One cannot individuate without being with other human beings.
Nietzsche’s Zarathustra: Notes of the Seminar Given in 1934 – 1939
One cannot individuate without being with other human beings.
One cannot individuate on top of Mt. Everest, or in a cave where one doesn’t see anyone for seventy-years; one can only individuate with or against something or somebody.
Being an individual is always a link in a chain.
~Carl Jung, Nietzche’s “Zarathustra”: notes of the seminar given in 1934-1939 by C. G. Jung, Page 102
Individuation is not an intensification of consciousness, it is very much more.
Individuation is not an intensification of consciousness, it is very much more.
For you must have the consciousness of something before it can be intensified, and that means experience, life lived.
You can only be really conscious of things which you have experienced, so individuation must be understood as life.
Only life integrates, only life and what we do in life makes the individual appear.
You cannot individuate, for instance, by locking yourself up in a cell, you can only individuate in your concrete life, you appear in your
deed; there you can individuate and nowhere else.
Real consciousness can only be based upon life; upon things experienced, but talking about these things is just air.
It is a sort of conscious understanding, but it is not individuation.
Individuation is the accomplishment through life.
For instance, say a cell begins to divide itself and to differentiate and develop into a certain plant or a certain animal; that is the process of individuation.
It is that one becomes what one is, that one accomplishes one’s destiny, all the determinations that are given in the form of the germ; it is the unfolding of the germ and becoming the primitive pattern that one was born with. ~Carl Jung, Visions Seminar, Pages 757-758
Carl Jung on the & Golden Thread
Dr. Jung talked about the various forms of relationship, about sexuality, about friendship (which is mitigated desire, with its obligations to write frequently and so on.).
There is a third kind of relationship, the only lasting one in which it is as though there were an invisible telegraph wire between two humans.
He said, “I call it, to myself, the Golden Thread.”
This may be masked by other forms of relationship.
And other forms may be present without any such thread in them.
It is only when the veil of maya, of illusion, is rent for us that we can begin to recognize the Golden Thread.
He went on to speak of the three realities that make up the individuated state; God; the Self; and Relatedness.
Or in Christian terms: God, Father, and Son; the Spirit, or Self; and the Kingdom of Heaven.
And just as it is impossible to individuate without relatedness, so it is impossible to have real relationships without individuation.
For otherwise illusion comes in continually, and you don’t know where you are. ~E. Harding, Conversations with Jung, Pages 10-11.
Individuation is not an intensification of consciousness, it is very much more.
Individuation is not an intensification of consciousness, it is very much more.
For you must have the consciousness of something before it can be intensified, and that means experience, life lived.
You can only be really conscious of things which you have experienced, so individuation must be understood as life.
Only life integrates, only life and what we do in life makes the individual appear.
You cannot individuate, for instance, by locking yourself up in a cell, you can only individuate in your concrete life, you appear in your
deed; there you can individuate and nowhere else.
Real consciousness can only be based upon life; upon things experienced, but talking about these things is just air.
It is a sort of conscious understanding, but it is not individuation.
Individuation is the accomplishment through life.
For instance, say a cell begins to divide itself and to differentiate and develop into a certain plant or a certain animal; that is the process of individuation.
It is that one becomes what one is, that one accomplishes one’s destiny, all the determinations that are given in the form of the germ; it is the unfolding of the germ and becoming the primitive pattern that one was born with. ~Carl Jung, Visions Seminar, Pages 757-758
