In this respect consciousness is built analogously to the eye. It is a known fact that the “functional” gods of religion eventually become functions of consciousness. Originally, consciousness did not possess enough free libido to perform any activity plowing, harvesting, hunting, waging war, etc.-of its own “free will,” and was obliged to invoke the help…
The fundamental dualistic conception, in Gnosticism The original unity of the world and God is supposed to have been cleft asunder by some prehuman guilt, and the world born of this rupture must accordingly suffer punishment. The same principle runs through Orphism and Pythagoreanism. In the view of the Gnostics this feeling of privation became…
Here the psychology of the patriarchate ends, Here the psychology of the patriarchate ends, e the psychology of the patriarchate ends, and the psychology of encounter, of surrender and devotion to the Self, of individuation, and of the discovery of the feminine Self begins. These are the two last and highest phases of the psychological…
This world is already of vast extent as the world of Eros Thus the hero’s rescue of the captive corresponds to the discovery of a psychic world. This world is already of vast extent as the world of Eros, embracing everything that man has ever done for woman, everything that he has xperienced and created…
Carl Jung: One could describe these movements . . . as levitation, Jung’s Last Years and Other Essays (Jungian Classics Series) In 1961, the year of his death, looking back on the phenomena he had observed, Jung wrote in a letter: “I have seen objects moving that were not directly touched, and moreover under absolutely…