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Depth Psychology and C. G. Jung's
Wisdom
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Many of Jung's inventions are of worth.
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On the following pages C. G. Jung is quoted, rendered and translated ad lib.
Jungian teachings are quite mystic and suggestive, yet much in them can suit self-help
without insistence. Carl Jung went into many sorts of constructs. Many of them have to be
classified as speculative. Maybe he invented some of them, and maybe they are of worth all
the same.
Below are Jungian teachings.

Supporting "well medleys" are presupposed
throughout:
What is mysterious is . . .
Sea, mountains, food, lumber for building houses,
And everything else related to the life of an ordinary man
- Saichi
WRITE PLAINLY, DEARLY. Trust in yourself again and again in this. Also, in the art of
teaching, educators, teachers, parents can become dear by a lovable style. Quite
Martian-looking, yet lovable style is simple, terse and yet careful. Understand it right and
get surprised at how well you see or write through a terse, pregnant style. It is akin to
"plain language" too.
GET TAO AND GOLD EGGS. Each section or subsection can be read like a half-poem, and much can
be fit for Gold Eggs, fit for having good days.
Jung and Doubt in Jung too
THIS could help: sound science and scholar disciplines, cosy to read into and
conclude on top of. Something decent may come out of it.
As can be seen from the number of books related to his work, and scholarly
references to him, parts of Jung's thought has become much in vogue, but just blunt belief
in his sayings was far from what he wanted. Is not blunt belief quite a sign of
incompetence?
Instead, sound scepticism and health-giving doubt must be much encouraged and given
space enough to flourish tidily in scholarly cirles. Scepticism and doubts can be followed
up by sound, existential probing, and much good may be had from it. The whole scientific
enterprise can be seen as sound doubt put into rigmarole and fit disciplines. [Cf.
Vit]
After all, regulated doubt forms the basis of research in general, through testings
of "alternative hypotheses", and the regulated, strict ways of handling such stiff "doubts",
as we may call them. A good research design also tackles possible doubts if it is a good
one.
Hence, if you doubt, do not let it work damage for yourself and those near you, do
not let it stop your maturation. Further, if you doubt, go for your own benefit, quite
according to: "When in doubt, win the trick". Doubt to your own personal benefit.
Unless and until we have done sound investigations we may be venting opinions when
we imagine we do better things.

Plumb what confronts you in two
main ways, and preferably by uniting them in deep meditation
WE SUGGEST you mind this route:
Keep your head and trust yourself too.
Uniting "head and heart" is one goal of TM (Transcendental Meditation). In this context
'head' can represent both mind, thinking and assessing, that is, using the head. And 'heart'
may signify deep delving (contemplation). Also, the inward 'heart' is of the Spirit, like
the term Seele in Jungian thought.
According to Wing-tsit Chan there is another way of kenning or plumbing in Taoism.
It is 'kono', which is quite like an instinctive "stomach" feeling.
These ways of kenning may work well if cultivated tactfully, and much depends on
one's training.
A Yin-yang balance is a Way (Tao),
and it should not be impolite if that is possible. It can ascend
THINK, yet do not make thoughts your aim.
Just hold on when there is nothing in you except the will to say "Hello,
Sunshine!"
Aim for a likeable ascent in yin-yang harmony. It does not have to look bold to
others.
Thus there can be a rising yin-yang balance inside.
Along with it, do not let loving friends hurt you, particularly not the very dear
ones.
Good studies, maybe for tens of years, often makes a big difference.
A recipe in your hands is: "get cool and polite and win the day much like a British
gentleman of the Victorian age".
Fixations can follow elations
DO NOT get any gross fixations:
It is our suggestion that "here and there lurks some Tao to access" through proper
handling.
You might understand more of these things as you go on.

