tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post6969752331494918125..comments2024-03-29T15:13:42.610+00:00Comments on Bruce Charlton's Notions: How Jungian psychology became the spirituality of mainstream global LeftismBruce Charltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-35632237898905113452021-12-05T13:24:08.602+00:002021-12-05T13:24:08.602+00:00I believe Jung himself said towards the end of his...I believe Jung himself said towards the end of his life that after so many decades of inward searching and psychoanalysing himself he was still no closer to finding his "true self". The very premise of psychoanalysis (as well as its collective analogue, what we might call socioanalysis) is somewhat vain, in that it assumes there's an integral whole *immanent* to the human person or human society, when both revelation and reason tell us that the Source of our being is beyond ourselves (transcendent). Therefore wholeness is to be sought, individually and collectively, not in endlessly analysing, managing, re-orienting, planning (etc.) ourselves but in dying to ourselves as to be one with that Source, our Creator. Jackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13858873453982708283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-10063604449466491242021-12-04T20:53:27.969+00:002021-12-04T20:53:27.969+00:00Lots of food for thought here.
In my teenage year...Lots of food for thought here.<br /><br />In my teenage years, as an atheist, I became deeply interested in Carl Jung's thinking because it seemed to offer a cure to alienation - a meaningful path in a world that seemed meaningless. Jungian therapy was elevated to a quest for the philosopher's stone - the Whole Self. It was thrilling to think that in *some* sense, the world was alive and mythical, and that I might be able to live a mythological life.<br /><br />Like Hinduism, Jungian psychology seemed to affirm every religion as pointing to some truth; although strictly speaking the truths were always about the "structure" of human psychology, and consistent with materialist assumptions of a dead world. But Carl Jung, like his modern exponent Jordan Peterson, liked to allow for some mystery as to whether or not this might go beyond psychological truth to something "real". But this mystery was always elusive, and ultimately never really treated as real beyond the interior life of any one person.<br /><br />As with most errors, this is a distortion of the true path. Life *is* a quest. There *is* great meaning to decipher at the level of the individual. The interior life *is* of great importance, and paying attention to one's thinking can lead to spiritual riches.<br /><br />The *problem*, as you mention, is that this path has proved itself, over time, to be purely negative. Eliminate pain. Heal division. Overcome conflict. Jung talks about individuation, which sounds like the flowering/discovery of the True Self, but without God and Heaven, the path devolves into hedonism and worldliness - meaningless pleasure-seeking and pain-avoidance. <br /><br />In a world where spiritual reality is ruled out a priori, and actively rooted out, the systematic approach of Jungian psychology is a perfect framework for the pursuit of the demonic agenda. Focus remains on THIS world, reductionist assumptions are preserved, people are enabled to lie to themselves about the spiritual "depth" of such thinking. It is a great spiritual anesthetic for people marching to hell.John Goeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00206464455510064541noreply@blogger.com