Climbing Your Family Tree One Branch At a Time
TANGLED ROOTS
The individualized soul is not seeking an easy way to get out of the world or to pass it to a redemption or a mystical and compensatory transcendence, because as W.Stevens says to Papini, quoted by Hillman, "It Is more difficult to find the way through the world than the way beyond it". (Stevens, “Reply to Papini,” in The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens)
BARE BONES
How Do You Conceive Yourself?
Genealogy helps us amplify our self-awareness and provide a partial answer to who we are, where we come from, and where we might be going.
What the ancients did for their dead! You seem to believe that you can absolve yourself from the care of the dead, and from the work that they so greatly demand, since what is dead is past. You excuse yourself with your disbelief in the immortality of the soul. Do you think that the dead do not exist because you have' devised the impossibility of immortality? You believe in your idols of words. The dead produce effects, that is sufficient.
In the inner world there is no explaining away, as little as you can explain away the sea in the outer world. You must finally understand your purpose in explaining away, namely to seek protection. ~Carl Jung; Red Book.
"Real liberation comes not from glossing over or repressing painful states of feeling, but only from experiencing them to the full."-Carl Jung.
"A mind that seeks to understand and grasp this is therefore best. Both
bad and good and much of both must be bourne in a lifetime spent on this
earth in these anxious days." --Beowulf
Mankind wishes to love in God only their ideas, that is to say, the ideas which they project into God.
By that they wish to love their unconscious, that Is, that remnant of ancient humanity and the centuries-old past in all people, namely, the common property left behind from all development which is given to all men, like the sunshine and the air.
But in loving this inheritance they love that which is common to all.
Thus they turn back to the mother of humanity, that is to say, to the spirit of the race, and regain in this way something of that connection and of that mysterious and irresistible power which is imparted by the feeling of belonging to the herd.
It is the problem of Antaeus, who preserves his gigantic strength only through contact with mother earth. ~Carl Jung; Psychology of the Unconscious; Pages 200 – 201.
TANGLED ROOTS
The individualized soul is not seeking an easy way to get out of the world or to pass it to a redemption or a mystical and compensatory transcendence, because as W.Stevens says to Papini, quoted by Hillman, "It Is more difficult to find the way through the world than the way beyond it". (Stevens, “Reply to Papini,” in The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens)
BARE BONES
How Do You Conceive Yourself?
Genealogy helps us amplify our self-awareness and provide a partial answer to who we are, where we come from, and where we might be going.
What the ancients did for their dead! You seem to believe that you can absolve yourself from the care of the dead, and from the work that they so greatly demand, since what is dead is past. You excuse yourself with your disbelief in the immortality of the soul. Do you think that the dead do not exist because you have' devised the impossibility of immortality? You believe in your idols of words. The dead produce effects, that is sufficient.
In the inner world there is no explaining away, as little as you can explain away the sea in the outer world. You must finally understand your purpose in explaining away, namely to seek protection. ~Carl Jung; Red Book.
"Real liberation comes not from glossing over or repressing painful states of feeling, but only from experiencing them to the full."-Carl Jung.
"A mind that seeks to understand and grasp this is therefore best. Both
bad and good and much of both must be bourne in a lifetime spent on this
earth in these anxious days." --Beowulf
Mankind wishes to love in God only their ideas, that is to say, the ideas which they project into God.
By that they wish to love their unconscious, that Is, that remnant of ancient humanity and the centuries-old past in all people, namely, the common property left behind from all development which is given to all men, like the sunshine and the air.
But in loving this inheritance they love that which is common to all.
Thus they turn back to the mother of humanity, that is to say, to the spirit of the race, and regain in this way something of that connection and of that mysterious and irresistible power which is imparted by the feeling of belonging to the herd.
It is the problem of Antaeus, who preserves his gigantic strength only through contact with mother earth. ~Carl Jung; Psychology of the Unconscious; Pages 200 – 201.