Peace for the Soul
2024-03-28T10:48:00Z
MARGARIDA MARIA MADRUGA
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C.G. Jung (Man and His Symbols)
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2023-10-22T14:53:48.530Z
MARGARIDA MARIA MADRUGA
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<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/12263586856?profile=original" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><img class="align-center" src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/12263586856?profile=RESIZE_710x"></img></a> <span class="font-size-1">"Intimacy" by Thomas Blackshear</span></p>
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<p>“All these aspects of the anima have the same tendency that we have observed in the shadow: That is, they can be projected so that they appear to the man to be the qualities of some particular woman. It is the presence of the anima that causes…</p>
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<p>“All these aspects of the anima have the same tendency that we have observed in the shadow: That is, they can be projected so that they appear to the man to be the qualities of some particular woman. It is the presence of the anima that causes a man to fall suddenly in love when he sees a woman for the first time and knows at once that this is “she.” In this situation, the man feels as if he has known this woman intimately for all time; he falls for her so helplessly that it looks to outsiders like complete madness. Women who are of “fairy-like” character especially attract such anima projections, because men can attribute almost anything to a creature who is so fascinatingly vague, and can thus proceed to weave fantasies around her.”</p>
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<p>C.G. Jung (Man and His Symbols)</p>
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"God and Humans," Reflections on the Life & Dreams of C.G. Jung
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2023-09-03T16:16:42.539Z
MARGARIDA MARIA MADRUGA
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<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/12216201289?profile=original" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><img class="align-center" src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/12216201289?profile=RESIZE_710x" width="610"></img></a> <span class="font-size-1">The 83-year-old wood-chopper [C.G. Jung]; photo © Aniela Jaffé.</span></p>
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<p>"Being able to bear life and its trials by continuously battling to remain conscious ultimately means being able to bear the presence of God. But that is in the distant future. If, however, we consciously lead a…</p>
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<p>"Being able to bear life and its trials by continuously battling to remain conscious ultimately means being able to bear the presence of God. But that is in the distant future. If, however, we consciously lead a very simple life, like living in the forest and thereby reducing life to the simplest formula, then consciousness has won. When the evening of humankind approaches, then the highest culture lies in the greatest simplicity. Because then one has recognized the meaning of existence and knows that everything is illusion, apart from living in what is.</p>
<p>But were I to consider emigrating to Polynesia à la Gauguin, in the hope that I would find some perfection, or withdraw from the world like a hermit, to cut myself off from the world in order to contemplate its meaningless, the result would be neither meaning nor value. Rather, it would be like a reproach to the creator for making such a nonsense of this earthly existence.</p>
<p>Life, nature, poses a deep problem. We would need to know an unimaginable amount more in order to comprehend the meaning of it all. This requires not just great scientific progress, but also a deepening of consciousness scarcely imaginable today – a distant goal, but one that gives dignity and hope to our existence.</p>
<p>Apparently, we need to battle for our lives with all the fibers of our being, with the aim of achieving as much consciousness and knowledge as possible – knowledge about ourselves, about the world, about eternity. That is what gives meaning to life. Without consciousness, the existence of this world would be only a stupid incident of a silly demiurge."</p>
<p><br/> ~ C.G. Jung, "God and Humans," Reflections on the Life & Dreams of C.G. Jung by Aniela Jaffé, p. 187</p>
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<p>▪️Watch my video interview with the book's publisher, Jungian analyst Robert Hinshaw, Ph.D. – <a href="http://youtu.be/JHpt6gHxXS4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://youtu.be/JHpt6gHxXS4</a></p>
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<p>Photo: The 83-year-old wood-chopper [C.G. Jung]; photo © Aniela Jaffé.</p>
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Sigmund Freud Quotes that tell a lot about ourselves
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2021-11-21T14:42:37.092Z
MARGARIDA MARIA MADRUGA
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<p>These are vivid thoughts and quotes from Sigmund Freud. The best quotes and aphorisms of Sigmund Freud that will make you think about many things in life. Life quotes from Sigmund Freud are definitely worth your time.</p>
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<p>These are vivid thoughts and quotes from Sigmund Freud. The best quotes and aphorisms of Sigmund Freud that will make you think about many things in life. Life quotes from Sigmund Freud are definitely worth your time.</p>
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quotes
tag:peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com,2021-10-25:5143044:Topic:377201
2021-10-25T16:28:18.613Z
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<p> i came across these quotes from Carl Jung that i thought you may like to see..</p>
<p> .<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiu3Ctsji68" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Carl Jung's Quotes that tell a lot about ourselves | One of the Most Brilliant Minds of All Time - YouTube</a></p>
