The Self – God’s window between pantheistic Taoism and Catholic personal god
Last Saturday (yesterday). I went on a retreat (religious exercise) at the Benedictine monastery St. Ottilien with twenty others men and women looking after their private center and true selves: “Looking for the self” What do we know of the…
Blogsphere as Hesse’s Glass Bead Game against the ‘Feuilletonistic‘ world
In Herman Hesse’s final novel The Glass Bead Game, which won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946, he introduces essentially a hypothetical meta game, which has been compared with a “neural network of cosmic mind”. This gave me the idea to probe…
Memories, Dreams, Reflections by C.G. Jung, Aniela Jaffe, Clara Winston
It was always astonished when I heard C.G. Jung speaking (on YouTube) how well and simple he can explain his rather complex system. In this book several key ideas are equally well presented. This lead me to believe that the more casual…
Protected: Shadows of the Presidential debate 2012 part II : What is truth and does it matter?
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Archetypes of the presidential debate 2012 part I
This US presidential election is a (no-) choice between two similar masks for the future of America in the the Presidential debate. But Obama actually backed off March 2009 when he had some power over the banks and did not touch…
Karl Popper and the fireplace poker
The two great philosophers Ludwig Wittgenstein and Karl Popper – who both had a rap of abusive discussion style met only once: on the 25th October 1946. The meeting in a crowded classroom in Cambridge went bad. Legends formed rapidly to…
C.G Jung Wittgenstein and Plato – Introvert and iNtuition
Based on Carl G. Jung’s typology , Wittgenstein and Plato can be classified using four mental functions sensing, intuition, thinking and feeling together with the attitude (extraversion-introversion). Jung was fond of saying that personality types often change throughout ones life. So an answer to your question…
Metaphysics and C.G. Jung in a post-metaphysic world
In Europe we live in a post-metaphysic world. »There is no alternative to post-metaphysical thinking.« This statement, made by Jürgen Habermas in his 1988 collection of essays, Post-Metaphysical Thinking, sounds very much like “There is no alternative to the Euro-Zone”…
Neuschwanstein and Wagner – Every dream needs a renovation
Heading for the mountains Last Sunday we headed west of Munich for the Alps – that is, the more moderate mountains of the Allgaeu. I picked an easy mountain hike – The Great Tegelberg Circle – for the family, including…