'Collective' Articles
The current influence of ancient spiritual/religious practices on the human collective “psychic” atmosphere, and it’s impact on the universal field of consciousness. I’m usually more tightly focused on topics, but this will perhaps be enjoyable anyway. Our culture used to have a shared vision of life, tightly focused, but today that focus is on auto-pilot. Ever feel like you have a relationship with your computer or your car? There is a very real thing going on there. We influence what we observe.
“Punishment is now unfashionable… because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.” Thomas S. Szasz (Hungarian psychiatrist and Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus at State University of New York Health Science Center in Syracuse, b.1920)
“Epics typically appeal to the collective unconscious. They are brands, deeply entrenched in the mind and such is their recall that the first week’s turnout is nearly assured.” Rajeev Sharma
Creatures of Myth
It’s often said of past cultures and their practices that we are more enlightened than they were, but I offer that we aren’t any more enlightened. We‘re just further down the road. Many of our modern creeds, value systems, and even world views are actually of very old origin. One such practice, and its actual form is still held to if only psychically these days, is ”self sacrifice” a.k.a. human sacrifice. It’s the idea that it’s somehow most moral to offer up yourself for the greater good, even if it means your own suffering or death. It’s commonly believed that human… Seek More
Our Minds
I am dealing specifically with the mind, and not specific spiritual values. We can’t make technologies and leave our minds unaltered, but we have ignored or even countered the natural patterns of the mind. We make machines that generate levels of force our minds can’t even track, like the speeds of automobiles. What has been the consequence of that? We die, but for what purpose? I fail to see how you separate logic and mind. Surely logic is inherently of the mind? My mind can see your words, and needs to perform no operation of logic on them. The mind… Seek More
Modern Magic
I see Carl Jung as having been an excellent scientist, a definite peer to Einstein. Though their focuses were different, their understanding of the minds role in the world was the same. Basically, they were modern wizards, and they weren’t motivated by proving their faith in the materialistic world. They didn’t even have the motivation of research grants and that stuff. They were engaging a realm of reality that has always existed. What Jung pointed out was that it wasn’t “subjective”, that our supposed subjective world is as much arising from the reality we acknowledge as any science does. Just trying… Seek More