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<p> i came across these quotes from Carl Jung that i thought you may like to see..</p>
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Excerpt from the book 'Selected Letters of C.G. Jung'
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2021-09-15T17:46:46.321Z
MARGARIDA MARIA MADRUGA
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<p><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/9570591897?profile=original" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><img class="align-full" src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/9570591897?profile=RESIZE_710x" width="579"></img></a> <span class="font-size-1">C.G. Jung</span></p>
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<p>"Anybody whose calling it is to guide souls should have his own soul guided first, so that he knows what it means to deal with the human soul. Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people. It would not help you very much to study books only,…</p>
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<p>"Anybody whose calling it is to guide souls should have his own soul guided first, so that he knows what it means to deal with the human soul. Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people. It would not help you very much to study books only, though it is indispensable too. But it would help you most to have a personal insight into the secrets of the human soul. Otherwise everything remains a clever intellectual trick, consisting of empty words and leading to empty talk.</p>
<p>You may try to find out what I mean in my books and if you have a close friend, try to look behind his screen in order to discover yourself. That would be a good beginning."</p>
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<p>~ C.G. Jung (Book: Selected Letters of C.G. Jung <a href="https://amzn.to/3nr0vWl">https://amzn.to/3nr0vWl</a>)</p>
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C. G. Jung - Memories, Dreams, Reflections
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2021-09-07T16:29:51.164Z
MARGARIDA MARIA MADRUGA
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<p>I am satisfied with the course my life has taken. It has been bountiful, and has given me a great deal. How could I ever have expected so much? Nothing but unexpected things kept happening to me. Much might have been different…</p>
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<p>I am satisfied with the course my life has taken. It has been bountiful, and has given me a great deal. How could I ever have expected so much? Nothing but unexpected things kept happening to me. Much might have been different if I myself had been different. But it was as it had to be; for all came about because I am as I am. Many things worked out as I planned them to, but that did not always prove of benefit to me. But almost everything developed naturally and by destiny. I regret many follies which sprang from my obstinacy; but without that trait I would not have reached my goal. And so I am disappointed and not disappointed. I am disappointed with people and disappointed with myself. I have learned amazing things from people, and have accomplished more than I expected of myself. I cannot form any final judgment because the phenomenon of life and the phenomenon of man are too vast. The older I have become, the less I have understood or had insight into or known about myself.</p>
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<p>I am astonished, disappointed, pleased with myself. I am distressed, depressed, rapturous. I am all these things at once, and cannot add up the sum. I am incapable of determining ultimate worth or worthlessness; I have no judgment about myself and my life. There is nothing I am quite sure about. I have no definite convictions–not about anything, really. I know only that I was born and exist, and it seems to me that I have been carried along. I exist on the foundation of something I do not know. In spite of all uncertainties, I feel a solidity underlying all existence and a continuity in my mode of being.</p>
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<p>The world into which we are born is brutal and cruel, and at the same time of divine beauty. Which element we thing outweighs the other, whether meaninglessness or meaning, is a matter of temperament. If meaninglessness were absolutely preponderant, the meaningfulness of life would vanish to an increasing degree with each step in our development. But that is — or seems to me — not the case. Probably, as in all metaphysical questions, both are true: life is — or has — meaning and meaninglessness. I cherish the anxious hope that meaning with preponderate and win the battle.</p>
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Reflections on This Journey We Call Life
tag:peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com,2021-08-22:5143044:Topic:373688
2021-08-22T17:01:44.701Z
MARGARIDA MARIA MADRUGA
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<p>Often what we dislike about others is how they embody aspects of our own Shadow.</p>
<p>On the collective level, Shadow projection is the origin of bigotry, prejudice, sexism, ageism, and every categorical animosity.</p>
<p>The more stressed the cultural climate, the more…</p>
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<p>Often what we dislike about others is how they embody aspects of our own Shadow.</p>
<p>On the collective level, Shadow projection is the origin of bigotry, prejudice, sexism, ageism, and every categorical animosity.</p>
<p>The more stressed the cultural climate, the more unconscious and fearful the populace, the more we will seek someone to blame,<br/> some scapegoat who may carry the weight of our own psychological laziness.</p>
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<p>~ James Hollis, 'Prisms'.</p>
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<p>Prisms is Hollis's most current book of essays, thus including the pandemic and political crises.</p>
