Connections in the world are not relationships, they are participation mystique
Most connections in the world are not relationships, they are participation mystique [mystical connection].
One is then apparently connected, but of course it is never a real connection, it is never a relationship; but it gives the feeling of being one sheep in a flock at least, which is something.
While if you disqualify yourself as a sheep you are necessarily out of the flock and will suffer from a
certain loneliness, despite the fact that you then have a chance to reestablish a relationship, and
this time a conscious relationship, which is far more satisfactory.
Participation mystique gives one a peculiar unconsciousness, which is in a way a function of the mother; one is carried in unconsciousness.
Sometimes it is nice and sometimes it is not nice at all, but as a rule people prefer it because the average man gets awfully frightened when he has to do something which he cannot share with his world; he is afraid to be alone, to think something which other people don’t think, or to feel something which other people don’t feel.
One is up against man’s gregarious instinct as soon as one tries to transcend the ordinary consciousness. ~Carl Jung, Visions Seminar, Page 625
Carl Jung on Inner World – Anthology
Just as you become a part of the manifold essence of the world through your bodies, so you become a part of the manifold essence of the inner world through your soul. ~Carl Jung, The Red Book, Page 264.
I earnestly confronted my devil and behaved with him as with a real person.
This I learned in the Mysterium: to take seriously every unknown wanderer who personally inhabits the inner world, since they are real because they are effectual. ~Carl Jung, The Red Book, Page 260.
Man is a gateway, through which you pass from the outer world of Gods, daimons, and souls into the inner world, out of the greater into the smaller world. Small and inane is man, already he is behind you, and once again you find yourselves in endless space, in the smaller or inner infinity. ~Carl Jung; The Red Book; Page 354.
The w0rld of the inner is as infinite as the world of the outer. Just as you become a part of the manifold essence of the w0rld through your bodies, so you become a part of the manifold essence of the inner world through your soul. This inner world is truly infinite, in no way poorer than the outer one. Man lives in two worlds. ~Carl Jung, The Red Book, Page 264.
A religious life presupposes a conscious connection of the inner and outer worlds and it requires a constant, meticulous attention to all circumstances to the best of our knowledge and our conscience. We must watch what the gods ordain for us in the outer world, but as well as waiting for developments in the outer world we must listen to the inner w0rld; both worlds are expressions of God. ~Carl Jung, Conversations with C.G. Jung, Page 36.
When the woman experiences the mystery of creativeness in herself, in her own inner w0rld, she is doing the right thing and then no longer demands it from the outside — from her husband, her son, or anyone else close to her. . ~Carl Jung, Conversations with C.G. Jung, Page 29.
Man is not a machine in the sense that he can consistently maintain the same output of work. He can meet the demands of outer necessity in an ideal way only if he is also adapted to his own inner world, that is, if he is in harmony with himself. Conversely, he can only adapt to his inner w0rld and achieve harmony with himself when he is adapted to the environmental conditions. ~Carl Jung; “On Psychic Energy,” CW 8; par. 75.
This is old age, and a limitation. Yet there is so much that fills me: plants, animals, clouds, day and night, and the eternal in man. The more uncertain I have felt about myself, the more there has grown up in me a feeling of kinship with all things. In fact it seems to me as if that alienation which so long separated me from the world has become transferred into my own inner w0rld, and has revealed to me an unexpected unfamiliarity with myself. ~Carl Jung; Memories, Dreams and Reflections; Page 359.
I should like to stress the fact that intense withdrawal from outer reality brings about an animation of the inner w0rld which calls forth these phenomena. ~Carl Jung, ETH Lecture IX,15Dec1933, Page 39.
Conversely, he can only adapt to his inner w0rld and achieve harmony with himself when he is adapted to the environmental conditions. ~Carl Jung, “On Psychic Energy,” par. 75.
We must watch what the gods ordain for us in the outer world, but as well as waiting for developments in the outer world we must listen to the inner w0rld; both worlds are expressions of God. ~Carl Jung, Jung-Ostrowski, Page 39.
In the second half of life one should begin to get acquainted with the inner w0rld. That is a general problem. ~Carl Jung, Letters Vol. II, Page 402.
The religious interest, which ought normally to be the greatest and most decisive factor, turned away from the inner w0rld, and great figures of dogma dwindled to strange and incomprehensible vestiges, a prey to every sort of criticism. ~Carl Jung, CW 5, Para 113.
My family and my profession remained the base to which I could always return, assuring me that I was an actually existing, ordinary person. ~Carl Jung, MDR, Page 189
