HOW CAN BEING
REALLY BE OTHERWISE?
BE BOTH - BEING & OTHERWISE -
UNTIL IT’S ALL ONE
∞
BEING & OTHERWISE ARE NEVER CONFUSED
YET BECOME THE SINGLE TRANSCENDENT SYMBOL
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9:20 AM - 1/6/16
“…a mass always produces a ‘Leader,’
who infallibly becomes the victim of his own inflated ego-consciousness,
as numerous examples in history show.”[xiii]
The indigenous author Jack Forbes,
author of Columbus and other Cannibals,
describes those who are suffering from this malady
as being infected with a literal illness, a virulent and contagious disease
he calls wetiko, or “cannibal sickness.”
Those so afflicted consume, so to speak, the lives of others
—human and nonhuman alike--
for private purpose or profit,
and do so without giving back anything of their own lives.
They simply exploit others, be it people or the environment,
as objects to satisfy their own unending narcissistic hunger.
Like a vampire, they feed off of other peoples’ blood.
William James described it well,
“Evil is a disease.”
http://www.awakeninthedream.com/the-madness-of-george-w-bush-a-reflection-of-our-collective-psychosis/
“The state in which ego and non-ego are no longer opposed”,
“the middle way”, and “the irrational third”,
thus it is tied into his idea of the
transcendent function
and the resolution of the tension of the opposites.
The workings of Tao are vast and often beyond human logic.
In order to understand Tao, reasoning alone will not suffice.
For our purposes, Tao is that condition
in which psyche and nature, or mind and matter,
are no longer perceived as opposites but exist in a continuum.
http://www.psycheandnature.com/html/rainmaker_story.html
If the tension between the opposites can be held long enough
without succumbing to the urge to identify with one side or the other,
the third, completely unexpected image,
one that unites the two in a creative new way,
comes into view.
Read more here for EXCELLENT CLEAR/BRIEF explanation of Jung's Understanding of Transcendent Function
http://www.psycheandnature.com/html/transcendent_function.html
And a fourfold vision is given to me
Tis fourfold in my supreme delight
And three fold in soft Beulahs night
And twofold Always. May God us keep
From Single vision & Newtons sleep
William Blake
∞
Like any poet's work, sift through Blake to find what is useful for you.
Those six lines work magic for me daily.
I hope you will memorize them and let them work magic for you.
If you say it aloud,
"God us" turns into Goddess.
The fourfold vision is given, a delight, now.
Charles Keil
but here, in Kiaochou, things were out of order,
and so he himself was also out of order.
Thus, it took three days to regain Tao
and then naturally, the rain came.
(Adapted from C.G. Jung, CW 14, pp. 419-420, note 211).
https://psycheandnature.wordpress.com/2015/04/05/we-are-all-rainmakers/
it is hard to tell who is the doctor and who the patient.
https://dreamcoat.wordpress.com/2014/07/22/the-divine-hospital/
wherever they suffer the autumn's castigation,
I may be there with an errant wave,
I may move, passing through windows,
and hearing me, eyes will glance upward
saying, "How can I reach the sea?"
the starry echoes of the wave,
a breaking up of foam and of quicksand,
a rustling of salt withdrawing,
the grey cry of sea-birds on the coast.
So, through me, freedom and the sea
will make their answer to the shuttered heart.
Pablo Neruda
full poem here:
http://beingsilentlydrawn.blogspot.com.au/2013/01/the-poets-obligation.html
“…a mass always produces a ‘Leader,’
who infallibly becomes the victim of his own inflated ego-consciousness,
as numerous examples in history show.”[xiii]
The indigenous author Jack Forbes,
author of Columbus and other Cannibals,
describes those who are suffering from this malady
as being infected with a literal illness, a virulent and contagious disease
he calls wetiko, or “cannibal sickness.”
Those so afflicted consume, so to speak, the lives of others
—human and nonhuman alike--
for private purpose or profit,
and do so without giving back anything of their own lives.
They simply exploit others, be it people or the environment,
as objects to satisfy their own unending narcissistic hunger.
Like a vampire, they feed off of other peoples’ blood.
William James described it well,
“Evil is a disease.”
http://www.awakeninthedream.com/the-madness-of-george-w-bush-a-reflection-of-our-collective-psychosis/
but here, in Kiaochou, things were out of order,
and so he himself was also out of order.
Thus, it took three days to regain Tao
and then naturally, the rain came.
