CG Jung: “Taking yourself seriously is considered improper”

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This is from an interview of CG Jung by Georg Gerster conducted on June 7, 1960, for broadcast on the Swiss radio network. As it happened, the interview took place on the first day of Jung’s final year. He would die June 6, 1961.

It contains so much of substance! At least three statements of his might be the basis for an entire essay:

1) “vitally necessary things have become obsolete”

2) “the very idea that you should begin with yourself, that is totally out of the question”

3) “taking yourself seriously is considered improper”

This interview is to be found in the book CG Jung speaking.

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Central Virginia IONS

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Today (Saturday, June 18, 2011) I had the pleasure of speaking about “The Cosmic Internet” to about 40 people of the Central Virginia chapter of Institute of Noetic Sciences, in Richmond.

My friends Dave Garland and Linda Rogers accompanied me and staffed a table offering  my six books for sale, and in general offered  moral support. In fact, Dave drove, and also recorded the talk. (Then, following the talk, we drove them to The Monroe Institute to begin a residential program.)

As I say, it was a pleasure, because it is always a pleasure to speak about something you care deeply about, to an intelligent audience that also cares about such things.

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“You can experience God every day.”

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If I had the time and energy, and were scholar enough, I would write a history of the 20th century as the century of the great war about God. It has reached end-game status in our time, I think. Those who believe in God and those who believe in No-God stand and glare at each other, no more able to find common ground than those entangled in our toxic political culture, and for much the same reason. Those in the middle, seeing some valid points being made on each side, experience the usual fate of people who can see with more than one eye: They are ignored, or are attacked  by both sides.

This is one reason I wrote The Cosmic Internet, or rather, this may be one reason the material in the book was given me by the guys upstairs. Our time is desperately in need of an intellectually respectable vision of the afterlife.

In the absence of such a revisioning, it is damned hard to make progress, because people talk right past each other. For instance, Swiss psychologist Carl Jung, in an interview with English journalist Frederick Sands in 1955, said among other things the following:

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Inner Emptiness — its cause and cure

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This is from Margaret Paul’s column in The Huffington Post. Good analysis, I’d say. Good advice.

The Cause of Inner Emptiness

(And What to Do About It)

by Margaret Paul, PhD.
Posted: 06/ 2/11 08:16 AM ET
Click here to view the original article

Do you often feel empty inside? Do you believe that others should be filling you up? Discover the real cause of inner emptiness and what to do about it.

If you feel empty, you are not alone in feeling this way. Many people feel empty inside, and most people who feel empty have some deep, false beliefs regarding why they feel empty. Below are some of these false beliefs. I feel empty because:

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Alice Dreger: Is anatomy destiny?

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Another of the splendid TED series of videos.

This person’s informed opinion about the political results of different anatomy leads her to wider-reaching speculation, and the posing of problems that seem only theoretical now, but will soon engulf us if not dealt with, I suspect. Or, more likely, they will engulf us and then we will deal with them. But looking at this from the perspective lent by the guys upstairs – that we are not the individuals we think we are, but are communities – lends this video yet another dimension.

http://www.ted.com/talks/alice_dreger_is_anatomy_destiny.html

What, here still?

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My friend Charles Sides has a nice entry in his blog this morning that probably applies to lots more people than one would commonly think. It begins like this:

A year ago yesterday I moved into the lake house with a goal to experience unitive consciousness. I viewed this as an escape from earthly existence. As I wrote in a previous entry I wasn’t interested in the old cliché, “chop wood, carry water, enlightenment, chop wood, carry water.” My version was “chop wood, carry water, out of here.”

Looking for an exit I’ve read and studied many of the paths: Buddhism, Hinduism, Kabbalah, Sufism, the Fourth Way, the Course in Miracles, Edgar Cayce…you name it and I’ve probably read something about it. But, nothing worked; I’m still here.

To read the rest, http://charlessides.wordpress.com/