Consciousness can grow and mature, and it that case: bien. Or can be
made to appear civilized in other ways, such as through conformism and getting sedated by
drugs. Thus it may be stiffles and a lid is put on top of much "unfinished business", with a
veneer of appearances.
Mind gradually senses things
IT CAN be quite difficult to rise above the current situation and from that vantage
point gauge the spirit of one's own time.
Nobody can fall really low unless he has a great depth to plunge inside.
Depth corresponds to a potential height,
And the blackest darkness to a hidden light.
These are yin-yang teachings
A feeling of getting unsure can be much nearer to the truth than the gang-tall bluff of
sureness.
In the long run it is the better adapted man who can triumph if he cares to.
The biological instinctual mind gradually passes over into the physiology.
The archetype describes a field which exhibits none of the peculiarities of the
physiological and cannot be regarded as psychic.
What is "inside" of us has an a priori structure that antedates all conscious
experience.
The mind is part of the inmost mystery of life,
Its structure is something given,
And this is a mother, a matrix or form -
Which main experiences - everyday experiences - are linked to.
Infantilism is to deride these possibilities,
It can be to act like a dullard.
The young person of marriageable age has an ego-consciousness,
(girls more than men, as a rule).
This means in practice that the young man (or woman) can have only an incomplete
understanding of himself.
It is a great and surprising discovery to some, yet far from the final peak,
Another "first step" of a long climb for those who care.
Growth of mind is often
accompanied by problems due to conform others, and conform residues in oneself
THE MENTAL life of civilised man is full of problems.
Our mental processes are made up to a large extent of reflections, doubts,
experiments
Most persons seem almost wholly foreign to the unconscious, instinctive mind.
Growth of consciousness is accompanied by growth problems.
The concept of the void makes for horror. (4)
Absurd political and social ideas in time turn bleak and conform to look at.
A joker may find himself forced to act serious.
Collective maturity looks like a
sham, and stems from inferiority too
THE MAIN focus of existential therapy is not to be neuroses and the like, but the one who
is having these problems, his family and social group. They work together for most
part.
Many who mature well may need to develop good, staunch individuality from there
on.
Hence, it is the mature person who needs ongoing education the most, he naturally likes
to learn things more and better, perhaps not along collective lines, as individuality rises
on top of collectivism and seems different.
Who wants to know the human mind may learn much from experimental psychology.
And suburban pubs, churches, ecstatic sects,
Women of passion and gossip and giraffes.
He may appreciate that some heal the sick with knowledge from alternative sources.
To remain a child too long is childish.
Everything of mental origin has a double face;
One face looks forward,
And there is ambivalence to deal with.
The living body becomes your living symbol
But deep mind can never enter wholly into that sense-perceived reality.
In some circles mind runs the risk of becoming a mere allegory
In rationalistic and therefore inadequate explanation.
To speak of the morning and evening (of life) is not mere sentimental jargon. It can be
much symbolical too.
We thus give expression to psychological truths at times.
To postulate many ideals of educating the personality is not for children. They enact
ideals from inside. (6)
Personality - a well-rounded mental whole that is capable of resistance and abounding in
energy - is an adult ideal.
The fire of affects and emotions may be like steel meeting flint;
It is a woman's outstanding characteristic that she can do anything for the love of a
man.
A mother-complex is not got rid of by blind collectivism.
Further, man may divinize his relations unless he is careful, and tough.
A person must pay dearly for the creative fire.
The creative impulse can drain him till he is driven to develop dark sorts of vanity,
infantile traits - inferiorities speak of no classy life.
Modern man is held in thrall by the "ten thousand things"; (7)
He sees only particulars and looks quite ego-bound,
Not aware of a deep root uniting and filling all who exist.
The true genius intrudes and disturbs too.
There are dangers and potential healing behind a brilliant or great truth.
The advance of culture shows a betterment of consciousness. (9)
Single minds take their steps and advance, and improvements begin around them too. It
happens in some places.
Solid advancements begin with the individual and fundamental facets of being.

Some strive for knowledge their
whole life
YOU CAN let immature science commit the greatest follies.
The blackest darkness is truly unsure.
Our whole life is unsure if close to the truth, unless many stand banded
together.
Infantilism needs to act like a dullard. and despite it an usurping fool thinks himself
largely conscious and knowing.
A mere vacuum inside lets itself
be over-ridden, but not bitten
WHO HAS lost the historical symbols cannot be satisfied with substitutes.
Many a vacuum inside gets filled with political and social ideas.
Their gist says softly:
You cannot get along well if you are other-ridden or a drunkard.
So-called nonsense and
psychological insights go well along together, or balance each other
THE OBJECT of therapy is not the neurosis but had better be the totality of a man's life as
a sensible fellow, maybe an individual.
Within his own family or clan.
For successful outcome, let staunch individuality and sagacity go hand in hand, or
...
(I am privately of the rest of the opinion).
It is in fact the mature person who can have the greatest need
In the horrors of prisons, pubs, clerical sects,
Through the experience of nonsense by this: The largest heart must bleed the most. It
happens.
To remain a child too long comes close to the foremost symbol of the reborn
Christian.
The uniqueness of the mind is simply "world" inside!
The symbolised shape of the self-and-world is speaking up as a unique mind.
Then exposed to all sorts of attempts in vain.
Yes, to speak of the morning and spring of life is not mere sentimental jargon and
astrology.
We thus give expression to psychological truths, facts.
The high ideal of educating the personality is not for children. (6)
Fire of affects and emotions is for them, on the other hand.
A mother-complex is not got rid of by blindly reducing the mother to human proportions.
That is why mankind has always instinctively added the pre-existent divine mom and dad up
beyond the clouds.
A tomboy must pay dearly then.
The god-aimed creative impulse can drain him the most, it is presumed.
Hammering inferiorities are the his best survivor means
If good can come of evil self-interest.
A creative or outstanding person may after long be turned into an "object of many",
another item among the "ten thousand things" that are easily remembered without an advocate.
I suggest that Albert Einstein has turned into such an icon or emblem to some. (7)
The true advocate genius nearly always intrudes and disturbs. The Barnasha (son of man)
did.
He says the wrong things at the right time.
Thereby the law-patting advance always begins with some expert lawyer or law-maker of a
sort, perhaps conscious of an isolation from being free-wheeling and adjusted to lush
natural delights at times. (9)
Allow him to get conscious.
If he succeeds, he creates a tension and culture's fare. I could name many examples.
DO WHAT you have to so as to avoid getting scapegoated like Giordano Bruno and other
serious martyrs of science. A few good jokes may help a bit.
A DEEP MIND without problems cannot get along well with all sorts of narcissists and
other-ridden people, is the bet.
"The object of therapy is to be able to go hand in hand". This is a new definition
that competes with Alfred Adler's cherished "work and enjoy" and so on. It stresses fine
attunement, loveable co-life, and that is much.
FOR MORE successful therapy outcome, let staunch individuality and sagacity go hand in hand
to remain a child "too long" - prolonged "childness" is a humanoid feature, and a
prerequisite for much learning. We can express thereby the high ideal of educating the
personality. Artistic development helps things like these, and yet the god-aimed creative
impulse can cause much isolation at long last. Balance is needed also.
Note
It should be fun to make comment on a TTT essay (poem, survey), because the
inherent, deep-going structure of TTT texts is closely akin to how one develops or matures
rationally, I figure. For that reason, idea associations that come to mind in seeing through
a TTT text, could be of help more often than not.
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