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My Choice of Mysterium

 

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What did you conclude after reading about Mysterium Tremendum? (Post of 3/10/17)

The Library of the Unconscious

Up front I have to tell you about my curious brain. I have what I call files in there that were chosen for retention because I found the item interesting or important in some fashion. All too often the item may not be attached to the data which suggested to me I should be storing it. Such is the case for the term Mysterium.

When I set out to write the Gaia’s Majesty Trilogy there...

Mysterium Tremendum

 

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The following post comes from mythandmore.com which is the blog written by Margo Meck. I’m not going to comment on it at this time. I leave it at your doorstep to mull over. See my comments next post.

Posted September 14, 2013 in Musings & Mythologues

The word “numinous” was coined by Rudolf Otto from the Latin numen, meaning a god, cognate with the verb nuere, to nod or beckon, indicating divine approval.  This word, or its noun, the “numinosum,” refers to any phenomenon experienced as a...

The Sensation Function – Carl Jung’s Typology

The Contradiction of Mystical Reality

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This function I find utterly fascinating precisely because my primary function is its opposite. Not surprisingly Jung was mystified because his primary function was intuition. It is hard to come to grips with a function which is the one buried most deeply in our unconscious.

The sensation types are defined as irrational because to them logic is not important. They simply register the reality of perceptions. It is necessary to consider that statement for...

Our Nation in Crisis – An American Vision: Part 3

 

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Lessons Learned 

The list of issues we need to face is long. I will touch on only two of them today.

Racism – Long ago and far away I learned a lesson about racism. It is ever so simple. We are all racists.

After graduate school I took a job in the inner city of Baltimore. It was a groundbreaking movement in mental health which was designed to bring mental health services to all people. Most of the line staff were twenty somethings and the era in which we lived was the now famous sixties o...

The Gaia’s Majesty Trilogy

What in your life took hold even without a plan?

Ephemerality to Fact

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It was my writing of the Gaia’s Majesty Trilogy which inspired this blog. As a psychologist I have always been impressed by how ephemeral reality can be even for people who are demonstrably stable. When the inspiration for the Majesty stories struck, it quickly became clear that a lot of it had already been created back in the reaches of my mind. Granted, we now have the tools to scan our brains and can see unconscious pro...

Echoes From the Past

Life’s Promise

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Somehow we have a dream that a stable and glorious future will open before us. It is unlikely. Our lives are not ours alone because we share it with family and intimates, but also must share it with the world at large which is not under our control. But the past has a way of reaching out to us which is not necessarily a bad thing. It may tell us about how the world is and such things as the variability of opportunity.

From My Past

In 1967 (yikes that’s a long time ago) I took...

Transformation/Women Rising

 

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Keeping a Broad Focus

With our twenty-four our news cycle we become obsessed with the story of the moment. Such a focus means we often do not see the big picture. Women’s issues are not to be overlooked even amidst our strife with autocracy. In America there is a struggle for the maintenance of women’s health care. In the Middle East women are struggling against their invisibility while they are being cloaked from sight. The stories are varied across the world but hold a common theme of su...

Stewardship in All Regards

Understanding Essential Obligations

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In the Gaia’s Majesty Trilogy stewardship is an underlying theme. We are facing an issue of stewardship in regard to our fellow humans and our planet. There are so many levels of stewardship and the people in this story are facing central issues in defense of the future of humankind. Attention to the needs of stewardship often prove deeply inspirational.

After World War II we collectively took a deep breath. Not only were there whole countries that had to...

My Valley of Spirits

Personal Alternatives

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Sometimes our lives open paths and perceptions totally unexpected. In an earlier post I outlined by experience with what we concluded was a ghost in our first home in Maryland. The theme deepened.

Now I’m going to have to admit more about who I am because it relates to what I am writing in this blog and in the Gaia’s Majesty Trilogy. My external persona suggests calm, quiet introversion and probably mostly a fairly focused reality. Such a persona exists, but there is an...

The Feeling Function – Carl Jung

Feeling is Not Just an Emotion

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We all know the feeling type person and often find them endearing although introverts may find them invasive. Mostly likely the person is a woman. She makes her decisions based on her feelings. The decision is logical only in that sense. But, yes, making decisions based on feelings can be supremely logical. A thinking type man may believe very differently. The logic is merely different.

Aside From Value

The differences between the thinking and feeling types ill...