When I worked in Beijing during the late nineties I got invited by a local resident consultant (an expat) to a dinner party at a very chic ethnic event restaurant. She was a little bit esoteric, but knew her city. There was good food and even a better spirit. Expats and local people from all over … Continue reading
Category Archives: Philosophy
Confession of an unchurched spiritual and religious person.
For the past decades, steps forward to my Self (as defined by C.G. Jung) or spirituality have always been attempted at moments of incipient crisis time or when I had time to take a breath. None, though, has been really followed through. The ability and given a chance to switch my career to a lower … Continue reading
Alan Watts Tribute to C.G.Jung
This record of Alan Watts, done shortly after C.G. Jung’s death really blew me away. Alan Watts brings C.G. Jung’s concept of Good and Evil right to the point. Listen to Alan Watts. Watts believed that the key to the universe is fundamentally a higher consciousness or mind. The world is an emanation of the … Continue reading
The symbol of serpent and dragon – an Jungian view
Everywhere the symbol of the serpent and dragon is connected with the (d)evil. That does hurt me a little bit, as I am Serpent in the Chinese Zodiac – which is the least favored sign. The snake has a bad rap not only according to my wife, but certainly within Christianity. In defense of myself … Continue reading
Gnosticism – the empire strikes back.
Gnosticism can be considered collective name for a large number of greatly varying and pantheistic-dualistic sects, which flourished from some time before the Christian era down to the fifth century. It became a dangerous corruption of Christianity, even or because its first traces can be found some centuries before the Christian era. That Alexandrian thought … Continue reading
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