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Aion (Collected Works 9ii)
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Dr Jung is a mystical thinker; I think he does grasp some of the important aspects of the metaphysics of the collective and its relationship to the (so called) individual person.
The writing is informative in terms of cultural history. Jung was the first author who made perception somewhat explicit to me by simply showing the reader a picture of a shaded circle, a clear area in the upper aspect and darker in the lower, with a glowing centre - this is an actual image of embodied perception. Having since read a lot of Jung however, I have probably internalized the symbols into my body of knowledge, the prose eventually becomes somewhat bland and repetetive. Likewise, the symbols Jung has described in his writings, have been absorbed by culture, for instance in Harry Potter or games such as World of Warcraft, which is completely saturated with alchemical, mythological, tropes from the european cultural history.
Jung is providing a good introduction to world history and culture, but he only takes the reader thus far. I would advocate reading René Girard and Simone Weil, in the generation of Western thinkers succeeding Jung, when it comes to intepretation of myth and its relationship to the human personal biography.
To understand Jung- I think he finds romantic fundamentalism (his father is a protestant priest, just like the father of Nietzsche) lackning because of its neglecion and omission of AUTHENTIC PERCEPTION. He therefore studies the totality of human culture, church tradition as well as gnostic traditions, and finds that the christian church dogma puts forth a god that is ASYMMETRICAL and therefore lackning.
His critique is appropriate in one way but it is incomplete. The critique is directed toward church dogma but its swipes also includes the new testament. In reality, the new testament summarizes perception PERFECTLY as explained by Girard. The asymmetrical perception of god as experienced by natural man, described in the book of Job with the dualism of god and satan, totally lackning in agreement with what the pastors put forth in their sermons, is in fact explained by the bible - the powers and principalities and the metaphysics of the crowd. The god of fundamentalism that modern Christians worship is however rightfully the recipient of severe criticism, and should be treated as a false idol in my opinion.
Jung is still closer to the truth of the bible than todays pastors, who are profoundly mistaken when they try interpreting the bible using fundamentalist autistic logic.
The writing is informative in terms of cultural history. Jung was the first author who made perception somewhat explicit to me by simply showing the reader a picture of a shaded circle, a clear area in the upper aspect and darker in the lower, with a glowing centre - this is an actual image of embodied perception. Having since read a lot of Jung however, I have probably internalized the symbols into my body of knowledge, the prose eventually becomes somewhat bland and repetetive. Likewise, the symbols Jung has described in his writings, have been absorbed by culture, for instance in Harry Potter or games such as World of Warcraft, which is completely saturated with alchemical, mythological, tropes from the european cultural history.
Jung is providing a good introduction to world history and culture, but he only takes the reader thus far. I would advocate reading René Girard and Simone Weil, in the generation of Western thinkers succeeding Jung, when it comes to intepretation of myth and its relationship to the human personal biography.
To understand Jung- I think he finds romantic fundamentalism (his father is a protestant priest, just like the father of Nietzsche) lackning because of its neglecion and omission of AUTHENTIC PERCEPTION. He therefore studies the totality of human culture, church tradition as well as gnostic traditions, and finds that the christian church dogma puts forth a god that is ASYMMETRICAL and therefore lackning.
His critique is appropriate in one way but it is incomplete. The critique is directed toward church dogma but its swipes also includes the new testament. In reality, the new testament summarizes perception PERFECTLY as explained by Girard. The asymmetrical perception of god as experienced by natural man, described in the book of Job with the dualism of god and satan, totally lackning in agreement with what the pastors put forth in their sermons, is in fact explained by the bible - the powers and principalities and the metaphysics of the crowd. The god of fundamentalism that modern Christians worship is however rightfully the recipient of severe criticism, and should be treated as a false idol in my opinion.
Jung is still closer to the truth of the bible than todays pastors, who are profoundly mistaken when they try interpreting the bible using fundamentalist autistic logic.
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