inescapable presence of annihilation. [T]he presence of a lethal, traumatizing condition prompts and demands the emergence of an even greater vivifying force. A traumatic condition begs a bio-psychic genesis, an instinctive and spiritual arising of new life.
Finding new life through the profound acceptance of death is the paradoxical solution. In paradox, we stand at the threshold of life’s resurgence. Holding fast the divergent reins of painful dissonance, we enter realms of deeper healing.
http://www.cgjungpage.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=574&Itemid=40
Through Ancient Eyes
JH- I was reading about this practice that the ancient Egyptians had of opening the mouth of the dead. It was a ritual and I think we don't do that with our hands. But opening the Red Book seems to be opening the mouth of the dead.
SS- It takes blood. That's what it takes. The work is Jung's "book of the dead". His descent into the underworld, in which there's attempt to find the way of relating to the dead. He came to the realization that unless we come to terms with the dead simply cannot live, and that our life is dependent on finding answers to their unanswered questions.
JH- Their unanswered questions.
(Hillman J., Shamdasani S., The Lament of the Dead. Psychology After Jung's Red Book, 2013)
“Be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.” (Matthew 10:16)
"The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware." -Henry Miller
"The aim of individuation is nothing less than to divest the self of the false wrappings of the persona on the one hand, and of the suggestive power of primordial images on the other." ~Carl Jung, The Function of the Unconscious, Collected Works 7, Paragraph 269
"Self-reflection, or – what comes to the same thing – the urge to individuation, gathers together what is scattered and multifarious and exalts it to the original of the One, the Primordial Man. In this way our existence as separate beings, our former ego nature, is abolished, the circle of consciousness is widened, and because the paradoxes have been made conscious, the sources of conflict are dried up."
~Carl Jung, Collected Works 11, Transformation Symbolism in the Mass , Paragraph 401
According to Sardello, our task in facing the threat of total annihilation is to find a way to regenerate our world, both inner and outer, psychic and physical, through the power of love born not of existential security but of the inescapable presence of annihilation. [T]he presence of a lethal, traumatizing condition prompts and demands the emergence of an even greater vivifying force. A traumatic condition begs a bio-psychic genesis, an instinctive and spiritual arising of new life.
Finding new life through the profound acceptance of death is the paradoxical solution. In paradox, we stand at the threshold of life’s resurgence. Holding fast the divergent reins of painful dissonance, we enter realms of deeper healing.
http://www.cgjungpage.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=574&Itemid=40