Spiritual Portal

Find anything you like here?

https://youtu.be/lZ62b5JjO6Q?si=gIkyfAgdidBoLSpE

There are some good one's in here we'd all benefit in recognizing.

I can say, with regards to the quote below, I have witnessed and experienced this in my life and here at the spiritual portal:

“Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.” ~Carl Jung

Or since it is every addiction; let us not forget pragmatism, cult and personality worship also and in the case of Carl Jung; who I admired immensely; psychology addiction .

Steve Hydonus

Steve, did you give the video a watch?

Any quote speak to you?

I will tell you after I listen more thoughtfully because you have suggested so. They are not so easy to interiorize since they go by so quickly.

They're all juicy but there were a few that really stirred my senses.

"Thinking is difficult, that's why most people judge."

"You are not what happened to you, you are what you choose to become."

"Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research."

 :)

“I regret to tell you, 🐔 Chicken 🐓 Little has planned your demise.”

I guess that one tops them all!

Thanks 😊 for bringing in some of your personal favorites, instead of your personal reaction as I did. Sometimes I react in unusual ways to ideas and things presented to me because I am not sure as yet how to respond or if various ideas presented to me need responses. Instead of telling you my personal favorites from the video or my response to yours, I want to tell you how I feel about this subject and thread. Eric  (and anyone looking in) I remember some of my studies working towards a Masters degree n psychology. Many of them centered around Jung, because the thrust of my research was on psychic abilities and phenomena since they were more closely monitored than spirituality which is the main theme of this site. Although there were some other new psychologies coming out at the time like Gestalt and others, the main proponent of a spiritual psychology was Carl Jung.

What interests him in relation to us here at the portal is the research and development of a psychology that included psychic phenomena, spiritual experiences and dream interpretation. I find that your (Eric) interest in some of his quotes may lead to a more general interest in his concepts, since he brought some of the ideas you have recently discussed a hundred years back and our currently coming out in mainstream media.

On the subject of dreams that may interest Eric the most, since his are so involved, Carl Jung stated for the most part that since dreams came from the unconscious they were mainly a way of expressing deep inner realizations to come to the surface. Whereas dreams that coordinated with conscious awareness and recognition were not as common and called parallel dreams.

If I had to guess,
I'd wager that Carl Jung believed in a collective being- or simply put
Consciousness, as all there is-
But this is just my guess.

I also liked when he said,

"Your soul craves recklessness, not your wisdom."
or I think it was, "The soul demands your folly, not your wisdom."

It reminds me that none of us have it figured out, and that we're here for experiential wisdom. Not to cautiously live but to err and learn. Some consider that a beautiful journey.

My self included.

Parallel dreams dreams who’s meeting coincides with or supports the conscious attitude but in my experience, at least these are a rather rare.

Jung differentiates between a ‘subjective’ level and an ‘objective’ level to dreams. In the first perspective, the figures and elements of the dream are interpreted as representing parts or qualities of the dreamer’s personality (especially conflictual parts, i.e. complexes), whereas in the objective perspective, they are seen as representing persons or entities existing in reality. In dreams, the unconscious psyche attempts to support ego consciousness and foster a process of personality integration by pointing to parts of the psyche not yet integrated into the whole of personality, or to indicate unresolved conflicts. Through dreams, the unconscious, because it contains a more holistic knowledge about the development and integration of personality, brings new information to consciousness, which can then be integrated, if a conscious understanding of the information is possible. This is the aim of dream interpretation in psychotherapy.

Carl Jung’s ideas

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1468-5922.12566

And;

The Potable Jung

collective unconscious, term introduced by psychiatrist Carl Jung to represent a form of the unconscious (that part of the mind containing memories and impulses of which the individual is not aware) common to mankind as a whole and originating in the inherited structure of the brain. It is distinct from the personal unconscious, which arises from the experience of the individual. According to Jung, the collective unconscious contains archetypes, or universal primordial images and ideas.