Is Man's Spirituality Deeply Embedded in The Unconscious Under a "God Image" Archetype?

by frankiespeakin 7 Replies latest jw friends

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  frankiespeakin

  I think this was one Jung's main ideas. And that tending to our spiritual side is import for good health mentally,,and that the psyche is designed to go thru a maturation process toward wholeness, at what ever level it of consciousness it can reach and that level in some way effects the entire human collective of consciousness/unconscious.

  The World comes into existence by being made known,, the whole evolution of mankind and way of thinking consciously has been in that direction ever since we ate the forbidden fruit of consciousness it's evolution is like a macrocosm of the microcosm that goes on with each individual human.
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  Mad Sweeney

  I sort of lean that way but I believe (today, anyways) that it is more than an "image" or "archetype" but that there is a real consciousness that runs through everything, especially living things.
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  frankiespeakin

  Maybe us and all life forms in an infinite number of multi-universes make up it's senses by which it sees the world, in a mass inifinite moment of realization and beyond.
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  frankiespeakin

  Mad,

  I guess that all depends on how we use the word image, when you think about it and how we humans use our 5 senses, they are all images made up in the minds that is all we have of the world in general is images,, Neither for or against one way or the other what God's True nature is. This can be that this life you and I live could be just one big computer program.
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  changeling

  It's an interesting theory. I don't know about the "collective consciousness" bit, but I do think the idea of god and having a spiritual side was handed down from ancient man. Most do not question their "spiritual side" and take for granted it's being real simply because the concept is so entrenched in the human psyche.
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  doofdaddy

  “God is the name by which I designate all things which cross my path violently and recklessly, all things which alter my plans and intentions, and change the course of my life, for better or for worse.” Jung
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  frankiespeakin

  Doof,

  That was the God Image that Jung had. Jung had studied Eastern culture, meditation and he even used some of there calming technique when he was confronting the unconscious. God is in everything the good and the bad.
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  doofdaddy

  Yeah I really enjoy reading Jung. He certainly put the "cat amongst the pidgeons" as far as excepted thinking of his time. I have found him a little elusive when directly asked if he believed in god. His best response "i don't believe, I know".

  Despte his disdain for hinduism and India in general, Jung practiced yoga all his life. Interesting character and certainly one of the greatest thinkers of the 20th century.