(Adapted from C.G. Jung, CW 14, pp. 419-420, note 211).
https://psycheandnature.wordpress.com/2015/04/05/we-are-all-rainmakers/
What to others a trifle appears
Fills me full of smiles or tears
For double the vision my Eyes do see
And a double vision is always with me
With my inward Eye 'tis an old Man grey
With my outward a Thistle across my way
∞∞∞∞
Now I fourfold vision see
And a fourfold vision is given to me
Tis fourfold in my supreme delight
And three fold in soft Beulahs night
And twofold Always. May God us keep
From Single vision & Newtons sleep
William Blake
∞
Like any poet's work, sift through Blake to find what is useful for you.
Those six lines work magic for me daily.
I hope you will memorize them and let them work magic for you.
If you say it aloud,
"God us" turns into Goddess.
The fourfold vision is given, a delight, now.
Charles Keil
Blake's Four Fold Vision Explained
by Charles Keil
Submitted 07/29/01
http://www.128path.org/pathtimes/article4.html
C See Paul Levy OceanSpeaks via CATEGORES on right hand side of any page
The Divine Androgyne
Rainmaker Shamans
The Shaman's Doorway: Opening Imagination to Power and Myth
By Stephen Larsen, Ph.D.
https://books.google.bs/books?id=grBzAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA216&lpg=PA216&dq=pneumatic+shaman&source=bl&ots=jLz8i3DODH&sig=D2H6bc_aiBhF6ewqhFPBKQknT1g&hl=en&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=pneumatic%20shaman&f=false
See beginning page 225 on above page for more on Rainmaker Shamans
http://www.amazon.com/The-Shamans-Doorway-Opening-Imagination/dp/0892816724
Amazon’s Look Inside for Stephen Larsen’s book
What to others a trifle appears
Fills me full of smiles or tears
For double the vision my Eyes do see
And a double vision is always with me
With my inward Eye 'tis an old Man grey
With my outward a Thistle across my way
William Blake
http://www.128path.org/pathtimes/article4.html
The above William Blake quote
found in
The Shaman's Doorway: Opening Imagination to Power and Myth
By Stephen Larsen, Ph.D.
***************************************************
In the Divine Hospital it is hard to tell who is the doctor and who the patient.
https://dreamcoat.wordpress.com/2014/07/22/the-divine-hospital/
(Much information and stories here that add to all on this post)
version told by Dr. Jung
"There was great drought.
For months there had not been a drop of rain
and the situation became catastrophic.
The Catholics made processions, the Protestants made prayers
and the Chinese burned joss-stick,
and shot off guns to frighten away the demons of the drought,
but with no result.
Finally the Chinese said, "We will fetch the rainmaker."
And from another province a dried-up old man appeared.
The only thing he had asked for was a quiet little house somewhere,
and there he locked himself in for three days.
On the fourth day the clouds gathered and there was a great snow storm
at the time of the year when no snow was expected, an unusual amount,
and the town was so full of rumors about the wonderful rainmaker
that Richard Wihelm went to ask the man how he did it.
In true European fashion he said,
"they call you the rainmaker, will you tell me how you made the snow?"
And the little Chinese man said,
"I did not make the snow, I am not responsible. "
"But what have you done these three days?"
"Oh, I can explain that.
I come from another country where things are in order.
Here they are out of order,
they are not as they should be by the ordinance of heaven.
Therefore the whole country is not in Tao,
and I also am not in the natural order of things
because I am in a disordered country.
So I had to wait three days until I was back in Tao
and then naturally the rain came.
C.G.Jung, Mysterium Coniunctionis pp 419-420
http://ryuc.info/common/symbolism/story_rainmaker.htm
“The state in which ego and non-ego are no longer opposed”,
“the middle way”, and “the irrational third”,
thus it is tied into his idea of the
transcendent function
and the resolution of the tension of the opposites.
The workings of Tao are vast and often beyond human logic.
In order to understand Tao, reasoning alone will not suffice.
For our purposes, Tao is that condition
in which psyche and nature, or mind and matter,
are no longer perceived as opposites but exist in a continuum.
http://www.psycheandnature.com/html/rainmaker_story.html
If the tension between the opposites can be held long enough
without succumbing to the urge to identify with one side or the other,
the third, completely unexpected image,
one that unites the two in a creative new way,
comes into view.
Read more here for EXCELLENT CLEAR/BRIEF explanation of Jung's Understanding of Transcendent Function
http://www.psycheandnature.com/html/transcendent_function.html
http://www.psycheandnature.com/html/home.html
More here re: Rainmaker:
https://psycheandnature.wordpress.com/2015/04/05/we-are-all-rainmakers/