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<p>James Hollis, Ph. D. is Executive Director of the Jung Center of Houston, TX, a practicing Jungian Analyst (psychotherapy developed by C.G. Jung.</p>
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C.G. Jung letter to Victor White
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2021-07-13T12:50:55.887Z
MARGARIDA MARIA MADRUGA
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<p>‘Is the LSD drug you’re referring to mescaline? It has indeed very curious effects, of which I know far too little. I don’t know either what it’s psychotherapeutic value with neurotic or psychotic patients is. I only know there is no point in wishing to know more of the collective unconscious than one gets through dreams and intuition.…</p>
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<p>‘Is the LSD drug you’re referring to mescaline? It has indeed very curious effects, of which I know far too little. I don’t know either what it’s psychotherapeutic value with neurotic or psychotic patients is. I only know there is no point in wishing to know more of the collective unconscious than one gets through dreams and intuition. The more you know of it, the greater and heavier becomes your moral burden, because the unconscious contents transform themselves into your individual tasks and duties as soon as they become conscious. Do you want to increase loneliness and misunderstanding? Do you want to find more and more complications and increasing responsibilities? You get enough of it.</p>
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<p>If I once could say that I had done everything I know I had to do, then perhaps I should realise a legitimate need to take mescaline. If I should take it now I would not be at all sure that I had not taken it out of idle curiosity. I should hate the thought that I had touched on the sphere where the paint is made that colours the world, where the light is created that makes shine the splendour of the dawn, the lines and shapes of all form, the sound that fills the orbit, the thought that illuminates the darkness of the void.</p>
<div dir="auto">There are some impoverished creatures perhaps, for whom mescaline would be a heaven sent gift without a counter poison, but I am profoundly mistrustful of the pure “gifts of the gods”, you pay very dearly for them.</div>
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<p>This is not the point at all, to know of or about the unconscious, nor does the story end here. On the contrary, it is how and where you begin the real quest. If you are too unconscious, it is a great relief to know a bit of the collective unconscious. But it soon becomes dangerous to know more, because one does not learn at the same time how to balance it through a conscious equivalent. That is the mistake Aldous Huxley makes, he does not know that he is in the role of Zauberlehrling, sorcerer’s apprentice, who learned from his master how to call the ghosts, but did not know how to get rid of them again.’</p>
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The Awful Rowing Toward God
tag:peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com,2021-05-06:5143044:Topic:370318
2021-05-06T09:42:58.974Z
MARGARIDA MARIA MADRUGA
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<p>“and God was there like an island I had not rowed to,</p>
<p>still ignorant of Him, my arms, and my legs worked,</p>
<p>and I grew, I grew,</p>
<p>I wore rubies and bought tomatoes</p>
<p>and now, in my middle age,</p>
<p>about nineteen in the head…</p>
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<p>“and God was there like an island I had not rowed to,</p>
<p>still ignorant of Him, my arms, and my legs worked,</p>
<p>and I grew, I grew,</p>
<p>I wore rubies and bought tomatoes</p>
<p>and now, in my middle age,</p>
<p>about nineteen in the head I'd say,</p>
<p>I am rowing, I am rowing</p>
<p>though the oarlocks stick and are rusty</p>
<p>and the sea blinks and rolls</p>
<p>like a worried eyeball,</p>
<p>but I am rowing, I am rowing,</p>
<p>though the wind pushes me back</p>
<p>and I know that that island will not be perfect,</p>
<p>it will have the flaws of life,</p>
<p>the absurdities of the dinner table,</p>
<p>but there will be a door</p>
<p>and I will open it</p>
<p>and I will get rid of the rat inside me,</p>
<p>the gnawing pestilential rat.</p>
<p>God will take it with his two hands</p>
<p>and embrace it”</p>
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<p>Anne Sexton, The Awful Rowing Toward God</p>
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"APPOINTMENT WITH THE WISE OLD DOG:
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2021-01-28T17:52:08.908Z
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<p>One of the most remarkable videos about animals in dreams is David Blum's "Appointment with the Wise Old Dog: Dream Images in a Time of Crisis:."</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Dream Images in a Time of Crisis” David Blum</span></p>
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<p>One of the most remarkable videos about animals in dreams is David Blum's "Appointment with the Wise Old Dog: Dream Images in a Time of Crisis:."</p>
<p>(Blum was the conductor of the Seattle Symphony orchestra, and much of the video has accompanying music. Blum narrates the story of his encounter with cancer though talking about his dreams and the paintings of his dreams. A very touching and personal story. Highly recommended.)</p>
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<p>"It's an amazing fact that at a time of dire crisis, people often unexpectedly find themselves supported by a power that makes it possible for them to cope." David Blum was an internationally renowned orchestra conductor and author. Blum gently leads the viewer into his drawings reflection spiritual guides, including his beloved deceased dachshund; radiant landscapes; and the music of Mozart and Beethoven. Shortly before his death, Blum felt compelled to share his inner journey, in the hope that his personal experience could help others realize their own inner gifts.</p>
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