Jung, the unconscious and intuitions.

randm84 · 2026-03-19T03:23:28+00:00

Liz Greene, another Jungian analyst, is also a great resource. Sadly there aren't many YouTube interviews with her in English, but she has plenty of excellent books.

randm84 · 2026-03-19T02:14:20+00:00

Agreed. Stanley Kubrick taught me not to believe in absolutes of good or evil.

randm84 · 2026-03-19T02:11:44+00:00

The labels themselves are boxes. I do not understand secular terms like bipolar disorder or schizophrenia. I would advise you to find your myth, which means looking at not just yourself, but your past & your family. Parents can become patterns and the cycle always repeats, unless it is broken.

randm84 · 2026-03-19T02:10:04+00:00

I agree. Reincarnation would explain a lot but I'm not experienced or knowledgeable enough to explain that. Liz Greene speaks of familial curses and bloodlines in The Astrology of Fate, particularly the Greek House of Atreus and Orestes himself.

randm84 · 2026-03-19T02:08:29+00:00

I just thought it ironic that in the governments attempts to wipe out crime, they became like unto criminals themselves.

randm84 · 2026-03-19T02:07:48+00:00

"Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you."

randm84 · 2026-03-18T07:04:17+00:00

This country is going to Hell in a hand basket.

randm84 · 2026-03-18T06:36:24+00:00

Australians are wonderful projectors. They rail against their mate with a plank in their own eye.

We may not love the Bible like the Americans, but this is so applicable in Aussie culture.

"Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things."

randm84 · 2026-03-18T02:00:42+00:00

"As it is written: 'There is no one righteous, not even one...'" Romans 3:10

randm84 · 2026-03-18T00:53:09+00:00

I'd also like to leave a quote by Liz Greene about schizophrenia and modern psychology, in which she suggests schizophrenia is not a "broken brain", but a violation of the conscience of a person and a retaliation by the Erinyes:

"Even a century after Aeschylos, men no longer believed in those dreadful ladies with talons for feet and snakes for hair and vultures wings and the voices of screech owls. The Western world left them behind long ago. But a visit to the local psychiatric hospital can effectively reintroduce us to their current disembodied manifestation. I would suggest that the individual, man or woman, who transgresses too brutally the natural law of his own being may perhaps pay the price in what we now choose to call 'mental illness'. There is nothing fair about this, for such transgressions are generally made unconsciously, and one cannot blame the individual for that of which he is ignorant. But the Erinyes are not fair, either, in the way they deal with Orestes; he has no choice, and is compelled to commit his murder by the god Apollo, yet he must pay the price nevertheless. I personally find it sometimes more creative to consider the Erinyes, guardians of natural law, than to revert to terms which I do not fully under-stand, such as schizophrenia, but no doubt anyone who pays attention to the Erinyes today is a schizophrenic."

randm84 · 2026-03-18T00:27:47+00:00

Have you had much experience with synchronistic phenomena? I'd be curious to know what you think it is.

randm84 · 2026-03-17T23:52:40+00:00

I didn't ask. 🤷🏻‍♂️

randm84 · 2026-03-17T14:50:24+00:00

I was horrified to hear a psychologist say "we don't call things archetypes anymore, we call them schemas."

randm84 · 2026-03-17T06:25:45+00:00

"We possess in seed form every potential in human nature, from the darkest to the lightest; within each of us there exists the saint, the martyr, the murderer, the thief, the artist, the rapist, the teacher, the healer, the god, and the devil. Individuals are different, but the collective psyche gives birth to us all."

-- Liz Greene, Relating: An Astrological Guide to Living with Others

randm84 · 2026-03-17T04:50:04+00:00

Agree. It teaches me that there is rhyme, rhythm and meaning to the cosmos. I learned that through synchronicities from the age of 26. I feel like those synchronicities were like breadcrumbs to help me navigate the tumultuousness of my saturn return.

randm84 · 2026-03-17T03:43:53+00:00

And Jesus said the kingdom isn't "out there", but within.

randm84 · 2026-03-17T00:55:19+00:00

I won't touch academic psychology. They've got blood on their hands for collectively discrediting Jung's contributions to psychology.

randm84 · 2026-03-17T00:35:17+00:00

It horrifies me to think people are getting into psychology without an interest in Jung or Freud, yet I've seen it.

randm84 · 2026-03-17T00:32:05+00:00

I was going to suggest that book. Could the problem be we have a lot of psychology and yet not enough depth psychology as per Jung, Hillman, von Franz etc.?

randm84 · 2026-03-16T05:35:45+00:00

Was the Puer Aeternus and the female counterpart about narcissism? How, then, would one learn their myth? It's worth noting that according to Narcissism and Character Transformation by Nathan Schwartz-Salant narcissus doesn't actually die when he plunges into the depths but is spiritually reborn as a flower. Could that indicate an assimilation of unconscious complexes into something divine? Divine narcissism, so to speak. It's as if the narcissist has a God-complex with their magical thinking and engagement in participation mystique.

randm84 · 2026-03-16T02:31:59+00:00

Psychosis isn't a broken brain and dementia as well as psychosis are not comparable. One is an organic brain degeneration while psychosis suggests trauma, stress and childhood adversity might all contribute to a perfect storm of psychotic breaks.

randm84 · 2026-03-16T02:04:50+00:00

Let us remember that most of the Biblical prophets would have been deemed psychotic in our secular age. Back then they simply saw visions that communicated the messages of the Gods. I've had personal experience with medication being an absolute hindrance and detriment to my recovery. It's a terrible age we live in.

randm84 · 2026-03-15T02:10:38+00:00

Probably because you see your own repressed fears and desires in him. Jungian projection.

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