“become what you are” C. G. Jung’s answer to aging
Todays answer to aging of medicine, psychology and sociology (or the happy union of postmodern and materialistic society) is contrary to common sense and spiritual void: Accept to be incomplete and fragmentary and the own life – regardless of the question how incomplete, unsuccessful void it has…
The Death of the Ego as prerequisite to find God
Translation of my article “Gedanken zur Predigt in St. Ottilien 2012-11-18 The Death of the Ego as prerequisite to find God“ By fallenAngel This Sunday sermon in St. Ottilien (2012-11-18-0915-konventamt.mp3) addressed an interesting line of thought: in order to experience God (via the…
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
The Internet as the Glass Bead Game In Hermann Hesse’s The Glass Bead Game, Castalia and the “Feuilletonistic Age” represent two diametric extremes of human civilization. Castalia is a sterilized, ascetic order of intellectuals dedicated to the preservation of pure…
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…