Showing posts with label Jung. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jung. Show all posts
17 February 2017
How black and white are our attitudes and judgements: this is good, this is bad; its a male dominated world. But life is more complex. The Hindu God Shiva reflects this - both destructive and creative, half woman half man, meditative and daemonic. Tomorrow, Saturday 18th March, there is a workshop at the C G Jung Club London where Shiva will be vividly experienced.
15 February 2017
Meditation
Tomorrow, Thursday 16 March at 7.30pm, Martin Liebscher will talk to the C G Jung Club London about meditation and the role it can play in enabling us to find our true nature - what Jungians call the journey of individuation. In this fast running world the need to create the space to let in the Jungian collective unconscious, the religious God, is more needed than ever. All religions pray or meditate, but we don't have to be part of a religion to be in communication with this vital 'other' in our daily life. It impinges on us anyway, how much better to relate to it. www.fisu.org.meditation/centres www.londonmeditationcentre.com www.kmclondon.org www.lbc.org.uk www.shambala.org.uk www.kmlondon.org www.willwilliamsmeditstion.co.uk www.sahajayogalondon.co.uk/meditation
Tomorrow, Thursday 16 March at 7.30pm, Martin Liebscher will talk to the C G Jung Club London about meditation and the role it can play in enabling us to find our true nature - what Jungians call the journey of individuation. In this fast running world the need to create the space to let in the Jungian collective unconscious, the religious God, is more needed than ever. All religions pray or meditate, but we don't have to be part of a religion to be in communication with this vital 'other' in our daily life. It impinges on us anyway, how much better to relate to it. www.fisu.org.meditation/centres www.londonmeditationcentre.com www.kmclondon.org www.lbc.org.uk www.shambala.org.uk www.kmlondon.org www.willwilliamsmeditstion.co.uk www.sahajayogalondon.co.uk/meditation
5 February 2016
Does nature have purpose?
In the last episode of a reading from her book 'Stop the Clocks' by Dame Joan Bakewell, Friday 5 February 9.45am BBC Radio 4, she said:
"Does the year have a purpose, does nature, time? I know the answer to all these is 'no'. So why are we so purposeful, eager to tend gardens, organise homes, write books, pass laws, run global companies? What genetic glitch then this frenzy of intent into our DNA?"
This perspective is as though we humans are different from the rest of nature. Yes we are purposeful, yet nature is not! But we are part of nature, part of the cosmic world. Distinctive, yes, but still made from the same principles - Jung's archetypes, atoms. Jung wrote of synchronicity being evidence of the unus mundus - everything is connected to everything - and of the archetype of purpose. It is in our nature and in nature. What the purpose of nature is we do not know, but not knowing does not mean it does not exist.
"Does the year have a purpose, does nature, time? I know the answer to all these is 'no'. So why are we so purposeful, eager to tend gardens, organise homes, write books, pass laws, run global companies? What genetic glitch then this frenzy of intent into our DNA?"
This perspective is as though we humans are different from the rest of nature. Yes we are purposeful, yet nature is not! But we are part of nature, part of the cosmic world. Distinctive, yes, but still made from the same principles - Jung's archetypes, atoms. Jung wrote of synchronicity being evidence of the unus mundus - everything is connected to everything - and of the archetype of purpose. It is in our nature and in nature. What the purpose of nature is we do not know, but not knowing does not mean it does not exist.
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